Connected Sites
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GB Shaw (1925) - St Joan
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Thomas Mann (1929) - Buddenbrooks
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Neruda (1971) - Alturas de Macchu Picchu
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Thomas Mann (1929) - Death in Venice
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Selma Lagerlof (1909) - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Mikhail Sholokhov (1965) - And Quiet Flows the Don
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TS Eliot (1948) - Murder in the Cathedral; Gurnah (2021): Pilgrims Way ("the novel ends with Daud's visit to Canterbury Cathedral")
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Imre Kertész (2002), Fatelessness
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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.
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“La ciudad de los perros” from Nobel prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa (2010) takes place in Lima.
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Imre Kertész (2002), Fatelessness
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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
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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.
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Marquez (1982) - Love in the time of Cholera - fictional place but probably Cartagena
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Seamus Heaney (1995) - "Funeral Rites" in volume North
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Jose Saramago (1998), The Elephant's Journey
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Rabindranath Tagore (1913) - "Shah Jahan"
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Gurnah (2021): several (Gurnah was born here), including Gravel Heart
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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)
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Marquez (1982) - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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Derek Walcott (1992) - Omeros
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Roger Martin du Gard (1937) - The Thibaults; Patrick Modiano (2014) - Un cirque passe
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Agnon (1966) - Only Yesterday (among others)
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Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling. Many set in Simla (now Shimla, part of Kalka-Shimla Railway).
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Octavio Paz (1990) - The Labyrinth of Solitude
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The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andri
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Herman Hesse (1946) "Unterm Rad" 1906 ("Beneath the Wheel" or "The Prodigy")
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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)
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J.M.G. LeClézio (2008), The Prospector
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Hemingway (1954) - Snows of Kilimanjaro
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Istanbul, memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk
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Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
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Great Spa Towns of Europe
Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United KingdomInscribed: 202144216"The future Nobel Prize winner Paul Heyse memorialised the Ems region in his novella, "Der Blinde von Dausenau"." (Nomination File, p. 205) -
"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).
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"Le Vent a Djemila" (1938)- essay by Albert Camus from the collection "Noces". Camus muses on death - inspired by the ruins!.
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