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Nordic Council Literature Prize (Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris): 10 read.1964 Tarjei Vesaas, Norge, Is-slottet
1983 Peter Seeberg, Danmark, Om fjorten dage
1999 Pia Tafdrup, Danmark, Dronningeporten
2000 Henrik Nordbrandt, Danmark, Drømmebroer
2001 Jan Kjærstad, Norge, Oppdageren
2010 Sofi Oksanen, Finland, Puhdistus (Renselse) Renselse
2014 Kjell Westö, Finland, Luftspejling 38
2018 Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Island, Ar
2021 Niviaq Korneliussen, Grønland, Blomsterdalen
2023 Joanna Rubin Dranger, Sverige, Ihågkom oss till liv
See the list of unread in this spoiler:
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Own / TBR:
1921 The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Read:
1922: (drama) Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill
2011: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Neustadt Laureates2024 – Ananda Devi Eve out of Her Ruins read 2019
2020 – Ismail Kadare The Succesor & Elegy for Kosovo: A Novel read 2022
2016 – Dubravka Ugrešić Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia read 2016
1990 – Tomas Tranströmer Østersøer read 2028
1986 – Max Frisch Andorra read ca. 1989
1978 – Czesław Miłosz En hund ved vejen read 2023
1972 – Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, The Autumn of the Patriarch, The General in His Labyrinth, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Of Love and Other Demons - read 1990's
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Caine Prize WinnersYear / Author / Work
2000 Leila Aboulela (Sudan) The Museum, The Translator
2001 Helon Habila (Nigeria) "Love Poems"
2002 Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya) Discovering Home
2003 Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya) "Weight of Whispers" (Dust)
2004 Brian Chikwava (Zimbabwe) Seventh Street Alchemy
2005 S. A. Afolabi (Nigeria) "Monday Morning"
2006 Mary Watson (South Africa) "Jungfrau"
2007 Monica Arac de Nyeko (Uganda) "Jambula Tree"
2008 Henrietta Rose-Innes (South Africa) "Poison" Nineveh
2009 E. C. Osondu (Nigeria) "Waiting"
2010 Olufemi Terry (Sierra Leone) "Stickfighting Days"
2011 NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) "Hitting Budapest"
2012 Babatunde Rotimi (Nigeria) "Bombay’s Republic"
2013 Tope Folarin (Nigeria) "Miracle"
2014 Okwiri Oduor (Kenya) "My Father's Head"
2015 Namwali Serpell (Zambia) "The Sack"
2016 Lidudumalingani Mqombothi (South Africa) "Memories We Lost"
2017 Bushra Elfadil (Sudan) "The Story of the Girl Whose Bird Flew Away"
2018 Makena Onjerika (Kenya) "Fanta Blackcurrant"
2019 Lesley Nneka Arimah (Nigeria) "Skinned"
2020 Irenosen Okojie (Nigeria) "Grace Jones"
Soooo I've updated my Nobel list. I love when they award it to someone I've already read, this is my second year in a row that happens. :)I've also added:
1961 Ivo Andric
1969 Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
2014 Patrick Modiano Memory Lane
Andric was depressingly misogynistic, Modiano was okay: pretty, but very descriptive (so a bit boring to those of us (ME!) who likes a good plot to drive a story). I was surprised to like Beckett quite a lot in it's absurdity - as I expected the worst!
I read Annie Ernaux (Simple Passion) earlier this year and again was surprised to enjoy it a lot - I'll be reading more of her work.
I have these lined up (we'll see how it goes)1922 Jacinto Benavente (Spanish – Drama) The Bonds of Interest
1928 Sigrid Undset (Norwegian – Novel)
1947 André Gide (French – Novel, Essay) The Immoralist
1989 Camilo Jose Cela (Spanish – Novel, Short Story) The Family of Pascual Duarte
1993 Toni Morrison (American – Novel)
2003 J.M. Coetzee (English – Novel, Essay) Waiting for the Barbarians
2004 Elfriede Jelinek (German – Novel, Drama) Lust
2008 J.M.G. Le Clezio (French – Novel, Short Story, Essay)
And I read Clézio - and liked it! The AfricanI've also gone a little crazy downloading ebooks from the Gutenberg Project and ordering quite a few at the library. Collections of poems more than long epic novels - so hopefully not too overwhelming, when they arrive from far away basement depots.
Have been giving the older poets a try:1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1963 Giorgos Seferis
1977 Vicente Aleixandre
1975 Eugenio Montale (Italian – Poetry)
All okay - none I was amazed by though
I love your challenges! I am also pursuing to read all the Nobel Laureates but haven't come as far as you yet. I guess you're Danish (?) (I'm Swedish by the way) and I've read one of the Danish Laureates so far - many years ago I read Himmerlandshistorier by Johannes V. Jensen and I enjoyed it a lot. I do have books by both Gjellerup and Pontoppidan though.You inspire me now to also make a list of Pulitzer Prize winners!
