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THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
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French author Jean-Marie Le Clézio wins the 2008 Nobel Prize! Are we going to review and summarize his stuff? Heck, no! But you can still check out our synopsis of the most famous book written by Doris Lessing who won the 2007 Nobel Prize!!!
Check our synopsis of her feminist classic The Golden Notebook
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 For those who are curious, the Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded each autumn to a writer's complete body of work, and consists of a medal and cash equal to 10,000,000 Swedish Crowns (SEK). This is equivalent to about $1,462,575.88 United States dollars.
Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), a Swede who also happened to invent dynamite, established the Literature Prize (along with the Prizes for Chemistry, Economics, Medicine, Peace, and Physics). The Swedish Academy nominates and selects the prize winners for literature, among the world's best writers.
Mr. Nobel would have frowned upon the following categories because he believed that one's work was more important than one's nationality and personal characteristics. Which is true, but nevertheless ...
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AFRICAN WINNERS (4):
2003 J. M. Coetzee, South Africa,
1991 Nadine Gordimer, South Africa,
1988 Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt,
1986 Wole Soyinka, Nigeria,
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ASIAN WINNERS (3):
2000 Gao Xingjian, China,
1994 Kenzaburo Oe, Japan,
1968 Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
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BLACK WINNERS (3):
1993 Toni Morrison, U.S.,
1992 Derek Walcott, Antilles/U.S.,
1986 Wole Soyinka, Nigeria.
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JEWISH WINNERS (8):
1991 Nadine Gordimer, South Africa,
1987 Joseph Brodsky, U.S.,
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer, U.S.,
1976 Saul Bellow, U.S.,
1966 Nelly Sachs, Sweden, also 1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israel,
1958 Boris Pasternak, U.S.S.R.,
1927 Henri Bergson, France.
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LATIN AMERICAN WINNERS (5):
1990 Octavio Paz, Mexico,
1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia,
1971 Pablo Neruda, Chile,
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala,
1945 Gabriela Mistral, Chile.
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MIDDLE EASTERN WINNERS (7):
2006 Orhan Pamuk, Turkey,
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israel,
1913 Rabindranath Tagore, India.
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 Selma Lagerlof was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize For Literature -- way back in 1909! She was way ahead of her time.
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WOMEN WINNERS (10):
2007 Doris Lessing, Britain
2004 Elfriede Jelinek, Austria,
1996 Wislawa Szymborska, Poland,
1993 Toni Morrison, U.S.,
1991 Nadine Gordimer, South Africa,
1966 Nelly Sachs, Sweden,
1945 Gabriela Mistral, Chile,
1938 Pearl S. Buck, U.S.,
1928 Sigrid Undset, Norway,
1926 Grazia Deledda, Italy,
1909 Selma Lagerlof, Sweden.
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