Read the Prize


When in need of inspiration for good lit, the Nobel list always seems like a good place to look up. And so do other prizes. There is just so much to read and so little time! Here following is the list of some of the N prize winners I have read. This also reflects that some of these are more accessible than others...for some I have read most of the works because they hooked me completely (the stars below). And then there are others which I wish I can read more of. It's about time, mood and balancing it with the other good things in life.
  1. Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)
  2. Svetlana Alexievich (2015)
  3. Patrick Modiano (2014)
  4. Alice Munro (2013)
  5. Mario Vargas Llosa (2010) 
  6. Herta Muller (2009)
  7. J.M.G. Le Clezio (2008)
  8. Doris Lessing (2007)  ***
  9. Orhan Pamuk (2006)
  10. John M. Coetzee (2003) ***
  11. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (2001)
  12. Jose Saramago (1998)
  13. Toni Morrison (1993)
  14. Nadine Gordimer (1991)
  15. Octavio Paz (1990)
  16. Joseph Brodsky (1987)
  17. William Golding (1983)
  18. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1982) ***
  19. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978
  20. Saul Bellow (1976)
  21. Patrick White (1973)
  22. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970)
  23. Yasunari Kawabata (1968)
  24. John Steinbeck (1962) ***
  25. Ivo Andr (1961)
  26. Boris Pasternak (1958)
  27. Albert Camus (1957)
  28. Ernest Miller Hemingway (1954)
  29. William Faulkner (1949)
  30. TS Eliot (1948) - poetry
  31. Herman Hesse (1946)
  32. Pearl Buck (1938)
  33. Sinclair Lewis (1930)
  34. Knut Hamsun (1920)
  35. Rabindra Nath Tagore (1913)
  36. Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson (1903)

The other authors I really wish were up there are DFW - (Infinite Jest), Nabokov....and then some pre Nobel era people


*** read a lot of their works.