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Nobel Prize winners in Literature by year

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Year
Winner(s)
Nationality
Works
2002   Imre Kertesz   Hungarian   Fateless, Fiasco, Kaddish for a Child Not Born  
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2001   Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul   British   The Mystic Masseur, A House for Mr. Biswas, The Enigma of Arrival  
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2000   Gao Xingjian   Chinese   A Pigeon Called Red Beak, Signal Alarm, Bus Stop  
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1999   Gunter Grass   German   The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Show Your Tongue  
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1998   Jose Saramago   Portuguese   Objecto Quase, Levantado do Chao, A Jangada de Pedra  
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1997   Dario Fo   Italian   Il Dito Dell'Occhio, The Virtuous Burglars, I Sani de Legare  
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1996   Wislawa Szymborska   Polish   Dlatego zyjemy (1952), Pytania zadawane sobie (1954), Wolanie do Yeti (1957), Sól (1962), Wiersze wybrane (1964), Poezje wybrane (1967), Sto pociech (1967), Poezje (1970)  
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1995   Seamus Heaney   Irish   Seeing Things, Death of a Naturalist, Wintering Out  
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1994   Kenzaburo Oe   Japanese   Shisha no ogori, Man'en gannen no futtoboru, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness  
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1993   Toni Morrison   American   The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz  
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1992   Derek Walcott   St. Lucian   Epitaph for the Young, Xll Cantos, In a Green Night, Poems 1948–60, The Fortunate Traveller  
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1991   Nadine Gordimer   South African   A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story  
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1990   Octavio Paz   Mexican   Sun Stone, Obsidian Butterfly, The Monkey Crammarian  
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1989   Camilo José Cela   Spanish   La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942), Pabellón de reposo (1943), Nuevas andanzas y desventuras de Lazarillo de Tormes (1944), La colmena (1951), Mrs. Caldwell habla con su hijo (1952), La catira (1955), Tobogán de hambrientos (1962), San Camilo I936 (1969)  
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1988   Naguib Mahfouz   Egyptian   The Thief and the Dogs (1961), Autumn Quail (1962), Small Talk on the Nile (1966)  
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1987   Joseph Brodsky   American   To Urania, Watermark, A Part of Speech  
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1986   Wole Soyinka   Nigerian   Requiem for a Futurologist (1985), A Play of Giants (1984), The Strong (1966), The Interpreters (1965)  
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1985   Claude Simon   French   The Cheat, The Tightrope, The Invitation  
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1984   Jaroslav Seifert   Czech   Various collections and newspapers  
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1983   William Golding   British   Lord of the Flies, Close Quarters, Rites of Passage  
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1982   Gabriel García Márquez   Colombian   El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Ojos de perro azul, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera  
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1981   Elias Canetti   British   Hochzeit, Der andere Prozess. Kafkas Briefe an Felice [Kafka's Other Trial, tr. 1974], Die gerettete Zunge. Geschichte einer Jugend. [The Tongue Set Free, tr. 1979].  
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1980   Czeslaw Milosz   Polish   Volumes of poetry  
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1979   Odysseus Elytis   Greek   "Diary of an Invisible April", "The Monogram", "The Little Mariner"  
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1978   Isaac Bashevis Singer   American   The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), Satan in Goray, The Spinoza of Market Street (1961)  
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1977   Vicente Aleixandre   Spanish   Ambit, Destruction or Love, The Shadow of Paradise  
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1976   Saul Bellow   American   Dangling Man, Henderson The Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970)  
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1975   Eugenio Montale   Italian   Omaggio a Svevo, Ossi di seppia, La farfalla di Dinard, Fuori di casa  
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1974   Eyvind Johnson & Harry Martinson   Swedish   De fyra främlingarna, Bobinack, Vinterresa i Norrbotten /// Vägen till Klockrike, Aniara  
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1973   Patrick White   Australian   Happy Valley, The Living and the Dead, The Aunt's Story  
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1972   Heinrich Böll   German   Der Zug war pünktlich  
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1971   Pablo Neruda   Chilean   Crepusculario, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, Residencia en la tierra  
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1970   Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn   Russian   One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Cancer Ward, Right Hand  
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1969   Samuel Beckett   Irish   Molloy, Malone Dies, Endgame, Waiting for Godot  
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1968   Yasunari Kawabata   Japanese   Izu dancer, Snow Country, The Old Capital  
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1967   Miguel Angel Asturias   Guatemalan   La arquitectura de la vida nueva, Leyendas de Guatemala, El Señor Presidente, Viento fuerte  
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1966   Shmuel Yosef Agnon & Nelly Sachs   Israeli / Swedish   Hakhnasat Kalah (The Bridal Canopy), Oreach Nata Lalun (A Guest for the Night), Temol Shilshom (Only Yesterday) /// In den Wohnungen des Todes (In the Houses of Death), Sternverdunkelung (Eclipse of Stars), 1949, Und niemand weiss weiter (And No One Know  
