Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk

male, 57 years old
Turkish historical novelist, writer, NobellaureateinLiterature, nobel prize in literature, Essayist, turkish…Censorship in Turkey, Nobel Prize, Postmodern literature, Nobel Laureate, born in Istanbul, Turkey
The novelist Orhan Pamuk was born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul and carries the distinct honor of being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

male, deceased (1941) (India)
Hindu revivalist, National anthem writer, calcutta, colloquial, Monotheist, Modern Indian philosopher…Bengali literature, nobel prize in literature, Nobel Prize, Nobel Laureate, NobellaureateinLiterature
(7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright,...
Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

male, 79 years old
BAFTA winner, cancer survivor, Playwright, From hackney, Order of the British Empire, Alumni of the Central School of Speech and Drama…NobellaureateinLiterature, nobel prize in literature
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born 10 October 1930) is an English playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, and political activist, best...
Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian

male, 69 years old
inkwash, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, yangtze, bus stop, Absurdist, the primitive…NobellaureateinLiterature, nobel prize in literature
Gao Xingjian, born January 4, 1940 in Ganzhou (Jiangxi province) in eastern China, is today a French citizen. Writer of prose, translator,...
Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

male, 79 years old
Boston University, NobellaureateinLiterature, magic realism, Nobel Prize for Literature, Castries, Omeros
Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West-Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. Born in...
Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

male, deceased (2006)
Islam-related controversy, existentialism, Cairo University alumni, Nobel Prize for Literature, Egyptian, religious persecution…NobellaureateinLiterature, nobel, born in Cairo, Egypt, has no counterpart in any other part of the world, born in Gamaliya, Cairo
Naguib Mahfouz (December 11 1911 – August 30 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature who managed to modernize Ar...
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
nobel prize in literature, Nobel Prize, From Houston, English, From Lorain, Ohio, Princeton University…The 30 Most Powerful Women in America, NobellaureateinLiterature, american literature
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...
Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

male, deceased (1965) (United Kingdom)
World War II political leader, Time Magazine Person of the Year, orator, anti-communist, British, Légion d'honneur recipient…NobellaureateinLiterature, Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Karlspreis laureate, nobel prize in literature
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as...
Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

female, 85 years old
apartheid, Hiv/aids, lithuanian, Anti-Apartheid activist, from Gauteng Province, African National Congress…NobellaureateinLiterature, South African literature, nobel prize in literature
Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African writer, political activist and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature. Her writing...