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Born September 27, 1871 • Nuoro • Italy
Died August 15, 1936 (aged 64) • Rome • Italy
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1926)
Notable Works “Ashes” • “Cosima” • “Elias Portolu” • “Il vecchio della montagna” • “The Mother”
Movement / Style verismo
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Luigi Capuana
Italian writer
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American author
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
Bunin
Ivan Bunin
Russian author
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
French author
Doris Lessing
British writer
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf
Swedish author
Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Sillanpää
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Finnish author
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
Elsa Morante
Italian author
Moravia, 1969
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer
Verga
Giovanni Verga
Italian author
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz
Egyptian writer
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Russian author