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Nobel Prize Winners for a list of all the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature Winners 1996-1901, annotated, with links and books
Press announcement of the 1996 Nobel Prize Winner: Wislawa Szymborska
Literary Prizes Lists: all major prizes, listed by Jack Siler
Pulitzer Prizes presented by CJR, the official source. Plus some information on the winners.
Amazon.com Award Winners: lists of winners, plus information on books available

A to Z
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Jim Diedrick wrote a book and a Website on Martin Amis
Maya Angelou
Louis Aragon
Arthuriana Homepage
Margaret Atwood: a lecture and Margaret Atwood Information Page, sanctioned by the author herself. More Atwood links on Margaret Atwood WWW Resources
St. Augustine, one more wonderful page by James J. O'Donnell, a classical scholar
Jane Austen Info Page, a very active and growing site!
Madison Smartt Bell The first author I found who has his own home page!
The Electronic Beowulf: award winning pages! (Yes, this should be under Anonymous, but I don't like that for a writers name)
Elizabeth Bishop
Maurice Blanchot
Boccaccio: The Decameron Web. An impressive guide to reading and study
Jorge Luis Borges: BOOKS FOR SALE
Borges - Garden of Forking Paths, and another Jorge Luis Borges page in Spanish
The Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation in Aarhus, Denmark. Documentation, a journal, and a very complete bibliography (multilingual)
I discovered three pages on Paul Bowles. This first one is short, but comprehensive in bibliography, biography, a timeline. There is a page at Literary Kicks where you can explore his relations to the Beat Generation, and a Bowles page by Peter Murray in Britain with a nice bibliography of British editions
André Breton
In Israel: Iosif Brodsky (1940-1996) and poems in English and Russian: Poetry of Joseph Brodsky
A tribute to Charles Bukowski.
The unofficial William S. Burroughs homepage. A photo collection is presented by Ari Frankel
Albert Camus: a nice photo galley by Ari Frankel
Lewis Carroll Home Page
Phil Carson's Raymond Carver Page
Willa Cather
Some poems by Constantine P. Cavafy, (or Kavafis), and a proper Cavafy homepage
Cervantes' El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (in Spanish). At a nice exposition on Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's novel at the Johns Hopkins University you'll find a link to the English translation.
Don Quijote and other Works of Miguel de Cervantes in scholarly editions are presented by Fred Jehle at Indiana U. And besides the works you cab find images and bibliographies at the Cervantes 2001 Project
S. T. Coleridge Home Page
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Hart Crane
The US Air Force Academy honors Stephen Crane with pages on Red Badge of Courage 100th Anniversary
Some poems by e. e. cummings
Marina Cvetaeva in Italian
Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629) an exposition of 450 page images of early Dante imprints. See also Dante at Dartmouth (Gopher)
René Daumal
Robert Desnos and another one: Robert Desnos
A comprehensive page on Charles Dickens by Mitsuharu Matsuoka
The Emily Dickinson Page, an example of an excellent home page
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Home Page
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rita Dove
Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Poems in five languages.
A very nice page on one of this century's most inspiring figures in arts and letters: Marcel Duchamp
Marguerite Duras
The T. S. Eliot Page with sound advice on books by and on Eliot, by Bruce Ong. Raymond Camden's T.S. Eliot pages are comprehensive. See also T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets
Paul Eluard
William Faulkner on the Web and Faulkner home page
A Robert Frost exhibition page at the University of Virginia Library
Carlos Fuentes
Un prologo de Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a home page in Allen Ruch's Lybirinth: García Márquez - Macondo
A well researched page on Elizabeth Gaskell by Mitsuharu Matsuoka
André Gide
Seamus Heaney - Cover Page
Joseph Heller
Hemingway: The Papa Page
Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game
A page, mainly in German on The Poet Friedrich Hölderlin, with the works, bio- and bibliography and more.
Langston Hughes
A good page on Ted Hughes by Claas Kazzer in Leipzig
A page on Henrik Ibsens in Norwegian.
Alfred Jarry
A most comprehensive page on Samuel Johnson
James Joyce and Work in Progress: James Joyce in Cyberspace and in Allen Ruch's The Libyrinth: James Joyce - The Brazen Head

Home Pages for specific writers are very helpful if you want to study your favourite writer.
A good homepage offers:

• a short biography
• a bibliography
• anything you can find on line about this writer
• short reviews of the major works
• characteristic quotations
• or even more: some poems, a short story, or even a longer work
• a portrait and possibly more pictures

