Nobel Prize

Books by authors who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Stranger
The Old Man and the Sea
Blindness
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Disgrace
The Remains of the Day
Never Let Me Go
Beloved
Love in the Time of Cholera
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Siddhartha
The Grapes of Wrath
The Plague
Sam Kean
Despite the earnest belief of most of his fans, Einstein did not win his Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity, special or general. He won for explaining a strange effect in quantum mechanics, the photoelectric effect. His solution provided the first real evidence that quantum mechanics wasn’t a crude stopgap for justifying anomalous experiments, but actually corresponds to reality. And the fact that Einstein came up with it is ironic for two reasons. One, as he got older and crustier, Einste ...more
Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Annie Ernaux
Estaba por todas partes. En los eufemismos y las lítotes de mi agenda, en los ojos saltones de Jean T., en los matrimonios forzados, en el filme "Los paraguas de Cheburgo", en la vergüenza de las mujeres que abortaban y en la reprobación de las otras. En la imposibilidad absoluta de imaginar que un día las mujeres pudieran decidir abortar libremente. Y, como de costumbre, era imposible determinar si el aborto estaba prohibido porque estaba mal o estaba mal porque estaba prohibido. Se juzgaba con ...more
Annie Ernaux, Happening

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Premi Nobel della Letteratura Non basta una vita intera per leggere tutti i libri di questo mondo, ma vale la pena di consider…more
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