Have Alice Walker and Halldór Laxness both won a Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel "The Color Purple" (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote the novels "Meridian" (1976) and "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" (1970), among other works.
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Halldór Laxness Halldór Kiljan Laxness (] ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was a twentieth-century Icelandic writer. Laxness wrote poetry, newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories, and novels. Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate.
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Lawrence Sargent Hall Lawrence Sargent Hall (1915–1993) was an American author.
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Alice Notley Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry--although she has always denied being involved with the New School movement, or any specific movement in general--having been a workshop leader and frequent attendee and reader at the school's hub, the St. Mark's Poetry Project. Notley's early work laid both formal and theoretical groundwork for several generations of poets; she is considered a pioneering voice on topics like motherhood and domestic life.
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Alice Lazzarini Alice M. Lazzarini is a scientist, author and researcher on neurogenetic disorders, including Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease. She is an assistant professor of Neurology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS, previously known as University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey or UMDNJ), where her work helped establish the genetic basis of Parkinson's. Later in life, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's—the very disease she had spent decades researching.
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Boys and Girls (short story) "Boys and Girls" (1964 / 1968) is a short story by Alice Munro, the Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 which deals with the making of gender roles.
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The View from Castle Rock The View from Castle Rock is a book of short stories by Canadian author Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, which was published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart.
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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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Who Do You Think You Are? (book) Who Do You Think You Are? is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1978. It won the 1978 Governor General's Award for English Fiction, her second win of that prize.
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Arnold Krupat Arnold Krupat, Ph.D. (born 1941) is an American author and Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. His work has been published in "Nineteenth-Century Fiction", "The Quest", and "Sarah Lawrence Journal". He is a recipient of six fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has also held a Fulbright Fellowship, an Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Andrés L. Mateo Andrés Luciano Mateo Martínez (born 30 November 1946) is a Dominican writer, novelist, poet, philologist, educator, literary critic, essayist, researcher and philosopher. He was the winner of the National Literature Prize in 2004.
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Intruder in the Dust "Intruder in the Dust " is a novel by the Nobel Prize–winning American author William Faulkner published
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Lars Gyllensten Lars Johan Wictor Gyllensten (12 November 1921 – 25 May 2006) was a Swedish author and physician, and a member of the Swedish Academy, which has the aim of furthering the "purity, vigour and majesty" of the Swedish language and selects the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature each year.
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Sarah Einstein Sarah Einstein (30 November 1965 - ) is an American essayist and writer of memoir and literary nonfiction. She is a recipient of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Pushcart Prize.
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Alice Randall Alice Randall (born May 4, 1959) is an American author and songwriter of African-American descent. She is perhaps best known for her novel "The Wind Done Gone", a reinterpretation and parody of the popular 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind".
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Selma Lagerlöf Prize The Selma Lagerlöf Prize is a Swedish literary prize awarded to an author writing in the spirit of Selma Lagerlöf who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was founded by the Sunne Municipality in 1983 and has been awarded annually since 1984. Recipients receive 100,000 Swedish kronor. The awards ceremony takes place in Sunne every August 13 and is in honor of Selma Lagerlöf.
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Alice Muriel Williamson Alice Muriel Williamson, née Livingston (1869 – 24 September 1933) was an American-British novelist, who styled herself Mrs. C. N. Williamson after her marriage.
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Alice Nahon Alice Nahon (23 August 1896 – 21 May 1933) was a Belgian poet from Antwerp.
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Let the Great World Spin Let the Great World Spin is a novel by Colum McCann set in New York City in the United States. The book won the 2009 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative literary prizes in the world. Its title comes from the poem "Locksley Hall" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Alice Sturgis Alice Sturgis (1885–1974) was an author and parliamentarian, best known for writing the "Sturgis Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure". She was a practicing parliamentarian and consultant to national and international professional and business organizations. She taught at Stanford University and the University of California.
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Alison Lurie Alison Lurie (born September 3, 1926) is an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel "Foreign Affairs". Although better known as a novelist, she has also written numerous non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.
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Alice (short story collection) Alice is a 2009 short story collection by the German writer Judith Hermann. It was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.