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1. Famous Colombian novelist, won the Nobel Prize in 1982.
2. How many novels did Jorge Luis Borges write as sole author?
3. Where was the Argentine writer Julio Cortazar born?
4. Who wrote 'The Tunnel'?
5. Which famous Latin American poet is played by Phillipe Noiret in the Italian film 'The Postman' (Il Postino)?
6. Which celebrated Argentine poetess committed suicide by drowning in the sea?
7. Who's the author of 'Hopscotch', one of the most outstanding novels of the twentieth-century?
8. Who was Jorge Luis Borges' best friend, also a renowned writer?
9. 'The House of the ...' was written by the famous Chilean novelist Isabel Allende.
10. Which hero of the South American Independence is the main character of a novel written by Garcia Marquez?
11. In which Mexican city was Angeles Mastretta born?
12. Which famous Chilean poet wrote a book that includes 'Twenty Love Poems' in its title?
13. Which of the following is not a Latin American poet?
14. Which of the following writers nearly became president of his country?
15. She was a poetess and also a nun.
16. Who wrote the national classic of 'gaucho' literature, 'Martin Fierro'?
17. A literary explosion of Latin American Literature took place during the 1960s. What name did this phenomenon receive?
18. Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga spent many years living in a hostile territory. What was it?
19. What is the term utilized to describe a technique that combines fantasy with realism, used by many Latin American writers?
20. Who wrote 'The Time of The Hero' (La ciudad y los perros) in 1963?
21. Famous Nicaraguan poet who changed the course of Spanish poetry and brought it into the mainstream of twentieth-century Modernism.
22. Which peculiarity do all characters of Juan Rulfo's novel 'Pedro Paramo' have?
23. What was the last name of the family whose story is told in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', Garcia Marquez's most celebrated novel?
24. Which of the following writers was blind?
25. Which of the following Latin American writers never won the Nobel Prize?
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