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#2023 Nobel Prize Challenge

  1. Time to concentrate on the Nobel Laureates…again.
  2. I started this challenge in 2014
  3. …and have neglected it for years!
  4. I plan to read 12 books by Nobel Prize winners  in 2023
  5. I will  link some reviews that are on my other laptop
  6. …I the course of the coming weeks.
  7. Here is a EXCELLENT list of Nobel Prize winners for Literature.
  8. It gives you a short summary about the author and his/her
  9. …most important works.
  10. Scroll:  HERE

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2022 – Annie Ernaux – Les années

2021 – Abdulrazak Gurnah – Afterlives

2017 – K. Ishiguro – Remains of the Day

2016 – B. Dylan – Song lyrics

2015 – S. Alexievich – La fin de l’homme rouge

2014 – P. Modiano – L’herbe des nuits en Rue des Boutiques Obscures

2013 – A. Munro – Dear Life

2010 – M.V. Llosa – The Feast of the Goat

2008 – J. Le Clézio – L’étoile errante

2006 – H. Pinter – No Man’s Land

2001 – V.S. Naipaul – A Bend in the River

2000 – G. Xingjian – L’ami

1999 – G. Grass – The Tin Drum

1998 – J. Saramago – Seeing – REVIEW  (05.02.2023)

1996 – W. Szymborska – Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts

1995 – S. Heaney – Poems Collection

1993 – T. Morrison – Song of Soloman

1988 – N. Mahfouz – Palace Walk

1987 – J. Brodsky – On Grief and Reason

1983 – W. Golding – Lord of the Flies

1982 – G. C. Márquez – Love in the Time of Cholera

1981 – E. Canetti – The Voices of Marrakesh

1980 – C. Milosz – Native Realm

1978 – I. Singer – Zlateh the Goat

1976 – S. Bellow – The Bellarosa Connection

1973 – P. White – Voss

1970 – A. Solzhenitsyn – In the First Circle

1969 – S. Beckett – Waiting for Godot

1964 – J.P. Satre – Le mur

1962 – J. Steinbeck – Grapes of Wrath

1958 – B. Pasternak – Dr. Zhivago

1957 – A. Camus – La peste and  L’été

1954 – E. Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises and Old Man and the Sea

1953 – W. Churchill – Their Fines Hour

1952 – F. Mauriac – Le noeud de vipères

1949 – W. Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying

1947 – A. Gide – L’immoraliste

1938 – P.S. Buck – The Good Earth

1937 – R.M. de Gard – Jean Barois

1937 – E. O’Neill – Long Day’s Journey into Night

1932 – J. Galsworthy – Man of Property (vol 1  Frosythe Saga)

1930 – S. Lewis – Babbbit and   Main Street 

1929 – T. Mann – Buddenbrooks

1928 – S. Undset – Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath

1927 – H. Bergson – Le rire

1925 – G.B. Shaw – St. Joan

1921 – A. France – La révolte des anges

1920 – K. Hamsun – Growth of Soil

1915 – R. Rolland – Au dessus de la mêlée

1907 – R. Kipling – Captian Courageous

1904 – F. Mistral – Contes de Provence

1901 – S. Prudhomme – Les vaines tendresses