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So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. jh Send a noteboard - 26/09/2009 08:17:06 PM

So, which of these authors have you read? I am starting a little project which includes reading something from each of these. Anyone feeling up to the challenge?

Alice Munro
Mo Yan
Tomas Tranströmer
Mario Vargas Llosa
Herta Müller
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Doris Lessing
Orhan Pamuk
Harold Pinter
Elfriede Jelinek
J. M. Coetzee
Imre Kertész
V. S. Naipaul
Gao Xingjian
Günter Grass
José Saramago
Dario Fo
Wislawa Szymborska
Seamus Heaney
Kenzaburo Oe
Toni Morrison
Derek Walcott
Nadine Gordimer
Octavio Paz
Camilo José Cela
Naguib Mahfouz
Joseph Brodsky
Wole Soyinka
Claude Simon
Jaroslav Seifert
William Golding
Gabriel García Márquez
Elias Canetti
Czeslaw Milosz
Odysseus Elytis
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Vicente Aleixandre
Saul Bellow
Eugenio Montale
Eyvind Johnson,
Harry Martinson
Patrick White
Heinrich Böll
Pablo Neruda
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Samuel Beckett
Yasunari Kawabata
Miguel Angel Asturias
Shmuel Agnon,
Nelly Sachs
Mikhail Sholokhov
Jean-Paul Sartre
Giorgos Seferis
John Steinbeck
Ivo Andric
Saint-John Perse
Salvatore Quasimodo
Boris Pasternak
Albert Camus
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Halldór Laxness
Ernest Hemingway
Winston Churchill
François Mauriac
Pär Lagerkvist
Bertrand Russell
William Faulkner
T.S. Eliot
André Gide
Hermann Hesse
Gabriela Mistral
Johannes V. Jensen
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Pearl Buck
Roger Martin du Gard
Eugene O'Neill
Luigi Pirandello
Ivan Bunin
John Galsworthy
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Sinclair Lewis
Thomas Mann
Sigrid Undset
Henri Bergson
Grazia Deledda
George Bernard Shaw
Wladyslaw Reymont
William Butler Yeats
Jacinto Benavente
Anatole France
Knut Hamsun
Carl Spitteler
Karl Gjellerup,
Henrik Pontoppidan
Verner von Heidenstam
Romain Rolland
Rabindranath Tagore
Gerhart Hauptmann
Maurice Maeterlinck
Paul Heyse
Selma Lagerlöf
Rudolf Eucken
Rudyard Kipling
Giosuè Carducci
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Frédéric Mistral,
José Echegaray
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Theodor Mommsen
Sully Prudhomme

