The winners for 2018 and 2019
I
wanted to take a moment and review which Nobel-awarded authors I’d read, and what I'd read by them.
Also, I promised I’d update this in my last post, since the original was put
online all the way back in 2012, when I’d read only 20% of the Nobel laureates… That
has changed.
So, as of today's announcement, I have read works by:
Sully
Prudhomme (1901). I’ve read his ‘Selected Poems’.
Theodor
Mommsen (1902). I’ve read ‘A History of Rome Under the Emperors’.
Bjornstjerne
Bjornson (1903). I’ve read ‘Poems and
Songs’.
Frederic
Mistral (1904). I’ve read ‘Mireio’.
Jose Echegaray
(1904). I’ve read ‘The Great Galeoto’.
Henry
Sienkiewicz (1905). I’ve read ‘Quo Vadis’.
Giosue
Carducci (1906). I’ve read ‘Barbarian Odes’.
Rudyard
Kipling (1907). I’ve read ‘Just-So Stories,’ ‘Kim,’ and selected poetry.
Rudolph
Eucken (1908). I’ve read his ‘Collected Essays’.
Selma
Lagerlof (1909). I’ve read ‘The Wonderful Adventures of Nils’.
Paul
Von Heyse (1910). I’ve read ‘Barbarossa and Other Tales’.
Maurice
Maeterlinck (1911). I’ve read ‘The Blue Bird’.
Gerhart
Hauptman (1912). I’ve read ‘Before Daybreak’, ‘The Weavers’ and ‘The Beaver
Coat’.
Rabindranath
Tagore (1913). I’ve read his essays ‘Nationalism’ and his poetry collection
‘Gitanjali’.
Romain Rolland (1915). I’ve read ‘Jean-Christophe’.
Verner
von Heidenstam (1916). I’ve read ‘The Charles Men’.
Karl
Gjellerup (1917). I’ve read ‘The Pilgrim Kamanita’.
Carl
Spitteler (1919). I’ve read his ‘Selected Poems’.
Knut Hamsun (1920). I’ve read ‘Hunger’ and intend
to read ‘Growth of the Soil’.
Anatole
France (1921). I’ve read ‘The Gods Will Have Blood’.
Jacinto
Benavente (1922). I’ve read ‘The Bonds of Interest’.
William
Butler Yeats (1923). I’ve read ‘The Tower’.
Wladyslaw
Reymont (1924). I’ve read ‘The Peasants: Autumn’.
George
Bernard Shaw (1925). I’ve read ‘Pygmalion’, ‘St. Joan’ and ‘Major Barbara’.
Grazia
Deledda (1926). I’ve read ‘Reeds in the Wind’.
Henri
Bergson (1927). I’ve read ‘Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic’.
Sinclair
Lewis (1930). I’ve read ‘Main Street’.
Erik
Karlfeldt (1931). I’ve read ‘Arcadia Borealis’.
Ivan
Bunin (1933). I’ve read ‘The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories’.
Luigi
Pirandello (1934) I’ve read ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’.
Eugene
O’Neil (1936). I’ve read ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’.
Roger
Martin du Gard (1937). I’ve read ‘The Thibaults’.
Frans
Sillanpaa (1939). I’ve read ‘People in the Summer Night’.
Johannes
Vilhelm Jensen (1944). I’ve read ‘The Fall of the King’.
Gabriela
Mistral (1945). I’ve read ‘Madwomen’.
Herman
Hesse (1946). I’ve read ‘Siddhartha’.
Andre
Gide (1947). I’ve read ‘The Immoralist’.
T.S.
Eliot (1948). I’ve read ‘Prufrock and Other Observations’, ‘Ash Wednesday’,
‘The Waste Land’ and ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’.
William
Faulkner (1949). I’ve read ‘The Sound and the Fury’, ‘As I lay Dying’, ‘Light
in August’ and ‘Go Down Moses’ and the short story ‘A Rose for Emily’.
