Read books by all the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

I’ve been reading several books by Nobel Prize winners lately. Siddhartha was one of them. I can’t say as it did anything for me.

It is an allegorical tale of an Indian man’s development, from Brahmin student, to mystic, to successful business man and pleasure seeker, to wise ferryboat tender. Maybe back in 1922 when it was first published, or even in the 1960s and ‘70s when American hippies took it to heart, the examination of Indian mysticism and Buddhism would have been fascinating. But now, when Indian culture is more familiar, it just seems pretentious and overwrought.

Many people love it. It just is not my cup of tea.

. . . in alphabetical order:

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (1966)
Aleixandre, Vicente (1977)
Andriic, Ivo (1961)
Asturias, Miguel Angel (1967)
Beckett, Samuel (1969)

Bellow, Saul (1976)
Benavente, Jacinto (1922)
Bergson, Henri (1927)
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne Martinus (1903)
Boell, Heinrich (1972)
Brodsky, Joseph (1987)
Buck, Pearl (1938)
Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich (1933)
Camus, Albert (1957)
Canetti, Elias (1981)
Carducci, Giosue (1906)
Cela, Camilo Jose (1989)
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1953)
Coetzee, John Maxwell (2003)
Deledda, Grazia (1926)
Eizaguirre, Jose Echegaray Y (1904)
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1948)
Elytis, Odysseus (1979)
Eucken, Rudolf Christoph (1908)
Faulkner, William (1949)
Fo, Dario (1997)
France, Anatole (1921)
Galsworthy, John (1932)
Gao, Xingjian (2000)
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (1982)
Gard, Roger Martin Du (1937)
Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume (1947)
Gjellerup, Karl Adolph (1917)
Golding, Sir William (1983)
Gordimer, Nadine (1991)
Grass, Günter (1999)
Hamsun, Knut Pedersen (1920)
Hauptmann, Gerhart Johann Robert (1912)
Heaney, Seamus (1995)
Heidenstam, Carl Gustaf Verner Von (1916)
Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1954)
Hesse, Hermann (1946)
Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig (1910)
Jelinek, Elfriede (2004)
Jensen, Johannes Vilhelm (1944)
Jimenez, Juan Ramon (1956)
Johnson, Eyvind (1974)
Karlfeldt, Erik Axel (1931)
Kawabata, Yasunari (1968)
Kertész, Imre (2002)
Kipling, Rudyard (1907)
Lagerkvist, Par Fabian (1951)
Lagerloef, Selma Ottilia Lovisa (1909)
Laxness, Halldor Kiljan (1955)
Lewis, Sinclair (1930)
Maeterlinck, Count Maurice Polidore Marie Bernhard (1911)
Mahfouz, Naguib (1988)
Mann, Thomas (1929)
Martinson, Harry (1974)
Mauriac, Francois (1952)
Milosz, Czeslaw (1980)
Mistral, Frederic (1904)
Mistral, Gabriela (1945)
Mommsen, Christian Matthias Theodor (1902)
Montale, Eugenio (1975)
Morrison, Toni (1993)Naipaul, Sir V. S. (2001)
Neruda, Pablo (1971)
O’neill, Eugene Gladstone (1936)
Oe, Kenzaburo (1994)
Pamuk, Orhan (2006)
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich (1958)
Paz, Octavio (1990)
Perse, Saint-john (1960)
Pinter, Harold (2005)
Pirandello, Luigi (1934)
Pontoppidan, Henrik (1917)
Prudhomme, Sully (1901)
Quasimodo, Salvatore (1959)
Reymont, Wladyslaw Stanislaw (1924)
Rolland, Romain (1915)
Russell, Earl Bertrand Arthur William (1950)
Sachs, Nelly (1966)
Saramago, Jose (1998)
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1964)
Seferis, Giorgos (1963)
Seifert, Jaroslav (1984)
Shaw, George Bernard (1925)
Sholokhov, Michail Aleksandrovich (1965)
Sienkiewicz, Henryk (1905)
Sillanpaa, Frans Eemil (1939)
Simon, Claude (1985)
Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1978)
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich (1970)
Soyinka, Wole (1986)
Spitteler, Carl Friedrich Georg (1919)
Steinbeck, John (1962)
Szymborska, Wislawa (1996)
Tagore, Rabindranath (1913)
Undset, Sigrid (1928)
Walcott, Derek (1992)
White, Patrick (1973)
Yeats, William Butler (1923)

Those whose works I’ve read are in bold.