Literary Library

Peter Handke

by Angela Beck
December 6, 1942 - Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director and screenwriterAuthor of the novels "A Sorrow Beyond Dreams", "...
Austria Austrian Drama Dramatist Film Film Director Filmmaker Films Nobel Prize Novel Novelist Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Screenplay Screenwriter Translator

Eugene Ionesco

by Angela Beck
November 26, 1909 - March 28, 1994Romanian-French playwright and novelistAuthor of the plays "Rhinoceros", "Exit the King" and "The Bald Soprano"N...
France French Nobel Prize Novel Novelist Playwright Romania Romanian

Andre Gide

by Angela Beck
November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951French novelistAuthor of more than books including "The Immoralist", "The Pastoral Symphony" and "The Fruits ...
France French Nobel Prize Novel Novelist

Selma Lagerlof

by Angela Beck
November 20, 1858 - March 16, 1940Swedish author and teacherAuthor of "Gosta Berlings Saga", "Jerusalem" and "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils"Was...
Nobel Prize Swedan Swedish Teacher

Nadine Gordimer

by Angela Beck
November 20, 1923 - July 13, 2014South African writer and political activistAuthor of "The Conservationist" (for which she won the Man Booker Priz...
Africa African Man Booker Prize Nobel Prize Political Political Activist Politics South Africa South African

Jose Saramago

by Angela Beck
November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010Portuguese novelistAuthor of "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ", "Blindness" and "Death with Interruptions"Wo...
Nobel Prize Novel Novelist Portugal Portuguese

Gerhart Hauptmann

by Angela Beck
November 15, 1862 - June 6, 1946German dramatist and novelistAuthor of "The Weavers", "Hannele" and "The Rats"Won the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
Drama Dramatist German Germany Nobel Prize Novel Novelist

Imre Kertesz

by Angela Beck
November 9, 1929 - March 31, 2016Hungarian-Jewish novelistAuthor of "Fatelessness", "Kaddish for an Unborn Child" and "The Holocaust as Culture"Wa...
Holocaust Hungarian Hungary Jewish Jews Nobel Prize Novel Novelist

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro

by Angela Beck
November 8, 1954 - Japanese-born English novelist, screenwriter and short story writerAuthor of "The Remains of the Day", "When We Were Orphans" a...
England English Japan Japanese Nobel Prize Novel Novelist Screenplay Screenwriter Short Story

Odysseus Elytis

by Angela Beck
November 2, 1911 - March 18, 1996Greek poet and prose writerAuthor of "Orientations", "The Light Tree and the Fourteenth Beauty" and "The True Fac...
Greece Greek Nobel Prize Poet Poetry

E. M. Forster

by Angela Beck
January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettistAuthor of "Where Angels Fear to Tread", "Room With a Vi...
England English Essayist Essays Librettist Libretto Nobel Prize Novel Novelist Short Story Theater Theatre