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Arrange the following Nobel Prize awardees for literature in chronological order, beginning with the earliest to the most recent.

(A) Annie Ernaux

(B) Abdulrazak Gurnah

(C) Louise Gluck

(D) Jon Fosse

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

Option 1 -> (A), (B), (C), (D) - This sequence suggests Ernaux (2022) came before Glück (2020), which is chronologically incorrect.

Option 2 -> (A), (D), (C), (B) - This sequence suggests Ernaux (2022) came before Glück (2020) and Fosse (2023) came before Gurnah (2021), which is incorrect.

Option 3 -> (C), (B), (A), (D) - This sequence correctly orders Glück (2020), Gurnah (2021), Ernaux (2022), and Fosse (2023) from earliest to most recent.

Option 4 -> (C), (B), (D), (A) - This sequence suggests Fosse (2023) came before Ernaux (2022), which is chronologically incorrect.


Hence, Option 3 -> Louise Glück received the Nobel Prize in 2020, followed by Abdulrazak Gurnah in 2021, Annie Ernaux in 2022, and Jon Fosse in 2023 -> correct

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