Friday, October 9, 2020

Old Books by (Mostly) Dead Nobel Laureates 2020

Congratulations to Louise Glück!
It was announced yesterday that American poet Louise Glück has won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” I’ll have to take their word for it, because I’ve never read any of Glück’s work (this blog tends to avoid poets), but it is always a pleasant surprise when an American takes the award.

Each year Old Books by Dead Guys presents the cumulative list of works by Nobel laureates that have been reviewed at this blog (even though now you can see this list any time you want simply by clicking on “Nobel Laureates” in the above menu bar). 
Unlike the previous year, I haven’t read a great deal of Nobel books since last October, so the only new authors added to the list this time around are England’s John Galsworthy (1932 winner) and Poland’s Olga Tokarczuk (2018 winner). Plus I added a few new works from Paul Heyse, Hermann Hesse, Romain Rolland, Pearl S. Buck, and John Steinbeck. Check out the authors below and click on the titles to read the complete reviews.

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903 Nobel) Norway 🇳🇴


Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905 Nobel) Poland 🇵🇱


Rudyard Kipling (1907 Nobel) United Kingdom (born in India) 🇬🇧


Selma Lagerlöf (1909 Nobel) Sweden 🇸🇪


Paul von Heyse (1910 Nobel) Germany 🇩🇪


Maurice Maeterlinck (1911 Nobel) Belgium 🇧🇪


Gerhart Hauptmann (1912 Nobel) Germany 🇩🇪


Rabindranath Tagore (1913 Nobel) India 🇮🇳


Romain Rolland (1915 Nobel) France 🇫🇷


Verner von Heidenstam (1916 Nobel) Sweden 🇸🇪


Henrik Pontoppidan (1917 Nobel) Denmark 🇩🇰


Carl Spitteler (1919 Nobel) Switzerland 🇨🇭


Knut Hamsun (1920 Nobel) Norway 🇳🇴


Anatole France (1921 Nobel) France 🇫🇷


Wladyslaw Reymont (1924 Nobel) Poland 🇵🇱


George Benard Shaw (1925 Nobel) Ireland 🇮🇪


Henri Bergson (1927 Nobel) France 🇫🇷

Sigrid Undset (1928 Nobel) Norway 🇳🇴
  • Jenny (1911) - 2.5 stars


Sinclair Lewis (1930 Nobel) United States of America 🇺🇸


John Galsworthy (1932 Nobel) United Kingdom 🇬🇧


Ivan Bunin (1933 Nobel) France (born in Russia) 🇫🇷 🇷🇺


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


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


Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1939 Nobel) Finland 🇫🇮


Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1944 Nobel) Denmark 🇩🇰


Hermann Hesse (1946 Nobel) Switzerland (born in Germany) 🇨🇭 🇩🇪


Bertrand Russell (1950 Nobel) United Kingdom 🇬🇧


Pär Lagerkvist (1951 Nobel) Sweden 🇸🇪


François Mauriac (1952 Nobel) 
France 🇫🇷


Ernest Hemingway (1954 Nobel) United States of America 🇺🇸


Halldór Laxness
 (1955 Nobel) Iceland 🇮🇸


Borris Pasternak (1958 Nobel) Russia (Soviet Union) 🇷🇺
     (1957) - 4 stars

John Steinbeck (1962 Nobel) United States of America 🇺🇸

Mikhail Sholokhov (1965 Nobel) Soviet Union 🇷🇺


José Saramago (1998 Nobel) Portugal 🇵🇹


Orhan Pamuk (2006 Nobel) Turkey 🇹🇷

  • Snow (2002) - 3.5 stars


Mo Yan (2012 Nobel) China 🇨🇳


Bob Dylan (2016 Nobel) United States of America 🇺🇸

Olga Tokarczuk (2018 Nobel) Poland 🇵🇱

Bonus: Albert Einstein (1921 Nobel in Physics) Germany/Switzerland 🇩🇪 🇨🇭

 

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