Tag Archives: to read

Nobel Laureates 1994-1990

大江 健三郎 Kenzaburō Ōe 1994

Japan (novel)

Work: 個人的な体験 A Personal Matter, 万延元年のフットボール The Silent Cry

Toni Morrison 1993

US (novel)

Work: The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Song of Solomon

Derek Walcott 1992

Santa Lucia (poetry/drama)

Work: Dream on Monkey Mountain, Omeros,  

Nadine Gordimer 1991

South Africa (novel/short story)

Work: The Conservationist, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People

Octavio Paz 1990

Mexico (poetry/essay)

Work: Piedra de sol, Salamandra, El laberinto de la soledad, Vislumbres de la India

Nobel Laureates 2009-2005

Herta Müller 2009

Germany/Romania (novel/poetry) communism under Nicolae Ceaușescu

Work: Nadirs, The Land of Green Plums, The Passport

J. M. G. Le Clézio 2008

France/Mauritania (novel/poetry/short story)

Work: Le Procès-Verbal (The Interrogation), Désert (Desert)

Doris Lessing 2007

Britain (novel/short story)

Work: The Grass Is Singing, Cat Tales (The Old Age of El Magnifico)

Orhan Pamuk 2006

Turkey (novel, screenwriting)

Work: The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red,Snow, The Museum of Innocence, A Strangeness in My Mind

Harold Pinter 2005

UK (drama, screenplay)

Work: screenplay: The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981),The Trial (1993), Sleuth (2007). Drama: The Birthday Party, The Homecoming

World War Z

Brooks, Max. World War Z: An Oral History of The Zombie War. New York: Broadway, 2006. Print.

Fengdu (city of ghosts) 豐都鬼城
Old Dachang
Monasteries at Meteora, Greece

Rabbi Loew and Golem by Mikoláš Aleš, 1899. Via Wikimedia.

Golem גלמי

Sinai Desert at Taba
Falasha

Ship breaking at Alang, Gujarat, India
“Pakistan’s south central mountains: the Pab, the Kirthar, the Central Brahui range.” p. 113

List of mountain ranges of Pakistan

thermobaric weapon

Henry J. Kaiser (father of modern American shipbuilding)

Vo Nguyen Giap in 1954. Via Wikimedia.

Vo Nguyen Giap (General in the Vietnam People’s Army)

Bosozoku 暴走族 Japanese motorbike subculture

Haya-ji  Shinto wind god

The Japanese wind god Fūjin, Sōtatsu, 17th century. Via Wikimedia.

Fujin Shinto wind god

Winston Churchill “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

To read: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Ossuary and Port-Mahon Quarry

To Read (20th Century)

James Baldwin (US) |

Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, The Devil Finds Work  

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Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)|

Historia universal de la infamia, Ficciones, El Aleph.

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 R. K. Narayan (India)|

Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The English Teacher. See his works on mythology/religion (Gods, Demons and Others, The Ramayana) see list of works.

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Graham Greene (England)|

The Comedians, The Heart of the Matter, A Burnt-Out Case, The Quiet American, The End of the Affair, The Ministry of Fear,  Our Man in Havana, Monsignor Quixote 

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Robertson Davies (Canada)|

The Salterton Trilogy, The Cornish Trilogy, The “Toronto Trilogy”

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Giorgio Bassani (Italia)|

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

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Mordechai Richler (Canada)|

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney’s Version, Solomon Gursky Was Here

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Brian Moore (Northern Ireland/Canada)|

Judith Hearne, The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Black Robe 

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Evelyn Waugh (England)|

Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Sword of Honour

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Nicolas Poussin, The Dance to The Music of Time, 1640. Wallace Collection, London. Via Wikimedia.

Anthony Powell (England)|

A Dance to the Music of Time

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John Martin, The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, 1852. Via Wikimedia.

Marcel Proust (France)|

In Search of Lost Time

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Robert Musil (Austria)|

The Man Without Qualities

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Joyce in Zurich, c. 1918. Via Wikiemdia.

James Joyce (Ireland)|

Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners,  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Simone de Beauvoir (France)|

The Second Sex,  She Came to Stay, The Mandarins

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Bertolt Brecht (Germany)|

Threepenny Novel, Drums in the Night, The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre.     

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Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)|

Aké: The Years of Childhood, Death and the King’s Horseman, The Lion and the Jewel  

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Jean Cocteau (France)|

Les Enfants Terribles, Les Parents Terribles, Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus 

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Jacques Prévert (France)|

Les Enfants du Paradis, Paroles (wrote scenarios and dialogues for films. See list)

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Toni Morrison (US)|

Beloved, Song of Solomon, Sula, The Bluest Eye

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Italo Calvino (Italia)|

Invisible Cities, If on a winter’s night a traveler, Our Ancestors trilogy, Cosmicomics

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Leonardo Sciascia (Italia)|

Una storia semplice, The Day of the Owl, To Each His Own. See films: Open Doors (1990), Cadaveri Eccellenti (1976) and Il giorno della civetta

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Cesare Pavese (Italia)|

The Moon and the Bonfires, see translated poems.

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Natalia Ginzburg (Italia)|

L’inserzione, Family sayings (Lessico famigliare),  Caro Michele (film Caro Michele, 1976)

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Georges Simenon (Belgium)|

Creator of detective Jules Maigret. Maigret and the Yellow Dog, Dirty Snow, Red Lights 

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Milan Kundera (Czech)|

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke,The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) |

Things Fall Apart,No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah, An Image of Africa (lecture on Heart of Darkness) 

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Muriel Spark (Scotland)|

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Mandelbaum Gate, The Driver’s Seat, Memento Mori

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Philip Roth (US)|

The Ghost Writer,American Pastoral, Sabbath’s Theater

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