Sunday 13 June 2010

Reading Challenge: Nobel Prize for Literature

The aim of this challenge is to read at least one book by as many Nobel Prize winners as possible.

2010
Mario Vargas Llosa

2009
Herta Müller

2008
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
The Book of Flights

2007
Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook

2006
Orhan Pamuk

2005
Harold Pinter

2004
Elfriede Jelinek

2003
John M. Coetzee
Boyhood
Diary of a Bad Year
Disgrace
Life and Times of Michael K
Slow Man
Summertime
Waiting for the Barbarians
Youth


2002
Imre Kertész

2001
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

2000
Gao Xingjian

1999
Günter Grass

1998
José Saramago
Blindness
Seeing


1997
Dario Fo

1996
Wislawa Szymborska

1995
Seamus Heaney

1994
Kenzaburo Oe

1993
Toni Morrison
A Mercy


1992
Derek Walcott

1991
Nadine Gordimer

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
Love in the Time of Cholera


1981
Elias Canetti

1980
Czeslaw Milosz

1979
Odysseus Elytis

1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer

1977
Vicente Aleixandre

1976
Saul Bellow

1975
Eugenio Montale

1974
Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson

1973
Patrick White

1972
Heinrich Böll

1971
Pablo Neruda

1970
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

1969
Samuel Beckett

1968
Yasunari Kawabata

1967
Miguel Angel Asturias

1966
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs

1965
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

1964
Jean-Paul Sartre

1963
Giorgos Seferis

1962
John Steinbeck

1961
Ivo Andric

1960
Saint-John Perse

1959
Salvatore Quasimodo

1958
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago


1957
Albert Camus
The Fall
The Outsider

1956
Juan Ramón Jiménez

1955
Halldór Kiljan Laxness

1954
Ernest Miller Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea


1953
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

1952
François Mauriac

1951
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist

1950
Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell

1949
William Faulkner

1948
Thomas Stearns Eliot

1947
André Paul Guillaume Gide

1946
Hermann Hesse

1945
Gabriela Mistral

1944
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

1939
Frans Eemil Sillanpää

1938
Pearl Buck

1937
Roger Martin du Gard

1936
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

1934
Luigi Pirandello

1933
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

1932
John Galsworthy

1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt

1930
Sinclair Lewis

1929
Thomas Mann

1928
Sigrid Undset

1927
Henri Bergson

1926
Grazia Deledda

1925
George Bernard Shaw

1924
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

1923
William Butler Yeats

1922
Jacinto Benavente

1921
Anatole France

1920
Knut Pedersen Hamsun

1919
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler

1917
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan

1916
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam

1915
Romain Rolland

1913
Rabindranath Tagore

1912
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann

1911
Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck

1910
Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse

1909
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf

1908
Rudolf Christoph Eucken

1907
Rudyard Kipling

1906
Giosuè Carducci

1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz

1904
Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre

1903
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson

1902
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen

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