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About Prize
Winner
2007 (Doris Lessing - Persia)
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The
Golden Notebook
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Lessing, Doris
Anna Wulf is a young novelist with
writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned
by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart.
Fearing the onset of madness, she records her experiences in four
coloured notebooks. The black notebook addresses her problems as
a writer; the red her political life; the yellow her relationships
and emotions; and the blue becomes a diary of everyday events. But
it is the fifth notebook – The Golden Notebook – which
is the key to her recovery and renaissance.
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The Good Terrorist
Author : Lessing, Doris
In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around ...
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The Cleft
Author : Lessing, Doris
An old Roman senator, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last endeavour: the retelling ...
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The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog
Author : Lessing, Doris
This is a fascinating novel of love and ecology, from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Doris Lessing returns ...
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The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
Author : Lessing, Doris
With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to ...
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The Sweetest Dream
Author : Lessing, Doris
It's the morning of the sixties and it's suppertime at Freedom Hall, the most welcoming household in North London. Frances ...
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Winner
2006 (Orphan Hamuk - Turkey)
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My
Name is Red
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Pamuk, Orhan
At once a fiendishly devious mystery,
a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of
art, My name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor
and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul.
The
Sultan has commisioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in
the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his
realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style.
But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam,
this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. And when one
of the chosen miniaturist disappears, the only clue to the mystery
lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy
and part philosophical puzzle, My Name Is Red is a kaleidoscopic
journey into the intersection of art, religion, love and power.
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The Black Book
Author : Pamuk, Orhan
Galip's wife has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celal, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celal, ...
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The Black Book
Author : Pamuk, Orhan
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel-loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him ...
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Istanbul: Memories and the City (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Author : Pamuk, Orhan
A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters, author ...
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Istanbul: Memories of a City
Author : Pamuk, Orhan
Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets ...
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Snow
Author : Pamuk, Orhan
Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's ...
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Istanbul: Memories of a City
Author : Pamuk, Orhan
After the Ottoman Empire colalpsed, the world almost forgot that Istanbul existed. The city into which I was born was ...
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The New Life
Author : Pamuk, Orhan
The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly engaging novel is launched into a world of hypnotic texts and (literally) Byzantine ...
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The White Castle
Author : Pamuk, Orhan
The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk's celebrated first novel, is the tale of a young Italian scholar. Captured by pirates ...
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The New Life
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The White Castle
Author : Pamuk, Orhan
From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating ...
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Winner 2005 (Harold Pinter - UK)
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Celebration + The Room
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A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. "Celebration" is Pinter's new play which displays a vivid zest ...
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Celebration and The Room: 2 Play
Author : Pinter, Harold
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Complete Works : Two : The Caretaker, The Dwarts, The Collection, The Lover, Night School, Revue Ske
Author : Pinter, Harold
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The Homecoming
Author : Pinter, Harold
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself ...
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About
the Prize
The Nobel
Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually
to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel,
produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency"
(original Swedish: den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste
i idealisk riktning). The "work" in this case refers to an
author's work as a whole, though individual works are sometimes also
cited. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the
prize in any given year and announces the name of the chosen laureate
in early October.
The original
citation of this Nobel Prize has led to much controversy. In the original
Swedish, the word idealisk can be translated as either "idealistic"
or "ideal". In earlier years the Nobel Committee interpreted
the intent of the will strictly, and did not award certain world-renowned
authors of the time such as Leo Tolstoy and Henrik Ibsen, probably because
their works were not "idealistic" enough. More recently the
wording has been interpreted much more liberally, and the Prize is awarded
allegedly for lasting literary merit. The choice of the Academy can
still cause controversy, particularly for the selection of lesser-known
writers (or writers working in avant garde forms) such as Dario Fo in
1997 and Elfriede Jelinek in 2004.
The Nobel
Prize is not the sole measure of literary excellence and lasting worth.
Critics of the prize point out that many well-known writers have not
been awarded the prize, or even been nominated.
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