Works by Nobel Prize winning authors
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Brú na Bóinne | Seamus Heaney (1995) - "Funeral Rites" in volume North | |
Canterbury | TS Eliot (1948) - Murder in the Cathedral; Gurnah (2021): Pilgrims Way ("the novel ends with Daud's visit to Canterbury Cathedral") | |
Cartagena | Marquez (1982) - Love in the time of Cholera - fictional place but probably Cartagena | |
Djémila | "Le Vent a Djemila" (1938)- essay by Albert Camus from the collection "Noces". Camus muses on death - inspired by the ruins!. | |
Great Spa Towns of Europe | "The future Nobel Prize winner Paul Heyse memorialised the Ems region in his novella, "Der Blinde von Dausenau"." (Nomination File, p. 205) | |
Historic Cairo | Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz | |
Istanbul | Istanbul, memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk | |
Kilimanjaro National Park | Hemingway (1954) - Snows of Kilimanjaro | |
Lake District | The region is also a recurring theme in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novella The Torrents of Spring. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in 1954. | |
Lübeck | Thomas Mann (1929) - Buddenbrooks | |
Machu Picchu | Neruda (1971) - Alturas de Macchu Picchu | |
Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park | A major reference to the construction of the palace is made in the book Baltasar and Blimunda (Memorial do Convento), written by the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago. Saramago makes a detailed description of the building process,.. (wiki) | |
Maulbronn Monastery | Herman Hesse (1946) "Unterm Rad" 1906 ("Beneath the Wheel" or "The Prodigy") | |
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge | The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andri | |
Mexico City and Xochimilco | Octavio Paz (1990) - The Labyrinth of Solitude | |
Mountain Railways of India | Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling. Many set in Simla (now Shimla, part of Kalka-Shimla Railway). | |
Old City of Jerusalem | Agnon (1966) - Only Yesterday (among others) | |
Paris, Banks of the Seine | Roger Martin du Gard (1937) - The Thibaults; Patrick Modiano (2014) - Un cirque passe | |
Pitons Management Area | Derek Walcott (1992) - Omeros | |
Reims | GB Shaw (1925) - St Joan | |
Santa Cruz de Mompox | Marquez (1982) - Chronicle of a Death Foretold | |
Solovetsky Islands | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize 1970) spends a great deal of Volume II of The Gulag Archipelago discussing the development of Solovki and the conditions there during the early Soviet regime. (wiki) | |
Southern Öland | Selma Lagerlof (1909) - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils | |
St. Petersburg | Mikhail Sholokhov (1965) - And Quiet Flows the Don | |
Stone Town of Zanzibar | Gurnah (2021): several (Gurnah was born here), including Gravel Heart | |
Taj Mahal | Rabindranath Tagore (1913) - "Shah Jahan" | |
Tipasa | "Noces a Tipasa" (1938) from the collection "Noces" and "Retour a Tipasa" (1952) from the collection "Ete" - Essays by Albert Camus. The site contains a commemorative stone with a quotation and his name partly erased (he was a pied noir). | |
Valparaiso | Pablo Neruda (1971) - "Oda a Valparaiso" | |
Venice and its Lagoon | Thomas Mann (1929) - Death in Venice |
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