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Nobel Prize winners in Literature by year

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Year
Winner(s)
Nationality
Works
2002   Imre Kertesz   Hungarian   show
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show Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul   British   The Mystic Masseur, A House for Mr. Biswas, The Enigma of Arrival  
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2000   show Chinese   A Pigeon Called Red Beak, Signal Alarm, Bus Stop  
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1999   Gunter Grass   show The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Show Your Tongue  
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1998   Jose Saramago   show Objecto Quase, Levantado do Chao, A Jangada de Pedra  
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1997   Dario Fo   Italian   show
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1996   show Polish   Dlatego zyjemy (1952), Pytania zadawane sobie (1954), Wolanie do Yeti (1957), Sól (1962), Wiersze wybrane (1964), Poezje wybrane (1967), Sto pociech (1967), Poezje (1970)  
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1995   show Irish   Seeing Things, Death of a Naturalist, Wintering Out  
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1994   Kenzaburo Oe   show Shisha no ogori, Man'en gannen no futtoboru, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness  
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1993   Toni Morrison   show The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz  
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1992   Derek Walcott   show Epitaph for the Young, Xll Cantos, In a Green Night, Poems 1948–60, The Fortunate Traveller  
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1991   show South African   A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story  
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1990   Octavio Paz   show Sun Stone, Obsidian Butterfly, The Monkey Crammarian  
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1989   Camilo José Cela   Spanish   show
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1988   Naguib Mahfouz   show The Thief and the Dogs (1961), Autumn Quail (1962), Small Talk on the Nile (1966)  
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1987   Joseph Brodsky   American   show
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show Wole Soyinka   Nigerian   Requiem for a Futurologist (1985), A Play of Giants (1984), The Strong (1966), The Interpreters (1965)  
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1985   Claude Simon   show The Cheat, The Tightrope, The Invitation  
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show Jaroslav Seifert   Czech   Various collections and newspapers  
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1983   show British   Lord of the Flies, Close Quarters, Rites of Passage  
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1982   Gabriel García Márquez   show El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Ojos de perro azul, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera  
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1981   show British   Hochzeit, Der andere Prozess. Kafkas Briefe an Felice [Kafka's Other Trial, tr. 1974], Die gerettete Zunge. Geschichte einer Jugend. [The Tongue Set Free, tr. 1979].  
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show Czeslaw Milosz   Polish   Volumes of poetry  
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show Odysseus Elytis   Greek   "Diary of an Invisible April", "The Monogram", "The Little Mariner"  
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1978   show American   The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), Satan in Goray, The Spinoza of Market Street (1961)  
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1977   Vicente Aleixandre   Spanish   show
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show Saul Bellow   American   Dangling Man, Henderson The Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970)  
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1975   show Italian   Omaggio a Svevo, Ossi di seppia, La farfalla di Dinard, Fuori di casa  
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1974   Eyvind Johnson & Harry Martinson   Swedish   show
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1973   Patrick White   show Happy Valley, The Living and the Dead, The Aunt's Story  
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1972   show German   Der Zug war pünktlich  
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1971   Pablo Neruda   show Crepusculario, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, Residencia en la tierra  
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1970   Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn   Russian   show
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1969   Samuel Beckett   show Molloy, Malone Dies, Endgame, Waiting for Godot  
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show Yasunari Kawabata   Japanese   Izu dancer, Snow Country, The Old Capital  
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1967   Miguel Angel Asturias   show La arquitectura de la vida nueva, Leyendas de Guatemala, El Señor Presidente, Viento fuerte  
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1966   Shmuel Yosef Agnon & Nelly Sachs   show Hakhnasat Kalah (The Bridal Canopy), Oreach Nata Lalun (A Guest for the Night), Temol Shilshom (Only Yesterday) /// In den Wohnungen des Todes (In the Houses of Death), Sternverdunkelung (Eclipse of Stars), 1949, Und niemand weiss weiter (And No One Know  
