In reverse chronological order, I have read at least one thing by the following Nobel laureates for literature:
V.S. Naipul (2001)
Gunter Grass (1999)
Seamus Haney (1995)
William Golding (1983)
Gabriel Garcia Marques (1982)
Pablo Neruda (1971)
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1970)
Samuel Beckett (1969)
Jean-Paul Sarte (1964)
John Steinbeck (1962)
Boris Pasternak (1958)
Albert Camus (1957)
Halldor Laxness (1955)
Ernest Hemingway (1954)
Winston Churchill (1953)
Bertrand Russell (1950)
William Faulkner (1949)
T.S. Eliot (1948)
Hermann Hesse (1946)
Pearl S. Buck (1938)
Eugene O’Neill (1936)
John Galsworthy (1932)
Sinclair Lewis (1930)
Thomas Mann (1929)
Sigrid Undset (1928)
George Bernard Shaw (1925)
William Butler Yeats (1923)
Rudyard Kipling (1907)
I count 28 out of 104 so far. I’ve got a way to go!
Of these my favorites have been Yeats, Undset and Laxness. I don’t care if I ever read another word of Hemingway or Steinbeck. I want to read lots more Laxness and Shaw.
