Giants In Their Field: An Introduction To The Nobel Prizes In Literature

Giants In Their Field: An Introduction To The Nobel Prizes In Literature

A complete guide to Nobel Prizes in literature from Sully-Prudhomme to Derek Walcott (1901-1992), which can appeal to all readers as a source of documented facts and interesting anecdotes. It contains year-by-year summaries of literary events, parallel lives of laureates, concise biographies, lists of major works, and extensive tables in appendices (32pp.). "Brillante estudio ... con una documentación amplísima ... interesante e instructiva lectura, un instrumento de trabajo y un libro de consulta útil para los comparistas, investigadores, docentes y estudiantes universitarios." -Louis Imperiale, Quaderni Ibero-Americani.

  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • If a traveler comes to Florence
  • The Nobel Prizes in Literature, 1901-1992, and Related Events
  • Profiles of the Nobel Laureates and Selections of Their Works
    • Sully-Prudhomme
    • Theodor Mommsen
    • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    • José Echegaray
    • Frédéric Mistral
    • Henryk Sienkiewicz
    • Giosuè Carducci
    • Rudyard Kipling
    • Rudolf Eucken
    • Selma Lagerlöf
    • Paul Heyse
    • Maurice Maeterlinck
    • Gerhart Hauptmann
    • Rabindranath Tagore
    • Romain Rolland
    • Verner von Heidenstam
    • Karl Gjellerup
    • Henrik Pontoppidan
    • Carl Spitteler
    • Knut Hamsun
    • Anatole France
    • Jacinto Benavente
    • W.B. Yeats
    • Wladyslaw Reymont
    • Bernard Shaw
    • Grazia Deledda
    • Henri Bergson
    • Sigrid Undset
    • Thomas Mann
    • Sinclair Lewis
    • Erik Karlfeldt
    • John Galsworthy
    • Ivan Bunin
    • Luigi Pirandello
    • Eugene O'Neill
    • Roger Martin du Gard
    • Pearl Buck
    • Frans Sillanpää
    • Johannes Jensen
    • Gabriela Mistral
    • Hermann Hesse
    • André Gide
    • T.S. Eliot
    • William Faulkner
    • Bertrand Russell
    • Pär Lagerkvist
    • François Mauriac
    • Winston Churchill
    • Ernest Hemingway
    • Halldór Laxness
    • Juan Ramón Jiménez
    • Albert Camus
    • Boris Pasternak
    • Salvatore Quasimodo
    • Saint-John Perse
    • Ivo Andric
    • John Steinbeck
    • George Seferis
    • Jean-Paul Sartre
    • Mikhail Sholokhov
    • S.Y. Agnon
    • Nelly Sachs
    • Miguel Angel Asturias
    • Yasunari Kawabata
    • Samuel Beckett
    • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    • Pablo Neruda
    • Heinrich Böll
    • Patrick White
    • Eyvind Johnson
    • Harry Martinson
    • Eugenio Montale
    • Saul Bellow
    • Vicente Aleixandre
    • Isaac Bashevis Singer
    • Odysseus Elytis
    • Czeslaw Milosz
    • Elias Canetti
    • Gabriel García Márquez
    • William Golding
    • Jaroslav Seifert
    • Claude Simon
    • Wole Soyinka
    • Joseph Brodsky
    • Naguib Mahfouz
    • Camilo José Cela
    • Octavio Paz
    • Nadine Gordimer
    • Derek Walcott
  • Appendix
  • Selected Bibliography

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