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1965   show Russian   Donskie rasskazy (Tales from the Don), Tikhi Don (And Quiet Flows the Don), Podnyataya tselina (Virgin Soil Upturned)  
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1964   Jean-Paul Sartre (refused the prize)   show La Nausée (Nausea), Le Mur (Intimacy), L'Etre et le néant (Being and Nothingness), Les Mouches (The Flies), Huis Clos (No Exit)  
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1963   Giorgos Seferis   show Strophe (Turning Point), E Sterna (The Cistern), Mythistorema  
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1962   show American   Of Mice and Men, the Red Pony, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, the Grapes of Wrath  
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1961   Ivo Andric   show Nemiri (Anxieties), Put Alije Djerzeleza (The Trip of Alija Djerzelez), Pripovetke (Stories), Gospodjica (The Woman from Sarajevo)  
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1960   show French   Anabase (Anabasis), Exil (Exile), Poème l'Etrangère (Poem to a Foreign Lady)  
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1959   Salvatore Quasimodo   Italian   show
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1958   show Russian   Doctor Zhivago, Okhrannaya gramota (Safe Conduct), Zemnye prostory (Wide Spaces of the Earth)  
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1957   show French   Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), L'Étranger (The Stranger), La Peste (The Plague), La Chute (The Fall)  
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1956   show Spanish   Almas de violeta (Souls of Violet), Elejías puras (Pure Elegies), Platero y yo (Platero and I), Diario de un poeta recién casado (Diary of a Newly-Wed Poet)  
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1955   Halldór Kiljan Laxness   Icelandic   show
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1954   Ernest Miller Hemingway   American   show
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show Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill   British   The World Crisis (1923-29), a History of the English-speaking Peoples (4 vols., 1956-58), The Unrelenting Struggle (1942), The Dawn of Liberation (1945)  
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show François Mauriac   French   Le Baiser aux lepreux (1922) [A Kiss for the Leper], Le Cahier noir [The Black Notebook], Le Desert de l'amour (1925) [The Desert of Love]  
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1951   Pär Fabian Lagerkvist   Swedish   show
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1950   show British   The Principles of Mathematics (1903), History of Western Philosophy (1946), Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919)  
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show William Faulkner   American   The Sound and the Fury (1929), Requiem For A Nun (1951), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Intruder In the Dust (1948), The Reivers  
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1948   Thomas Stearns Eliot   show Prufrock, the Four Quartets, the Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, Murder in the Cathedral  
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show André Paul Guillaume Gide   French   Les Cahiers d'André Walter (1891) [The Notebooks of André Walter], Les Nourritures terrestres (1897) [Fruits of the Earth], Le Retour de l'enfant prodigue (1907) [The Return of the Prodigal], La Porte étroite (1909) [Strait is the Gate], Les Faux Monnayeu  
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1946   show Swiss   Glasperlenspiel (1943) [Magister Ludi], Knulp (1915), Demian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), Der Steppenwolf (1927) [Steppenwolf], Narziss und Goldmund. (1930), Die Morgenlandfahrt (1932) [The Journey to the East]  
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1945   Gabriela Mistral   show Sonetos de la muerte, Desolación [Despair], Ternura [Tenderness]  
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1944   show Danish   Himmerlandshistorier (1898-1910) [Himmerland Stories], Den lange rejse (1908-22) [The Long Journey], Myter, 1907-45 [Myths])  
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1943   None   show --  
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show None   --   --  
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1941   None   show --  
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1940   None   --   show
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1939   Frans Eemil Sillanpää   show The Maid Silja, Elämä ja aurinko (1916) [Life and Sun]; Ihmislapsia elämän saatossa (1917) [Children of Man in Life's Procession]; Hurskas kurjuus (1919) [Meek Heritage]; Rakas isänmaani (1919) [Beloved Fatherland]; Hiltu ja Ragnar (1923) [Hiltu and Ragna  
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1938   Pearl Buck   American   show
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1937   show French   Jean Barois, Les Thibault, Le Testament du Père Leleu  
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1936   show American   Bound East for Cardiff, Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, Bound East for Cardiff (1914), Before Breakfast (1916), The Long Voyage Home (1917), In the Zone (1917), The Moon of the Carabbees (1917), Ile (1917), The Rope (1918), Beyond th  
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show None   --   --  
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1934   Luigi Pirandello   show Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904) [The Late Mattia Pascal], I vecchi e i giovani (1913) [The Old and the Young], Si gira (1916) | [Shoot!]  
