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Born November 9, 1929 • Budapest • Hungary
Died March 31, 2016 (aged 86) • Budapest • Hungary
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2002)
Notable Works “Fateless”
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Russian author
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American author
José Saramago
José Saramago
Portuguese author
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish author
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
French author
Saul Bellow
American author
Doris Lessing
British writer
Henrik Pontoppidan, 1917.
Henrik Pontoppidan
Danish author
Herta Müller, 2009.
Herta Müller
Romanian-born German writer
Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Péter Nádas
Hungarian author
József Eötvös
József, Baron Eötvös
Hungarian writer
Károly Eötvös
Hungarian writer, lawyer, and politician
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American writer
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
French author
The Shakespeare of his generation
Bob Dylan
American musician
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author