PREMIOS NÓBEL DE LITERATURA
NOBEL PRIZE LITERATURE |
Premio Nóbel 2004
Elfriede Jelinek
Austria - 1946
"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"
Premio Nóbel 2003
John Maxwell
Coetzee
South Africa
- 1940
"who in innumerable guises portrays
the surprising
involvement
of the outsider"
There is a great wealth of variety in Coetzee’s
works. No two
books ever
follow the
same
recipe. Extensive
reading reveals
a recurring
pattern, the
downward spiralling
journeys
he considers
necessary for
the salvation
of his characters.
His protagonists
are overwhelmed
by the urge
to sink but
paradoxically
derive
strength from
being stripped
of all external
dignity. -
The Swedish
Academy
Premio Nóbel 2002
Imre Kertész
Hungría - Hungary,
1929
"for writing that upholds the fragile
experience
of the individual
against the
barbaric arbitrariness
of history"
 Fateless A novel of the Holocaust.
Kaddish for a Child Not Born
Imre Kertesz (Nobel Prize in Literature)
Kertesz, a
Hungarian Jew,
was imprisoned
in Auschwitz
during his
youth. His
novel
Fateless was
translated
into English
in 1992
and told the
story of a
Jewish boy's
experiences
in the concentration
camps and his
attempts
to reconcile
himself to
those experiences
after World
War II. Kaddish
was originally
published in
Hungarian in
1990 and in
German
in 1992. The
narrator of
Kaddish is
a middle-aged
survivor of
the Holocaust
who has become
a writer and
literary translator.
At a writer's
retreat he
explains to
his friend,
a professor
of philosophy,
why he can't
bring a child
into the world
after the horror
of the Holocaust.
He talks of
his failed
marriage, of
his former
wife's new
family and
children, of
his unsuccessful
career, and
of his Jewishness.
Like the previous
novel, Kaddish
is brilliantly
written, revealing
anew the ferocious
hold the Holocaust
has
on its survivors.
(Editorial
Reviews From
Booklist).
Premio Nóbel 2001
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Reino Unido - United Kingdom
nacido en Trinidad,
1932
"for having
united perceptive
narrative
and incorruptible
scrutiny in
works that
compel us to
see the presence
of suppressed
histories"
The Writer and the World: Essays
A House for Mr. Biswas
Half a Life
Premio Nóbel 2000
Gao Xingjian
Francia - France
nacido en Ganzhou,
China, 1940
"for an œuvre of universal validity,
bitter insights
and linguistic
ingenuity,
which has opened
new paths for
the Chinese
novel and drama".
One Man's Bible
Soul Mountain
Return to Painting
Premio Nóbel 1999
Günter Grass
República Federal
Alemana - Federal
Republic
of Germany,
nacido en Gdansk,
1927
"whose frolicsome black fables portray
the forgotten
face of history".
4 Plays
El tambor de hojalata
Premio Nóbel 1998
José Saramago
Natural de
Portugal, 1922
"who with parables sustained by imagination,
compassion
and irony continually
enables
us once again
to apprehend
an elusory reality"
Blindness
Manual de pintura y caligrafía
All the Names
La balsa de piedra
Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's
History and
Culture
Premio Nóbel 1990
Octavio Paz
México, 1914-1998
"for impassioned writing with wide horizons,
characterized
by sensuous
intelligence and
humanistic
integrity"
The Labyrinth of Solitude
El Laberinto De LA Soledad
Sor Juana Or, the Traps of Faith
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