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Year
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Author (Dates)
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Country
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Famous Work
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2002
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Imre Kertész (1929- )
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Hungary
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Fateless (1975); Fiasco (1988); Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1997)
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2001
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V. S. Naipaul (1932- )
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Great Britain
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A House for Mr. Biswas (1961); Guerillas (1975); A Bend in the River (1979); Beyond Belief (1998); Half a Life (2001)
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2000
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Gao Xingjian (1940- )
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China
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Bus Stop (1983); The Other Man's Bible; Fugitives (1993); Soul Mountain (1997)
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1999
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Günter Grass (1928- )
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Germany
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The Tin Drum (1959)
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1998
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José Saramago (1922- )
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Portugal
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Baltasar and Blimunda (1982); Blindness (1996)
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1997
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Dario Fo (1926- )
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Italy
|
Non si paga! Non si paga! (1974)
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1996
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Wislawa Szymborska (1923- )
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Poland
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Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems (1981)
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1995
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Seamus Heaney (1939- )
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Ireland
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North (1979); The Haw Lantern (1987)
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1994
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Kenzaburo Oe (1935- )
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Japan
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A Personal Matter (1964)
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1993
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Toni Morrison (1931- )
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United States
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Beloved (1988)
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1992
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Derek Walcott (1930- )
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St. Lucia, West India
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Omeros (1990)
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1991
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Nadine Gordimer (1923- )
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South Africa
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A Guest of Honour (1970); A Soldier's Embrace (1980).
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1990
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Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
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Mexico
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The Labyrinth of Solitude (1959)
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1989
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Camilo José Cela (1916-)
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Spain
|
Journey to Alcarria (1964)
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1988
|
Naguib Mahfouz (1911- )
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Egypt
|
Children of Gebelawi (1959)
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1987
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Joseph Brodsky (Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky, 1940-1996)
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United States
|
A Part of Speech (1980); Less Than One: Selected Essays (1987)
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1986
|
Wole Soyinka (1934- )
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Nigeria
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The Interpreters (1969); The Man Died (1972);
Myth, Literature and the African World (1975)
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1985
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Claude-Eugene-Henri Simon (1913- )
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France
|
Les Georgiques (1981)
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1984
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Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986)
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Czechoslovakia
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All the Beauty in the World (1981)
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1983
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William Golding (1911-1993)
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United Kingdom
|
Lord of the Flies (1954)
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1982
|
Gabriel García Márquez (1928- )
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Columbia-Mexico
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1976)
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1981
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Elias Canetti (1905-1994)
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Bulgaria-United Kingdom
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Crowds and Power (1960)
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1980
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Czeslaw Milosz (1911- )
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Poland
|
The Captive Mind (1953)
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1979
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Odysseus Elytis (Odysseus Alepoudhelis, 1911-1996)
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Greece
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The Axion Esti (1959)
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1978
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
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United States
|
Yentl, The Yeshivah Boy (1978)
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1977
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Vincente Aleixandre (1898-1984)
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Spain
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Destruction or Love (1933)
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1976
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Saul Bellow (1915- )
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United States
|
Humboldt's Gift (1975)
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1975
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Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
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Italy
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Xenia (1972)
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1974
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Eyvind Johnson (1900-1976)/ Harry Martinson (1904-1978)
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Sweden
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Favel ensam (1968)/ Natur (1934)
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1973
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Patrick White (1912-1990)
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Australia
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The Tree of Man (1955)
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1972
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Heinrich Böll (1917-1985)
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Germany
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Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1958)
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1971
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Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
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Chile
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The Captain's Verses (1952); La Barcarola (1967)
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1970
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918- )
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USSR
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The First Circle (1968)
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1969
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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
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Ireland
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Waiting for Godot (1953)
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1968
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Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972)
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Japan
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Snow Country (1947)
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1967
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Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974)
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Guatemala
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Viento fuerte (1950); El papa verde (1954);
Los ojos de los enterrados (1960)
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1966
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970)/ Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)
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Israel/Sweden
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Agunot (1908)/ Flucht und Verwandlung (1959)
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1965
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Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984)
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USSR
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And Quiet Flows the Don & The Don Flows Home to the Sea (1940)
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1964
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Jean-Paul Sartre* (1905-1980)
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France
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L'étre et le néant (1943)
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1963
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Giorgios Seferis (Giorgios Seferiades, 1900-1971)
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Greece
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Mythistorema (1935)
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1962
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John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
