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RRB NTPC · Question 28

Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015?

  1. Patrick Modiano

  2. Svetlana Alexievich

  3. Alice Munro

  4. Mo Yan

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Answer: (B) Svetlana Alexievich

Explanation

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature went to Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus 'for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time'. Modiano won in 2014, Munro in 2013 and Mo Yan in 2012.