Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk

male, 57 years old
Turkish historical novelist, writer, Nobel laureate in Literature, nobelprizeinliterature, 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...
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
nobelprizeinliterature, Nobel Prize, From Houston, English, From Lorain, Ohio, Princeton University…The 30 Most Powerful Women in America, Nobel laureate in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 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...
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…Nobel laureate in Literature, nobelprizeinliterature
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born 10 October 1930) is an English playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, and political activist, best...
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

male, deceased (1961)
writer, war correspondent, the old man and the sea, pulitzer prize, Short story writer, Short Story Author…suicide by firearm in the United States, nobelprizeinliterature, american literature, Nobel laureate in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part...
William Faulkner

William Faulkner

male, deceased (1962)
novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature, Mississippi writer, American, Stream of consciousness writing, non-linear…nobelprizeinliterature, Nobel Prize for Literature, southern literature, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, American Southern literature
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most...
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…Nobel laureate in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature winner, nobelprizeinliterature
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...
Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

male, 70 years old
Seamus Justin Heaney, Translator, gaelic, Alumni of Queen's University Belfast, lecturer, Translator from Polish…Nobel laureate in Literature, Nobel Laureate, nobelprizeinliterature, eldest in a Catholic family of nine children, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Seamus Justin Heaney 's attempts to develop poetic language in which meaning and sound are intimately related result in concentrated, sensually...
V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

male, 77 years old
Nadira Naipaul, postcolonial literature, Trinidadian, Nobel laureate in Literature, Alumni of University College, Oxford, Indo-Trinidadian…Post-colonial literature, nobelprizeinliterature, Booker Prize winner
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, T.C. (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a...
Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

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