Works by Nobel Prize winning authors

Connected Sites: 39

Definition
WHS which are "described" in a work by a Nobel Prize Winning author. Name author and work (book, poem, etc).

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Connected Sites

  • Reims
    Reims
    France
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.40
    299
    9
    GB Shaw (1925) - St Joan
  • Lübeck
    Lübeck
    Germany
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.28
    278
    9
    Thomas Mann (1929) - Buddenbrooks
  • Machu Picchu
    Inscribed: 1983
    4.63
    264
    8
    Neruda (1971) - Alturas de Macchu Picchu
  • Venice and its Lagoon
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.52
    618
    19
    Thomas Mann (1929) - Death in Venice
  • Southern Öland
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.62
    114
    7
    Selma Lagerlof (1909) - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
  • St. Petersburg
    Inscribed: 1990
    4.19
    270
    9
    Mikhail Sholokhov (1965) - And Quiet Flows the Don
  • Canterbury
    Canterbury
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.41
    317
    13
    TS Eliot (1948) - Murder in the Cathedral; Gurnah (2021): Pilgrims Way ("the novel ends with Daud's visit to Canterbury Cathedral")
  • Auschwitz Birkenau
    Inscribed: 1979
    4.07
    347
    14
    Imre Kertész (2002), Fatelessness
  • Thingvellir
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.50
    312
    8
    Halldór Laxness (1955), Iceland's Bell. The eponymous bell was on the courthouse at Thingvellir, and the book opens with a party sent to take down the bell at the behest of Denmark, which ruled Iceland at the time.
  • Lima
    Lima
    Peru
    Inscribed: 1988
    2.85
    258
    10
    “La ciudad de los perros” from Nobel prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa (2010) takes place in Lima.
  • Budapest
    Budapest
    Hungary
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.88
    549
    15
    Imre Kertész (2002), Fatelessness
  • Lake District
    Lake District
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2017
    3.52
    224
    7
    The region is also a recurring theme in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novella The Torrents of Spring. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in 1954.
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.92
    233
    11
    Rudyard Kipling (1907), The King's Pilgrimage. This poem is based on the journey King George V took in 1922 to visit war cemeteries including Étaples Military Cemetery and Tyne Cot Cemetery. Kipling's only son died in World War I, and Kipling subsequently served as a literary advisor with the Imperial War Graves Commission. Kipling selected the Biblical quote "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE", found on the Stones of Remembrance at Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries and memorials.
  • Cartagena
    Cartagena
    Colombia
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.37
    139
    5
    Marquez (1982) - Love in the time of Cholera - fictional place but probably Cartagena
  • Brú na Bóinne
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.62
    207
    11
    Seamus Heaney (1995) - "Funeral Rites" in volume North
  • Domus de janas Sardinia
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.58
    32
    4

    Grazia Deledda (1926) – "Canne al vento" / Deledda references the janas and their houses in her novel: ""Yes, man's working day was done, but the fantastic life of elves, fairies, wandering spirits was beginning. [...] The janas, the little fairies who stay in their small rock houses during the day weaving gold cloth on their golden looms - were dancing in the large phillyrea bushes, while giants looked out from the rocks on the moon-struck mountains." (Nomination file, p. 322)
  • Vienna
    Vienna
    Austria
    Inscribed: 2001
    4.02
    594
    20
    Jose Saramago (1998), The Elephant's Journey
  • Valparaiso
    Inscribed: 2003
    3.12
    160
    12
    Pablo Neruda (1971) - "Oda a Valparaiso"
    See www.neruda.uchile.cl
  • Taj Mahal
    Inscribed: 1983
    4.25
    252
    7
    Rabindranath Tagore (1913) - "Shah Jahan"
  • Stone Town of Zanzibar
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.42
    145
    7
    Gurnah (2021): several (Gurnah was born here), including Gravel Heart
  • Solovetsky Islands
    Inscribed: 1992
    3.43
    22
    2
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize 1970) spends a great deal of Volume II of The Gulag Archipelago discussing the development of Solovki and the conditions there during the early Soviet regime. (wiki)
  • Santa Cruz de Mompox
    Inscribed: 1995
    2.72
    35
    4
    Marquez (1982) - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  • Pitons Management Area
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.93
    92
    5
    Derek Walcott (1992) - Omeros
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
    Inscribed: 1991
    4.20
    687
    20
    Roger Martin du Gard (1937) - The Thibaults; Patrick Modiano (2014) - Un cirque passe
  • Old City of Jerusalem
    Inscribed: 1981
    4.36
    276
    12
    Agnon (1966) - Only Yesterday (among others)
  • Nice
    Nice
    France
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.78
    355
    5
    "Dimanches d'août" by Patrick Modiano is set in Nice. (Nomination file, p. 203)
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • Mountain Railways of India
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.42
    84
    8
    Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling. Many set in Simla (now Shimla, part of Kalka-Shimla Railway).
  • Mexico City and Xochimilco
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.84
    276
    8
    Octavio Paz (1990) - The Labyrinth of Solitude
  • Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge
    Inscribed: 2007
    2.36
    110
    8
    The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andri
  • Maulbronn Monastery
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.13
    206
    11
    Herman Hesse (1946) "Unterm Rad" 1906 ("Beneath the Wheel" or "The Prodigy")
  • Mafra
    Mafra
    Portugal
    Inscribed: 2019
    2.84
    155
    7
    A major reference to the construction of the palace is made in the book Baltasar and Blimunda (Memorial do Convento), written by the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago. Saramago makes a detailed description of the building process,.. (wiki)
  • Le Morne
    Le Morne
    Mauritius
    Inscribed: 2008
    2.60
    90
    6
    J.M.G. LeClézio (2008), The Prospector
  • Kilimanjaro National Park
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.91
    85
    7
    Hemingway (1954) - Snows of Kilimanjaro
  • Istanbul
    Istanbul
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.37
    493
    12
    Istanbul, memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk
  • Historic Cairo
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.66
    301
    11
    Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
  • Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2021
    3.27
    453
    17
    "The future Nobel Prize winner Paul Heyse memorialised the Ems region in his novella, "Der Blinde von Dausenau"." (Nomination File, p. 205)
  • Tipasa
    Tipasa
    Algeria
    Inscribed: 1982
    2.88
    49
    3
    "Noces a Tipasa" (1938) from the collection "Noces" and "Retour a Tipasa" (1952) from the collection "Ete" - Essays by Albert Camus. The site contains a commemorative stone with a quotation and his name partly erased (he was a pied noir).
  • Djémila
    Djémila
    Algeria
    Inscribed: 1982
    3.40
    41
    3
    "Le Vent a Djemila" (1938)- essay by Albert Camus from the collection "Noces". Camus muses on death - inspired by the ruins!.
  • Santiniketan
    Inscribed: 2023
    1.65
    11
    3
    The Shantiniketan School song by Rabindranath Tagore (NP winner 1913).
    See en.wikisource.org