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1933   show Russian   Derévnya [The Village], as Sukhodól (1911-12) and Mítina lyubóv (1924-25) [Mitya's Love], the short story Gospodín iz San Francisco (19I6) [The Gentleman from San Francisco], end the autobiographical novel in two volumes, Zhizn Arsénieva (Part I, Istóki d  
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1932   show British   The Island Pharisees (1904), The Forsyte Saga, The Silver Box (1906)  
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1931   Erik Axel Karlfeldt   Swedish   show
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1930   show American   The Trail of the Hawk, Arrowsmith, Main Street, The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928)  
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show Thomas Mann   German   Buddenbrooks, Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1898) [Little Herr Friedemann], Tristan (1903), Der Zauberberg (1924) [The Magic Mountain]  
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show Sigrid Undset   Norwegian   Kransen (The Garland), Husfrue (The Mistress of Husaby), Korset (The Cross); and Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken (1925 ) [The Master of Hestviken] and its sequel Olav Audunssen og hans børn (1927) [Olav Audunssøn and his Children]  
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1927   Henri Bergson   French   show
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1926   Grazia Deledda   Italian   show
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1925   show British   appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898), Arms and the Man, Man and Superman (1903), Saint Joan (1923), Major Barbara  
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show Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont   Polish   (Pielgrzymka do Jasnej Góry, 1895 [Pilgrimage to the Mountain of Light]), Komedjantka (1896) [The Comedian], Ziemia obiecana (1899) [The Promised Land], The Peasants  
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1923   William Butler Yeats   Irish   show
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show Jacinto Benavente   Spanish   Cartas de mujeres (1892-93) [Women's Letters], were El nido ajeno (1894) [Another's Nest] and Gente conocida (1896) [High Society]  
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1921   Anatole France   show Le Jardin d'Épicure (1895) [The Garden of Epicurus], Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), , La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque [At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque]  
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1920   Knut Pedersen Hamsun   Norwegian   show
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1919   Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler   show Olympian Spring, Prometheus und Epimetheus, Schmetterlinge (1889) [Butterflies]; Friedli der Kolderi (1891); Gustav (1892) ; Litterarische Gleichnisse (1892) [Literary Parables]; Balladen (1896); Der Gotthard (897); Conrad der Leutnant (1898); Lachende Wa  
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1918   None   --   show
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1917   show Danish   Scipio Africanus, En idealist (1878) [An Idealist], Saint Just (1885) /// Fra hytterne (1887) [From the Cottages], Det forjaettede land (1891-95) [The Promised Land], Lykke-Per (1898-1904) [Lucky Peter], and De dødes rige (1912-16) [The Kingdom of the Dea  
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show Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam   Swiss   Ett folk (1902) [One People], Karolinerna (1897-98) [The Charles Men], Folkunga Trädet (1905-07) [The Tree of the Folkungs], Folke Filbyter and Bjälboarvet [The BjäIbo Inheritance]  
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1915   Romain Rolland   France   show
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1914   None   show --  
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1913   show Indian   Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]  
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1912   Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann   show Vor Sonnenaufgang, Die Weber (1892) [The Weavers], the comedy Der Biberpelz (1893) [The Beaver Coat], the historical drama Florian Geyer (1896), Fuhrmann Henschel (1898) [Drayman Henschel], Rose Bernd (1903), and Die Ratten (1911) [The Rats]  
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1911   Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck   show Serres chaudes [Ardent Talons], L'Intruse (1890) [The Intruder], Les Aveugles (1890) [The Blind], and the love dramas Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), Alladine et Palomides (1894), and Aglavaine et Sélysette (1896)  
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1910   Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse   show Jugenderinnerungen und Bekenntnisse (Berlin, 1900) [Memories of my Youth and Confessions], Gesammelte Werke (1871-191O) [Collected Works], 36 vols.; Dramatische Dichtungen (1864-1905) [Dramatic Works], 36 vols.; Romane, Novellen, lyrische und epische Gedi  
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1909   show Swiss   Gösta Berlings Saga, Antikris mirakler (1897) [The Miracles of Antichrist], published Jerusalem (1901-1902) [The Holy City]  
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1908   show German   Geistige Stromungen der Gegenwart (1908) [Main Currents of Modern Thought ], Die Lebensanschauungen der grosser Denker (1890) [The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from Plato to the Present Time ], Der Kampf um einen geistigen Lebensi  
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1907   Rudyard Kipling   British   show
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show Giosuè Carducci   Italian   Levia Gravia (1868) [Light and Heavy], Inno a Satana (1865) [Hymn to Satan], Odi barbare (1877, 1882, and 1889) [The Barbarian Odes]  
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1905   Henryk Sienkiewicz   show Latarnik (1882) [The Lighthouse Keeper], Ogniem i mieczem [With Fire and Sword], Potop [The Deluge] and Pan Wolodyjowski [Pan Michael], Quo Vadis?  
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1904   show French /// Spanish   Miréio (1859), Calendau (1867), include Lis Isclo d'or (1876) [Islands of Gold], a collection of poems; «Nerto» (1884), a narrative poem based on a chronicle of the Avignon Popes; La Rèino Jano (1890); and Lou pouémo dóu rose (1897) [The Song of the Rhone  
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1903   Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson   Norwegian   show
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1902   Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen   show A History of Rome,  
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show Sully Prudhomme   French   , Stances et Poèmes (1865) [Stanzas and Poems], Croquis Italiens (1866-68) [Italian Notebook]; Solitudes (1869); Impressions de la guerre (1870) [Impressions of War]; Les Destins (1872) [Destinies]; La Révolte des fleurs (1872) [Revolt of the Flowers ]; L  
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