Which writer, P. J. O'Rourke or Wole Soyinka, was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature?
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P. J. O'Rourke Patrick Jake O'Rourke ( ; born November 14, 1947), known as P.J. O'Rourke, is an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for "The Atlantic Monthly", "The American Spectator", and "The Weekly Standard", and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!". Since 2011 he has been a columnist at "The Daily Beast".
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Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: "Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká", ] ; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honoured in that category.
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Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: "Nobelpriset i litteratur" ) has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning"). Though individual works are sometimes cited as being particularly noteworthy, here "work" refers to an author's work as a whole. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year. The academy announces the name of the chosen laureate in early October. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Patrick McCabe (novelist) Patrick McCabe (born 27 March 1955) is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for "The Butcher Boy" and "Breakfast on Pluto", both of which have been made into films.
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Isabel Quigly Isabel Madeleine Quigly (born 17 September 1926) is a writer, translator and film critic. She was born in Spain and educated at Godolphin School, Salisbury and Newnham College, Cambridge. In her early career, she worked for Penguin Books and Red Cross Geneva. Between 1956 and 1966, she was film critic of The Spectator. She served as literary editor of The Tablet from 1985 to 1997. She has also contributed to numerous journals and newspapers, and served on the jury of various literary prizes including the Booker Prize jury in 1986.
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Edwin O'Connor Edwin O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel "The Edge of Sadness" (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests.
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A Wrinkle in Time A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel written by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1963, and in 1979 with illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. The book won the Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. It is the first book in L'Engle's Time Quintet, which follows the Murry and O'Keefe families.
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Desmond Hogan Desmond Hogan (born 10 December 1950) is an Irish writer. Awarded the 1977 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and 1980 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, his oeuvre comprises novels, plays, short stories and travel writing.
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Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello (] ; Girgenti,today known as Agrigento, 28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre."
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Jatin Sarker Jatin Sarker (born 1 September 1938) is a Bengali intellectual, researcher and biographer of Bangladesh. Reputed for his Marxist lineage , he was awarded the prestigious Bangla Academy Award in 2008 for "research and essays".
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Patrick O'Sullivan (author) Patrick O'Sullivan is an Irish-British scholar and author of major works in the field of Military geography. He is the author of the oft-cited texts "The Geography of Warfare" and "The Geography of War in the Post-Cold War World". Though the former was published in 1983 and the latter in 2001, these works remain the seminal texts of Military geography from a civilian publisher, due in large part to the present lack of interest in the subfield among geographers, aside from a small handful who critique militarization through critical theory. In his 1986 book "Geopolitics", Patrick O'Sullivan makes a geographically-based case against the proliferation of nuclear weapons during the Cold War, arguing that nuclear weapons pose a threat largely because they reduce the significance of both physical distance and national borders, which would otherwise function as a deterrent to the likelihood of direct military engagement. Patrick O'Sullivan is also known to a lesser extent for his work on the social scientific study of railway transportation in Britain as well as an autoethnographic Cultural Geography essay discussing the relevance of expatriate identity. Starting in 1994, he taught at Florida State University, and now holds the status of professor emeritus. His academic writing incorporates elements of a regional geography focus with aspects of behavioral geography, and often takes a similarly explanatory and analytical approach to the Realist school of International Relations' focus on the behavior and motivations of states, though from a more geopolitical angle and with a greater focus on the decisions of individual leaders. Unlike many other authors and scholars of human geography, his work is not as overtly hostile to environmental determinism or environmental possibilism.
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J. M. F. Mena Abrantes Jose Meanuel Reio Mena Abrantes is an Angolan journalist, theatre critic and playwright. He is a former press secretary to the President of Angola. In 1986, he was awarded the Sonangol literature prize for his work, " Ana. Zd e os escravos", a drama analyzing the roots of the slave trade from an Angola perspective.
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Holidays in Hell Holidays in Hell is a non-fiction book by P.J. O'Rourke about his visits to areas of conflict during the 1980s as a foreign correspondent, as well as to some less high-profile locations.
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Mario Biondi (writer) Mario Biondi (born Milan, 17 May 1939) is an Italian writer, poet, literary critic, journalist and translator. His reputation is mainly due to the novel "Gli occhi di una donna", which earned him the important Italian award Premio Campiello in 1985. He has a keen interest in Central Asia and Tibetan history and culture, and in recent years has travelled all of the Silk Road through Turkey, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and many provinces of China, among which Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Qinghai and obviously Xizang (Tibet).
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Sachidananda Routray Sachidananda Routray (13 May 1916 – 21 August 2004) was an Odia poet, novelist, short-story writer. He received Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award of India, in 1986. He was popularly known as Sachi Routray.
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William O'Rourke William O'Rourke (born 1945) is an American writer of both novels and volumes of nonfiction; he is the author of the novels "The Meekness of Isaac" (Thomas Y. Crowell, Co., 1974), "Idle Hands" (Delacorte Press, 1981), "Criminal Tendencies" (E. P. Dutton, 1987), and "Notts" (Marlowe & Co, 1996), as well as the nonfiction books, "The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left" (Thomas Y. Crowell, Co., 1972), "Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles" (SUNY Press, 1993), and "On Having a Heart Attack: A Medical Memoir" (U of Notre Dame P, 2006). He is the editor of "On the Job: Fiction About Work by Contemporary American Writers" (Random House, 1977) and the co-editor of "Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years" (U of Notre Dame P, 2009). His book, "Campaign America ‘96: The View From the Couch", first published in 1997 (Marlowe & Co.), was reissued in paperback with a new, updated epilogue in 2000. A sequel, "Campaign America 2000: The View From the Couch", was published in 2001 (PreviewPort Editions).
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International Dublin Literary Award The International DUBLIN Literary Award (Irish: "Duais Liteartha Idirnáisiúnta Bhaile Átha Chliath" ) is an international literary award presented each year for a novel written in English or translated into English. It aims to promote excellence in world literature and is solely sponsored by Dublin City Council, Ireland. At €100,000, the award is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. If the winning book is a translation (as it has been nine times), the prize is divided between the writer and the translator, with the writer receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000. The first award was made in 1996 to David Malouf for his English language novel "Remembering Babylon".
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Joseph Opatoshu Joseph Opatoshu (יוסף אָפּאַטאָשו in Yiddish, Polish: "Józef Opatoszu" ) (1886–1954) was a Polish-born Yiddish novelist and short story writer.
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Selma Lagerlöf Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (] ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and teacher. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Paul Heyse Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the "Tunnel über der Spree" in Berlin and "Die Krokodile" in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty dramas. The sum of Heyse's many and varied productions made him a dominant figure among German men of letters. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910 "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories." Wirsen, one of the Nobel judges, said that "Germany has not had a greater literary genius since Goethe." Heyse is the fifth oldest laureate in literature, after Doris Lessing, Theodor Mommsen, Alice Munro and Jaroslav Seifert.
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Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa is a pan-African writing prize awarded biennially to the best literary work produced by an African. It was established by the Lumina Foundation in 2005 in honour of Africa's first Nobel Laureate in literature, Wole Soyinka, who presents the prize, which is chosen by an international jury of literary figures. Administered by the Lumina Foundation, the prize has been described as "the African equivalent of the Nobel Prize".
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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.