Nadine Gordimer gets away with it, but she won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Sinclair Lewis, in 1930, became the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Coetzee, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in his 1999 novel, Disgrace.
Undeterred, Yoshimoto, 32, says her dream is to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The late William Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature is heading for auction at Sotheby's in June.
When Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek won last year's Nobel Prize for literature, it took Katherine Arens by surprise.
"He was furious that somebody else would use their joint experience for literature, " Ms. Cline said in an interview.
Newspapers run extensive coverage of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for literature to Chinese author Mo Yan.
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Considered Italy's national poet, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906.
The U.S. is four for four, batting 1, 000 so far this year, with just the Nobel Prizes for Literature and Peace remaining.
China celebrated another achievement last week, as Mo Yan became the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize for literature.
It was an impressive feat, given that Ms Morrison was hardly unknown: she won the Nobel prize for literature in 1993.
In a further initiative, African writers are preparing a book, coordinated by Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
Moving now from one untold story to another, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for literature will be announced this morning.
The prizes for literature and peace will be awarded later in the week, with the economics prize to be announced on Monday.
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Buck's most well-known novel, "The Good Earth, " won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and helped earn her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
The question has consumed the country since Orhan Pamuk became the first Turk to win the Nobel prize for literature (or indeed any Nobel).
In cases where affiliations were not listed (mostly for literature and peace prizes), I used birth country to place the laureate in the graphic.
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As he accepted the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, he declared himself a happy and grateful receiver of Egyptian, Islamic and Western cultural traditions.
Use Winston Churchill as a model: He gave up running the free world and winning the Nobel Prize for literature and retired and painted pictures.
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Mr Causley's work is included in the National Curriculum for Literature.
Tipped as a potential Nobel prize winner for many years, Transtroemer is the eighth European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in the last 10 years.
Mario Vargas Llosa, the winner of a Nobel prize for literature and a passionate liberal, has given an energetic endorsement to a man whose politics he recently abhorred.
And I have a funny feeling that the Committee for Literature will continue to focus on non-English, non-European works so the other parts of the universe get a little credit, too.
Now many more leading Polish painters, musicians and writers, including Wislawa Szymborska, the poet who won the 1996 Nobel prize for literature, live as well as work in Poland.
Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 and the citation said "in his plays he uncovers the precipice in everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms".
It is like the Nobels for literature or for the promotion of peace, though not as hotly debated, there being no architectural equivalent to Dario Fo--still less to Rigoberta Menchu.
Mr Pamuk had also been in the running for the Nobel prize for literature , which was won by Harold Pinter, a British playwright and critic of the war in Iraq.
Relatively few people know of Alfred Nobel as the inventor of dynamite, but he will forever be known as the creator of the Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel prizes for literature, economics, medicine, and the sciences.
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