Old Books by (Mostly) Dead Nobel Laureates 2017

Congratulations to Kazuo Ishiguro!

The Japanese-born British author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go has just been announced as the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. I’ll confess I’ve never read any of his books, but perhaps some day I will. I’ve always found the roster of Nobel laureates a good list to draw from when looking for new authors to try from around the world. 

Here at Old Books by Dead Guys we prefer our Nobel laureates a bit more antiquated. As happens each year on this occasion, I present the cumulative list of works by Nobel Prize winners that have been reviewed at this blog. Since last year 15 new works of literature have been added, and four new authors make their debut on the list: Henrik Pontoppidan, Bertrand Russell, Ernest Hemingway, and Boris Pasternak. If you’re looking for a Nobel-worthy read, check out the authors below and click on the titles 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)
• Absolom’s Hair (English edition, 1908)

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)
• Hania (1897)
• 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

• “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888) in Stories by English Authors: The Orient (1896)
• 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)
• Wisdom and Destiny (1898)
• Death (1911)

Gerhart Hauptmann (1912 Nobel) Germany

• Atlantis (1912)

Henrik Pontoppidan (1917 Nobel) Denmark

• Emmanuel, or Children of the Soil

Knut Hamsun (1920 Nobel) Norway

• Hunger (1890)
• Shallow Soil (1893)
• Under the Autumn Star (1906)
• A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings (1909)
• 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)

George Benard Shaw (1925 Nobel) Ireland

• “The Miraculous Revenge” in Little Blue Book No. 215 (ca. 1923) 

Sinclair Lewis (1930 Nobel) United States of America

• Main Street (1920)

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

• “Tomorrow” (1917)
• The Straw (1919)
• Anna Christie (1921)
• Diff’rent (1921)
• The First Man (1922)
• 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)
• The Living Reed: A Novel of Korea (1948)
• Command the Morning (1959)
• Death in the Castle (1965)

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

• Beneath the Wheel (1906)
• Rosshalde (1914)
• Demian (1919)
• Siddhartha (1922)
• Steppenwolf (1927)
• Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
• The Journey to the East (1932)
• The Glass Bead Game (1943)

Bertrand Russell (1950 Nobel) United Kingdom

• The Problems of Philosophy (1912)

Pär Lagerkvist (1951 Nobel) Sweden

• Barabbas (1950)

Ernest Hemingway (1954 Nobel) United States of America

• A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Halldór Laxness (1955 Nobel) Iceland

• The Atom Station (1948)

Borris Pasternak (1958 Nobel) Russia (Soviet Union)

• Doctor Zhivago (1957)

Bob Dylan (2016 Nobel) United States of America

• Chronicles: Volume One (2004)
• Dylan: Disc by Disc (2015) by John Bream

See you next year!