How to find novels by Nobel Prize Winners

Boris Pasternak and Jean Paul Sartre declined their Nobel Prize in Literature.

Each year, several Scandinavian committees award Nobel Prizes to those who make significant contributions to physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, economics and peace. The Swedish Academy awards the Nobel Prize in Literature to an author for outstanding literary achievement. The French poet Sully Prudhomme was the first recipient of the prize for literature in 1901. American Nobel laureates in literature include Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Eugene O'Neil.

Things You'll Need

• Computer
• Internet access

Instructions

Use the internet to find a list of all Nobel Prize winners in literature and their writings

1. Use your computer browser to visit nobelprize.org.

2. Click on the link "Nobel Prizes."

3. Click on the link "Nobel Prize in Literature."

4. Click on the link "All Nobel Prizes in Literature."

5. Use the list displayed to find names of a prize recipient. Click on a name for a short biography.

6. Click on the link "Nobel Prize in Literature 2009" under the writer's name.

7. Click on the link "bio-bibliography" for a list of writings by the Nobel laureate.

Tips & Warnings

• The prize was not awarded in 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943.

References

• Nobel Prize