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Born October 10, 1892 • Bosnia and Herzegovina
Died March 13, 1975 (aged 82) • Belgrade
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1961)
Notable Works “The Bridge on the Drina”
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William Faulkner
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Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
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John Steinbeck
American novelist
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
Canadian author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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American author
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
American author
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
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John Galsworthy
British writer
Chinese author Mo Yan
Mo Yan
Chinese author
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José Saramago
Portuguese author
Ōe Kenzaburō
Ōe Kenzaburō
Japanese writer
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish author
Bunin
Ivan Bunin
Russian author
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Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Anatole France
Anatole France
French writer