Nike wrote: "I love your challenges! I am also pursuing to read all the Nobel Laureates but haven't come as far as you yet. I guess you're Danish (?) (I'm Swedish by the way) and I've read one Danish Laureate t..."Yes, Dane here - makes some of the early prize winners easier to find :) Johannes V is there for 1944 - I read Fall of the King (guessing an English title here?) at uni, so he got checked off early. I've really enjoyed most of the woman (I started with them), though I'm still missing Undset (but I've found a shorter novel (Fru Marie Oulie) I'm just not up for the loooong ones :)
Yes, I noticed him. I remembered wrong, I thought he was among the very first and looked at the wrong place 🙂. I do have books by Gjellerup and Pontoppidan but haven't read them yet.
Oh, you really should read the classic Kristin Lavransdotter by Undset. It is such an epic work, one of the best pieces of literature I've ever read. I hope you will gain an appetite for this sooner or later 😊! It's been several years since I read it (or them, depending on whether you read the three books separately or in one giant volume) and I still have the story vivid in my mind.
I agree with Nike; I loved Kristen Lavransdotter!
I read Thomas Mann Death in Venice - and liked it a lot (and kept remembering the Visconti movie, which I haven't seen for decades!)Also I read (heard) Shaw's Man and Superman, which I enjoyed too.
I forgot to update anything but the list at the top - more Nobel winners read:Short stories in various Nobel collections: (Not amazing, but pretty good)
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz (Polish – Novel) The Lighthouse Keeper in Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
1910 Paul von Heyse (German – Poetry, Drama, Novel, Short Story) "The Fury" in Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck (French) The massacre of the innocents in Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian (read 2023)
1916 Verner von Heidenstam (Swedish – Poetry, Novel) Verner von Heidenstams bästa dikter (read 2023)
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpaa (Finnish) En gammel Hersker, Gårdens datter i Nordiske nobelpristagere (read 2023)
1947 André Gide (French) Kærlighedens årtier i Nobelpristagere (read 2023)
1952 François Mauriac (French) Platanen i Nobelpristagere (read 2023)
Good stuff:
1924 Władysław St. Reymont (Polish) "The Trial" in More Tales by Polish Authors (read 2023)
1960 Saint-John Perse Fugle (Birds) (read 2023)
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish) The Cafeteria (read 2023)
1980 Czeslaw Milosz (Polish) En hund ved vejen (A dog by the road?) (read 2023)
2005 Harold Pinter (English – Drama) The Dumb Waiter (read 2023)
Great:
1928 Sigrid Undset (Norwegian) Fru Marta Oulie (read 2023)
Did not enjoy:
1951 Pär Lagerkvist (Swedish) Det evige smil (read 2023)
2023 Jon Fosse Hvidhed (read 2023)
The Nobel Prize 2024 went to Han Kang - I happened to read 2 of her books earlier in the year, so just added her to the read list :D
Anetq, What a remarkable, extraordinary, singular list you have. I find it quite impressive.
There is not much missing from your Nobel list, but for 1933 you might consider Ivan Bunin’s “Sunstroke”, or any other work written AFTER his emigration to France.
Socraticist wrote: "Anetq, What a remarkable, extraordinary, singular list you have. I find it quite impressive.
There is not much missing from your Nobel list, but for 1933 you might consider Ivan Bunin’s “Sunstr..."
Thank you - Bunin has been high on my list to read soon!
It seems I only read three new prize winners this year:1979 Odysseas Elytis (Greek) Solens magt
Not a great fan - but okay
2024 Han Kang (Korean) Greek Lessons and White (read 2024)
It's not my speed, I like more plot, even though the writing is good.
1984 Jaroslav Seifert - poetry - I quite liked it.
Also I DNF'ed Orhan Pamuk again - it is just description upon description and no plot, and I just don't enjoy it, so I'm going to stop trying and just conclude that I'm not a fan and never will be. I did hear him in person at Louisiana, Denmark - and he is a nice man and quite entertaining - i'm just not fond of his writing style.
Ha! I conquered Pamuk, by reading some of his essays - notes here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Less of a hassle than reading his books, which are not for me!
I've also read Hamsun's Hunger / Sult - which I didn't enjoy very much either. I can see the value of the book, I just hate the main character and the lack of plot (apart from self-pity and selvobstruction)
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Less of a hassle than reading his books, which are not for me!..."
Good for you - a tough challenge.
Yeah not a fan!Speaking off - I just read Claude Simon's (Nobel 1985) The Trolley - 116 pages that feels life 10 volumes of boringness - but probably great if your reading taste is Proust and nothing happening.
