Nobel Prize Winners for Literature
Submitted by buber on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:01
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- 2002: Imre Kertész
- 2001: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- 2000: Gao Xingjian
- 1999: Gunter Grass
- 1998: Jose Saramago (Blindness, The Stone Raft)
- 1997: Dario Fo
- 1996: Wislawa Szymborska
- 1995: Seamus Heaney (Beowulf)
- 1994: Kenzaburo Oe
- 1993: Toni Morrison
- 1992: Derek Walcott
- 1991: Nadine Ordimer
- 1990: Octavio Paz
- 1989: Camilo José Cela
- 1988: Naguib Mahfouz
- 1987: Joseph Brodsky
- 1986: Wole Soyinka
- 1985: Claude Simon
- 1984: Jaroslav Seifert
- 1983: William Golding (Lord of the Flies)
- 1982: Gabriel García Márquez
- 1981: Elias Canetti
- 1980: Czeslaw Milosz
- 1979: Odysseus Elytis
- 1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1977: Vicente Aleixandre
- 1976: Saul Bellow
- 1975: Eugenio Montale
- 1974: Harry Edmund Martinson
- 1974: Eyvind Johnson
- 1973: Patrick White
- 1972: Heinrich Böll
- 1971: Pablo Neruda
- 1970: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- 1969: Samuel Beckett
- 1968: Yasunari Kawabata
- 1967: Miguel Angel Asturias
- 1966: Nelly Sachs
- 1966: Samuel Joseph Agnon
- 1965: Mikhail Sholokhov
- 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre
- 1963: Giorgos Seferis
- 1962: John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl)
- 1961: Ivo Andric
- 1960: Saint-John Perse
- 1959: Salvatore Quasimodo
- 1958: Boris L. Pasternak
- 1957: Albert Camus
- 1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez
- 1955: Halldor K. Laxness
- 1954: Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea)
- 1953: Sir Winston Churchill
- 1952: François Mauriac
- 1951: Pär F. Lagerkvist
- 1950: Bertrand Russell
- 1949: William Faulkner
- 1948: T. S. Eliot
- 1947: André Gide
- 1946: Hermann Hesse
- 1945: Gabriela Mistral
- 1944: Johannes V. Jensen
- 1939: Frans E. Sillanpää
- 1938: Pearl S. Buck
- 1937: Roger Martin de Gard
- 1936: Eugene O'Neill
- 1934: Luigi Pirandello
- 1933: Ivan A. Bunin
- 1932: John Galsworthy
- 1931: Erik A. Karlfeldt
- 1930: Sinclair Lewis
- 1929: Thomas Mann
- 1928: Sigrid Undset
- 1927: Henri Bergson
- 1926: Grazia Deledda
- 1925: George Bernard Shaw
- 1923: Wladyslaw S. Reymont
- 1922: Jacinto Benavente y Martinez
- 1921: Anatole France
- 1920: Knut Hamsun
- 1919: Carl F. G. Spitteler
- 1917: Karl A. Gjellerup
- 1916: Verner von Heidenstamm
- 1915: Romain Rolland
- 1913: Rabindranath Tagore
- 1912: Gerhart Hauptmann
- 1911: Maurice Maeterlinck
- 1910: Paul J. L. Heyse
- 1909: Selma Lagerlöf
- 1908: Rudolph C. Eueken
- 1907: Rudyard Kipling
- 1906: Giosue Carducci
- 1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz
- 1904: José Echegaray
- 1904: Frederic Mistral
- 1903: Bjornsterne Björnson
- 1902: Theodor Mommsen
- 1901: René F. A. Sully-Prudhomme
Author Comments:
I was wondering if anyone has read anything by these authors and if they might recommend which works they enjoyed the most. The titles in parentheses are works I've read.
If you're into contemporary poetry, you could do worse than try some Seamus Heaney. He's fairly accessible: where I live, a collection of his poems is one of the books studied in high school English.
I'm not overly into poetry. It's been a long time (undergrad) since I've read any, and much longer since I read any for my own pleasure. That said, however, I will check him out. I did see that he wrote a translation of Beowulf, and I'm definitely interested in getting a copy of that.
I received his translation of Beowulf for Christmas, so I will be reading him soon. :)
Hermann Hesse ia a favourite of mine, and I can recommend:
Gertrude   and   Rosshalde.
Narziss and Goldmund, Siddartha, and Peter Camezind are also excellent and deserve a mention.
I have also read: The Glass Bead Game (OK), Steppenwolfe (good), Demian (good), and
Strange News from Another Star (short stories - good).
Plus:
Knut Hamsun - Victoria (good),
Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude (not so good).
I have some others on my bookshelf not yet read, including:
Sir Winston Churchill (The Second World War), Rudyard Kipling,
George Bernard Shaw,
Thomas Mann,
Albert Camus (The Outsider),
John Steinbeck.
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I read Albert Camus' The Outsider this week. It was OK but not worthy of a Nobel prize. A very strange staccato/abrupt writing style, but that might have had more to do with the translation.
Strange, because I wasn't impressed by Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude, or by The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse. Perhaps these phsycho-babble reads go over my head (but I don't think).