SassyLassy's Nobel Laureates and Some Suggestions

Time to jump into this challenge. Here and there I may add something about people whom I think should have won or should win - just in case the Committee is reading this.

I'm starting at the beginning in 1901 and working forward.

Statistics in Case I Need Them

1901: Sully Prudhomme
1902: Theodor Mommsen
1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904: Frédéric Mistral
1904: José Echegaray
1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906: Giosuè Carducci
1907: Rudyard Kipling - all read pre LT, Kim reread since
Kim
Just So Stories
The Jungle Book
Captains Courageous
Puck of Pook's Hill
Rewards and Fairies
1908: Rudolf Eucken
1909: Selma Lagerlöf
The Saga of Gosta Berling TBR

This decade appears to have been completely neglected by me.

1910: Paul Heyse
1911: Maurice Maeterlinck
1912: Gerhart Hauptmann
1913: Rabindranath Tagore
1914: -
1915: Romain Rolland
1916: Verner von Heidenstam
1917: Henrik Pontoppidan
1917: Karl Gjellerup
1918: -
1919: Carl Spitteler

1920: Knut Hamsun
Wayfarers LT
Hunger Sep 2023
1921: Anatole France
1922: Jacinto Benavente
1923: William Butler Yeats
1924: Wladyslaw Reymont
1925: George Bernard Shaw
1926: Grazia Deledda
1927: Henri Bergson
1928: Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath
Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife
Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross
Jenny LT
1929: Thomas Mann

1930: Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
1931: Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1932: John Galsworthy - this strikes me as a huge gap
1933: Ivan Bunin
The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories LT
1934: Luigi Pirandello
1935: -
1936: Eugene O’Neill
1937: Roger Martin du Gard
1938: Pearl Buck - haven't had much luck with her - I usually stop part way through
1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää

1940: -
1941: -
1942: -
1943: -
1944: Johannes V. Jensen
1945: Gabriela Mistral
1946: Hermann Hesse
1947: André Gide
1948: Thomas Stearns Eliot
1949: William Faulkner - should read more this year
As I Lay Dying
Absalom, Absalom
The Sound and the Fury
The Hamlet LT 2023
The Town LT 2023

1950: Bertrand Russell
1951: Pär Lagerkvist
1952: François Mauriac
1953: Winston Churchill
1954: Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
To Have and Have Not
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Moveable Feast
By-line
1955: Halldór Laxness
Independent People LT
Paradise Reclaimed LT
Iceland's Bell LT
1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957: Albert Camus
The Outsider reread LT
The Plague reread LT 2023
1958: Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago
1959: Salvatore Quasimodo

1960: Saint-John Perse
1961: Ivo Andrić
Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan LT
The Bridge on the Drina LT
1962: John Steinbeck
Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History LT
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Winter of our Discontent
1963: Giorgos Seferis
1964: Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness
1965: Mikhail Sholokhov - a good project for the winter on the TBR
1966: Nelly Sachs
1966: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1967: Miguel Angel Asturias
1968: Yasunari Kawabata
1969: Samuel Beckett

1970: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle
Cancer Ward
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
August 1914
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918 - 1956
1971: Pablo Neruda
The Postman
1972: Heinrich Böll
1973: Patrick White
1974: Eyvind Johnson
1974: Harry Martinson
1975: Eugenio Montale
1976: Saul Bellow
1977: Vicente Aleixandre
1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Satan in Goray LT
Old Love
1979: Odysseus Elytis

1980: Czeslaw Milosz
1981: Elias Canetti
1982: Gabriel García Márquez (have read more than I thought)
Memories of my Melancholy Whores
Love in the time of Cholera
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Clandestine in Chile
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
The Scandal of the Century
1983: William Golding
Lord of the Flies
1984: Jaroslav Seifert
1985: Claude Simon
1986: Wole Soyinka
The Man Died
Season of Anomie
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth LT April 13 2023
1987: Joseph Brodsky - surprised to see this author missing from my reading - must correct
1988: Naguib Mahfouz
1989: Camilo José Cela
Mazurka for Two Dead Men LT a wonderful book

1990: Octavio Paz
Sor Juana on the TBR
1991: Nadine Gordimer
The Late Bourgeois World
July's People
A Guest of Honour LT
1992: Derek Walcott - feel I missed something here
1993: Toni Morrison
never made much progress here
1994: Kenzaburo Oë
1995: Seamus Heaney
don't know if his translation of Beowulf counts, but I'm adding it here
1996: Wislawa Szymborska
1997: Dario Fo
The Pope's Daughter
1998: José Saramago
All the Names
1999: Günter Grass
read in ancient times

2000: Gao Xingjian
LT tells me One Man's Bible is in the house, but if so, it's in hiding
2001: V. S. Naipaul
The Suffrage of Elvira
The Enigma of Arrival
An Area of Darkness
A Flag on the Island
India: A Million Mutinies Now
2002: Imre Kertész
Fatelessness TBR
2003: J. M. Coetzee
Age of Iron
Elizabeth Costello
The Master of Petersburg Nov 1, 2023
2004: Elfriede Jelinek
2005: Harold Pinter
2006: Orhan Pamuk - tried without much luck
2007: Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook
Martha Quest
Briefing for a Descent into Hell LT
The Four Gated City
2008: J. M. G. Le Clézio
2009: Herta Müller
The Fox was ever the Hunter LT
The Appointment LT

2010: Mario Vargas Llosa
2011: Tomas Tranströmer
2012: Mo Yan
2013: Alice Munro
2014: Patrick Modiano
2015: Svetlana Alexievich
2016: Bob Dylan
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro
2018: Olga Tokarczuk
2019: Peter Handke

2020: Louise Glück
2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah
2022: Annie Ernaux

>1 SassyLassy: just in case the Committee is reading this LOL

Very interested to hear about people whom +you+ think should have won or should win

>7 SassyLassy: I want to read The Snopes Trilogy this year. (But I said that last year as well).