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Born April 13, 1940 (age 84) • Nice • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2008)
Notable Works “Alma” • “Ballaciner” • “Désert” • “Onitsha” • “Ritournelle de la faim” • “The Interrogation”
Roger Martin du Gard
French author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American author
Doris Lessing
British writer
Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
French author
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Anatole France
Anatole France
French writer
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
French writer
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Russian author
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish author
Bunin
Ivan Bunin
Russian author
Imre Kertész
Hungarian writer
Herta Müller, 2009.
Herta Müller
Romanian-born German writer
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf
Swedish author