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Dear reader,
On this webpage I have note down only the English sources; But I have also collected sources in other languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch.
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Stan P. A. Gipman
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1. Sources on the internet:
1.1 Nobel Foundation

1.2 Swedish Academy

1.3
Frängsmyr, Tore, Life and Philosophy of Alfred Nobel

1.4 Allén, Sture, Topping Shakespeare? Aspects of the Nobel Prize for Literature

1.5 Espmark, Kjell, The Nobel Prize in Literature

2. Sources in English
2.1 Dictionary of Literary Biography: 190 Volumes (with Agnon, Aleixandre, Andric, Asturias, Beckett, Bellow, Böll, Buck, Camus, Canetti, Churchill, Eliot, Faulkner, France, Galsworthy, Gide, Golding, Grass, Hauptmann, Heaney, Hemingway, Hesse, Heyse,Jelinek, Jiménez, Kawabata, Kipling, Doris Lessing, Lewis, Maeterlinck, Mann, Márquez, Martin du Gard, Mauriac, Montale, Morrison, , O'Neill, Quasimodo, Rolland, Russell, Sartre, Shaw, Singer, Soyinka, Spitteler, Steinbeck, Walcott and Yeats)

2.2 Marble, Annie Russell, The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature, New York/London: Appleton 1925, 312pp. (with Prudhomme, Mistral, Mommsen, Eucken, Bjørnson, Carducci, Kipling, Lagerlöf, Heyse, Maeterlinck, Tagore, Rolland, Heidenstam, Pontoppidan, Gjellerup, Spitteler, Hamsun, France, Echegaray, Benavente, Yeats, Sienkiewicz and Reymont)

2.3 Kunitz, Stanley and Haycraft Howard, Twentieth Century Authors, New York: Wilson 1942 + Supplement 1955 (with Beckett, Bellow, Benavente, Bergson, Buck, Bunin, Camus, Churchill, Deledda, Eliot, Faulkner, France, Galsworthy, Gide, Hamsun, Hauptmann, Heidenstam, Hemingway, Hesse, Jensen, Karlfeldt, Kipling, Doris Lessing, Lagerlöf, Lagerkvist, Laxness, Lewis, Maeterlinck, Mann, Martin du Gard, Mauriac, G.Mistral, Neruda, O'Neill, Pasternak, Perse/Léger, Pirandello, Pontoppidan, Reymont, Rolland, Russell, Sartre, Shaw, Sholokhov, Sillanpää, Spitteler, Steinbeck, Tagore, Undset, White, Yeats)

2.4 Ludovici, L.J. (ed.), Nobel Prize Winners, London: Arco 1967, 226pp.

2.5 Frenz, Horst (ed.), Nobel Lectures Literature 1901-1967, Amsterdam/New York Elsevier 1969, 640p., Index of Laureates, Name Index (from Prudhomme till Asturias)

2.6 Nobel Prize Library: Publiced under the Sponsorship of the Nobel Foundation and the Swedish Academy, New York: Gregory 1971 (Volumes with Carducci/ Deledda/Echegaray/Eliot, Faulkner/ O'Neill/ Steinbeck, Gide/ Gjellerup/ Heyse, Hauptmann/ Heidenstam/ Jensen, Jiménez/ Karlfeldt/ Lagerkvist/ Lagerlöf, Kawabata/ Kipling/ Lewis, Mauriac/ F.Mistral/Mommsen, Martin du Gard/ G.Mistral / Pasternak, Perse/ Pirandello/ Pontoppidan/ Quasimodo e.o)

2.7 Almhult, Artur, The Swedish Academy and the Nobel Prize in Literature, Stockholm: Svenska Akademien/Norstedt 1972

2.8 Zuckermann, Harriet, Sceintific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States, New York: Free Press 1977 (with Lewis, Buck, O'Neill, Hemingway, Steinbeck and Bellow)

2.9 Dictionary of Literary Biographie: Yearbook 1980 till to day (Yearly volume; with Beckett, Bellow, Böll, Brodsky, Cela, Eliot, Faulkner, Fo, Golding, Gordimer, Grass, Heaney, Hemingway, Lewis, Mahfuz, Márquez, Morrison, , Paz, Saramago, Seifert, Simon, Singer, Solzjenitsyn, Soyinka, Steinbeck, Szymborska and Walcott)

2.10 Scott-Kilvert, Ian (ed.), British Writers, Volume VI and VII, New York: Scribner 1983/1984 (with Shaw, Kipling, Yeats, Galsworthy, Churchill and Eliot)

2.11 Terras, Victor, Handbook of Russian Literature, New Haven/London: Yale University Press 1985 (with Bunin, Pasternak, Solzjenitsyn, Brodsky and Sholokhov)

2.12 Opfell, Olga, The Lady Laureates: Women Who Have won the Nobel Prize, New York 1986, 316pp. (with Lagerlöf, Deledda, Undset, Buck, Gabriela Mistral and Sachs)

