Text Excerpts
Read an excerpt from a book written by a Nobel Laureate
in Literature. Or choose a poem from an array of poetry excerpts. Pick
a title!
Prose
- Excerpt from Onitsha by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2008 »
- Excerpt from The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2007 »
- Excerpt from Istanbul: Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2006 »
- Excerpts from The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2004 »
- Excerpts from Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2003 »
- Excerpts from Fatelessness by Imre Kertész, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2002 »
- Excerpt from The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2001 »
- Excerpt from One Man's Bible by Gao Xingjian, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2000 »
- Excerpt from The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1999 »
- Excerpt from Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1998 »
- Excerpt from Mistero Buffo by Dario Fo, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1997 »
- Excerpt from Prize Stock by Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1994 »
- Excerpt from Sula by Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1993 »
- "Loot" by Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1991 »
- "The Clerk's Vision" by Octavio Paz, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1990 »
- Excerpt from Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1988 »
- Excerpt from Watermark by Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1987 »
- Excerpt from Aké. The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1986 »
- "The Appearance of the Sorcerer" by Elias Canetti, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1981 »
- Excerpt from Herzog by Saul Bellow, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1976 »
- Excerpt from The Clown by Heinrich Böll, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1972 »
- Excerpt from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1954 »
- "While the East Wind Blows" by Gracia Deledda, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1926 »
Poetry
- Five poems by Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1996 »
- Three poems by Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1995 »
- Two poems by Derek Walcott, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1992 »
- "Motion" by Octavio Paz, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1990 »
- "Seven Strophes" by Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1987 »
- Four poems by Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1984 »
- Four poems by Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1980 »
- Excerpt from The Axion Esti by Odysseus Elytis, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1979 »
- Ten poems by Harry Martinson, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1974 »
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