Question 1
Which Australian novelist became the first from the country to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973?
- Patrick White
- Thomas Keneally
- David Malouf
- Peter Carey
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Patrick White
Literature · Authors
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Question 2
Who wrote the famous bush poem "The Man from Snowy River"?
- Les Murray
- Banjo Paterson
- C. J. Dennis
- Henry Lawson
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Banjo Paterson
Question 3
Which writer created the classic Australian short story "The Drover's Wife"?
- Joseph Furphy
- Banjo Paterson
- Henry Lawson
- Steele Rudd
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Henry Lawson
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