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1965   Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov   Russian   Donskie rasskazy (Tales from the Don), Tikhi Don (And Quiet Flows the Don), Podnyataya tselina (Virgin Soil Upturned)  
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1964   Jean-Paul Sartre (refused the prize)   French   La Nausée (Nausea), Le Mur (Intimacy), L'Etre et le néant (Being and Nothingness), Les Mouches (The Flies), Huis Clos (No Exit)  
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1963   Giorgos Seferis   Greek   Strophe (Turning Point), E Sterna (The Cistern), Mythistorema  
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1962   John Steinbeck   American   Of Mice and Men, the Red Pony, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, the Grapes of Wrath  
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1961   Ivo Andric   Yugoslavian   Nemiri (Anxieties), Put Alije Djerzeleza (The Trip of Alija Djerzelez), Pripovetke (Stories), Gospodjica (The Woman from Sarajevo)  
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1960   Saint-John Perse   French   Anabase (Anabasis), Exil (Exile), Poème l'Etrangère (Poem to a Foreign Lady)  
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1959   Salvatore Quasimodo   Italian   Acque e terre (Waters and Lands), Òboe sommerso (Sunken Oboe), Giorno dopogiorno (Day after Day)  
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1958   Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (could not accept prize)   Russian   Doctor Zhivago, Okhrannaya gramota (Safe Conduct), Zemnye prostory (Wide Spaces of the Earth)  
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1957   Albert Camus   French   Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), L'Étranger (The Stranger), La Peste (The Plague), La Chute (The Fall)  
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1956   Juan Ramón Jiménez   Spanish   Almas de violeta (Souls of Violet), Elejías puras (Pure Elegies), Platero y yo (Platero and I), Diario de un poeta recién casado (Diary of a Newly-Wed Poet)  
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1955   Halldór Kiljan Laxness   Icelandic   Undir Helgahnúk (Under the Holy Mountain), Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmir (The Great Weaver from Kashmir), Sjalfstaettfolk (Independent People), Ljós heimsins (The Light of the World)  
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1954   Ernest Miller Hemingway   American   The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea  
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1953   Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill   British   The World Crisis (1923-29), a History of the English-speaking Peoples (4 vols., 1956-58), The Unrelenting Struggle (1942), The Dawn of Liberation (1945)  
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1952   François Mauriac   French   Le Baiser aux lepreux (1922) [A Kiss for the Leper], Le Cahier noir [The Black Notebook], Le Desert de l'amour (1925) [The Desert of Love]  
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1951   Pär Fabian Lagerkvist   Swedish   Ångest (1916) [Anguish], Hjärtats sånger (1926) [Songs from the Heart], Bödeln (1933) [The Hangman], Mannen utan själ (1936) [The Man without a Soul]  
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1950   Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell   British   The Principles of Mathematics (1903), History of Western Philosophy (1946), Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919)  
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1949   William Faulkner   American   The Sound and the Fury (1929), Requiem For A Nun (1951), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Intruder In the Dust (1948), The Reivers  
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1948   Thomas Stearns Eliot   British   Prufrock, the Four Quartets, the Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, Murder in the Cathedral  
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1947   André Paul Guillaume Gide   French   Les Cahiers d'André Walter (1891) [The Notebooks of André Walter], Les Nourritures terrestres (1897) [Fruits of the Earth], Le Retour de l'enfant prodigue (1907) [The Return of the Prodigal], La Porte étroite (1909) [Strait is the Gate], Les Faux Monnayeu  
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1946   Hermann Hesse   Swiss   Glasperlenspiel (1943) [Magister Ludi], Knulp (1915), Demian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), Der Steppenwolf (1927) [Steppenwolf], Narziss und Goldmund. (1930), Die Morgenlandfahrt (1932) [The Journey to the East]  
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1945   Gabriela Mistral   Chilean   Sonetos de la muerte, Desolación [Despair], Ternura [Tenderness]  
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1944   Johannes Vilhelm Jensen   Danish   Himmerlandshistorier (1898-1910) [Himmerland Stories], Den lange rejse (1908-22) [The Long Journey], Myter, 1907-45 [Myths])  
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1943   None   --   --  
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1942   None   --   --  
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1941   None   --   --  
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1940   None   --   --  
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1939   Frans Eemil Sillanpää   Finnish   The Maid Silja, Elämä ja aurinko (1916) [Life and Sun]; Ihmislapsia elämän saatossa (1917) [Children of Man in Life's Procession]; Hurskas kurjuus (1919) [Meek Heritage]; Rakas isänmaani (1919) [Beloved Fatherland]; Hiltu ja Ragnar (1923) [Hiltu and Ragna  
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1938   Pearl Buck   American   East Wind, West Wind, The Good Earth (1931), Sons (1932), A House Divided (1935)  
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1937   Roger Martin du Gard   French   Jean Barois, Les Thibault, Le Testament du Père Leleu  
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1936   Eugene O'Neill   American   Bound East for Cardiff, Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, Bound East for Cardiff (1914), Before Breakfast (1916), The Long Voyage Home (1917), In the Zone (1917), The Moon of the Carabbees (1917), Ile (1917), The Rope (1918), Beyond th  
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1935   None   --   --  
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1934   Luigi Pirandello   Italian   Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904) [The Late Mattia Pascal], I vecchi e i giovani (1913) [The Old and the Young], Si gira (1916) | [Shoot!]  
