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Win 18 brilliant books by cutting edge authors from across the world!
How well read are you? Are you a real literary type or just bluffing your way through? See how you get on with our questions. All the answers can be tracked down on this website, or in the programme of events at the The Guardian Hay Festival website.
The winner of the fabulous prize of all 18 books featured in the Cutting edge section of this website is Jill Tardivel from Kent. Well done Jill! You have months of happy reading ahead of you.
New visitors to the site are too late to win the competition but you can still try the questions – the answers are at the end.
1. Patrick McGrath's recent novel is called:
A: Port Murdo
B: Port Mungo
C: Port Jerry
2 Where was John Updike born?
A: Pennsylvania
B: Rhode Island
C: Massachusetts
3 Jacqueline Wilson wrote
A: The Story of Tracy Beaker
B: The Story of O
C: The Diary of Adrian Mole
4. Carl Djerassi, scientist and author, invented:
A: Viagra
B: The IUD
C: The Pill
5. Doris Lessing's new book is called:
A: A Sport of Nature
B: The Grandmothers
C: The Good Terrorist
6. When was the first Hay Festival held?
A: 1988
B: 1989
C: 1991
7. Zadie Smith recently studied at which American university?
A: Stanford
B: Princeton
C: Harvard
8. Ian McEwan's first book was called:
A: First Love, Last Rites
B: First Love, Last Nights
C: Last Love, First Nights
9. Which of these writers is not appearing at the 2004 Hay Festival?:
A: Orly Castel-Bloom
B: Ali Zarbafi
C: Mahmud Darwish
10. Which of these novelists has won the Orange Prize?
A: Jill Dawson
B: Helen Dunmore
C: Lesley Glaister
Here are the answers. See how well you've done.
1. B
2. A
3. A
4. C
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. A
9. C
10. B
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