Adaptations of stories written by Nobel laureates in Literature
No adaptations:
2011 - Tomas Tranströmer (poetry, translation)
2000 - Gao Xingjian (novel, drama, literary criticism)
1985 - Claude Simon (novel)
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert (poetry)
1979 - Odysseas Elytis (poetry)
1960 - Saint-John Perse (poetry)
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo (poetry) (no adaptations, but he did write the Italian dialogue in Barabbas (1961))
1950 - Bertrand Russell (philosophy)
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt (poetry)
1927 - Henri Bergson (philosophy)
1919 - Carl Spitteler (poetry)
1916 - Verner von Heidenstam (poetry, novel)
1910 - Paul von Heyse (poetry, drama, novel, short story)
1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (philosophy)
1906 - Giosuè Carducci (poetry)
1902 - Theodor Mommsen (history, law)
1901 - Sully Prudhomme (poetry, essay)
The Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded in 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940-1943.
2011 - Tomas Tranströmer (poetry, translation)
2000 - Gao Xingjian (novel, drama, literary criticism)
1985 - Claude Simon (novel)
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert (poetry)
1979 - Odysseas Elytis (poetry)
1960 - Saint-John Perse (poetry)
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo (poetry) (no adaptations, but he did write the Italian dialogue in Barabbas (1961))
1950 - Bertrand Russell (philosophy)
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt (poetry)
1927 - Henri Bergson (philosophy)
1919 - Carl Spitteler (poetry)
1916 - Verner von Heidenstam (poetry, novel)
1910 - Paul von Heyse (poetry, drama, novel, short story)
1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (philosophy)
1906 - Giosuè Carducci (poetry)
1902 - Theodor Mommsen (history, law)
1901 - Sully Prudhomme (poetry, essay)
The Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded in 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940-1943.
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novel Captain Pantoja and the Special Service - DirectorStere GuleaStarsOana PelleaDan ConduracheMara GrigoreInspired by the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime in Romania, this novelistic feature examines the questions of a society after a revolution has happened, such as guilt and atonement and the anxiety that former conditions might come back again.2009 - Herta Müller
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original screenplay - DirectorClive DonnerStarsAlan BatesDonald PleasenceRobert ShawWhile renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Aston's brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum.2005 - Harold Pinter
play The Caretaker - DirectorMichael HanekeStarsIsabelle HuppertAnnie GirardotBenoît MagimelA young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
novel The Piano Teacher - DirectorSteve JacobsStarsJohn MalkovichNatalie BeckerJessica HainesAfter having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.2003 - John Maxwell Coetzee
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novel Fatelessness - DirectorIsmail MerchantStarsOm PuriJames FoxAasif MandviIn 1950s Trinidad, a frustrated writer supports himself as a masseur--and soon becomes a revered mystic and politico.2001 - Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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