Bertrand
Russell (1950). I’ve read ‘A History of Western Philosophy’ and the essay ‘Why
I Am Not a Christian’. I intend to read ‘The Philosophy of Leibniz’.
Par
Lagerkvist (1951). I’ve read ‘Barabbas’.
Winston
Churchill (1953). I’ve read his speeches and intend to read ‘The Second World
War’.
Ernest Hemingway
(1954). I’ve read ‘The Old Man and the Sea,’ ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and the short
story ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ and intend to read ‘A Farewell
to Arms’.
Halldor
Laxness (1955). I’ve read ‘Independent People’.
Juan
Ramon Jimenez (1956). I’ve read ‘Platero and I’.
Albert
Camus (1957). I’ve read ‘The Stranger’, ‘The Fall’ and ‘The Plague’, and the
essay collections ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ and ‘The Rebel’.
Boris
Pasternak (1958). I’ve read ‘My Sister, Life’.
Salvatore
Quasimodo (1959). I’ve read ‘The Incomparable Earth’.
Saint-John
Perse (1960). I’ve read his ‘Eloges’.
Ivo
Andric (1961). I’ve read ‘The Bridge on the Drina’.
John
Steinbeck (1962). I’ve read ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ and ‘Of Mice and Men’.
Jean-Paul
Sartre (1964). I’ve read ‘Being and Nothingness’, ‘Nausea’, the plays ‘No
Exit’, ‘The Flies’ ‘Dirty Hands’ and ‘The Respectful Prostitute’, the short
story ‘The Wall’, and the essays ‘Portrait of an Anti-Semite’,
‘Self-Deception’, ‘Marxism and Existentialism’ and ‘Existentialism is a
Humanism’.
Giorgos
Seferis (1963). I’ve read his ‘Logbook II’.
Nelly
Sachs (1966). I’ve read ‘O the Chimneys’.
Miguel
Asturias (1967). I’ve read ‘El Senor Presidente’.
Kawabata
Yasunari (1968). I’ve read ‘The Sound of the Mountain’.
Samuel
Beckett (1969). I’ve read ‘Waiting for Godot’ and the trilogy ‘Molloy’, ‘Malone
Dies’ and ‘The Unnamable’.
Alexander
Solzhenitsyn (1970). I’ve read ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’.
Pablo
Neruda (1971). I’ve read ‘Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair’ and ‘The
Yellow Heart’.
Harry
Martinson (1974). I’ve read ‘Chickweed Wintergreen’.
Eyvind
Johnson (1974). I’ve read ‘The Days of His Grace’.
Eugenio
Montale (1975). I’ve read ‘Cuttlefish Bones’ and ‘The Occasions’.
Saul
Bellow (1976). I’ve read ‘The Adventures of Augie March’ and intend to read
‘Herzog’ and ‘Henderson the Rain King’.
Vicente
Aleixandre (1977). I’ve read ‘A Longing for the Light’.
Odysseas
Elytis (1979). I’ve read ‘The Axion Esti’.
Czeslaw
Milosz (1980). I’ve read his ‘Selected Poems’.
Elias
Canetti (1981). I’ve read ‘Crowds and Power’.
Gabriel
Garcia Marquez (1982). I’ve read ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’, ‘One Hundred
Years of Solitude’, the short story ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’ and
the essay ‘Words Are in a Hurry, Get Out of the Way’.
William
Golding (1983). I’ve read ‘Lord of the Flies’.
Jaroslav
Seifert (1984). I’ve read his ‘Selected Poems’.
Claude
Simon (1985). I’ve read ‘The Georgics’.
Wole
Soyinka (1986). I’ve read ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’.
Joseph
Brodsky (1987). I’ve read ‘To Urania’.
Naguib
Mahfouz (1988). I’ve read ‘Children of Gebelawi’.
Camilo
Jose Cela (1989). I’ve read ‘The Family of Pascal Duarte’.
