The Nobel Prize in Literarure (women)
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Sortie : 7 octobre 2015 (France). Récit
livre de Svetlana Alexievitch
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Svetlana Alexievich
Born: 31 May 1948, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Residence at the time of the award: Belarus
Prize motivation: "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time"
Rien que la vie (2012)
Dear Life
Sortie : 2 octobre 2014 (France). Recueil de nouvelles
livre de Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Born: 10 July 1931, Wingham, Canada
Residence at the time of the award: Canada
Prize motivation: "master of the contemporary short story"
Field: prose
Language: English
La Bascule du souffle (2009)
Atemschaukel
Sortie : 2010 (France). Roman
livre de Herta Müller
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Herta Müller
Born: 17 August 1953, Nitzkydorf, Banat, Romania
Residence at the time of the award: Germany
Prize motivation: "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
Field: prose
Language: German
L'écho lointain de l'orage, prise au piège - Les Enfants de la violence, tome 2
Sortie : novembre 2007 (France). Roman
livre de Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Born: 22 October 1919, Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran)
Died: 17 November 2013, London, United Kingdom
Residence at the time of the award: United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"
Field: prose
Language: English
Les Amantes (1975)
Die Liebhaberinnen
Sortie : 1992 (France). Roman
livre de Elfriede Jelinek
LaLouveChérie l'a mis en envie.
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2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
Born: 20 October 1946, Mürzzuschlag, Austria
Residence at the time of the award: Austria
Prize motivation: "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power"
Field: drama, prose
Language: German
Poems New and Collected
Sortie : 31 mars 2015 (France).
livre de Wislawa Szymborska
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1996 - Wislawa Szymborska
Born: 2 July 1923, Bnin (now Kórnik), Poland
Died: 1 February 2012, Kraków, Poland
Residence at the time of the award: Poland
Prize motivation: "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"
Field: poetry
Language: Polish
Beloved (1987)
Sortie : 1989 (France). Roman
livre de Toni Morrison
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1993 - Toni Morrison
Born: 18 February 1931, Lorain, OH, USA
Residence at the time of the award: USA
Prize motivation: "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"
Field: prose
Language: English
Beethoven avait un seizième de sang noir
Sortie : février 2009 (France). Roman
livre de Nadine Gordimer
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1991 - Nadine Gordimer
Born: 20 November 1923, Springs, South Africa
Died: 13 July 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa
Residence at the time of the award: South Africa
Prize motivation: "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity"
Field: prose
Language: English
Partage-toi, nuit
Sortie : octobre 2005 (France). Poésie
livre de Nelly Sachs
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1966 - Nelly Sachs
Born: 10 December 1891, Berlin, Germany
Died: 12 May 1970, Stockholm, Sweden
Residence at the time of the award: Sweden
Prize motivation: "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength"
Field: poetry
Language: German
Antología Poética
Sortie : 1 décembre 2000 (France).
livre de Gabriela Mistral
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1945 - Gabriela Mistral
(pen-name of Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga)
Born: 7 April 1889, Vicuña, Chile
Died: 10 January 1957, Hempstead, NY, USA
Residence at the time of the award: Chile
Prize motivation: "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world"
Field: poetry
Language: Spanish
L'exilée (1936)
The Exile
Sortie : 1936. Roman
livre de Pearl Buck
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1938 - - Facts
Pearl Buck
(pen-name of Pearl Walsh, née Sydenstricker)
Born: 26 June 1892, Hillsboro, WV, USA
Died: 6 March 1973, Danby, VT, USA
Residence at the time of the award: USA
Prize motivation: "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"
Field: prose
Language: English
Vigdis la farouche (1909)
Fortaellingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis
Sortie : 1954 (France). Roman
livre de Sigrid Undset
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1928 - Sigrid Undset
Born: 20 May 1882, Kalundborg, Denmark
Died: 10 June 1949, Lillehammer, Norway
Residence at the time of the award: Norway
Prize motivation: "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages"
Field: prose
Language: Norwegian
Braises (1904)
Cenere
Sortie : 1904 (Italie).
livre de Grazia Deledda
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1926 - Grazia Deledda
(pen-name of Grazia Madesani, née Deledda)
Born: 27 September 1871, Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy
Died: 15 August 1936, Rome, Italy
Residence at the time of the award: Italy
Prize motivation: "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general"
Field: prose
Language: Italian
Oeuvres romanesques
Sortie : 7 mai 2014 (France). Roman
livre de Selma Lagerlöf
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1909 - Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
Born: 20 November 1858, Mårbacka, Sweden
Died: 16 March 1940, Mårbacka, Sweden
Residence at the time of the award: Sweden
Prize motivation: "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings"
Field: prose
Language: Swedish