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"

The Piano Teacher : a novel The Piano Teacher (DVD) The Piano Teacher: (VHS WideScreen) Wonderful, Wonderful Times : [novel]

Lust : [novel] Women as Lovers : [novel] Xenia Hausner: Ladies first. Second thoughts

Premio Nóbel 2003
John Maxwell Coetzee
South Africa - 1940
"who in innumerable guises portrays
the surprising involvement of the outsider"

Dusklands Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life In the Heart of the Country The Master of Petersburg

Waiting for the Barbarians Elizabeth Costello Ages of Iron Disgrace

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