Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Summer Reading with Beth

2011
The Slum by Aluisio Azeveda
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Light in August by William Faulkner
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis

2010
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
The Toss of a Lemon
Cecilia Valdes
Brief Interview with Hideous Men
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig


2008
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdich

2007
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon

2006 - Cancer, no summer reading that year

2005

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Oryx & Crake by margaret Atwood
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

2004
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk

Friday, June 6, 2008

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature: 2/5

2007 The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin - Yes
2008 The Man in the White Shark Skin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
2009 The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer - Yes
2010 Plumes by Sarah Abrevaya Stein
2011 The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Tabulated by LT member, Top 100 Novels: 73/100

Top 100 Novels
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald (6) - - Yes
ULYSSES by James Joyce (6)
1984 by George Orwell (6) - Yes
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger (6) - Yes
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac (6)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck (5) - Yes
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller (5) - Yes
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov (5) - Yes
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley (5) - Yes
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh (5) - Yes
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner (4) - Yes
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (4) - Yes
THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien (4) - - Yes
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce (4)
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell (4) - Yes
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf (4) - Yes
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison (4) - Yes
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess (4) - Yes
GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell (4) - Yes
AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner (4) - Yes
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway (4) - Yes
A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster (4) - Yes
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding (4) - Yes
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London (4) - Yes
DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens (3) - Yes
EMMA by Jane Austen (3) - Yes
TESS Of The D'URBERVILLES, Thomas Hardy (3) - Yes
THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne (3) - Yes
WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte (3) - Yes
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers (3) - Yes
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut (3)
JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte (3) - Yes
BELOVED by Toni Morrison (3) - Yes
ANNA KAREINA by Leo Tolstoy (3) - Yes
THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway (3) - Yes
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright (3) - Yes
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (3) - Yes
NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad (3)
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad (3) - Yes
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry (3)
THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford (3)
HERZOG by Saul Bellow (3)- Yes
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame (3) - Yes
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos (3)
FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce (3)
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser (3)
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by George Orwell (3) - Yes
WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence (3)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton (3) - Yes
THE WOMAN IN WHITE by Wilkie Collins (3) - Yes
THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe (3) - Yes
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller (3)
MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather (3) - Yes
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner (3) - Yes
THE MAGUS by John Fowles (3)
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving (2) - Yes
DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes (2)
TOM JONES by Henry Fielding (2)
WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy (2) - Yes
MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville (2) - Yes
MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert (2) - Yes
WINNIE THE POOH by A(lan) A(lexander) Milne (2) - Yes
GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens (2)
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Feodor Dostoevsky (2) - Yes
TRISTAM SHANDY by Laurence Sterne (2)
LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa M. Alcott (2) - Yes
VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray (2) - Yes
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen (2) - Yes
IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME by Marcel Proust (2)
THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James (2)
THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand (2) - Yes
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon (2)
THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin (1851-1904) (2) - Yes
DUNE by Frank Herbert (2)
A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute (2)
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll (2) - Yes
CLARISSA by Samuel Richardson (2)
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams (2)
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving (2) - Yes
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas (2) - Yes
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY by Henry James (2) - Yes
OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinb (2) - Yes
ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren (2) - Yes
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin (2)
CHARLOTE'S WEB by E. B. White (2) - Yes
ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe (2) - Yes
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Feodor Dostoevsky (2) - Yes
THE STAND by Stephen King (2)
REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier (2) - Yes
I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves (2)
HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster (2) - Yes
TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2) - Yes
THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence (2)
BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens (2) - Yes
ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand (2) - Yes
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner (2)
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James (2) - Yes
AUSTERLITZ by W. G. Sebald (2)
THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka (2) - Yes
WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor (2)
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley (2) - Yes

Sunday, June 1, 2008

National Book Award Winners: 20/74

Year Won, Title, Author
2011 Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward
2010 Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
2009 Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann - Yes
2008 Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen - Yes
2007Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson - Yes
2006The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2005 Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
2004The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
2003The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2002Three Junes by Julia Glass - Yes
2001The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen - Yes
2000In America by Susan Sontag - Yes
1999Waiting by Ha Jin - Yes
1998Charming Billy by Alice McDermott - Yes
1997Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier - Yes
1996Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett - Yes
1995Sabbath's Theater by Phillip Roth - Yes
1994 A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
1993 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx - Yes
1992 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
1991 Mating by Norman Rush
1990 Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
1989 Spartina by John Casey - Yes
1988 Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
1987 Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann - Yes
1986 World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
1986 Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
1985 White Noise by Don Delillo
1985 Easy in the Islands (1st Novel Award) by Bob Shacochis
1984 Stones for Ibarra (1st Novel Award) by Harriet Doerr
1984 Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist
1983 The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
1983 The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker - Yes
1982 Dale Loves Sophie to Death (1st Novel Award) by Robb Forman Dew
1982 Rabbit is Rich by John Updike - Yes
1981 Plains Song by Wright Morris
1981 Sister Wolf (1st Novel Award) by Ann Arensberg
1980 Birdy (1st Novel Award) by William Wharton
1980 Sophie's Choice by William Styron - Yes
1980 The World According to Garp by John Irving - Yes
1979 Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien - Yes
1978 Blood Ties by Mary Lee Settle
1977 The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
1977 Master Tung`s Western Chamber Romance by Li Li Chen
1976 JR by William Gaddis
1975 The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
1975 Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
1974 Gravity's Ranbow by Thomas Pynchon
1974 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1973 Augustus by John Williams
1973 Chimera by John Barth
1972 The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
1971 Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
1970 Them by Joyce Carol Oates
1969 Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
1968 The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud - Yes
1966 The Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
1965 Herzog by Saul Bellow - Yes
1964 The Centaur by John Updike
1963 Morte d'Urban by J.F. Powers
1962 The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
1961 The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
1960 Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
1959 The Magic Barrell by Bernard Malamud
1958 Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
1957 The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
1956 Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner
1954 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1953 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - Yes
1952 From Here to Eternity by James Jones
1951 The Collected Stories by William Faulkner
1950 The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