Octavio
Paz (1990). I’ve read ‘Eagle or Sun?’ and ‘A Tale of Two Gardens’.
Nadine Gordimer (1991). I’ve read ‘The
Conservationist’.
Derek
Walcott (1992). I’ve read ‘Omeros’.
Toni
Morrison (1993). I’ve read ‘Beloved’ and intend to read ‘Song of Solomon’.
Kenzaburo
Oe (1994). I’ve read ‘Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness’.
Seamus
Heaney (1995). I’ve read ‘North’.
Wislawa
Szymborska (1996). I’ve read ‘View with a Grain of Sand’.
Dario
Fo (1997). I’ve read ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’.
Gao
Xingjian (2000). I’ve read ‘Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather’.
V.S.
Naipaul (2001). I’ve read ‘A Bend in the River’ and intend to read ‘A House for
Mr. Biswas’.
Imre
Kertesz (2002). I’ve read ‘Kaddish for an Unborn Child’.
J.M.
Coetzee (2003). I’ve read ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’.
Elfriede
Jelinek (2004). I’ve read ‘The Piano Teacher’.
Harold
Pinter (2005). I’ve read ‘Betrayal’.
Tomas Transtromer
(2011). I’ve read ‘The Great Enigma’.
Mo Yan
(2012). I’ve read ‘Life and Death are Wearing Me Out’.
Alice
Munro (2013). I’ve read ‘Dear Life’.
Patrick
Modiano (2014). I’ve read ‘Missing Person’.
Svetlana
Alexievich (2015). I’ve read ‘Voices from Chernobyl’.
Bob
Dylan (2016). I’ve…read? ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’, ‘Bringing It All Back
Home’, ‘Blonde on Blonde’, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’, ‘Blood on the Tracks’, ‘Time
Out of Mind’, ‘Modern Times’, ‘Love and Theft’, ‘Desire’, ‘The Basement Tapes’,
‘John Wesley Harding’, and ‘Nashville Skyline’.
Kazuo
Ishiguro (2017). I’ve read ‘Never Let Me Go’.
So I’m familiar
with 96 of 117, or 82%. I’d like to read them all (italics for the works
I own):
Henrik
Pontoppidan (1917). I am currently reading ‘Lucky Per’.
Sigrid Undset (1928). I want to
read ‘Kristin Lavransdatter’.
Thomas Mann (1929). I want to read
‘Buddenbrooks’ and ‘The Magic Mountain’.
John Galsworthy (1932). I want to
read ‘The Forsyte Saga’.
Pearl S. Buck (1938). I want to
read ‘The Good Earth’.
Francois
Mauriac (1952). I want to read ‘The Desert of Love’.
Mikhail Sholokhov (1965). I want to
read ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’.
Shmuel
Agnon (1966). I want to read ‘To This Day’.
Heinrich
Boll (1972). I want to read ‘Billiards at Half-Past Nine’.
Patrick
White (1973). I want to read ‘Voss’.
Isaac
Bashevis Singer (1978). I want to read ‘A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories’.
Jose Saramago (1998). I want to
read ‘Blindness’.
Gunter Grass (1999). I want to read ‘The Tin Drum’.
Orhan Pamuk (2006). I want to read
‘My Name is Red’.
Doris Lessing (2007). I want to
read ‘The Golden Notebook’.
J.M.G.
Le Clezio (2008). I want to read ‘The Interrogation’.
Herta
Muller (2009). I want to read ‘The Hunger Angel’.
Mario Vargas Llosa (2010). I want
to read ‘The War of the End of the World’.
Maryse
Conde** (2018). I want to read ‘Segu’. ** Winner of the “New Academy Prize” when
the Nobel Committee dropped the ball. So I count her.
Olga Tokarczuk
(2018). I want to read ‘Flights’.
Peter
Handke (2019). I want to read ‘Short Letter, Long Farewell’.
