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Read an excerpt from a book written by a Nobel Laureate in Literature. Or choose a poem from an array of poetry excerpts. Pick a title!

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Excerpt from The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2007 »
Excerpt from Istanbul: Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2006 »
Excerpts from The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2004 »
Excerpts from Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2003 »
Excerpts from Fatelessness by Imre Kertész, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2002 »
Excerpt from The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2001 »
Excerpts from One Man's Bible by Gao Xingjian, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2000 »
Excerpts from The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1999 »
Excerpts from Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1998 »
Extracts from Mistero Buffo by Dario Fo, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1997 »
Excerpt from "Prize Stock" by Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1994 »
Excerpts from Sula by Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1993 »
"Loot" by Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1991 »
"The Clerk's Vision" by Octavio Paz, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1990 »
Excerpt from Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1988 »
Excerpt from Watermark by Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1987 »
Excerpt from Aké. The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1986 »
"While the East Wind Blows" by Gracia Deledda, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1926 »

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