2.13 Gyllensten, L., The Nobel Prize in Literature 1978-1981, Stockholm 1987 (Also in Swedish and French)

2.14 Wasson, Tyler, Nobel Prize Winners, New York: Wilson 1987, 1165pp. (from Prudhomme till Soyinka)

2.15 Yano, T., The Nobel Prizes, Tokyo/New York 1988

2.16 Stade, George (ed.), European Writers: 14 Volumes, New York: Scribner 1983/1991 (with Carducci, Hamsun, Bergson, Maeterlinck, Grass, Hauptmann, Pirandello, Gide, Mann, Hesse, Jiménez, Undset, Mauriac, Perse, Pasternak, Lagerkvist, Andric, Montale, Séféris, Johnson, Quasimodo, Laxness, Sartre, Canetti, Milosz, Elytis, Simon, Camus, Cela, Böll and Solzhenitsyn)

2.17 Zuck, Virpi (ed.), Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature, Chicago/London: St. James Press 1990 (with Bjørnson, Heidenstam, Lagerlöf, Pontoppidan, Lagerkvist, Undset, Sillenpää, Martinson, Johnson, Laxness, Karlfeldt, Hamsun, Gjellerup and Jensen)

2.18 Dynes, Wayne (ed.), Encyclopedia of Homosexuality: 2 Volumes, New York/London: Garland 1990 (with Aleixandre, Benavente, Churchill, Eliot, Gide, Hemingway, Jiménez, Kawabata, Mann, Mommsen, O'Neil, Russell, Sartre, Sienkiewicz, Solzjenitsyn and White)

2.19 Coyle, Martin a.o., Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticisme, London: Routledge 1990 (with Beckett, Bergson, Camus, Eliot, Galsworthy, Golding, Gordimer, Heaney, Hemingway, Mann, Márquez, Milosz, Morrison, Sartre, Seféris, Shaw, Soyinka, Walcott, White and Yeats)

2.20 Some Facts About the Swedish Academy, Stockholm: Svenska Akademien 1991 ( Also in Swedish, French, Spanish and German)

2.21 Kirkpatrick, D.L. (ed.), Reference Guide to English Literature, 3 Volumes, Chicago/London: St James Press 1991 (with Beckett, Eliot, Galsworthy, Golding, Gordimer, Heaney, Kipling, Shaw, Soyinka, Tagore, Walcott, White and Yeats)

2.22 Espmark, Kjell, The Nobel Prizes in Literature: A Study of the Criteria Behind the Choices, Boston: Hall 1991, 212p., List of Nobel Laureates in Literature, Notes, Index (also in Swedish, German and French; with special attention to Aleixandre, Asturias, Beckett, Buck, Bunin, Canetti, Carducci, Churchill, Deledda, Echegaray, Eliot, Eucken, Faulkner, Galsworthy, Grass, Márquez, Gide, Gjellerup, Golding, Hamsun, Hauptmann, Heidenstam, Hemingway, Hesse, Heyse, Jensen, Jiménez, Karlfeldt, Kawabata, Lagerlöf, Laxness, Lewis, Mahfouz, Mann, Martinson, Mauriac, Milosz, Mistral F., Mistral G., Neruda, O'Neill, Pasternak, Perse, Pirandello, Pontoppidan, Prudhomme, Quasimodo, Rolland, Sachs, Sartre, Seifert, Shaw, Sholokhov, Sillanpää, Singer, Solzhenitsyn, Soyinka, Spitteler, Tagore, Undset, White and Yeats)

2.23 Schlessinger, B.S., The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1990, Phoenix: Oryx Press 1991

2.24 Levi, Anthony, Guide to French Literature: 1798 to the Present, Chicago/London: St. James Press 1992 (with Beckett, Bergson, Camus, Prudhomme, Gide, Maeterlinck, Perse, Rolland, France, Simon, Martin du Gard, Mauriac, F.Mistral and Sartre)

2.25 Chevalier, Tracy, Contemporary World Writers: Detroit: St. James Press 1993 (with Brodsky, Canetti, Márquez, Mahfuz, Simon, Eltis, Grass, Laxness, Fo, , Paz, Szymborska, Saramago, Solzjenitsyn, Cela and Milosz)

2.26 Bleiberg, Germán, Maureen Ihrie and Janet Pérez, Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula: 2 Volumes, Westport: Greenwood 1993 (Aleixandre, Benavente, Cela, Echegaray and Jiménez)

2.27 Allén, Sture, Nobel Lectures Literature 1968-1980: Including Presentation Speeches and Laureates' Biographies, Singapore: World Scientific 1993, 197pp. (Kawabata, Beckett, Solzhenitsyn, Neruda, Böll, White, Johnson, Martinson, Montale, Bellow, Aleixandre, Singer, Eltis and Milosz)

2.28 Allén, Sture, Nobel Lectures Literature 1981-1990, Singapore: World Scientific 1994, 176pp (Canetti, Márquez, Golding, Seifert, Simon, Soyinka, Brodsky, Mahfouz, Cela and Paz)

