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🥇Nobel Archive (121 Literature Prizes)

100 Books to Read Before it is Too Late
My open global list with a hat tip to Liza Libes of Pens and Poison
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The Great Gatsby and the Modernist American Century
F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925, at the start of the American century. What does this loved novel of the ‘Roaring Twenties…
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Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
and what is coming up on the Burning Archive
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Olga Tokarczuk's tender narrator of Nobel histories
The 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Olga Tokarczuk whose writing crosses borders, plays with genres, and tenderly shows us how to live well now…
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The 2024 Abuse Scandal that Rewrote Alice Munro's Nobel Legacy
The 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Alice Munro whose famous short stories did not disclose the scandal that in 2024 burned her reputation.
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How Elfriede Jelinek unleashed language to smash society's cliches.
The 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Elfriede Jelinek who unleashed language to smash society’s clichés.
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No end of fun with Wisława Szymborska
1996 Nobel Prize for Literature
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Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize for Literature 1995
Poetry as a path from troubles through Beowulf to peace
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez & the history that inspired "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
1982 Nobel Prize for Literature
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Who do you want to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2024?
We are more than half-way through the 120 Nobels Challenge.
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Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, 1975 to 1981
Europe frees its captive mind: Montale, Bellow, Aleixandre, Singer, Elytis, Miłosz, & Canetti
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120 Nobels Challenge Workshop 1930 to 1969
Surprises and history lessons from Sinclair Lewis to Samuel Beckett
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