10 modern books by Nobel Prize winners

For more than a hundred years of the Nobel Committee for Literature encourages readers notable artists. Layfhaker compiled a list of authors of books marked with the Nobel Prize. It got work, which came out in Russian in recent years.

1. "Red-haired woman", Pamuk

• Country of residence of the author: Turkey.
• format: a novel.
• Year of publication of the book in Russian: 2016.

Eighties. Young digger looking for water wells in the ground near the dry Istanbul. Here the young man meets his first love - the red-haired actress itinerant theater. But a sudden tragedy changes his life. Only 30 years later the guy would understand what really happened to him in those days.

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2. "Night grass", Patrick Modiano

• Country Author: France.
• format: a novel.
• Year of publication of the book in Russian: 2016.

The protagonist recalls the time of the Algerian War in Paris, where he met a girl with a mysterious past. accidental acquaintance to implicate him in a series of dangerous intrigues that even half a century later, do not give to forget about that fateful episode of life.

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3. "Woman of nowhere", Gustave Le Clézio

• Country of residence of the author: France, Mauritius.
• format: a collection.
• Year of publication of the book in Russian: 2016.

The book includes two stories. First - about the experiences of a man who became a passive witness to the rape. Only a small island resident can release him from the pangs of conscience, and to regain peace. The second tells about the hard fate of the girl, a child deprived of parental love and status in society.

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4. "Childhood of Jesus" by John Coetzee

• Country Author: South Africa.
• format: a novel.
• Year of publication of the book in Russian: 2015.

David boy and his guardian Simone arrive in a new country, where they receive new names and new life. Not knowing the local customs and language, two refugees trying to find his place in a strange world for them, and at the same time lost the mother of David.

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5. "Grandma", Doris Lessing

• Country Author: Great Britain.
• format: a collection.
• Year of publication of the book in Russian: 2014.

A collection of four short stories, very different in content and form. The works involve the maturity threads love, Race relations, politics and even wars. The Story of "Grandma" was the basis of the movie "Adore", filmed in 2013.

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6. "More then life itself," Alice Munro

• Country Author: Canada.
• format: a collection.
• Year of publication of the book in Russian: 2014.

Alice Munro is considered one of the best contemporary writers of short stories. In her new collection includes more than 10 works written primarily for women readers. In his works Munro comes to common problems in relationships, career and family, familiar to everyone.

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7. "Change", Mo Yan

• Country of residence of the author: China.
• format: a novel.
• Year of publication of the book in Russian: 2014.

The book is about how much the fate of the ordinary citizen may depend on the state of change. The author describes the life of compatriots in the background of political and social transformation in the country, plunging the reader into the history and culture of China.

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8. "Second-hand Time" Alexiyevich

• Country of residence of the author: Belarus.
• format: a novel.
• Year of publication of the book in Russian: 2013.

The final book of artistic and documentary series about the Soviet Union. This time Aleksievich wrote about the collapse of the Soviet empire and the associated experiences ordinary people. The book consists of real monologues written by the author for a few years of life.

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9. "Swing breath", Herta Müller

• Country Author: Germany.
• format: a novel.
• Year of publication of the book in Russian: 2011.

The main character - one of the Transylvanian Germans who were deported to the Soviet Union after World War II. At the heart of the book is a real biography of the poet Oskar Pastior, who spent several years in a Soviet labor camp for prisoners.

10. "Cain", Jose Saramago

• Country of residence of the author: Portugal.
• format: a novel.
• Year of publication of the book in Russian: 2010.

Bold transposition of biblical stories in which Cain is the main protagonist. Author reinterpreted image of the murderer Abel and his role in the destinies of other figures. This rebellious novel Saramago was his dying gift to readers.