Text Excerpts
Read an excerpt from a book written by a Nobel Laureate
in Literature. Or choose a poem from an array of poetry excerpts. Pick
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Prose
- 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 »
Poetry