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world" - Calvin.
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So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. jh - 26/09/2009 08:17:06 PM 2489 Views
Myself, so far... jh - 26/09/2009 08:22:52 PM 1208 Views
Read Faulkner Larry - 26/09/2009 09:05:22 PM 1264 Views
He is on the list, you know. jh - 26/09/2009 09:46:12 PM 1193 Views
Don't listen to Larry Camilla - 28/09/2009 10:02:33 AM 1203 Views
Mann is okay, but... Larry - 30/09/2009 02:21:50 AM 1176 Views
Wow Fantasy - 26/09/2009 08:52:10 PM 1187 Views
Oh. jh - 26/09/2009 09:01:31 PM 1349 Views
Yes, even people with virtually no education have usually heard of Churchill and/or Kipling. *NM* Tom - 26/09/2009 09:37:59 PM 542 Views
I do! AND I have an education! *NM* Fantasy - 27/09/2009 03:56:36 AM 662 Views
Oh, yes! Fantasy - 27/09/2009 03:56:09 AM 1241 Views
I've read 36 of those Larry - 26/09/2009 09:04:18 PM 1244 Views
Well, if Churchill can get it... Legolas - 26/09/2009 09:39:04 PM 1151 Views
Nah.... jh - 26/09/2009 09:52:25 PM 1248 Views
Two years later, the total is up to 48 Larry - 10/10/2011 05:18:36 AM 1225 Views
Okay, I've read a few of these people. (EDITED to specify what works) Tom - 26/09/2009 09:36:31 PM 1310 Views
Gee, I wonder what the theme is... Legolas - 26/09/2009 09:37:38 PM 1334 Views
It's not so hard to figure that out... jh - 26/09/2009 09:44:55 PM 1260 Views
Why is that? Because the prize is utterly meaningless? Tom - 26/09/2009 09:58:39 PM 1311 Views
Of course it is meaningless, all prizes are. jh - 26/09/2009 10:08:36 PM 1358 Views
Oh...but those are the "Some People" that I look down my elitist nose at. Tom - 26/09/2009 10:18:01 PM 1220 Views
Read these: Stephen - 26/09/2009 09:43:26 PM 1179 Views
Well. jh - 26/09/2009 09:51:11 PM 1218 Views
Yes. Stephen - 26/09/2009 11:03:01 PM 1260 Views
Let's see. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 09:58:12 PM 1316 Views
Of all the Russian authors to receive the prize, Solzhenitsyn is the worst stylistically Tom - 26/09/2009 10:03:11 PM 1136 Views
I've been meaning to read Pasternak for such a long time. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:06:28 PM 1274 Views
Don't put it on a list at amazon. Put it in the cart, then click on "purchase". Tom - 26/09/2009 10:23:33 PM 1180 Views
I don't buy books online myself. If I did people would never know what to get me. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:26:01 PM 1263 Views
And yet Pasternak isn't on your list. Tom - 28/09/2009 05:28:42 AM 1382 Views
See, I can't remember if I read Pasternak... jh - 26/09/2009 10:11:14 PM 1191 Views
It's one of my favorite books of all time. Tom - 26/09/2009 10:21:37 PM 1236 Views
I was just gonna ask about that. Legolas - 26/09/2009 10:23:44 PM 1322 Views
The movie destroyed the entire idea of the book. Tom - 27/09/2009 03:00:54 AM 1128 Views
There's an ITV film of the book with Keira Knightley. It looks utterly appalling. *NM* Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:25:12 PM 552 Views
For what it's worth, the recent Russian miniseries wasn't fantastic. Tom - 27/09/2009 03:02:25 AM 1140 Views
I'll do it if I can have the rest of my life to accomplish it. nossy - 26/09/2009 10:43:53 PM 1202 Views
Only 10 of them. Burr - 26/09/2009 11:53:47 PM 1284 Views
From my list, Hesse's Siddhartha is my foremost recommendation. *NM* Burr - 26/09/2009 11:55:03 PM 643 Views
Only these ones have I already read, but I'll try the challenge. Could take me a while, atm. IndigoAjah - 27/09/2009 02:48:10 AM 1122 Views
What'd you think of Transcendence of the Ego? *NM* Dan - 27/09/2009 05:12:35 AM 1244 Views
Hey, Dan, long time no see IndigoAjah - 27/09/2009 10:41:02 AM 1366 Views
Just bought a Marquez book *NM* IndigoAjah - 01/10/2009 07:16:22 PM 521 Views
Not very many. Spriteling - 27/09/2009 08:36:14 AM 1376 Views
It would take me a long time to finish this list. Fred Gaidin - 27/09/2009 03:50:02 PM 1305 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Camilla - 28/09/2009 09:55:36 AM 1315 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. jh - 28/09/2009 06:15:01 PM 1152 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Camilla - 28/09/2009 06:51:05 PM 1124 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Elaine - 29/09/2009 02:20:37 PM 1238 Views
I worked out that the best way to make use of this thread is to remove the names I have read... jh - 02/10/2009 08:43:57 PM 1384 Views
A great deal of those... after a fashion DomA - 08/10/2011 06:30:00 PM 1313 Views
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