Great Writers the Nobel Prize Has Missed

Explore the greatest writers overlooked by the Nobel Prize and their must-read books. Discover literary geniuses who deserved the accolade but were missed by the committee.

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Hopscotch

by Julio Cortazar

"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, …
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Austerlitz. English

by Winfried Georg Sebald

Shares the struggle of Jacques Austerlitz to uncover his identity as he follows the memory of his childhood back to the heart of war-torn Europe, …
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The Emigrants

by Winfried Georg Sebald

Four narratives weave history and fiction together as refugees from the Holocaust remember their experiences.
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Dance of the Happy Shades

by Alice Munro

A young girl gets an unexpected glimpse into her father's past. A married woman tries to release her homebound sister after the death of their …
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The Beggar Maid

by Alice Munro

“An exhilarating collection” (The New York Times Book Review) of ten blended stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “The rich texture of its narrative …
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Runaway

by Alice Munro

A collection of short fiction captures the lives of women of all ages and circumstances, as they deal with the limits and lies of passion, …
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Angle of repose

 

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Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Stegner

Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher …
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God's bits of wood

 

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The Loser

by Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice …
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Wittgenstein's Nephew

by Thomas Bernhard

It is 1967, in a Viennese hospital. In separate wards: the narrator named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew …
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Jakob von Gunten

by Robert Walser

The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a …
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The Makioka Sisters

by Junichiro Tanizaki

Four daughters of an old merchant family unknowingly face the end of a gentler way of life in Osaka, Japan in 1938.
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