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Born July 29, 1900 • Sweden
Died August 25, 1976 (aged 76)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1974)
Notable Works “Bobinack” • “Regn i gryningen” • “Romanen om Olof” • “The Days of the Grace”
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf
Swedish author
Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish author
Harry Martinson
Swedish author
Heidenstam
Verner von Heidenstam
Swedish author
Tranströmer, Tomas
Tomas Tranströmer
Swedish poet
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
German author
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
American author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Russian author
Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse
Norwegian author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
Canadian author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American author