Famous Latino Authors
Read up on National Hispanic Heritage Month with this classic Crowdpurr game featuring famous Latino authors.
15 questions · Published May 9, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Which beloved Latino author wrote the acclaimed novels "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?
Columbian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most celebrated authors of all time, having won numerous literary awards, including the 1982 Nobel Prize for "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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2. Miguel de Cervantes's "_________ Quixote" is one of the bestselling and most translated books of all time.
Miguel de Cervantes's 17th century masterpiece "Don Quixote" has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over fifty languages, and is often said to be the first modern novel.
- Multiple Choice
3. Recipes from which country begin every chapter of Laura Esquivel's "Like Water For Chocolate"?
Laura Esquivel's 1992 novel "Like Water for Chocolate," about a young girl who expresses herself through cooking, features a different Mexican recipe at the beginning of each of its twelve chapters.
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4. Which debut novel by Isabel Allende was rejected several times before being published and becoming an instant bestseller?
1982's "The House of the Spirits" was rejected many times by Spanish-language publishers before being published in Buenos Aires and catapulting Isabel Allende to international fame.
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5. Which author is said to have brought Latin American writing into the mainstream with books like "Fictions" and "The Aleph"?
Jorge Luis Borges is considered the most important Latin American writer in history for widening the audience for Spanish language works.
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