List of Nobel Prize winners for literature

Cloud · 05-21-2007, 11:03 AM

I'm ashamed to say I've read very, very few of these authors:

http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/

Happy Monkey · 05-21-2007, 11:20 AM

I've read books by Toni Morrison (1993), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978), Ernest Hemingway (1954), William Faulkner (1949), and Rudyard Kipling (1907).

Of those, I think that Singer is the only one I didn't have to read for school, but I probably read some Kipling before the school required it.

skysidhe · 05-21-2007, 11:40 AM

Thanks for the list.

Trilby · 05-21-2007, 11:41 AM

Pinter
Heaney (forget what I read but was v. v. depressing stuff)
Morrison
Brodsky
Bellow (hated it-Henderson the Rain King)
Neruda
Solzhenitsyn (depressing)
Beckett
Steinbeck
Camus
Hemingway (HATED it)
Faulkner
Kipling
Tagore
Yeats (loved)
Shaw
Lewis
Mann
Eliot (loved)
Buck (loved)
O'Neill (loved)

Sundae · 05-21-2007, 12:09 PM

Bri - shame you didn't like Seamus Heaney - I am now on a mission to change your mind with a resurrection of the poetry thread

Kipling
Yeats
Shaw
Mann
O Neil
Hesse (one novel, to impress a boy - it worked)
Eliot
Faukner
Russell
Hemingway
Camus (again, one novel - see above)
Steinbeck
Beckett
Bellow
Golding
Heaney
Naipaul
Pinter

And very few of them for the reasons they won! I do better with the poets and playwrights than the novelists - I really should try to improve my reading list.

I would recommend Gabriel Garcia Marquez to anyone who really enjoys reading. The writing is as rich and dense and savoury sweet as duck in black cherry sauce

Shawnee123 · 05-21-2007, 12:10 PM

What? Where's Danielle Steele?

Just kid-dun.

I've read many: the result of taking as many elective lit classes as I could in my liberal arts education. This gives me some ideas what things I should be reading as far as classics. Of course, I still love my little slice o' life books.

Trilby · 05-21-2007, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Of course, I still love my little slice o' life books.

I love to read Ann Rule, Rosamund Pilcher and Alice Hoffman!

(also, Forum)

05-21-2007, 11:03 AM	#1
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	List of Nobel Prize winners for literature I'm ashamed to say I've read very, very few of these authors: http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/ __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

05-21-2007, 11:20 AM	#2
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	I've read books by Toni Morrison (1993), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978), Ernest Hemingway (1954), William Faulkner (1949), and Rudyard Kipling (1907). Of those, I think that Singer is the only one I didn't have to read for school, but I probably read some Kipling before the school required it. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

05-21-2007, 11:41 AM	#4
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Pinter Heaney (forget what I read but was v. v. depressing stuff) Morrison Brodsky Bellow (hated it-Henderson the Rain King) Neruda Solzhenitsyn (depressing) Beckett Steinbeck Camus Hemingway (HATED it) Faulkner Kipling Tagore Yeats (loved) Shaw Lewis Mann Eliot (loved) Buck (loved) O'Neill (loved) __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum Last edited by Trilby; 05-21-2007 at 11:47 AM.

05-21-2007, 12:09 PM	#5
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Bri - shame you didn't like Seamus Heaney - I am now on a mission to change your mind with a resurrection of the poetry thread Kipling Yeats Shaw Mann O Neil Hesse (one novel, to impress a boy - it worked) Eliot Faukner Russell Hemingway Camus (again, one novel - see above) Steinbeck Beckett Bellow Golding Heaney Naipaul Pinter And very few of them for the reasons they won! I do better with the poets and playwrights than the novelists - I really should try to improve my reading list. I would recommend Gabriel Garcia Marquez to anyone who really enjoys reading. The writing is as rich and dense and savoury sweet as duck in black cherry sauce __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

05-21-2007, 12:10 PM	#6
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	What? Where's Danielle Steele? Just kid-dun. I've read many: the result of taking as many elective lit classes as I could in my liberal arts education. This gives me some ideas what things I should be reading as far as classics. Of course, I still love my little slice o' life books. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

05-21-2007, 11:40 AM	#3
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	Thanks for the list.

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