Question 1
Which Irish-born playwright and critic, a self-educated socialist, vegetarian and teetotaller who became a fixture of London letters, is the only person to have won both a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Academy Award, the latter for adapting one of his own plays?
Question 2
Which Irish writer left Dublin in his early twenties and spent the rest of his life abroad, in Trieste, Zurich and Paris, teaching English and living hand to mouth on loans and the support of a wealthy patron, while his eyesight failed through a dozen operations? 
Question 3
Which French writer, the grandson of an enslaved woman from Saint-Domingue and a French nobleman, ran what amounted to a fiction factory, employing a team of collaborators, and was taken to court over how much of the work was really his?
Question 4
Which English writer, the daughter of two radical philosophers, ran away at 16 with a married poet, and two years later, during a wet summer by Lake Geneva, won a ghost-story contest with a tale begun as a waking nightmare that became one of the most famous novels ever written?
Question 5
Which French novelist, one of the most popular and prolific writers of her century, took a man's name as a pen name, wore men's clothes and smoked in public in 1830s Paris, and had a decade-long relationship with the composer Chopin, whom she nursed through a disastrous winter on Majorca?
Question 6
Which French writer, revered almost as a living monument, spent nearly two decades in exile on the Channel Islands as an opponent of the emperor Napoleon III, and on his return became a symbol of the Republic?
Question 7
Which medieval Italian poet was condemned to permanent exile from his native city, on pain of being burned alive if he returned, after ending up on the losing side of its vicious factional politics?
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