Old Books by Dead Nobel Laureates 2015

Congratulations to Svetlana Alexievich

The Belarusian writer has just been announced as the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Last year at this time, Old Books by Dead Guys posted its first Old Books by Dead Nobel Laureates listing of all the novels, stories, and plays written by Nobel Prize-winning authors that have been reviewed at this blog. At that time 34 works had been reviewed. Since last year’s Nobel announcement, four new authors and 13 more works have been added to the total. Click on the links below to read the complete reviews.

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903 Nobel) Norway

• Arne: A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life (1859)
• A Happy Boy (1860)
• “The Father” (1860) in Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian (1898)
• “The Railroad and the Churchyard” (1882) in Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian (1898)

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905 Nobel) Poland

• In Vain (1876)
• “The Light-House Keeper of Aspinwall” (1881) in Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian (1898)
• “Bartek the Conqueror” (1882) in Tales by Polish Authors (1915)
• With Fire and Sword (1884)
• The Deluge (1886)
• Pan Michael (1888)
• Lillian Morris and Other Stories (1894)
• Quo Vadis (1895)
• Sielanka: An Idyll (1898)
• So Runs the World (1898)
• Life and Death and Other Legends and Stories (1904)
• On the Field of Glory (1906)

Rudyard Kipling (1907 Nobel) United Kingdom

• Kim (1901)

Selma Lagerlöf (1909 Nobel) Sweden

• The Treasure (1903)

Paul von Heyse (1910 Nobel) Germany

• “The Fury” (1853) in Stories by Foreign Authors: German I (1898)

Maurice Maeterlinck (1911 Nobel) Belgium

• “The Massacre of the Innocents” (1886) in Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian (1898)
• Death (1911)

Gerhart Hauptmann (1912 Nobel) Germany

• Atlantis (1912)

Knut Hamsun (1920 Nobel) Norway

• Hunger (1890)
• Growth of the Soil (1917)

Anatole France (1921 Nobel) France

• “The Juggler of Notre Dame” (1892) in Stories by Foreign Authors: French I (1898)
• The Gods Are Athirst (1912)

Wladyslaw Reymont (1924 Nobel) Poland

• The Comedienne (1896)
• The Peasants (1904-1909)
• “The Trial” in More Tales by Polish Authors (1916)
• “A Polish Scene” in Selected Polish Tales (1921)
• “Death” in Selected Polish Tales (1921)

Sinclair Lewis (1930 Nobel) United States of America

• Main Street (1920)

Eugene O’Neill (1936 Nobel) United States of America

• The Straw (1919)
• The Hairy Ape (1922)

Pearl S. Buck (1938 Nobel) United States of America (raised in China)

• East Wind, West Wind (1930)
• The Good Earth (1931)
• Sons (1933)
• A House Divided (1935)
• Dragon Seed (1942)
• The Promise (1943)
• China Flight (1943)

Hermann Hesse (1946 Nobel) Switzerland (born in Germany)

• Beneath the Wheel (1906)
• Demian (1919)
• Siddhartha (1922)
• Steppenwolf (1927)
• The Journey to the East (1932)
• The Glass Bead Game (1943)

See you next year!