PEN/Hemingway Winners: 5/36

Year Won, Author, Title
1975 – Loyd Little for Parthian Shot
1976 – Renata Adler for Speedboat
1977 – Darcy O'Brien for A Way of Life, Like Any Other
1978 – Reuben Bercovitch for Hasen
1979 – Alan Saperstein for Mom Kills Kids and Self
1980 – Joan Silber for Household Words
1981 – Marilynne Robinson for Housekeeping - Yes
1982 – Bobbie Ann Mason for Shiloh and Other Stories
1983 – Joan Chase for During the Reign of the Queen of Sheba
1984 – Josephine Humphreys for Dreams of Sleep
1985 – Alan V. Hewar for Lady's Time
1986 – Mary Ward Brown for Tongues of Flame
1987 – Lawrence Thornton for Imagining Argentina - Yes
1988 – Jane Hamilton for The Book of Ruth - Yes
1989 – Mark Richard for The Ice at the Bottom of the World
1990 – Bernard Cooper for Maps to Anywhere
1991 – Louis Begley for Wartime Lies
1992 – Edward P. Jones for Lost in the City
1993 – Dagoberto Gilb for The Magic of Blood
1994 – Susan Power for The Grass Dancer
1995 – Chang-Rae Lee for Native Speaker
1996 – Ha Jin for Ocean of Words
1997 – Charlotte Bacon for A Private State
1998 – Rosina Lippi for Homestead
1999 – Jhumpa Lahiri for Interpreter of Maladies
2000 – Akhil Sharma for An Obedient Father
2001 – Justin Cronin for Mary and O'Neil
2002 – Gabriel Brownstein for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W - Yes
2003 – Jennifer Haigh for Mrs. Kimble
2004 – Chris Abani for Graceland
2005 – Yiyun Li for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2006 – Ben Fountain for Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
2009 - Michael Dahlie for A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
2010 - Brigid Pasulka for A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True
2011 - Brando Skyhorse - The Madonnas of Echo Park

PEN/Faulkner Winners: 9/31

Year Won, Author, Title

2011 - Deborah Eisenberg for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
2010 - Sherman Alixie for War Dances
2009 - Joseph O'Neill for Netherland
2008 Kate Christensen, The Great Man
2007 Philip Roth, Everyman - Yes
2006 E.L. Doctorow, The March - Yes
2005 Ha Jin, War Trash - Yes
2004 John Updike, The Early Stories
2003 Sabina Murray, The Caprices
2002 Ann Patchett, Bel Canto - Yes
2001 Philip Roth, The Human Stain - Yes
2000 Ha Jin, Waiting - Yes
1999 Michael Cunningham, The Hours - Yes
1998 Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home
1997 Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds
1996 Richard Ford, Independence Day - Yes
1995 David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars - Yes
1994 Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
1993 E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
1992 Don DeLillo, Mao II
1991 John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
1990 E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
1989 James Salter, Dusk
1988 T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End
1987 Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding
1986 Peter Taylor, The Old Forest
1985 Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
1984 John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
1983 Toby Olson, Seaview
1982 David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident
1981 Walter Abish, How German Is It

Orange Prize Winners: 7/16

Year Won, Author, Title
1996: Helen Dunmore - A Spell of Winter
1997: Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces - Yes
1998: Carol Shields - Larry's Party
1999: Suzanne Berne - A Crime in the Neighborhood
2000: Linda Grant - When I Lived in Modern Times
2001: Kate Grenville - The Idea of Perfection
2002: Ann Patchett - Bel Canto - Yes
2003: Valerie Martin - Property
2004: Andrea Levy - Small Island - Yes
2005: Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
2006: Zadie Smith - On Beauty
2007: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun - Yes
2008: Rose Tremain - The Road Home
2009: Marilynne Robinson - Home - Yes
2010: Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna - Yes
2011: Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife - Yes

