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.
- Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)
- Svetlana Alexievich (2015)
- Patrick Modiano (2014)
- Alice Munro (2013)
- Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
- Herta Muller (2009)
- J.M.G. Le Clezio (2008)
- Doris Lessing (2007) ***
- Orhan Pamuk (2006)
- John M. Coetzee (2003) ***
- Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (2001)
- Jose Saramago (1998)
- Toni Morrison (1993)
- Nadine Gordimer (1991)
- Octavio Paz (1990)
- Joseph Brodsky (1987)
- William Golding (1983)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1982) ***
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978)
- Saul Bellow (1976)
- Patrick White (1973)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970)
- Yasunari Kawabata (1968)
- John Steinbeck (1962) ***
- Ivo Andrić (1961)
- Boris Pasternak (1958)
- Albert Camus (1957)
- Ernest Miller Hemingway (1954)
- William Faulkner (1949)
- TS Eliot (1948) - poetry
- Herman Hesse (1946)
- Pearl Buck (1938)
- Sinclair Lewis (1930)
- Knut Hamsun (1920)
- Rabindra Nath Tagore (1913)
- 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.