Monday, October 12, 2009

The twelve women who won Nobel Prize in Literature:

Serial

Name

Country

Year

Age in that year

1

Selma Lagerlöf

Sweden

1909

51

2

Grazia Deledda

Italy

1926

55

3

Sigrid Undset

Norway

1928

46

4

Pearl S. Buck

USA

1938

46

5

Gabriela Mistral

Chile

1945

56

6

Nelly Sachs (with an Israeli man)

Sweden

1966

75

7

Nadine Gordimer

South Africa

1991

68

8

Toni Morrison

USA

1993

62

9

Wisława Szymborska

Poland

1996

73

10

Elfriede Jelinek

Austria

2004

58

11

Doris Lessing

UK

2007

88

12

Herta Müller

Germany

2009

56

Why did not get this prize any woman under age 40?!

Why did not get this prize any Arabic or Muslim woman?!

Why did not get this prize any famous woman or who has bestselling novels?!

These are just questions!!!

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