Greatest Nobel Prize Winners for Literature

Tortured and brilliant with a style all his own. Short sentences. Few adjectives. Powerful themes. Best Work: "The Old Man and the Sea"

The peoples' author. Steinbeck wrote heartbreaking novels of the forgotten man with the common themes of decency, friendship, and hope. Best Work: "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men"

Southern gothic romantic. Faulkner wrote of the South most Southerners wished they lived in but didn't. Best Work: "As I Lay Dying"

American-influenced English poet and playwright. Best Work: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Inspiring political writer of Great Britain.

only 5 percent of his total writing had been translated in english out of 3000 poems,1500 short story and novel and near about 50 drama\playwright.and those 5 percent translated work had lost atleast 50% flavour due to translation-because the feelings and thinkthank of original bengali version is virtually not translable. just like his writings his composed 2000 songs is very difficult to translate in English with exact melody of the original bengali version.

The youngest winner of the nobel prize. I think she at least deserves a mention for her fantastic work and amazing biography.

Perhaps the greatest playwright in world literature and perhaps the most gifted polymath to have ever lived, tragically neglected due to inadequate,poor,fragmentary and abridged translations, Rabindranath Tagore is an outstanding and great composer of songs,philosopher,painter, innovative educator,playwright,novelist,short story writer,essayist and poet.