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Nobel Prize winners in Literature by year

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Year
Winner(s)
Nationality
Works
show Imre Kertesz   Hungarian   Fateless, Fiasco, Kaddish for a Child Not Born  
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2001   Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul   British   show
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2000   Gao Xingjian   show A Pigeon Called Red Beak, Signal Alarm, Bus Stop  
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1999   Gunter Grass   German   show
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1998   show Portuguese   Objecto Quase, Levantado do Chao, A Jangada de Pedra  
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1997   Dario Fo   show Il Dito Dell'Occhio, The Virtuous Burglars, I Sani de Legare  
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1996   Wislawa Szymborska   show 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   Seamus Heaney   Irish   show
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1994   show Japanese   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   St. Lucian   show
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1991   Nadine Gordimer   show 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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show Camilo José Cela   Spanish   La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942), Pabellón de reposo (1943), Nuevas andanzas y desventuras de Lazarillo de Tormes (1944), La colmena (1951), Mrs. Caldwell habla con su hijo (1952), La catira (1955), Tobogán de hambrientos (1962), San Camilo I936 (1969)  
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1988   show Egyptian   The Thief and the Dogs (1961), Autumn Quail (1962), Small Talk on the Nile (1966)  
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1987   Joseph Brodsky   show To Urania, Watermark, A Part of Speech  
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1986   show Nigerian   Requiem for a Futurologist (1985), A Play of Giants (1984), The Strong (1966), The Interpreters (1965)  
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1985   show French   The Cheat, The Tightrope, The Invitation  
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1984   Jaroslav Seifert   Czech   show
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show William Golding   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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show Elias Canetti   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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1980   show 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   Isaac Bashevis Singer   show The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), Satan in Goray, The Spinoza of Market Street (1961)  
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1977   show Spanish   Ambit, Destruction or Love, The Shadow of Paradise  
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1976   Saul Bellow   American   show
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1975   Eugenio Montale   Italian   show
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1974   Eyvind Johnson & Harry Martinson   Swedish   show
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show Patrick White   Australian   Happy Valley, The Living and the Dead, The Aunt's Story  
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1972   Heinrich Böll   German   show
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show Pablo Neruda   Chilean   Crepusculario, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, Residencia en la tierra  
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1970   show Russian   One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Cancer Ward, Right Hand  
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1969   Samuel Beckett   Irish   show
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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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show Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov   Russian   Donskie rasskazy (Tales from the Don), Tikhi Don (And Quiet Flows the Don), Podnyataya tselina (Virgin Soil Upturned)  
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1964   show French   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   show Greek   Strophe (Turning Point), E Sterna (The Cistern), Mythistorema  
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1962   John Steinbeck   show Of Mice and Men, the Red Pony, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, the Grapes of Wrath  
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1961   Ivo Andric   Yugoslavian   show
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1960   Saint-John Perse   French   show
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1959   Salvatore Quasimodo   show Acque e terre (Waters and Lands), Òboe sommerso (Sunken Oboe), Giorno dopogiorno (Day after Day)  
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show Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (could not accept prize)   Russian   Doctor Zhivago, Okhrannaya gramota (Safe Conduct), Zemnye prostory (Wide Spaces of the Earth)  
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1957   Albert Camus   show Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), L'Étranger (The Stranger), La Peste (The Plague), La Chute (The Fall)  
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show Juan Ramón Jiménez   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   show Icelandic   Undir Helgahnúk (Under the Holy Mountain), Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmir (The Great Weaver from Kashmir), Sjalfstaettfolk (Independent People), Ljós heimsins (The Light of the World)  
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1954   Ernest Miller Hemingway   show The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea  
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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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show Pär Fabian Lagerkvist   Swedish   Ångest (1916) [Anguish], Hjärtats sånger (1926) [Songs from the Heart], Bödeln (1933) [The Hangman], Mannen utan själ (1936) [The Man without a Soul]  
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1950   Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell   British   show
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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   British   show
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1947   André Paul Guillaume Gide   show 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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show Hermann Hesse   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   Johannes Vilhelm Jensen   Danish   show
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1943   None   show --  
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1942   show --   --  
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show None   --   --  
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1940   show --   --  
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1939   show Finnish   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   show East Wind, West Wind, The Good Earth (1931), Sons (1932), A House Divided (1935)  
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1937   Roger Martin du Gard   show 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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show Luigi Pirandello   Italian   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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show John Galsworthy   British   The Island Pharisees (1904), The Forsyte Saga, The Silver Box (1906)  
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1931   show Swedish   Vildmarks-och kärleksvisor [Songs of the Wilderness and of Love], Fridolins visor (1898) [Fridolin's Song], Fridolins lustgård (1901)[Fridolin's Pleasure Garden], Flora och Pomona (1906) [Flora and Pomona], Flora och Bellona (1918) [Flora and Bellona], an  
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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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1929   Thomas Mann   German   show
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1928   Sigrid Undset   Norwegian   show
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1927   Henri Bergson   French   show
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show Grazia Deledda   Italian   Fior di Sardegna (1892) [Flower of Sardinia],Anime oneste, romanzo famigliare (1895) [Honest Souls], with preface by Ruggero Bonghi; Il vecchio della montagna (1900) [The Old Man of the Mountain] followed by a dramatic sketch Odio vince(1904) [HateWins] ;  
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1925   George Bernard Shaw   British   show
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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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1922   Jacinto Benavente   Spanish   show
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1921   Anatole France   French   show
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1920   show Norwegian   Sult (1890) [Hunger], Pan (1894), masterpiece Markens Grøde (1917) [Growth of the Soil]  
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1919   show Swiss   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   Karl Adolph Gjellerup & Henrik Pontoppidan   Danish   show
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1916   Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam   show 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   show France   Les Tragédies de la foi (1909) [Tragedies of Faith], Théâtre de la révolution (1909), : L'Aube, Le Matin, L'Adolescent, La Révolte, La Foire sur la place, Antoinette, Dans la maison, Les Amies, Le Buisson ardent, and La Nouvelle Journée [Dawn, Morning, Yo  
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1914   show --   --  
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1913   Rabindranath Tagore   Indian   show
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show Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann   German   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   Belgian   show
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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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show Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf   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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show Rudyard Kipling   British   Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book (1895), The Seven Seas (1896), Captains Courageous (1897), The Day's Work (1898), Stalky and Co. (1899), Just So Stories (1902), Trafficks and Discoveries (1904), Puck of Pook's Hill (  
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1906   show 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   Frédéric Mistral & José Echegaray y Eizaguirre   show 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   German   show
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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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