The All-time 'Famous Forty' Nobel Laureates in Literature

No.	Year	Important Nobel Laureates
1.	1907	Rudyard Kipling
2.	1913	Rabindranath Tagore
3.	1923	William Butler Yeats
4.	1925	George Bernard Shaw
5.	1927	Henri Bergson
6.	1929	Thomas Mann
7.	1930	Sinclair Lewis
8.	1932	John Galsworthy
9.	1934	Luigi Pirandello
10.	1936	Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
11.	1938	Pearl Buck
12.	1946	Hermann Hesse
13.	1948	Thomas Stearns Eliot
14.	1949	William Faulkner
15.	1950	Bertrand Russell
16.	1953	Sir Winston Churchill
17.	1954	Ernest Miller Hemingway
18.	1957	Albert Camus
19.	1962	John Steinbeck
20.	1964	Jean-Paul Sartre
21.	1969	Samuel Beckett
22.	1971	Pablo Neruda
23.	1973	Patrick White
24.	1976	Saul Bellow
25.	1982	Gabriel García Márquez
26.	1983	William Golding
27.	1986	Wole Soyinka
28.	1992	Derek Walcott
29.	1993	Toni Morrison
30.	1995	Seamus Heaney
31.	1996	Wislawa Szymborska
32.	1999	Günter Grass
33.	2001	Sir V S Naipaul
34.	2003	John M. Coetzee
35.	2005	Harold Pinter
36.	2006	Orhan Pamuk
37.	2007	Doris Lessing
38.	2012	Mo Yan
39.	2013	Alice Munro
40.	2014	Patrick Modiano

While doing an in-depth study of a literary figure, the clue for an effective and involved reading is to try summing up the essence of his/her oeuvre in a maximum of five points.

For example, if you take up Rudyard Kipling for study, the essence (including his USP) of his oeuvre could be summed up thus –

 RUDYARD KIPLING

Famous FIVE of Rudyard Kipling

ü  I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

ü  For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

ü   If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

ü  Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

ü  0h, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,

     Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;

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