TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
PROBLEM: In her essay "A Bolter and the Invincible Summer" she admits to frequently skipping classes at convent school. Her more recent novels, The Pickup and The House Gun, are much less political than her first work, the story collection The Soft Voice of the Serpent. She furthered her political views in The Conservationist and July's People. However, it was The Burger's Daughter that was banned in her country for its stark portrayal of an entrenched discriminatory system. FTP, name this South African winner of the 1991 Nobel in Literature.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: One member of this phylum, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, is often used to study developmental processes, and another, Pisaster ochraceus, is an example of a keystone species. Most members of this phylum have pedicellariae that possess three jaws, and some have a chewing apparatus known as Aristotle's lantern. Members of class Asteroidea of this phylum have an ambulacral groove, and the madreporite is the entrance to their water vascular system that includes tube feet. FTP name this phylum whose "spiny skinned" members have radial symmetry and include sand dollars, sea urchins, and sea stars.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: A writer from this country created such heteronyms as Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro, and Bernardo Soares. The author of Message and The Book of Disquiet converses with Ricardo Reis in another work from here. Venus guides the protagonist to the Isle of Love in its national epic, The Lusiads. A writer from this country created a character who believes his death will thwart the establishment of Christianity in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, as well as the doctor's wife, who is the only one to escape a sudden epidemic of blindness. For 10 points, name this country home to Jose Saramago.

SOLUTION:
Literature