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1933   Ivan Bunin   Russian   Derévnya [The Village], as Sukhodól (1911-12) and Mítina lyubóv (1924-25) [Mitya's Love], the short story Gospodín iz San Francisco (19I6) [The Gentleman from San Francisco], end the autobiographical novel in two volumes, Zhizn Arsénieva (Part I, Istóki d  
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1932   John Galsworthy   British   The Island Pharisees (1904), The Forsyte Saga, The Silver Box (1906)  
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1931   Erik Axel Karlfeldt   Swedish   Vildmarks-och kärleksvisor [Songs of the Wilderness and of Love], Fridolins visor (1898) [Fridolin's Song], Fridolins lustgård (1901)[Fridolin's Pleasure Garden], Flora och Pomona (1906) [Flora and Pomona], Flora och Bellona (1918) [Flora and Bellona], an  
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1930   Sinclair Lewis   American   The Trail of the Hawk, Arrowsmith, Main Street, The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928)  
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1929   Thomas Mann   German   Buddenbrooks, Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1898) [Little Herr Friedemann], Tristan (1903), Der Zauberberg (1924) [The Magic Mountain]  
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1928   Sigrid Undset   Norwegian   Kransen (The Garland), Husfrue (The Mistress of Husaby), Korset (The Cross); and Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken (1925 ) [The Master of Hestviken] and its sequel Olav Audunssen og hans børn (1927) [Olav Audunssøn and his Children]  
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1927   Henri Bergson   French   Essai sur les donnes immédiates de la conscience (1889) [Time and Free Will], Introduction à la métaphysique (1903 [An Introduction to Metaphysics], Les Deux Sources de la morale et de la religion (1932) [The Two Sources of Morality and Religion]  
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1926   Grazia Deledda   Italian   Fior di Sardegna (1892) [Flower of Sardinia],Anime oneste, romanzo famigliare (1895) [Honest Souls], with preface by Ruggero Bonghi; Il vecchio della montagna (1900) [The Old Man of the Mountain] followed by a dramatic sketch Odio vince(1904) [HateWins] ;  
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1925   George Bernard Shaw   British   appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898), Arms and the Man, Man and Superman (1903), Saint Joan (1923), Major Barbara  
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1924   Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont   Polish   (Pielgrzymka do Jasnej Góry, 1895 [Pilgrimage to the Mountain of Light]), Komedjantka (1896) [The Comedian], Ziemia obiecana (1899) [The Promised Land], The Peasants  
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1923   William Butler Yeats   Irish   The Countess Cathleen (1892), The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), The King's Threshold (1904), and Deirdre (1907)  
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1922   Jacinto Benavente   Spanish   Cartas de mujeres (1892-93) [Women's Letters], were El nido ajeno (1894) [Another's Nest] and Gente conocida (1896) [High Society]  
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1921   Anatole France   French   Le Jardin d'Épicure (1895) [The Garden of Epicurus], Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), , La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque [At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque]  
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1920   Knut Pedersen Hamsun   Norwegian   Sult (1890) [Hunger], Pan (1894), masterpiece Markens Grøde (1917) [Growth of the Soil]  
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1919   Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler   Swiss   Olympian Spring, Prometheus und Epimetheus, Schmetterlinge (1889) [Butterflies]; Friedli der Kolderi (1891); Gustav (1892) ; Litterarische Gleichnisse (1892) [Literary Parables]; Balladen (1896); Der Gotthard (897); Conrad der Leutnant (1898); Lachende Wa  
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1918   None   --   --  
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1917   Karl Adolph Gjellerup & Henrik Pontoppidan   Danish   Scipio Africanus, En idealist (1878) [An Idealist], Saint Just (1885) /// Fra hytterne (1887) [From the Cottages], Det forjaettede land (1891-95) [The Promised Land], Lykke-Per (1898-1904) [Lucky Peter], and De dødes rige (1912-16) [The Kingdom of the Dea  
