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1001-Books Scavenger Hunt, 2023 > Task 9: Read a book that has won a literary award or was written by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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message 1: by Karen (last edited Dec 30, 2022 06:54AM) (new)

Karen Hoehne | 1714 comments Mod
Use this Topic to discuss books you are reading or that fit the 9th Scavenger Hunt task.

Task 9: Read a book that has won a literary award or was written by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.


message 2: by George P. (last edited Feb 27, 2023 08:01PM) (new)

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Lots of choices here- I'm going with The Knot of Vipers by François Mauriac of France, 1932. He got Nobel Prize in 1952.


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Ellinor (1001andmore) | 912 comments Mod
I read The Immoralist by André Gide who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.


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Pamela (bibliohound) | 416 comments I’m thinking of going for either Jazz by Toni Morrison or Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz.


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Amanda Dawn | 265 comments I'm listening to Herzog right now, and Saul Bellow is a Nobel Laureate. So going with that.


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Kimberly | 164 comments I plan to read White Noise which won the 1985 National Book Award for Fiction.


message 7: by George P. (new)

George P. | 1402 comments Mod
George P. wrote: "Lots of choices here- I'm going with The Knot of Vipers by François Mauriac of France, 1932. He got Nobel Prize in 1952."
Finished it.


message 8: by Dina (new)

Dina Goluza | 327 comments I read Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll. Böll is a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).


message 9: by Amanda (new)

Amanda Dawn | 265 comments Already read Herzog to fulfill mine, but for anyone else, also just started Voss, and found out Patrick White was the 1973 Nobel recipient.


message 10: by Bob (new)

Bob Kaufman (bobkaufman) | 682 comments Quo Vadis; Henryk Sienkiewicz; 3/15. Mr. Sienkiewicz is the 1905 recipient of the Nobel prize in Literature.


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