Who received more Nobel Literature Prize nominations, Nikos Kazantzakis or Mario Puzo?
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Nikos Kazantzakis Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης ] ; 18 February 188326 October 1957) was a Greek writer. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years.
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Mario Puzo Mario Gianluigi Puzo ( ; ] ; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter and journalist of Italian descent. He is known for his crime novels about the Mafia, most notably "The Godfather" (1969), which he later co-adapted into a three-part film saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and "Part II" in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 "Superman" film. His last novel, "The Family", was released posthumously in 2001.
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Shozo Yoshigami Shozo Yoshigami (吉上 昭三 , Yoshigami Shōzō , February 27, 1928 – January 28, 1996) was a Japanese translator of Polish literature, and a professor at the University of Tokyo.
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Shūzō Takiguchi Shūzō Takiguchi (瀧口 修造 , Takiguchi Shūzō , December 7, 1903 – July 1, 1979) was a Japanese poet, art critic, and artist. He was the central figure of orthodox Surrealism in pre- and postwar Japan.
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Boris Souvarine Boris Souvarine, also known as Varine (born Boris Konstantinovich Lifschitz, Russian: Бори́с Константи́нович Ли́фшиц ; 1895 in Kiev – 1 November 1984 in Paris), was a French Marxist, communist activist, essayist, and journalist.
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Mario Davidovsky Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934) is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called "Synchronisms", which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape.
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Martin Puchner Martin Puchner is a literary critic and philosopher. He studied at Konstanz University, the University of Bologna, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, before receiving his Ph.D. at Harvard University. Until 2009 he held the H. Gordon Garbedian Chair at Columbia University, where he also served as co-chair of the Theater Ph.D. program. He now holds the Byron and Anita Wien Chair of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the founding director of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University.
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The Physicists The Physicists (German: "Die Physiker" ) is a satiric drama written in 1961 by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Informed by the Second World War and the many recent advances in science and nuclear technology, the play deals with questions of scientific ethics and humanity's ability to handle its intellectual responsibilities. It is often recognized as his most impressive yet most easily understood work.
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Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi (September 3, 1930 – October 7, 1991) was an Argentinian poet, novelist, philosopher, essayist, educator and lecturer of Italian heritage best known for having founded and directed New Acropolis, an international philosophical educational and cultural organisation. He was an academic member of the International Philo-Byzantine Academy and University (IPHBAU) and the International Burckhardt Academy (Italy), a knight of the Real Orden de San Ildefonso y San Atilano, and a recipient of the silver cross from the Société Académique Arts Sciences Lettres (France)
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Una Vita Una vita is the first novel of Italo Svevo, the author of the seminal modernist novel, "Zeno's Conscience". Originally titled "Un inetto" – "inetto" may be translated as 'inept,' unfit', 'unsuitable' or 'incapable' – this name was rejected by the publisher, who requested that it be changed to "Una vita" – 'A Life' – which is also the name of a famous Maupassant novel. The first draft was submitted in 1888. It was refused by the publishing house Treves, and wasn't published until 1892 by Vram, at the expense of Svevo himself.
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Nikos Fokas Nikos Fokas (Greek: Νίκος Φωκάς ) is a Greek poet, essayist and translator.
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Peretz Smolenskin Peretz (Peter) Smolenskin (Hebrew: פרץ (פטר) סמולנסקין‎ ;1885–1842), was a Russian Jewish novelist who wrote in Hebrew.
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Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , commonly ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For "Gravity's Rainbow", Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( ; Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын , ] ; 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) (often Romanized to Alexandr or Alexander) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (1962), in the periodical "Novy Mir". After this he had to publish in the West, most notably "Cancer Ward" (1968), "August 1914" (1971), and "The Gulag Archipelago" (1973). Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Solzhenitsyn was afraid to go to Stockholm to receive his award for fear that he would not be allowed to reenter. He was eventually expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1994 after the state's dissolution.
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Patricio Manns Patricio Manns (born August 3, 1937) is a Chilean composer, author, poet, novelist, essayist, play writer and journalist.
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Niko Pucić Niko Pucić de Zagorien (also "Nicola Pozza" in Italian; February 9, 1820 - March 13, 1883) was a Serbian writer and politician from Dalmatia. He was born in Dubrovnik in 1820. He was the brother of Medo Pucić, another well-known politician.
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Junzo Shono Junzō Shōno (庄野 潤三 , Shōno Junzō , 9 February 1921 – 21 September 2009) was a Japanese novelist. A native of Osaka, he began writing novels after World War II. He won the 1954 Akutagawa Prize for his book "Purusaido Shokei" ("Poolside Scene"). Shōno's other award-winning books include "Seibutsu" ("Still Life"), for which he won the Shinchosha literary prize, "Yube no Kumo" ("Evening Clouds"), which was awarded the 1965 Yomiuri Prize, and "Eawase" ("Picture Cards") which took the Noma literary prize.
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Salvatore Quasimodo Salvatore Quasimodo (] ; August 20, 1901 – June 14, 1968) was an Italian novelist and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.
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Tom Purdom Thomas Edward Purdom (born 1936) is an American writer best known for science fiction and nonfiction. His story "Fossil Games" was a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2000. He has also done music criticism since 1988. His works have been translated into German, Chinese, Burmese, Russian, and Czech. He lives in Philadelphia.
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Izold Pustõlnik Izold Pustõlnik (Изольд Бенционович Пустыльник, "Izold Bentsionovich Pustylnik"; 17 March 1938 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR – 2 May 2008 in Tartu, Estonia) was an eminent Estonian astronomer who authored numerous scientific publications and served as editor of the "Central European Journal of Physics" and vice-chairman of the non-profit organization Euroscience Estonia.
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Ivo Andrić Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: , ] ; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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The Dark Arena The Dark Arena is the first novel by Mario Puzo, published in 1955.