Nobel Laureates

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

26 (27 if counting Pinter's Nobel acceptance)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Monroe [mailto:monropolitan at yahoo.com]
>> Subject: Nobel Laureates
> 
> How many of 'em have you read? Here's the list ...
> 
> 2005 Harold Pinter
just his Nobel acceptance speech
> 2001 V.S. Naipaul - Nectar in a Sieve (but can't remember zip)
> 1999 Günter Grass - Tin Drum, Katz & Maus
> 1993 Toni Morrison - Beloved, Song of Solomon 
> 1983 William Golding - Lord of the Flies, Cathedral
> 1982 Gabriel García Márquez - 100 Years (can't believe I haven't read the Cholera book!)
> 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer - some really good stories!
> 1976 Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift, most of Augie March, Ravelstein, Henderson, Dean's December
> 1972 Heinrich Böll - Group Portrait with Lady
> 1971 Pablo Neruda - a collection of his poems (can't remember a thing)
> 1970 Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Gulag, Ivan Denisovitch
> 1969 Samuel Beckett - for a class, read that play where they have the argument about "lighting the kettle" and haven't been tempted to read anything else (it just seems so bleak, yet people rave about this guy! I don't get it!)
> 1962 John Steinbeck - all his novels (in high school same year as Dos Passos's USA)

> 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo -- (ok, I didn't make any name jokes though sorely tempted before (heh, heh) - but I must find out more about this guy) 

> 1958 Boris Pasternak - of course
> 1957 Albert Camus - The Stranger //
> 1954 Ernest Hemingway - all his novels (same year as Dos Passos & Steinbeck)
> 1949 William Faulkner - all his novels (the following year)
> 1948 T.S. Eliot - of course
> 1946 Hermann Hesse - all his novels 
> 1938 Pearl Buck - 2 books in grade school (the Chinese kid eating leaves gave me nightmares)
> 1934 Luigi Pirandello - 6 Characters
> 1930 Sinclair Lewis - Main Street, Babbitt
> 1929 Thomas Mann - Mario & der Zauberer ("Sehen Sie bloss die Sderne hinan!")
> 1927 Henri Bergson - something about "duration"
> 1923 William Butler Yeats - buncha poetry in school - actually asked the prof "is this poetry really all that good" - but it grows on ya
> 1920 Knut Hamsun - Hunger
> 1907 Rudyard Kipling - Jungle Book, coupla poems
> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/
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