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Born January 29, 1962 (age 63) • Poland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2018) • Man Booker International Prize (2018)
Notable Works “Czuły narrator” • “Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead” • “Flights” • “Gra na wielu bębenkach” • “House of Day, House of Night” • “Ksiegi Jakobowe” • “Opowiadania bizarne” • “Podróż ludzi księgi” • “Primeval and Other Times” • ““The Empusium”

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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Annie Ernaux
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Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Kazimierz Pochwalski: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish writer
Reymont, Władysław Stanisław
Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Polish author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
French author
Imre Kertész
Hungarian writer
Doris Lessing
British writer
Herta Müller, 2009.
Herta Müller
Romanian-born German writer
Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
Canadian author
Maria Dąbrowska
Polish author and critic
Ferdynand Goetel
Polish author
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
German author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
American author