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Originally Posted by abaya
I'd like to see a list of the Nobel Prize in Literature winners... I've slowly been making my way through at least one novel from each author (as I stumble upon them in the library), though it's mostly very heavy reading. I'm more into the international aspect of the Nobel list, I guess.
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A fine quest indeed. It might be tricky to find some (not all!) of the earliest. And some of the laureates are a bit... weird. Not all are novelists either, there are a lot of poets and playwrights as well.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/l...ure/laureates/
I've not read that many of those actually, and I have a hard time picking up recent winners because it feels like I'm reading them just because they won the Nobel Prize. The last few years they've actually managed to pick authors that I've heard of before, so someday I hope they'll pick one I've read even!
There are a number of other literature prizes out there that might be worth checking out for finding good contemporary authors. MAN Booker International for instance. The Nobel guys do not publish a shortlist, but most other award committees do.