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Oct 11, 2007 14:33

Nobel laureates in literature. List the ones you've read anything by. If you want to list all of them and do bolding and italicizing and blinky-tags when you propagate this, by all means go ahead.

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androidqueen October 11 2007, 18:55:09 UTC
Harold Pinter
Toni Morrison
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Czeslaw Milosz
Samuel Beckett
Jean-Paul Sartre
John Steinbeck
Albert Camus
Bertrand Russel
William Faulkner
T.S. Eliot
Herman Hesse
Pearl Buck
Eugene O'Neill
Sinclair Lewis
George Bernard Shaw
Rudyard Kipling

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allonymist October 11 2007, 20:29:54 UTC
I've read:
* Wislawa Szymborska (Leaves of grass)
* Seamus Heaney (Beowulf translation, misc poems)
* Octavio Paz (misc poems)
* William Golding (Lord of the Flies)
* Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
* Saul Bellow (Herzog)
* Pablo Neruda (misc poems)
* Jean-Paul Sartre (a short story whose title I can't recall)
* John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)
* Albert Camus (The Plague)
* Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, The Fifth Column, misc stories)
* Winston Churchill (History of the English Speaking Peoples, History of WW2)
* Bertrand Russell (History of Western Philosophy, Why I Am Not A Christian, misc essays)
* William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying, Light in August)
* T.S. Eliot (Most of his poems and plays, a few essays)
* Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain)
* George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion, misc essays)
* William Butler Yeats (misc poems)
* Rudyard Kipling (Just So Stories, misc poems)

I've started and need to finish as soon as I find my copy:
* Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago)

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allonymist October 11 2007, 22:03:13 UTC
Oh! I forgot
* Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot.)

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