Booker Prize Winners: 18/44

Year Won, Title, Author
2011 The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
2010 The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson - Yes
2009 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - Yes
2008 The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga - Yes
2007 The Gathering - Ann Enright
2006 The Inheritance of Loss- Kiran Desai - Yes
2005 The Sea by John Banville - Yes
2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel - Yes
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey - Yes
2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - Yes
1999 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee - Yes
1998 Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan
1997 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - Yes
1996 Last Orders by Graham Swift
1995 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
1994 How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle - Yes
1992 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (co-winner) - Yes
1992 Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (co-winner)
1991 The Famished Road by Ben Okri
1990 Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - Yes
1988 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey - Yes
1987 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
1986 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
1985 The Bone People by Keri Hulme - Yes
1984 Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner - Yes
1983 Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee - Yes
1982 Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally - Yes
1981 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - Yes
1980 Rites of Passage by William Golding
1979 Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
1978 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
1977 Staying on by Paul Scott
1976 Saville by David Storey
1975 Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974 The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
1972 G. by John Berger
1971 In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
1970 The Elected Member by Bernice. Rubens
1969 Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby

Pulitzer Winners: 35/58

Year Won, Title, Author
1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk - Yes
1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - Yes
1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee - Yes
1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury - Yes
1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Yes
1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau - Yes
1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud - Yes
1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1970: The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner - Yes
1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty - Yes
1974: No award given [1]
1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - Yes
1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike - Yes
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker - Yes
1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy - Yes
1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie - Yes
1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - Yes
1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor - Yes
1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison - Yes
1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler - Yes
1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1991: Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley - Yes
1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler - Yes
1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx - Yes
1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields - Yes
1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford - Yes
1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth - Yes
1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham - Yes
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri - Yes
2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon - Yes
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo - Yes
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - Yes
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones - Yes
2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - Yes
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks - Yes
2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Yes
2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz - Yes
2009: Olive Kittredge by Elizabeth Strout - Yes
2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding

Nobel Prize Winning Authors: 43/104

Year Won, Laureate Name
2011 - Tomas Transtromer
2010 - Mario Vargas Llosa - Yes
2009 - Herta Muller
2008 - Jean Marie Gustave Le Clezio
2007 Doris Lessing -Yes
2006 - Orhan Pamuk - Yes
2005 - Harold Pinter
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek- Yes
2003 - J. M. Coetzee - Yes
2002 - Imre Kertész
2001 - V. S. Naipaul - Yes
2000 - Gao Xingjian - Yes
1999 - Günter Grass - Yes
1998 - José Saramago - Yes
1997 - Dario Fo
1996 - Wislawa Szymborska
1995 - Seamus Heaney - Yes
1994 - Kenzaburo Oe
1993 - Toni Morrison - Yes
1992 - Derek Walcott
1991 - Nadine Gordimer - Yes
1990 - Octavio Paz - Yes
1989 - Camilo José Cela
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz - Yes
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1986 - Wole Soyinka
1985 - Claude Simon
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert
1983 - William Golding - Yes
1982 - Gabriel García Márquez - Yes
1981 - Elias Canetti
1980 - Czeslaw Milosz - Yes
1979 - Odysseus Elytis
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Yes
1977 - Vicente Aleixandre
1976 - Saul Bellow - Yes
1975 - Eugenio Montale
1974 - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
1973 - Patrick White
1972 - Heinrich Böll - Yes
1971 - Pablo Neruda - Yes
1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1969 - Samuel Beckett - Yes
1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 - Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre - Yes
1963 - Giorgos Seferis
1962 - John Steinbeck - Yes
1961 - Ivo Andric
1960 - Saint-John Perse
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1957 - Albert Camus - Yes
1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955 - Halldór Laxness - Yes
1954 - Ernest Hemingway - Yes
1953 - Winston Churchill
1952 - François Mauriac - Yes
1951 - Pär Lagerkvist
1950 - Bertrand Russell
1949 - William Faulkner - Yes
1948 - T.S. Eliot - Yes
1947 - André Gide - Yes
1946 - Hermann Hesse - Yes
1945 - Gabriela Mistral
1944 - Johannes V. Jensen
1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938 - Pearl Buck - Yes
1937 - Roger Martin du Gard
1936 - Eugene O'Neill - Yes
1934 - Luigi Pirandello
1933 - Ivan Bunin
1932 - John Galsworthy - Yes
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930 - Sinclair Lewis - Yes
1929 - Thomas Mann - Yes
1928 - Sigrid Undset - Yes
1927 - Henri Bergson
1926 - Grazia Deledda
1925 - George Bernard Shaw
1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont
1923 - William Butler Yeats - Yes
1922 - Jacinto Benavente
1921 - Anatole France
1920 - Knut Hamsun
1919 - Carl Spitteler
1917 - Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 - Verner von Heidenstam
1915 - Romain Rolland
1913 - Rabindranath Tagore
1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann
1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 - Paul Heyse
1909 - Selma Lagerlöf
1908 - Rudolf Eucken
1907 - Rudyard Kipling - Yes
1906 - Giosuè Carducci
1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1902 - Theodor Mommsen
1901 - Sully Prudhomme