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1916   Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam   Swiss   Ett folk (1902) [One People], Karolinerna (1897-98) [The Charles Men], Folkunga Trädet (1905-07) [The Tree of the Folkungs], Folke Filbyter and Bjälboarvet [The BjäIbo Inheritance]  
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1915   Romain Rolland   France   Les Tragédies de la foi (1909) [Tragedies of Faith], Théâtre de la révolution (1909), : L'Aube, Le Matin, L'Adolescent, La Révolte, La Foire sur la place, Antoinette, Dans la maison, Les Amies, Le Buisson ardent, and La Nouvelle Journée [Dawn, Morning, Yo  
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1914   None   --   --  
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1913   Rabindranath Tagore   Indian   Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]  
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1912   Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann   German   Vor Sonnenaufgang, Die Weber (1892) [The Weavers], the comedy Der Biberpelz (1893) [The Beaver Coat], the historical drama Florian Geyer (1896), Fuhrmann Henschel (1898) [Drayman Henschel], Rose Bernd (1903), and Die Ratten (1911) [The Rats]  
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1911   Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck   Belgian   Serres chaudes [Ardent Talons], L'Intruse (1890) [The Intruder], Les Aveugles (1890) [The Blind], and the love dramas Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), Alladine et Palomides (1894), and Aglavaine et Sélysette (1896)  
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1910   Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse   German   Jugenderinnerungen und Bekenntnisse (Berlin, 1900) [Memories of my Youth and Confessions], Gesammelte Werke (1871-191O) [Collected Works], 36 vols.; Dramatische Dichtungen (1864-1905) [Dramatic Works], 36 vols.; Romane, Novellen, lyrische und epische Gedi  
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1909   Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf   Swiss   Gösta Berlings Saga, Antikris mirakler (1897) [The Miracles of Antichrist], published Jerusalem (1901-1902) [The Holy City]  
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1908   Rudolf Christoph Eucken   German   Geistige Stromungen der Gegenwart (1908) [Main Currents of Modern Thought ], Die Lebensanschauungen der grosser Denker (1890) [The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from Plato to the Present Time ], Der Kampf um einen geistigen Lebensi  
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1907   Rudyard Kipling   British   Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book (1895), The Seven Seas (1896), Captains Courageous (1897), The Day's Work (1898), Stalky and Co. (1899), Just So Stories (1902), Trafficks and Discoveries (1904), Puck of Pook's Hill (  
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1906   Giosuè Carducci   Italian   Levia Gravia (1868) [Light and Heavy], Inno a Satana (1865) [Hymn to Satan], Odi barbare (1877, 1882, and 1889) [The Barbarian Odes]  
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1905   Henryk Sienkiewicz   Polish   Latarnik (1882) [The Lighthouse Keeper], Ogniem i mieczem [With Fire and Sword], Potop [The Deluge] and Pan Wolodyjowski [Pan Michael], Quo Vadis?  
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1904   Frédéric Mistral & José Echegaray y Eizaguirre   French /// Spanish   Miréio (1859), Calendau (1867), include Lis Isclo d'or (1876) [Islands of Gold], a collection of poems; «Nerto» (1884), a narrative poem based on a chronicle of the Avignon Popes; La Rèino Jano (1890); and Lou pouémo dóu rose (1897) [The Song of the Rhone  
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1903   Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson   Norwegian   Mellem slagene (Between the Battles), En hanske (1883) "A Gauntlet", Det flager i byen og på havnen(1884) "The Heritage of the Kurts" and På Guds veie (1889) "In God's Way"  
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1902   Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen   German   A History of Rome,  
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1901   Sully Prudhomme   French   , Stances et Poèmes (1865) [Stanzas and Poems], Croquis Italiens (1866-68) [Italian Notebook]; Solitudes (1869); Impressions de la guerre (1870) [Impressions of War]; Les Destins (1872) [Destinies]; La Révolte des fleurs (1872) [Revolt of the Flowers ]; L  
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