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United States
|
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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1961
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Ivo Andric (1892-1975)
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Yugoslavia
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Gospodica (1945)
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1960
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Saint-John Perse (Marie-René-Auguste-Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, 1887-1975)
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France
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Exil (1942)
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1959
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Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)
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Italy
|
Nuove Poesie (1942); The Selected Writings of Salvatore Quasimodo (1960)
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1958
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Boris Pasternak* (1890-1960)
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USSR
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Doctor Zhivago (1957)
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1957
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Albert Camus (1913-1960)
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France
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L'Étranger (1942)
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1956
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Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958)
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Spain
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La estación total (1946)
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1955
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Halldór Kiljan Laxness (1902-1998)
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Iceland
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The Light of the World (1937-1940)
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1954
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
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United States
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The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
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1953
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Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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United Kingdom
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While England Slept (1938)
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1952
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François Mauriac (1885-1970)
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France
|
Les Chemins de la mer (1939)
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1951
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Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974)
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Sweden
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Barabbas (1950)
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1950
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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
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United Kingdom
|
The ABC of Relativity (1925); What I Believe (1925);
A History of Western Philosophy (1945)
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1949
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William Faulkner (1897-1962)
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United States
|
The Sound and the Fury (1929); Sanctuary (1931);
The Hamlet (1940); Intruder in the Dust (1948)
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1948
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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
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United Kingdom
|
The Waste Land (1922)
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1947
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Andre-Paul-Guillaume Gide (1869-1951)
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France
|
Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1926)
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1946
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
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Switzerland
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Siddharta (1922)
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1945
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Gabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, 1889-1957)
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Chile
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Tala (1938)
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1944
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Johannes V. Jensen (1873-1950)
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Denmark
|
Myter (1907-1944)
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1943
|
No Award
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1942
|
No Award
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1941
|
No Award
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1940
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No Award
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1939
|
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888-1964)
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Finland
|
Meek Heritage (1919)
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1938
|
Pearl S. Buck (Pearl Sydenstricker Walsh, 1892-1973)
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United States
|
The Good Earth (1931)
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1937
|
Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958)
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France
|
Vieille France (1933)
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1936
|
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
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United States
|
Beyond the Horizon (1918); Anna Christie (1920);
Strange Interlude (1926-1927)
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1935
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No Award
|
|
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1934
|
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
|
Italy
|
Amori senza amore (1894)
|
|
1933
|
Ivan G. Bunin (1870-1953)
|
Russia
|
Gospodin iz San-Frantsisko (1916)
|
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1932
|
John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
|
United Kingdom
|
The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921)
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1931
|
Erik A. Karlfeldt** (1864-1931)
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Sweden
|
Flora och Pomona (1906)
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1930
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Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
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United States
|
Main Street (1920); Arrowsmith (1926)
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1929
|
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
|
Germany
|
Der Zauberberg (1924)
|
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1928
|
Sigrid Undset (1882-1949)
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Norway
|
Splinten av trollspeilet (1917)
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1927
|
Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941)
|
France
|
Le Rire (1900)
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1926
|
Grazia Deledda (1875-1936)
|
Italy
|
Racconti Sardi (1893)
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1925
|
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
|
Ireland
|
Pygmalion (1912)
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1924
|
Wladyslaw S. Reymont (1867-1925)
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Poland
|
Chlopi (1902-1909)
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1923
|
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
|
Ireland
|
The Wind among the Reeds (1899)
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1922
|
Jacinto Benavente y Martinez (1866-1954)
|
Spain
|
La malquerida (1913)
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1921
|
Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault, 1844-1924)
|
France
|
La Petit Pierre (1918)
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1920
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Knut Hamsun (Knut Pedersen, 1859-1952)
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Norway
|
Victoria (1898)
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1919
|
Carl F. G. Spitteler (aka Carl Felix Tandem, 1845-1924)
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Switzerland
|
Imago (1906)
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1918
|
No Award
|
|
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1917
|
Karl A. Gjellerup (1857-1919)/
Henrik Pontoppidan (1857-1943)
|
Denmark
|
En Idealist (1878)/ Skyer (1890)
|
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1916
|
Verner von Heidenstam (1859-1940)
|
Sweden
|
Vallfart och Vandringsar (1888)
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1915
|
Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
|
France
|
Jean Christophe (1904-1912)
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1914
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No Award
|
|
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1913
|
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
|
India
|
Gora (1910)
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1912
|
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946)
|
Germany
|
Vor Sonnenaufgang (1889)
|
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1911
|
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
|
Belgium
|
La Princesse Maleine (1899)
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1910
|
Paul von Heyse (1830-1914)
|
Germany
|
Meraner Novellen (1867)
|
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1909
|
Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940)
|
Sweden
|
Antikrists Mirakler (1897)
|
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1908
|
Rudolf Eucken (1846-1926)
|
Germany
|
Philosophie der Geschichte (1907)
|
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1907
|
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
|
United Kingdom
|
The Jungle Book (1894)
|
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1906
|
Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907)
|
Italy
|
Rime e ritme (1899)
|
|
1905
|
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)
|
Poland
|
Quo Vadis? (1896)
|
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1904
|
Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914)/ José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832-1916)
|
France/Spain
|
Nerto (1884)/El loco Diós (1900)
|
|
1903
|
Björnstjerne Björnson (1832-1910)
|
Norway
|
Digte og sange (1870)
|
|
1902
|
Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903)
|
Germany
|
Römisches Strafrecht (1899)
|
|
1901
|
René F. A. Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907)
|
France
|
La Bonheur (1888)
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*Declined award |
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**Awarded posthumously after declining the award in 1918 |
