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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