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So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. jh Send a noteboard - 26/09/2009 08:17:06 PM

So, which of these authors have you read? I am starting a little project which includes reading something from each of these. Anyone feeling up to the challenge?

Alice Munro
Mo Yan
Tomas Tranströmer
Mario Vargas Llosa
Herta Müller
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Doris Lessing
Orhan Pamuk
Harold Pinter
Elfriede Jelinek
J. M. Coetzee
Imre Kertész
V. S. Naipaul
Gao Xingjian
Günter Grass
José Saramago
Dario Fo
Wislawa Szymborska
Seamus Heaney
Kenzaburo Oe
Toni Morrison
Derek Walcott
Nadine Gordimer
Octavio Paz
Camilo José Cela
Naguib Mahfouz
Joseph Brodsky
Wole Soyinka
Claude Simon
Jaroslav Seifert
William Golding
Gabriel García Márquez
Elias Canetti
Czeslaw Milosz
Odysseus Elytis
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Vicente Aleixandre
Saul Bellow
Eugenio Montale
Eyvind Johnson,
Harry Martinson
Patrick White
Heinrich Böll
Pablo Neruda
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Samuel Beckett
Yasunari Kawabata
Miguel Angel Asturias
Shmuel Agnon,
Nelly Sachs
Mikhail Sholokhov
Jean-Paul Sartre
Giorgos Seferis
John Steinbeck
Ivo Andric
Saint-John Perse
Salvatore Quasimodo
Boris Pasternak
Albert Camus
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Halldór Laxness
Ernest Hemingway
Winston Churchill
François Mauriac
Pär Lagerkvist
Bertrand Russell
William Faulkner
T.S. Eliot
André Gide
Hermann Hesse
Gabriela Mistral
Johannes V. Jensen
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Pearl Buck
Roger Martin du Gard
Eugene O'Neill
Luigi Pirandello
Ivan Bunin
John Galsworthy
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Sinclair Lewis
Thomas Mann
Sigrid Undset
Henri Bergson
Grazia Deledda
George Bernard Shaw
Wladyslaw Reymont
William Butler Yeats
Jacinto Benavente
Anatole France
Knut Hamsun
Carl Spitteler
Karl Gjellerup,
Henrik Pontoppidan
Verner von Heidenstam
Romain Rolland
Rabindranath Tagore
Gerhart Hauptmann
Maurice Maeterlinck
Paul Heyse
Selma Lagerlöf
Rudolf Eucken
Rudyard Kipling
Giosuè Carducci
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Frédéric Mistral,
José Echegaray
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Theodor Mommsen
Sully Prudhomme

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world" - Calvin.
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So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. jh - 26/09/2009 08:17:06 PM 2221 Views
Myself, so far... jh - 26/09/2009 08:22:52 PM 958 Views
Read Faulkner Larry - 26/09/2009 09:05:22 PM 993 Views
He is on the list, you know. jh - 26/09/2009 09:46:12 PM 930 Views
Don't listen to Larry Camilla - 28/09/2009 10:02:33 AM 944 Views
Mann is okay, but... Larry - 30/09/2009 02:21:50 AM 911 Views
Wow Fantasy - 26/09/2009 08:52:10 PM 938 Views
Oh. jh - 26/09/2009 09:01:31 PM 1095 Views
Yes, even people with virtually no education have usually heard of Churchill and/or Kipling. *NM* Tom - 26/09/2009 09:37:59 PM 432 Views
I do! AND I have an education! *NM* Fantasy - 27/09/2009 03:56:36 AM 539 Views
Oh, yes! Fantasy - 27/09/2009 03:56:09 AM 980 Views
I've read 36 of those Larry - 26/09/2009 09:04:18 PM 984 Views
Well, if Churchill can get it... Legolas - 26/09/2009 09:39:04 PM 922 Views
Nah.... jh - 26/09/2009 09:52:25 PM 1031 Views
Two years later, the total is up to 48 Larry - 10/10/2011 05:18:36 AM 984 Views
Okay, I've read a few of these people. (EDITED to specify what works) Tom - 26/09/2009 09:36:31 PM 1062 Views
Gee, I wonder what the theme is... Legolas - 26/09/2009 09:37:38 PM 1081 Views
It's not so hard to figure that out... jh - 26/09/2009 09:44:55 PM 953 Views
Why is that? Because the prize is utterly meaningless? Tom - 26/09/2009 09:58:39 PM 1065 Views
Of course it is meaningless, all prizes are. jh - 26/09/2009 10:08:36 PM 1096 Views
Oh...but those are the "Some People" that I look down my elitist nose at. Tom - 26/09/2009 10:18:01 PM 950 Views
Read these: Stephen - 26/09/2009 09:43:26 PM 921 Views
Well. jh - 26/09/2009 09:51:11 PM 937 Views
Yes. Stephen - 26/09/2009 11:03:01 PM 966 Views
Let's see. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 09:58:12 PM 1061 Views
Of all the Russian authors to receive the prize, Solzhenitsyn is the worst stylistically Tom - 26/09/2009 10:03:11 PM 875 Views
I've been meaning to read Pasternak for such a long time. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:06:28 PM 1009 Views
Don't put it on a list at amazon. Put it in the cart, then click on "purchase". Tom - 26/09/2009 10:23:33 PM 917 Views
I don't buy books online myself. If I did people would never know what to get me. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:26:01 PM 1013 Views
And yet Pasternak isn't on your list. Tom - 28/09/2009 05:28:42 AM 1111 Views
See, I can't remember if I read Pasternak... jh - 26/09/2009 10:11:14 PM 935 Views
It's one of my favorite books of all time. Tom - 26/09/2009 10:21:37 PM 992 Views
I was just gonna ask about that. Legolas - 26/09/2009 10:23:44 PM 1046 Views
The movie destroyed the entire idea of the book. Tom - 27/09/2009 03:00:54 AM 869 Views
There's an ITV film of the book with Keira Knightley. It looks utterly appalling. *NM* Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:25:12 PM 435 Views
For what it's worth, the recent Russian miniseries wasn't fantastic. Tom - 27/09/2009 03:02:25 AM 886 Views
I'll do it if I can have the rest of my life to accomplish it. nossy - 26/09/2009 10:43:53 PM 940 Views
Only 10 of them. Burr - 26/09/2009 11:53:47 PM 980 Views
From my list, Hesse's Siddhartha is my foremost recommendation. *NM* Burr - 26/09/2009 11:55:03 PM 520 Views
Only these ones have I already read, but I'll try the challenge. Could take me a while, atm. IndigoAjah - 27/09/2009 02:48:10 AM 861 Views
What'd you think of Transcendence of the Ego? *NM* Dan - 27/09/2009 05:12:35 AM 987 Views
Hey, Dan, long time no see IndigoAjah - 27/09/2009 10:41:02 AM 1109 Views
Just bought a Marquez book *NM* IndigoAjah - 01/10/2009 07:16:22 PM 393 Views
Not very many. Spriteling - 27/09/2009 08:36:14 AM 1093 Views
It would take me a long time to finish this list. Fred Gaidin - 27/09/2009 03:50:02 PM 971 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Camilla - 28/09/2009 09:55:36 AM 1056 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. jh - 28/09/2009 06:15:01 PM 883 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Camilla - 28/09/2009 06:51:05 PM 864 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Elaine - 29/09/2009 02:20:37 PM 968 Views
I worked out that the best way to make use of this thread is to remove the names I have read... jh - 02/10/2009 08:43:57 PM 1123 Views
A great deal of those... after a fashion DomA - 08/10/2011 06:30:00 PM 1054 Views
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