Reading path
Nobel Prize Winners
The Swedish Academy got it right more often than people think. Not always, and never without controversy, but the list of laureates whose work appears in the canon is formidable. These are writers who were recognised in their own lifetimes for doing something permanent to literature. Some of them were already legends. Others were discoveries the prize introduced to the wider world. Taken together, they form a portrait of what the twentieth century thought greatness looked like.
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The route
- 1. The Magic MountainThomas Mann, 1924
- 2. SiddharthaHermann Hesse, 1922
- 3. The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway, 1952
- 4. One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez, 1967
- 5. Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel García Márquez, 1985
- 6. The PlagueAlbert Camus, 1947
- 7. The StrangerAlbert Camus, 1942
- 8. The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus, 1942
- 9. NauseaJean-Paul Sartre, 1938
- 10. The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck, 1939
- 11. Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak, 1957
- 12. The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro, 1989
- 13. BelovedToni Morrison, 1987
- 14. Song of SolomonToni Morrison, 1977
- 15. BlindnessJosé Saramago, 1995
- 16. DisgraceJ.M. Coetzee, 1999
- 17. My Name Is RedOrhan Pamuk, 1998
- 18. The Tin DrumGünter Grass, 1959
- 19. Snow CountryYasunari Kawabata, 1956
- 20. OmerosDerek Walcott, 1990
- 21. Where the Mind Is Without FearRabindranath Tagore, 1910
- 22. Independent PeopleHalldór Laxness, 1935
- 23. HungerKnut Hamsun, 1890
- 24. The Cairo TrilogyNaguib Mahfouz, 1957
- 25. Gimpel the FoolIsaac Bashevis Singer, 1953
- 26. A Song on the End of the WorldCzesław Miłosz, 1944
- 27. The Half-Finished HeavenTomas Tranströmer, 1962
- 28. Death and the King's HorsemanWole Soyinka, 1975
- 29. FatelessnessImre Kertész, 1975
- 30. Six Characters in Search of an AuthorLuigi Pirandello, 1921
- 31. Growth of the SoilKnut Hamsun, 1917
- 32. The Bridge on the DrinaIvo Andrić, 1945
- 33. Quo VadisHenryk Sienkiewicz, 1895
- 34. The Second World WarWinston Churchill, 1948
- 35. The History of the Siege of LisbonJosé Saramago, 1989
- 36. Kristin LavransdatterSigrid Undset, 1920
- 37. DesolaciónGabriela Mistral, 1922
- 38. VossPatrick White, 1957
- 39. The VegetarianHan Kang, 2007
- 40. The Atom StationHalldór Laxness, 1948
- 41. Meek HeritageFrans Eemil Sillanpää, 1919