Book awards

Orham Pamuk has been awarded the Nobel prize for literature.

Kiran Desai's novel The Inheritance of Loss has won the Booker Prize.

Because I like lists, here's the list of Nobel laureates whose work I have read:

2006 - Orhan Pamuk
2005 - Harold Pinter
2002 - Imre Kertész
1999 - Günter Grass
1998 - José Saramago
1995 - Seamus Heaney
1993 - Toni Morrison
1992 - Derek Walcott
1983 - William Golding
1982 - Gabriel García Márquez
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1972 - Heinrich Böll
1971 - Pablo Neruda
1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1969 - Samuel Beckett
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre
1962 - John Steinbeck
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1957 - Albert Camus
1954 - Ernest Hemingway
1950 - Bertrand Russell
1948 - T.S. Eliot
1946 - Hermann Hesse
1936 - Eugene O'Neill
1934 - Luigi Pirandello
1929 - Thomas Mann
1925 - George Bernard Shaw
1923 - William Butler Yeats
1907 - Rudyard Kipling