Nobel Prize Winners
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 105 times to 109 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2012.  The list below represents 20 years of Nobel Prize winning literature.

 Life and death are wearing me out : a novel by Mo, Yan, 1955-   Life and death are wearing me out : a novel
Mo, Yan, 1955-
Stripped of his possessions and executed as a result of Mao's Land Reform Movement in 1948, benevole ...
 
 Tomas Transtromer : selected poems, 1954-1986 by Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931-   Tomas Transtromer : selected poems, 1954-1986
Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931-
 
 The way to paradise by Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-   The way to paradise
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
 
 The appointment : a novel by Müller, Herta.   The appointment : a novel
Müller, Herta.
 
 The interrogation by Le Clézio, J.-M. G. 1940-   The interrogation
Le Clézio, J.-M. G. 1940-
 
 Love, again : a novel by Lessing, Doris May, 1919-   Love, again : a novel
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
"The first new novel from Doris Lessing in more than seven years, Love, Again tells the story of a s ...
 
 The museum of innocence by Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-   The museum of innocence
Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-
It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is ...
 
 Complete works by Pinter, Harold, 1930-   Complete works
Pinter, Harold, 1930-
Harold Pinter has long been acknowledged as one of the most influential playwrights in contemporary ...
 
 Greed : a novel by Jelinek, Elfriede, 1946-   Greed : a novel
Jelinek, Elfriede, 1946-
"In her first novel published in English since becoming the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literat ...
 
 Dusklands by Coetzee, J. M., 1940-   Dusklands
Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
This work contains two novellas. In the first, a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to mu ...
 
 Detective story by Kertész, Imre, 1929-   Detective story
Kertész, Imre, 1929-
 
 A House for Mr. Biswas by Naipaul, V. S. 1932-   A House for Mr. Biswas
Naipaul, V. S. 1932-
 
 Soul mountain by Gao, Xingjian.   Soul mountain
Gao, Xingjian.
"Soul Mountain probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and candor. Interwoven with a myria ...
 
 The box : tales from the darkroom by Grass, Günter, 1927-   The box : tales from the darkroom
Grass, Günter, 1927-
Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods and of ...
 
 Manual of painting & calligraphy : a novel by Saramago, José.   Manual of painting & calligraphy : a novel
Saramago, José.
 
 We won't pay! We won't pay! and other plays : the  ... by Fo, Dario.   We won't pay! We won't pay! and other plays : the collected plays of Dario ...
Fo, Dario.
Dario Fo is considered one of the major artists in world theatre today. At 73, Fo has written over 5 ...
 
 View with a grain of sand : selected poems by Szymborska, Wisława.   View with a grain of sand : selected poems
Szymborska, Wisława.
"In these 100 poems Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in wh ...
 
 Human chain by Heaney, Seamus, 1939-   Human chain
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-
 
 Rouse up, o young men of the new age by O  e, Kenzaburo  , 1935-   Rouse up, o young men of the new age
O e, Kenzaburo , 1935-
"K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, the oldest of whom was born ...
 
 Home by Morrison, Toni   Home
Morrison, Toni
"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
 
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