Ben Jackson
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This is a companion thread to favourite Nobel Prize Novels/Poets, but in this case, this thread focuses on Dramatist/Non-Fiction.
Many of us don't really pay attention to non-fiction, though some of us do read History, Autobio, Bio, Memoirs, essays whether literary, cultural or philosophical. Same too for Drama. We all love reading novels, but reading Non-Fiction and plays also provides a wonderful reading experience. Some of our favourite Nobel Prize winners wrote essays, philosophy, travelogue, even autobiographies, biographies, memoirs.
They have only been about six Laureates who won mainly for their works as non-fiction writers: Mommsen, Eucken, Bergson, Russell, Churchill, Alexevitch (Camus, Sartre, Canetti, even Naipaul did have massive outputs both in the literary and non-fictional spheres), while they have been some who were shortlisted but failed to win: Freud, Jung, Karl Jaspers, James Frazer, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Tolstoy, in the same situation with Camus and Sartre, writing in both worlds), Jacques Derrida and Ryszard Kapusincki (an Academy member confirmed their shortlists in an interview I read three years ago), to just list a few names.
They have also been about eleven Dramatists awarded mainly for their Dramatic works: Maeterlinck, Shaw Hauptmann, Echegaray, Bjorson, Beckett, Soyinka, Eugene O'Neill, Pirandello, Dario Fo, Pinter, although, just like the Non-fiction recipients, some have won for other writings, Jelinek, Sartre, Camus and Handke for example. And they have been notable shortlist for Dramatist, like Eugene Ionesco for example.
In this thread, members should list 20 Non-Fictional works written by Nobel Prize Winners and 5 Nobel Prize Winning Dramatists (you can also list your favourite play from the Dramatist). The purpose of creating both threads is for members to share/recommend works for mere artistic appreciations and enrichment of reading experience and diversity (an individual from Brazil reading a work from Iceland or Serbia and vice verse).
I'll start first by listing the Dramatists:
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (Republic of Ireland)
Bernard Shaw Man and Superman (Republic of Ireland)
Wole Soyinka Death and the King's Horseman (Nigeria)
Harold Pinter The Birthday Party (England)
Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night (USA)
Many of us don't really pay attention to non-fiction, though some of us do read History, Autobio, Bio, Memoirs, essays whether literary, cultural or philosophical. Same too for Drama. We all love reading novels, but reading Non-Fiction and plays also provides a wonderful reading experience. Some of our favourite Nobel Prize winners wrote essays, philosophy, travelogue, even autobiographies, biographies, memoirs.
They have only been about six Laureates who won mainly for their works as non-fiction writers: Mommsen, Eucken, Bergson, Russell, Churchill, Alexevitch (Camus, Sartre, Canetti, even Naipaul did have massive outputs both in the literary and non-fictional spheres), while they have been some who were shortlisted but failed to win: Freud, Jung, Karl Jaspers, James Frazer, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Tolstoy, in the same situation with Camus and Sartre, writing in both worlds), Jacques Derrida and Ryszard Kapusincki (an Academy member confirmed their shortlists in an interview I read three years ago), to just list a few names.
They have also been about eleven Dramatists awarded mainly for their Dramatic works: Maeterlinck, Shaw Hauptmann, Echegaray, Bjorson, Beckett, Soyinka, Eugene O'Neill, Pirandello, Dario Fo, Pinter, although, just like the Non-fiction recipients, some have won for other writings, Jelinek, Sartre, Camus and Handke for example. And they have been notable shortlist for Dramatist, like Eugene Ionesco for example.
In this thread, members should list 20 Non-Fictional works written by Nobel Prize Winners and 5 Nobel Prize Winning Dramatists (you can also list your favourite play from the Dramatist). The purpose of creating both threads is for members to share/recommend works for mere artistic appreciations and enrichment of reading experience and diversity (an individual from Brazil reading a work from Iceland or Serbia and vice verse).
I'll start first by listing the Dramatists:
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (Republic of Ireland)
Bernard Shaw Man and Superman (Republic of Ireland)
Wole Soyinka Death and the King's Horseman (Nigeria)
Harold Pinter The Birthday Party (England)
Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night (USA)
