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Born October 20, 1946 (age 78) • Mürzzuschlag • Austria
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2004)
Notable Works poetry • “Bambiland” • “Greed” • “Lust” • “The Piano Teacher” • “What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband; or, Pillars of Society” • “Wir sind Lockvögel Baby!” • “Women as Lovers” • “Wonderful, Wonderful Times”
Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Austrian writer
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Canetti
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born writer
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
British writer
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Roger Martin du Gard
French author
Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish author
Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian
Chinese author and critic
Patrick White
Patrick White
Australian author
Nelly Sachs.
Nelly Sachs
German writer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Arthur Schnitzler
Austrian author
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian writer