Nobel Prize

Bob Dylan

United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941)

Doris Lessing

English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)

J. M. Coetzee

Toni Morrison

United States writer whose novels describe the lives of African-Americans (born in 1931)

Derek Walcott

Nadine Gordimer

South African novelist and short-story writer whose work describes the effects of apartheid (born in 1923)

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914-April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature

Naguib Mahfouz

Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian poet and essayist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature and was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1991 to 1992

William Golding

English novelist (1911-1993)

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America.

Elias Canetti

English writer born in Germany (1905-1994)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991)

Saul Bellow

United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005)

Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale (October 12, 1896 - September 12, 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975

Pablo Neruda

Samuel Beckett

a playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the theater of the absurd (1906-1989)

Jean-Paul Sartre

French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980)

John Steinbeck

United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968)

Boris Pasternak

Albert Camus

French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)

Ernest Hemingway

an American writer of fiction who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961)

Winston Churchill

British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)

Bertrand Russell

English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)

William Faulkner

United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)

T. S. Eliot

British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)

André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

Hermann Hesse

Luigi Pirandello

Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936)

John Galsworthy

English novelist (1867-1933)

Thomas Mann

German writer concerned about the role of the artist in bourgeois society (1875-1955)

Henri Bergson

French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)

George Bernard Shaw

British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)

William Butler Yeats

Anatole France

French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924)

Rabindranath Tagore

Maurice Maeterlinck

Rudyard Kipling