1990 Octavio Paz: The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-9187
1989 Camilio José Cela: Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the classish Countryside
1988 Naguib Mahfouz: Children of the Alley
1987 Joseph Brodsky:Less Than One: Selected Essays
1986 Wole Soyinka:The Lion and the Jewel
1985 Claude Simon:The Wind, or
The Grass
1984 Jaroslav Seifert: The Early Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
1983 William Golding: Can't leave school without it, Lord of the Flies
1982 Gabriel García Márquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
1981 Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power
1980 Czeslaw Milosz: The Collected Poems, 1931-1987
1979 Odysseus Elytis:The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer:The Slave
1977 Vicente Aleixandre: Shadow of Paradise
1976 Saul Bellow: Herzog
1975 Eugenio Montale:Collected Poems, 1920-1954
1974 Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson: Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space
1973 Patrick White
1972 Heinrich Boll: The Clown
1971 Pablo Neruda: Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems
1970 Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
1969 Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Waiting for me to endure another Beckett play? Keep
waiting.
1968 Yasunari Kawabata: The Sound of the Mountain
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias: The President
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon (co-winner), Only Yesterday
1966
Nelly Sachs (co-winner): Selected Poems I
1965 Saint-John Perse: Selected Poems
1964 Jean Paul Sartre: Existentialism and Human Emotions(I know there's a few of you who
probably think I ought to read Being and Nothingness,
but I've got a job. Have to feed Wilma. Have hobbies.
)
1963 Giorgos Seferis
1962 John Steinbeck: novelist, on virtually every
American high school reading list around. I liked his
writing a great deal, and over the years have read The Grapes of Wrath, The Red Pony, and Of Mice and Men.
1961 Ivo Andric: The Bridge on the Drina
1960 Saint John Perse: Selected Poems
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago. I've seen the movie, but haven't read the
book. I guess that would be cheating, so I'll read the
book. I gather there will be smooching. Woo-hoo!
1957 Albert Camus: The Plague
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez : God Desired and Desiring
1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness: Independent People
1954 Ernest Miller Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea. Makes you wish he'd just go to Red Lobster already.
1953 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: world
leader, verbose historian, The Great Republic: A History of America
1952 François Mauriac :The Woman of the Pharisees
1951 Par Favian Lagerkvist
1950 Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell,
philosopher--I can't believe it. I've actually read
this guy, and REMEMBER it. My (blessedly) liberal arts
education required at least one philosophy class, and
this was one of our texts. Nice and logical. Not in the Hemingway
pile. The Problems of Philosophy
how about 1901-1949?
