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I especially like Lagerkvist and Kawabata.

Nobel Laureates Few People Now Read

R.F.A. Sully-Prudhomme French poet and first Nobel Laureate (1901)

Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre Spanish dramatist (1904)

Henrik Pontoppidan Danish novelist (1917)

Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler Swiss poet (1919)

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Polish novelist (1924)

Erik Axel Karlfeldt Swedish poet (1931)

Frans Eemil Sillanpää Finnish novelist (1939)

Par Fabian Lagerkvist Swedish novelist and poet (1951)

Salvatore Quasimodo Italian poet (1959)

Yasunari Kawabata Japanese novelist (1968)

Among the rather better-known writers who were nominated for the prize but didn’t win were: Joseph Conrad    Henry James    Marcel Proust    F. Scott Fitzgerald    Virginia Woolf    Graham Greene   

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Nobel Laureates Few People Now Read

R.F.A. Sully-Prudhomme French poet and first Nobel Laureate (1901)

Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre Spanish dramatist (1904)

Henrik Pontoppidan Danish novelist (1917)

Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler Swiss poet (1919)

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Polish novelist (1924)

Erik Axel Karlfeldt Swedish poet (1931)

Frans Eemil Sillanpää Finnish novelist (1939)

Par Fabian Lagerkvist Swedish novelist and poet (1951)

Salvatore Quasimodo Italian poet (1959)

Yasunari Kawabata Japanese novelist (1968)

Among the rather better-known writers who were nominated for the prize but didn’t win were: Joseph Conrad    Henry James    Marcel Proust    F. Scott Fitzgerald    Virginia Woolf    Graham Greene