2.29 Hawkins-Dady, Mark (ed.), International Dictionary of Theatre: Volume 1, Plays and Volume 2, Playwrights, Detroit: St. James Press 1994 (with Beckett, Benavente, Bjørnson, Camus, Echegaray, Eliot, Fo, Galsworthy, Grass, Hauptmann, Lagerkvist, Maeterlinck, O'Neill, Pirandello, Sartre, Shaw, Soyinka, Tagore, Walcott, White and Yeats)

2.30 The Georgia Review 49(1995)1 (Spring), 6- 350, Lasting Laurels, Enduring Words: A Salute to the Nobel Laureates of Literatur (Laxness, Solzhenitsyn, Bellow, Elytis, Milosz, Márquez, Simon, Soyinka, Brodsky, Mahfouz, Cela, Paz, Gordimer, Walcott, Morrison and )

2.31 The Georgia Review 49 (1995) 4 (Winter), Special Feature The Nobel Laureates of Literature, 827-884 (Brodsky, Morrison, , Soyinka. Milosz, Paz, Walcott and Simon)

2.32 Banham, Martin, The Cambridge Guide to Theater, Cambridge: University Press 1995 (Beckett, Benavente, Björnson, Camus, Echegaray, Eliot, Fo, Galsworthy, Gao, Grass, Hauptmann, Lagerkvist, Maeterlinck, O'Neill, Pirandello, Sartre, Shaw, Soyinka, Tagore, Walcott, White and Yeats)

2.33 Bondanella, Peter and Julia Conaway Bondanella, Dictionary of Italien Literature, Connecticut: Greenwood 1996 (with Carducci, Deledda, Montale, Pirandello, Quasimodo and Fo)

2.34 Allén, Sture, Nobel Lectures Literature 1991-1995, Singapore: World Scientific 1997, 112pp (Gordimer, Walcott, Morrison, and Heaney)

2.35 Smith, Verity, Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, London/Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997 (with Asturias, Márquez, Gabriela Mistral, Neruda and Paz)

2.36 Schellinger, Paul (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Novel: 2 Volumes, Chicago/London: Fitzroy 1998 (with Agnon, Andric, Asturias, Beckett, Bellow, Bunin, Böll, Camus, Cela, Eliot, Faulkner, Márquez, Gide, Golding, Gordimer, Grass, Hamsun, Hemingway, Hesse, Kawabata, Kipling, Lagerkvist, Lagerlöf, Laxness, Lewis, Mahfouz, Mann, Martin du Gard, Milosz, Sillanpää, Morrison, Sartre, Simon, Steinbeck, White, Pontoppidan, Singer, , Reymont,Sholokhov, Solzjenitsyn, Sienkiewicz, Soyinka, Undset and White)

2.37 Meisami, Julie Scott and Paul Stark, Encyclopedie of Arabic Literature: 2 Volumes, London/New York: Routledge 1998 (Mahfouz)

2.38 Brown, Mary Ellen and Bruce A.Rosenberg, Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO 1998 (Asturias, Eliot, Faulkner, Grass, Kipling, Lagerlöf, Mann, Márquez, Morrison, Paz, Shaw, Singer, Soyinka, Steinbeck and Yeats)

2.39 Cornwell, Neil, Reference Guide to Russian Literature, London: Fitzroy 1998 (Brodsky, Bunin, Pasternak, Sholokhov, Solzjenitsyn)

2.40 Les Prix Nobel, The Nobel Prizes, Nobel Prizes: Presentations, Biographies and Lectures, Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell International 1901 till to day (Yearly Volume)

2.41 Bloom, Harold (ed.), Modern Critical Views, New Heaven: Chelsea House (Volumes on Agnon, Beckett, Bellow, Böll, Camus, Eliot, Faulkner, Gide, Golding, Grass, Heaney, Hemingway, Hesse, Kawabata, Kipling, Lewis, Mann, Márquez, Montale, Morrison, Neruda, O'Neill, Paz, Pirandello, Sartre, Shaw, Singer, Solzjenitsyn, Soyinka, Steinbeck, Walcott, White and Yeats)

2.42 Twayne's World Authors Series TWAS, New York: Twayne ( One volume almost on every Nobel Laureate)

2.43 Twentieth Century Views, New Yersey: Printice Hall (Volumes on O'Neill, Beckett, Camus, Gide, Steinbeck, Hesse, Mann, Pirandello, Sartre, Shaw, Yeats, Eliot, Bellow and Faulkner)

2.44 Writers and Their Work: Twentieth Century, London: Longmans (Volumes on Churchill, Eliot, Galsworthy, Kipling, Russell, Shaw, Yeats and White)

2.45 Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, many volumes (with almost all the Nobel Laureates in Literature)

2.46 Wilmeth, Don and Christopher Bigsby (ed.), The Cambridge History of American Theatre, Cambridge University Press 2000, Volume 2 and 3 (Eliot, France, Galsworthy, Hauptmann, Maeterlinck, O'Neill, Shaw, Yeats)

2.47 Nobel Foundation Directory 2007-2008, Stockholm: Nobel Foundation 2008, 244p. (from Sully Prudhomme till Doris Lessing)

 

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