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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Camilla Send a noteboard - 28/09/2009 09:55:36 AM
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? ;)


Yes. But it won't happen immediately.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio


I meant to look him up, but then I forgot.

Doris Lessing


I read some of her. The last was The Good Terrorist. I also have The Cleft waiting on my shelf.

Orhan Pamuk


I've only read My Name is Read, or whatever it is called in English; but I fully intend to get hold of more.

Harold Pinter


I am sensing a pattern. The sad thing is it only just hit me.

Elfriede Jelinek

J. M. Coetzee


I have every intention of reading Foe.

Imre Kertész

V. S. Naipaul


I've only read his writing on other writiers.

Gao Xingjian

Günter Grass


Oooh. I did. I have no idea which book it was. I was too young to actually understand anything I read.

José Saramago


Always meant to.

Dario Fo


An Anarchist's Diary was one of those texts I happened upon at an impressionable stage of my youth. I always meant to read more.

Wislawa Szymborska

Seamus Heaney

Kenzaburo Oe

Toni Morrison


You know, I tried. When she was awarded the prize. I suspect that is why I never sat down to read through the laureates. I really didn't like her The Bluest Eyes. To be fair I was 12 at the time, I think. I should probably give her a second go at some point.

Derek Walcott

Nadine Gordimer


Only a short story, I think. I can't remember what it was called.

Octavio Paz

Camilo José Cela

Naguib Mahfouz

Joseph Brodsky

Wole Soyinka

Claude Simon

Jaroslav Seifert

William Golding


I read Lord of the Flies when I was too young to appreciate anything but it being horribly disgusting at times. Probably around the Toni Morrison incident.

Gabriel García Márquez


Of course. Rather a lot.

Elias Canetti

Czeslaw Milosz

Odysseus Elytis


No. He has a cool name, though.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Vicente Aleixandre

Saul Bellow

Eugenio Montale

Eyvind Johnson,


Hehe. A Swede. No.

Harry Martinson


Another Swede. Hmmmm. No.

Patrick White

Heinrich Böll

Pablo Neruda


Rather a lot. I read all his poetry that I could lay my hands on when I was 15. I like him.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn


I liked (if that is the word) his One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, but I still haven't finished The Gulag Archipelago. I always meant to read more of him.

Samuel Beckett


Naturally. I love Beckett. I have mostly read his plays, though.

Yasunari Kawabata

Miguel Angel Asturias

Shmuel Agnon,

Nelly Sachs

Mikhail Sholokhov

Jean-Paul Sartre


Yes. Some short stories. "Le Mur", I remember, made quite an impression. "Les Mains Salles", "La Nausée" and some other stuff. And some extracts from his philosophising.

Giorgos Seferis

John Steinbeck

Tortilla Flat was always one of my favourite books, but I haven't read it is a couple of years now. I was less impressed with his East of Eden, but I intend to read Of Mice and Men.

Ivo Andric

Bridge over Drina was both amazing and unbelievably upsetting. I intend to read The Consuls, or whatever it is called in English.

Saint-John Perse

Salvatore Quasimodo

Boris Pasternak

Dr Zhivago, obviously. But nothing else, I think.

Albert Camus

L'Etranger and parts of Le Mythe de Sisyphe, which I intend to read the whole of. I'm sure there is more, but I cannot think of anything.

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Halldór Laxness

Ernest Hemingway


Ick. Short stories, which I didn't mind, but I never warmed to him as a novelist.

Winston Churchill


Some extracts of his book on history of English speaking people.

François Mauriac

Pär Lagerkvist


I was sure I had read some of his, but when I checked wikipedia for the title, I couldn't find it. I might be confusing him with someone else.

Bertrand Russell


Some essay or other.

William Faulkner


I know I should read The sound and the fury. It just sounds too depressing for words, so I haven't gotten round to it.

T.S. Eliot


Quite a few poems, and some essays on literature.

André Gide


An essay on Surrealism, but none of his actual work, I think.

Hermann Hesse

Siddharta. A long time ago. I should probably reread.

Gabriela Mistral

Johannes V. Jensen

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Pearl Buck

Roger Martin du Gard

Eugene O'Neill

Luigi Pirandello


I always meant to. I've read a lot about him, and some extracts, but nothing in its entirety I think.

Ivan Bunin

John Galsworthy


I have The Forsythe Saga, but I haven't read it yet.

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Sinclair Lewis

Thomas Mann


Ooooh. I LIKE. The short stories are excellent, and I just now remembered that Doctor Faustus is waiting for me to finish it. It got stuck in Norway.

Sigrid Undset


I am not a great fan, but when I was 12 or so I read Kristin Lavransdatter and liked it.

Henri Bergson


Only philosophy.

Grazia Deledda

George Bernard Shaw

Mrs Warren's Profession, Pygmalion and rather a lot of newspaper clippings and opinions. He was the Jury foreman in the Trial of John Jasper in 1914 and caused quite an uproar by giving a unilateral judgement.

Wladyslaw Reymont

William Butler Yeats


Some poetry. I like him.

Jacinto Benavente

Anatole France


I have a pretty old edition of Thaïs which I plan on reading at some point.

Knut Hamsun


While I like Sult (Hunger), some of his other stuff is absolute shit. Victoria made a pretty good job of putting me off the man for good.

Carl Spitteler

Karl Gjellerup,

Henrik Pontoppidan

Verner von Heidenstam

Romain Rolland

Rabindranath Tagore

Gerhart Hauptmann

Maurice Maeterlinck

Paul Heyse

Selma Lagerlöf


I have read Christ Legends and a cartoon version of Nils Holgersson, which I fully intend to read for real.

Rudolf Eucken

Rudyard Kipling


Some bad poetry, some good short stories, I think (come to think of it they may have been extracts from books), and a version of The Jungle Book which I feel sure was shortened beyond recognition.

Giosuè Carducci

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Quo Vadis when I was 11. It almost made me religious.

Frédéric Mistral,

José Echegaray

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson


I am Norwegian and from Molde. Avoiding Bjørnson would be tricky.

Theodor Mommsen

Sully Prudhomme


Some poems.


I would have liked to see Ibsen and Lindgren on that list.
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