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Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Ivanka

Jan 25, 20221 min read

Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns

I picked up Khaled Hosseini's book A Thousand Splendid Suns, on the recommendation of @viajar_pelas_paginas. An inspiring story of...

Samuel Beckett: Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Sep 21, 20212 min read

Samuel Beckett: Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature

En attendant Godot Waiting for Godot is a play in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of...

Ernest Hemingway: Winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Sep 14, 20213 min read

Ernest Hemingway: Winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway claimed that the novel The Old Man and the Sea is his best work of which he is most proud. Literary...

Juan Ramón Jiménez: Winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Aug 10, 20211 min read

Juan Ramón Jiménez: Winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature

Eternities I Am Not I I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other...

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak: Winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Aug 3, 20211 min read

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak: Winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature

Doctor Zhivago Many of us have watched the movie directed by David Lean with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in the lead roles. The book...

Salvatore Quasimodo: Winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Jul 27, 20211 min read

Salvatore Quasimodo: Winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature

Poetry Grant Me My Day (Dammi il mio giorno, Ed è subito sera, Milano, Mondadori 1942). Grant me my day; so I might yet search myself...

Yasunari Kawabata: Winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Jun 1, 20212 min read

Yasunari Kawabata: Winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature

Thousand Cranes This is one of the most beautiful book covers I have ever had in my hands. The book describes life in Japan in the late...

Miguel Ángel Asturias: Winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

May 25, 20212 min read

Miguel Ángel Asturias: Winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature

The green pope (El papa verde) This is a book of a political nature in which the dirty machinations of big American capital in ...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

May 18, 20212 min read

Jean-Paul Sartre: Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature

Nausea The novel takes place in the town Bouville. The main protagonist is a historian, who becomes convinced that the objects and...

George Seferis: Winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

May 11, 20211 min read

George Seferis: Winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature

Poetry Lost Worlds (Mythistorima, Μυθιστόρημα, 1935) How can you gather together the thousand fragments of each person? What's...

Ivo Andrić: Winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

May 4, 20212 min read

Ivo Andrić: Winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ex Ponto; Riots; Lyrics “Ex Ponto” (1918) is a collection of poems in which the poet talks to his soul. These records, written in...

Eugenio Montale: Winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Apr 27, 20212 min read

Eugenio Montale: Winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature

Diary of '71. Eugenio Montale (12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor, and translator. Montale...

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Apr 20, 20212 min read

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Slave The main protagonist of the love story is Jacob who lived in Josefov, a Jewish town in Poland in the 17th century. Cossacks...

Saul Bellow : Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Apr 13, 20211 min read

Saul Bellow : Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature

Humboldt’s Gift The main protagoinist of the story is Charlie Citrine, a a man with an passion for literature. As a young man, at his...

Harry Martinson : Winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Apr 6, 20212 min read

Harry Martinson : Winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature

Flowering Nettle This book is partially an autobiographical novel describing the writer’s childhood and youth in a Swedish provincial...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Mar 30, 20212 min read

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to ten years to a forced labor camp in the Soviet...

Joseph Brodsky: Winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Mar 23, 20211 min read

Joseph Brodsky: Winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature

Dedicated to the Spine In 1978, after a trip to Brazil, Brodsky wrote an essay After a Trip or Dedicated to the Spine. This work...

Heinrich Böll : Winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Mar 16, 20212 min read

Heinrich Böll : Winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature

Billiards at half-past nine Leonore, Robert Faehmel's secretary, describes Robert who is meticulous in everything he does. An old...

Pablo Neruda : Winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Mar 2, 20213 min read

Pablo Neruda : Winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature

20 love poems and a poem of despair Tonight I can write the saddest lines Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The...

Wole Soyinka : Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivanka

Feb 23, 20212 min read

Wole Soyinka : Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature

Season of anomy Soynka’s description of the lake in which the murdered people float will remain in my memory for a long time. This is a...

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DESIGNED FOR READING

Ruby Tuesday<

Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Samuel Beckett: Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ernest Hemingway: Winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature

Juan Ramón Jiménez: Winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak: Winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature

Salvatore Quasimodo: Winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature

Yasunari Kawabata: Winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature

Miguel Ángel Asturias: Winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature

Jean-Paul Sartre: Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature

George Seferis: Winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ivo Andrić: Winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature

Eugenio Montale: Winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature

Saul Bellow : Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature

Harry Martinson : Winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature

Joseph Brodsky: Winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature

Heinrich Böll : Winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature

Pablo Neruda : Winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature

Wole Soyinka : Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature

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