The Franz Kafka Homepage, The Dutch Franz Kafka Circle and the very nice Franz Kafka Photo Album
William Kennedy
Omar Khayyam: There is a complete Rubaiyat (FitzGerald translation) at Wonderland - Written Works. Nihat Tsolak also has a part of the Rubaiyat
Comte de Lautreamont - Isidore Ducasse - Complete Works
Michel Leiris
The Doris Lessing Retrospective
Primo Levi: A long interview and a very nice set of pictures.
The C.S. Lewis Page and Into the Wardrobe: The C.S. Lewis WWW Page
Lu Xun (or Lu Hsün), the father of modern Chinese literature
An informative essay on Naguib Mahfouz, illustrated with pictures and novel fragments, at the Egyptian Governments site.
Norman Mailer
Thomas-Mann-Page from the Thomas Mann Gymnasium Stutensee. Nice features: 4 languages and a list of those difficult words in Mann's novels
The Cormac McCarthy Home Page
Terry McMillan
The Life and Works of Herman Melville. Also take a look at The Whale-Watching-Web: Whales in Literature
Henri Michaux; and another one in French: Henri Michaux
Thomas Middleton
Arthur Miller
The UnofficialHenry Miller Home Page
Czeslaw Milosz's Poetry: Cover Page
Milton Grimleigh's John Milton WWW page at Nyx. Another one is John Milton, the classic Milton-L page
Zembla, the Nabokov Butterfly Net is an excellent site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov.
Pablo Neruda: a great page (the poetry is suppressed - temporarily?) from Patricio Navia. I found a translation of the Elementary Odes. Finally the Universidad the Chile has some documentary material
Anja Beckman's pages on Anais Nin
Joyce Carol Oates. And a proper home page: Joyce Carol Oates.
The Ben Okri page
Some information on Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
Kenneth Patchen Home Page
Cesare Pavese in Italian. Marcel Duchamp.
Georges Perec, a fascinating Oulipo author. See Le page Oulipo to learn more on this group (French)
Saint-John Perse: during his life an now practically unknown, but he got the 1960 Nobel Prize for Literature, "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time". This site for readers of French only, dommage!
Fernando Pessoa, and another one on Fernando Pessoa's poetry in English
Poe Page
A comprehensive link site on Sylvia Plath. Also a good Sylvia Plath page by Anja Beckman
Plato: The Sophist in a very nice hypertext format
Chaim Potok
The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research
Proust Said That - No.3 (from there you can reach the earlier issues)
Some large fragments (en français) from 'A la recherche du temps perdu' can be found at Editions Ilias
The Pushkin Page.
Thomas Pynchon
ZBOUBY - Les Exercices de Style, de Raymond Queneau . You can also find the Exercices de style at Tom O'Donnel's site. He also has a marvelous presentation of Cent mille milliards de poèmes, easily the largest collection of poems online! If you don't read French and want to know Queneau, have a little patience while you check out this: A Story as You Like It: a true hypertext story.
Raymond Radiguet
Rainer Maria Rilke: the Duineser Elegien (German).
The first and second of the Duino Elegies in English, and all of them translated into Norwegian
Alain Robbe-Grillet: a well organized bibliography and selected passages from his work
The Rossetti Archive
Philip Roth
Salman Rushdie
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Steven Foskett's J.D. Salinger Page. And all Salinger fans should see Twenty-one Uncollected Short Stories by J. D. Salinger.
Anne Sexton: pictures and poems presented by Ari Frankel
Shakespeare Homepage
Edmund Spenser Home Page by Richard Bear, who has a lot to show on English literature
Antoine de St. Exupéry
A great set of pages, dedicated to to study of Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels, by Lee Jaffe
Rabindranath Tagore. Two sites with poetry: Poems of Tagore and at the India Poetry Pages
The Chronicle of the Drum, William M. Thackeray, complete in facsimile!
A Dylan Thomas page, starting and promising
The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page is a good link to many other Tolkien pages
Tolstoy Library
Mark Twain: Ever The Twain Shall Meet and Mark Twain Resources on the WWW
Miguel de Unamuno
Paul Valéry
Vergil's Aeneid in English or in Latin and a 'pagina domestica' for Vergil
Fondation Voltaire/Voltaire Foundation: the study of the Enlightenment and 18th century French litearture
Kurt Vonnegut - Home Page
Derek Walcott
Walt Whitman Home Page, with the rediscovered Notebooks
On Oscar Wilde: The Wild Wilde Web
William Carlos Williams. Professor Al Filreis has also some poems in his English 88, Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. All Filreis' pages merit your attention if you love poetry!
a lecture by The Thomas Wolfe Home Page
The Poetry of Yeats

Other authors' lists:

Arne Herløv Petersen's Bogcaféen, an excellent authors' links list. Plenty of links to information on the world's great writers, and especially strong in Scandinavian links
The Musil Institut is dedicated to European fin-de-siècle authors.
Columbia University: Project Bartleby References to: Dickinson, Homer, Keats, Melville, Shelley, Whitman, Wilde, Wordsworth
The Beat Generation: Literary Kicks and from there on to Kerouac, Ginsburg, Corso and many others
Professor Eiichi Hishikawa provides a comprehensive list of Twentieth-century Poetry in English
Index of the Online Book Initiative
Eric Rothfeder's WebLit is a useful guide to literature on the Web, with a good authors' list
And the not yet famous you can find at the Internet Directory of Published Writers - who knows wat the Net can do!

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