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Here is my list of the Nobel winners I've read... (I used the spoiler tag to collapse the unread ones)
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz (Polish – Novel) The Lighthouse Keeper in Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian (read 2023)
1907 Rudyard Kipling (English) - Junglebogen
1909 Selma Lagerlöf (Swedish) Hr. Arnes penge (read 2016)
1910 Paul von Heyse (German) "The Fury" in Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck (French) The massacre of the innocents in Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian (read 2023)
1913 Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali) Chitra - A Play in One Act (read 2017)
1914 NO AWARD
1916 Verner von Heidenstam (Swedish) Verner von Heidenstams bästa dikter (read 2023)
1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Danish) "10 kroner" (short story) in Nordiske nobelpristagere (read 2017)
1917 Henrik Pontoppidan Isbjørnen (read 2021)
1918 NO AWARD
1920 Knut Hamsun (Norwegian) Sult
1923 William B. Yeats (English) The Great Poets: W.B. Yeats (read 2022)
1924 Władysław St. Reymont (Polish) "The Trial" in More Tales by Polish Authors (read 2023)
1925 George Bernard Shaw (English) Man and Superman (read 2023)
1926 Grazia Deledda (Italian) Honest Souls (read 2016)
1927 Henri Bergson (French) Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
1928 Sigrid Undset (Norwegian) Fru Marta Oulie (read 2023)
1929 Thomas Mann (German) Døden i Venedig (read 2023)
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Swedish) digte i: Med andre ord - Europæisk lyrikantologi 1200-1900 (read 2022)
1934 Luigi Pirandello (Italian) Syv noveller (read 2017)
1935 NO AWARD
1936 Eugene O'Neill (American) Anna Christie (read 2022)
1938 Pearl S Buck (American) Pavillion of Women (read 2016)
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpaa (Finnish) En gammel Hersker, Gårdens datter i Nordiske nobelpristagere (read 2023)
1940-1943 NO AWARD
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Danish) Kongens fald (read 90's)
1945 Gabriela Mistral (Spanish) Poemas de Las Madres: The Mother's Poems (read 2016)
1946 Hermann Hesse (German) Glasperlespillet
1947 André Gide (French) Kærlighedens årtier i Nobelpristagere (read 2023)
1948 T.S. Eliot (English) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (read 2017)
1950 Bertrand Russell (English – Philosophy) (read 1995?)
1951 Pär Lagerkvist (Swedish) Det evige smil (read 2023)
1952 François Mauriac (French) Platanen i Nobelpristagere (read 2023)
1954 Ernest Hemingway (American) Indian Camp (ca. 1989)
1957 Albert Camus (French) The Stranger (read 2015)
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spanish) Platero og jeg (read 2017)
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo (Italian) 7 poems in Ord i tiden - 13 digtere i dansk gendigtning (read 2017)
1960 Saint-John Perse (French) Fugle (read 2023)
1961 Ivo Andrić (Serbo-Croatian) Torso - 9 short stories (read 2022)
1963 Giorgos Seferis (Greek) Digte - i oversættelse og udvalg ved Ole Wahl Olsen og Poul Borum (read 2022)
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (French) Existentialism Is a Humanism (ca. 1991)
1966 Nelly Sachs (German) I opstandelsens aske (read 2018)
1969 Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (read 2022)
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russian) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (read 2015)
1971 Pablo Neruda (Spanish) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair(read 2020)
1972 Heinrich Boll (German) The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (ca. 1990)
1974 (shared prize) Eyvind Johnson (Swedish) Norrlandsnoveller (read 2016)
1974 Harry Martinson (Swedish) i Ord i tiden - 13 digtere i dansk gendigtning (read 2017)
1975 Eugenio Montale (Italian) Digte (read 2022)
1976 Saul Bellow (English) Leaving the Yellow House (read 2022)
1977 Vicente Aleixandre (Spanish) i 8 spanske digtere (read 2022)
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish) The Cafeteria (read 2023)
1979 Odysseas Elytis (Greek) Solens magt (read 2024)
1980 Czeslaw Milosz (Polish) En hund ved vejen (read 2023)
1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Spanish) One Hundred Years of Solitude + most of his works (1990s)
1983 William Golding (English – Novel, Poetry, Drama) Lord of the Flies
1984 Jaroslav Seifert (Czech – Poetry) The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert (read 2024)
1985 Claude Simon (French – Novel) Sporvognen (Read 2025)
1986 Wole Soyinka (English – Drama, Novel, Poetry) Death and the King's Horseman (read 2019)
