Nobel Laureates

7:02 pm 8 April 2013

nobel

I have enjoyed a few books by writers who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature which got me thinking I wonder if any others are just as good imo. So my plan is to read at least 1 book by every person who has won the prize since the beginning of the Prize which was 1901. 1901 - 2012, it has apparently been awarded (so far) 105 times to 109 Laureates (a few years have joint winners)

 

This will be a long term goal!

 

Looking through the list of writers, many are unfamilar but good old tinternet helped me research their most interesting work for me to select. At least a handful of the writers have multiple works I would be interested in reading, Doris Lessing in particular (She was the oldest Laureate so far, 88 when awarded in 2007!

 

Doris Lessing

 

So far my list is as follows, starting from the most recent winner 2012

 

* other works interest me

Underlined - already read

 

(accents on letters of names from another language have not been placed due to my English keyboard and my lack of knowledge to find the ability to place them)

 

  1. Mo Yan - Big Breasts And Wide Hips *
  2. Tomas Transtromer - Selected Poems 1954 - 1986 *
  3. Mario Vargas Llosa - The War Of The End Of The World *
  4. Herta Muller - Travelling On One Leg *
  5. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - Wandering Star
  6. Doris Lessing - The Cleft *
  7. Orhan Pamuk - The Museum Of Innocence *
  8. Harold Pinter - None Of Interest ATM
  9. Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher
  10. John M. Coetzee - Elizabeth Costello *
  11. Imre Kertesz - Kaddish For An Unborn Child *
  12. Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul - An Area Of Darkness
  13. Gao Xingjian - Soul Mountain *
  14. Gunter Grass - The Rat *
  15. Jose Saramago - Blindness *
  16. Dario Fo - Accidental Death Of An Anarchist
  17. Wislawa Szymborska - Here
  18. Seamus Heaney - Death Of A Naturalist *
  19. Kenzaburo Oe - Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness *
  20. Toni Morrison - Beloved
  21. Derek Walcott - Midsummer *
  22. Nadine Gordimer - Jump And Other Short Stories *
  23. Octavio Paz - In Light Of India *
  24. Camilo Jose Cela - Journey To The Alcarria *
  25. Naguib Mahfouz - Voices From The Other World *
  26. Joseph Brodsky - To Urania: Poems *
  27. Wole Soyinka - The Interpreters
  28. Claude Simon
  29. Jaroslav Seifert
  30. William Golding
  31. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love In The Time Of Cholera *
  32. Elias Canetti
  33. Czeslaw Milosz
  34. Odysseus Elytis
  35. Issac Bashevis Singer
  36. Vicente Aleixandre
  37. Saul Bellow - More Die Of Heartbreak*
  38. Eugenio Montale
  39. Eyvind Johnson
  40. Harry Martinson
  41. Patrick White
  42. Heinrich Boll
  43. Pablo Neruda
  44. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  45. Samuel Beckett
  46. Yasunari Kawabata
  47. Miguel Angel Asturias
  48. Schmuel Yosef Agnon
  49. Nelly Sachs
  50. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea*
  52. Giorgos Seferis
  53. John Steinbeck - To A God Unknown *
  54. Ivo Andric
  55. Saint-John Perse
  56. Salvatore Quasimodo
  57. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
  58. Albert Camus - The Myth Of Sisyphus *
  59. Juan Ramon Jimenez
  60. Halldor Kijan Laxness
  61. Ernest Miller Hemingway - The Complete Short Stories *
  62. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill - We Will All Go Down Fighting To The End
  63. Francois Mauriac
  64. Par Fabian Lagerkvist - The Dwarf
  65. Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell - In Praise Of Idleness *
  66. William Faulkner - Collected Stories *
  67. Thomas Stearns Eliot
  68. Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
  69. Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf *
  70. Gabriela Mistral
  71. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
  72. Frans Eemil Sillanpaa
  73. Pearl Buck - East Wind, West Wind
  74. Roger Martin du Gard
  75. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
  76. Luigi Pirandello
  77. Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
  78. John Galsworthy
  79. Erik Axel Karlfeldt
  80. Sinclair Lewis
  81. Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
  82. Sigrid Undset - Gunnar's Daughter*
  83. Henri Bergson
  84. Grazia Deledda
  85. George Bernard Shaw - 
  86. Wladyslaw Stainslaw Reymont
  87. William Butler Yeats - 
  88. Jacinto Benavente
  89. Anatole France
  90. Knut Perdersen Hamsun - Pan
  91. Carl Friedrich Georg Spilleler
  92. Karl Adolph Gjellerup
  93. Henrik Pontoppidan
  94. Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
  95. Romain Rolland
  96. Rabindranath Tagore
  97. Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
  98. Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
  99. Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
  100. Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof
  101. Rudolf Christoph Eucken
  102. Rudyard Kipling 
  103. Giosue Carducci
  104. Henryk Sienkiewicz
  105. Frederic Mistral
  106. Jose Echegaray y Elizabuirre
  107. Bjornstjerne Martinus Bjornson
  108. Christian MattiasTheodor Mommsen
  109. Sully Prudhomme