Showing posts with label Noble Prize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Noble Prize. Show all posts

The Old Man and the Sea / Ernest Hemingway

Title: The Old Man and the Sea 
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Noble Prize; Pulitzer Prize

It is most famous works of Hemingway, tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

Siddhartha / Herman Hesse

Title: Siddhartha- An Indian Tale
Author: Herman Hesse Translator: Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer and Semyon Chaichenets
Subjects: Fiction; Classic; Philosophy; Religion; Buddhism 

It is a spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man (Siddhartha) during the time of the Gautama Buddha. Siddhartha means siddha (achieved) + artha (what was searched for), which together means "he who has found meaning (of existence)". The Buddha is referred as "Gotama".

Gitanjali / Rabindranath Tagore

Title: Gitanjali
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Subject: Poems; Bengali Poetry; Literature; Noble Prize

An introduction by W. B. YEATS to WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN

INTRODUCTION
A few days ago I said to a distinguished Bengali doctor of medicine, 'I know no German, yet if a translation of a German poet had moved me,

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