I challenge myself to read at least one book of each of the Nobel prize-winning authors. Between 1901 and 2017, the Nobel prize in literature has been awarded 110 times to 114 laureates. Unfortunately 2018 is another year without any Nobel prize in literature. See below what I have read (or re-read) so far:
2022 | Anne Ernaux | Pasiune simpla. Confesiunea adolescentei |
2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | Paradis |
2020 | Louise Gluck | |
2019 | Peter Handke | |
2018 | Olga Tukarczuk | |
2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
2016 | Bob Dylan | |
2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | |
2014 | Patrick Modiano | Honeymoon |
2013 | Alice Munro | |
2012 | Mo Yan | |
2011 | Thomas Transtromer | |
2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
2009 | Herta Muller | |
2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio | |
2007 | Doris Lessing | |
2006 | Orhan Pamuk | |
2005 | Harold Pinter | |
2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | |
2003 | John M. Coetzee | Disgrace |
2002 | Imre Kertesz | |
2001 | Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul | |
2000 | Gao Xingjian | |
1999 | Gunter Grass | |
1998 | Jose Saramago | Eseu despre orbire |
1997 | Dario Fo | |
1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | |
1995 | Seamus Heaney | |
1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | |
1993 | Toni Morrison | |
1992 | Derek Walcott | |
1991 | Nadime Gordimer | |
1990 | Octavio Paz | |
1989 | Camilo Jose Cela | |
1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | |
1987 | Joseph Brodsky | |
1986 | Wole Soyinka | |
1985 | Claude Simon | |
1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | |
1983 | William Golding | |
1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
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 Boll | |
1971 | Pablo Neruda | |
1970 | Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn | |
1969 | Samuel Beckett | |
1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | The Sound of the Mountain; Thousand Cranes |
1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias | |
1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | |
Nelly Sachs | ||
1965 | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov | |
1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
1963 | Giorgos Seferis | |
1962 | John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men |
1961 | Ivo Andric | |
1960 | Saint-John Perse | |
1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | |
1958 | Boris Leonidovich Pasternak | |
1957 | Albert Camus | |
1956 | Juan Ramon Jimenez | |
1955 | Halldor Kiljan Laxness | |
1954 | Ernest Miller Hemingway | |
1953 | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | |
1952 | Francois Mauriac | |
1951 | Par Fabian Lagerkvist | |
1950 | Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell | |
1949 | William Faulkner | |
1948 | Thomas Stearns Eliot | |
1947 | Andre Paul Guillaume Gide | |
1946 | Herman Hesse | |
1945 | Gabriela Mistral | |
1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | |
1943 | No Nobel Prize awarded | |
1942 | No Nobel Prize awarded | |
1941 | No Nobel Prize awarded | |
1940 | No Nobel Prize awarded | |
1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpaa | |
1938 | Pearl Buck | |
1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | |
1936 | Eugene Gladstone O’Neill | |
1935 | No Nobel Prize awarded | |
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 | Hunger |
1919 | Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler | |
1918 | No Nobel Prize awarded | |
1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup | |
Henrik Pontoppidan | ||
1916 | Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam | |
1915 | Romain Rolland | |
1914 | No Nobel Prize awarded | |
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 Lagerlof | |
1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | |
1907 | Rudyard Kipling | |
1906 | Giosue Carducci | |
1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
1904 | Frederich Mistral | |
Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre | ||
1903 | Bjornstjerne Martinus Bjornson | |
1902 | Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen | |
1901 | Sully Prudhomme |