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In October, the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced once again. Find out more about this important literary prize, its history and previous literature nobelists.

Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago asks a simple question: What would happen if everyone went blind? This is the subject of Saramago's novel Blindness.

Widely unknown to the general public but acclaimed in Gérmany, it's important to learn some facts about the latest female Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

Authors such as Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, Gunter Grass, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Pearl Buck, William Butler Yeats, and Boris Pasternak are recognized.

Doris Lessing, the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, joins a group of only ten other women who have been named Nobel Laureates in Literature.

From October 15 to 19 Frankfurt will be the focus of the literary world: For the 60th time the Frankfurter Buchmesse opens its gates to business visitors and audience.

Orhan Pamuk, author of "My Name is Red", "Snow", "The White Castle", and "The Black Book", is Turkey's most prominent writer and a politically controversial figure.

Commissioned by Ireland's Abbey Theatre, Seamus Heaney translates Sophocles' 5th Century B.C.E. play Antigone into a timeless commentary on individual rights vs. security

Brief biography of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, one of Scandinavia's greatest novelists. Aside from The Growth of the Soil, he is known for the novels Hunger and Pan.

Ernest Hemingway's Author Snapshot Biography.

Brief biography of Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, famous for his book One Hundred Years of Solitude.

The main character, based on author J.M. Coetzee, writes a series of scathing political essays for a German publisher while entertaining feelings for his young typist

An overview of the 2008 Nobel Prize winning author, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.

The story that horrified readers with its frank portrayal of World War I military life is now one of the bestselling books of modern Greek literature.

Brief biography of Pablo Neruda, considered the best South American poet known for "Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada."

Brief biography of writer Paul Heyse, the first German to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, best known as master of novellas.

Brief biography of novelist Pearl S. Buck, prolific American writer who grew up in China, Nobel Laureate for literature and Pulitzer Prize winner.

In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Nobel Laureate, won the literature prize primarily for his prose translations of Gitanjali, which is Bengali for "song offerings."

Slow Man, by South African native and Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, is a dreamy meditation on a life fundamentally changed by a devastating accident.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is among the greatest Russian and world writers of the 20th century. His writing retrieved the history of the Soviet state.

Brief biography of Spanish author and Nobel Laureate Camilo José Cela, famous for his book La Familia de Pascual Duarte.

Brief biography of American playwright Eugene O'Neil, best known for dramatic plays of modern town life such as Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh.

Brief biography of Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, best known for Six Characters in Search of an Author and Right You Are, If You Think You Are.

Brief biography of Mexican poet Octavio Paz, famous for The Labyrinth of Solitude, Sun Stone and other poetry on the theme of harmony.

Life and works of Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats or W.B. Yeats, one of the most influential 20th century writers. 1923 Nobel Laureate in literature.

As UNESCO nominated World Book Capital City 2007, Bogota throws open its arms to all on April 19 for the city's 20th Annual Book Festival

Brief biography and works of Günter Grass, considered an important contemporary German writer, famous for The Tin Drum, a part of Danzig Trilogy.

Brief biography of Langston Hughes - his life, career, and poetry - a leading author of Harlem Renaissance and creator of character 'Jesse B Simple.'

Brief biography of Australian author Patrick White, 1973 Nobel Prize winner in literature.

No Southeast Asian writer has ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature but none has come closer than Pramoedya Ananta Toer. This is an introduction to his life.

The Myth of Sisyphus offers an enlightening look at the meaning of life, the conflict of hope, the human condition and how happiness is achieved only through acceptance.

Brief biography of English writer Rudyard Kipling, famous for children and animal stories, novel 'Kim' and poem "If."

Biography of American writer, Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Harry Trotter, an unemployed lumberyard foreman, finds a new career in bootlegging in the ruthless streets of Toronto in the 1920s.

Rudyard Kipling wrote poems and stories in praise of the British Empire and ridiculing native Indians. Rabindranath Tagore detested the empire. Both won the Nobel Prize.

The world's second most distinguished literary prize after the Nobel Prize in Literature is given by the University of Oklahoma.

Brief biography of Albert Camus, influential French thinker of the 20th century.

Eugene O'Neill spent his early childhood in hotel rooms, on trains and backstage, traveling with his parents which he blamed for his escape into alcohol as an adult.

William Faulkner became famous for his writing and infamous for his drinking while creating award winning novels, poems, short stories and screenplays.

Brief biography of French novelist, playwright and critic André Gide, 1947 Nobel Prize Winner for literature, best known for The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters.

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Beloved" is named best American fiction of the past 25 years by the "New York Times"

Profile of philosopher Bertrand Russell who laid the foundation of modern logic and best-known for Principia Mathematica.

As Morrison herself says in her first paragraph, Love is a story about wicked females.

Modern travel writing in the United States began after the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great War of the 1940s.

Biography of Boris Pasternak, famous for epic novel Doctor Zhivago. 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The point of speechmaking is to convey a message to an audience. The most powerful message will have no impact without an effective delivery.

In 1982, Derek Walcott admitted that he sexually harassed a student. Will President-Elect Barack Obama pick an admitted predator to serve as his Inaugural Poet?

Brief biography of American writer Ernest Hemingway, famous for A Farewell to Arms.

Brief biography of the life and works of dramatist, critic and essayist George Bernard Shaw, one of the best British playwrights.

You've got an idea for a story you'd like to write, but your first attempts make you want to give up. Follow these six steps to move past the first stage of despair.