1987 Joseph Brodsky (English, Russian) Watermark (read 2018)
1988 Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic) Karnak Café (read 2016)
1990 Octavio Paz (Spanish) Piedra De Sol. The Sun Stone Danish version in Ord i tiden - 13 digtere i dansk gendigtning (read 2017)
1991 Nadine Gordimer (English) July's People (read 2020)
1992 Derek Walcott (English) Øvelser før eksilet - Udvalgte digte (read 2023)
1995 Seamus Heaney (English – Poetry) Fra samvittighedens republik (read 2018)
1996 Wislawa Szymborska (Polish – Poetry) Lots hustru og andre kvinder (read 2018)
1997 Dario Fo (Italian) Smid Ikke Liget Ud Før Damen Er Klædt Af - original title: I cadaveri si spediscono e le donne si spogliano. (read 2017) & Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas (read 2018)
1998 Jose Saramago (Portuguese) The Stone Raft Blindness + at least a handful more (90s-2002)
1999 Gunter Grass (German) I krebsegang (read 2018)
2001 Sir V.S. Naipaul (English – Novel, Essay) Miguel Street (read 2020)
2002 Imre Kertesz (Hungarian) Detective Story (read 2016)
2005 Harold Pinter (English) The Dumb Waiter (read 2023)
2006 Orhan Pamuk (Turkish) Essays in Andre farver (read 2025)
2007 Doris Lessing (English) The Old Age of El Magnifico (read 2025)
2008 J.M.G. Le Clezio (French/Mauritian) The African (read 2022)
2009 Herta Muller (German) The Land of Green Plums (read 2016)
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa (Spanish) Hvem dræbte Palomino Molero? (read 2017)
2011 Tomas Transtromer (Swedish) Østersøer (read 2018)
2013 Alice Munro (English) Dear Life: Stories (read 2015)
2014 Patrick Modiano (French) Memory Lane (read 2022)
2015 Svetlana Alexievich (Russian) Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (read 2016)
2016 Bob Dylan (American) [records over the years]
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro (UK/Japanese) An Artist of the Floating World (read 2015)
2018 Olga Tokarczuk (Polish) Rejsende (read 2019)
2019 Peter Handke (German) Epopé over vejenes forsvinden (read 2019)
2020 Louise Glück (English) Faithful and Virtuous Night & Averno (read 2021)
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah (English) Desertion (read 2017)
2022 Annie Ernaux (French) Simple Passion (read earlier in 2022 - so handy, when they award the price to someone I've already read :) )
2023 Jon Fosse (Norwegian) Hvidhed (read 2023)
2024 Han Kang (Korean) Greek Lessons and Hvid (read 2024)
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1901 Sully Prudhomme (French - Poetry, Essay)
1902 Theodor Mommsen (German) - Brødrene Gracchus : en romersk Revolution (123s)
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832-1910 (Norwegian – Poetry, Novel, Drama)
1904 Frédéric Mistral (Provencal – Poetry, Philology)
1904 José Echegaray (Spanish – Drama)
1906 Giosuè Carducci (Italian – Poetry)
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken (German – Philosophy) Ethics and modern thought
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann (German – Drama, Novel)
1915 Romain Rolland (French – Novel)
1919 Carl Spitteler (German – Poetry)
1921 Anatole France (French – Novel, Poetry) The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
1922 Jacinto Benavente (Spanish – Drama)
1930 Sinclair Lewis (American – Novel, Short Story, Drama)
1932 John Galsworthy (English)
1933 Ivan Bunin (Russian – Short Story, Poetry, Novel)
1937 Roger Martin du Gard (French – 'Les Thibault')
1949 William Faulkner (American – Novel, Short Story)
1953 Winston Churchill (English – History, Essay, Memoirs)
1955 Halldór Laxness (Icelandic – Novel, Short Story, Drama, Poetry)
1958 Boris Pasternak (Russian – Novel, Poetry) ...Prosa
1962 John Steinbeck (American – Novel, Short Story) ...Mus og mænd
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov (Russian – Novel) ...Stille flyder Don
1966 S.Y. Agnon (Shmuel Yosef) (Hebrew – Novel, Short Story)
1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias (Spanish – Novel, Poetry) ... Legender fra Guatemala
1968 Yasunari Kawabata (Japanese – Novel, Short Story)
1973 Patrick White (AUS/English – Novel, Short Story, Drama)
1981 Elias Canetti (German – Novel, Memoirs, Drama) ...Stemmerne fra Marrakesh 110s Stemmerne fra Marrakesh
- 1989 Camilo Jose Cela (Spanish – Novel, Short Story) The Family of Pascual Duarte
1993 Toni Morrison (American – Novel)
1994 Kenzaburo Oe (Japanese – Novel, Short Story)
- 2000 Gao Xingjian (Chinese – Novel, Literary Criticism) Dengang jeg købte en fiskestang til min bedstefar: noveller
- 2004 Elfriede Jelinek (German – Novel, Drama) Lust
2012 Mo Yan (Chinese – Novel, Short Story)
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