I believe that consulting other intellectual and learned people can help me a lot in knowing the top ten Nobel laureates in Literature. So I'll be happy, thankful and grateful to have your idea about my question . And you think a little before answering it would very kind of you. I want to traslate and introduce those people to my countrymen. If possible,Please send me some reliable critism on their works. How can I find A criticism book on all Nobel Laureates in LITERATURE? Do you know any? Please introduce a valid and reliable one.
2007-06-16 11:12:09 · 5 answers · asked by Alimi 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
There's no agreement or right answer on this of course. Here is my list:
G. B. Shaw (1925)
Thomas Mann (1929)
Herman Hesse (1945)
T. S. Eliot (1948)
William Faulkner (1949)
Ernest Hemingway (1953)
Winston Churchill (1954)
Albert Camus (1957)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1970)
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (1982)
2007-06-16 11:35:40 · answer #1 · answered by A M Frantz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Top 10 would be very subjective. Here's the complete list.
2006 - Orhan Pamuk
2005 - Harold Pinter
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
2003 - J. M. Coetzee
2002 - Imre Kertész
2001 - V. S. Naipaul
2000 - Gao Xingjian
1999 - Günter Grass
1998 - José Saramago
1997 - Dario Fo
1996 - Wislawa Szymborska
1995 - Seamus Heaney
1994 - Kenzaburo Oe
1993 - Toni Morrison
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
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 - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
1973 - Patrick White
1972 - Heinrich Böll
1971 - Pablo Neruda
1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1969 - Samuel Beckett
1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 - Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre
1963 - Giorgos Seferis
1962 - John Steinbeck
1961 - Ivo Andric
1960 - Saint-John Perse
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1957 - Albert Camus
1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955 - Halldór Laxness
1954 - Ernest Hemingway
1953 - Winston Churchill
1952 - François Mauriac
1951 - Pär Lagerkvist
1950 - Bertrand Russell
1949 - William Faulkner
1948 - T.S. Eliot
1947 - André Gide
1946 - Hermann Hesse
1945 - Gabriela Mistral
1944 - Johannes V. Jensen
1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938 - Pearl Buck
1937 - Roger Martin du Gard
1936 - Eugene O'Neill
1935 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1934 - Luigi Pirandello
1933 - Ivan 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 Reymont
1923 - William Butler Yeats
1922 - Jacinto Benavente
1921 - Anatole France
1920 - Knut Hamsun
1919 - Carl Spitteler
1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1917 - Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 - Verner von Heidenstam
1915 - Romain Rolland
1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1913 - Rabindranath Tagore
1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann
1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 - Paul Heyse
1909 - Selma Lagerlöf
1908 - Rudolf Eucken
1907 - Rudyard Kipling
1906 - Giosuè Carducci
1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1902 - Theodor Mommsen
1901 - Sully Prudhomme
This is the complete list - sorry I cannot recommend a book.
2007-06-16 11:37:10 · answer #2 · answered by jet-set 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I will gladly recommend Ivo Andric. I read many other laureates, though, but can't make a list of only ten of them. it would be too hard. and this girl Sandy has made a very good homework for you. why don't you try to read some of them and to see it for yourself how good or bad they are.
2007-06-19 00:27:25 · answer #3 · answered by cmilja m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any World almanac has that information Try your local Library
2007-06-18 05:55:37 · answer #4 · answered by Ron P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't begin to tell you. I look forward to the answers. (Star for you.)
2007-06-16 11:22:53 · answer #5 · answered by Brant 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