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Disciplines in Literature & Letters
Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer
1925 – 2006Composed the Buru Quartet orally in a prison camp.
Amartya Sen
b. 1933Recast famine as a failure of entitlement, not food supply.
Kenzaburō Ōe
1935 – 2023Wrote disability, Hiroshima and postwar conscience.
Orhan Pamuk
b. 1952Novelist of Istanbul's melancholy and East–West fracture.
Vandana Shiva
b. 1952Philosopher of seed sovereignty and critic of industrial agriculture.
Mo Yan
b. 1955Hallucinatory realism of rural Shandong across China's violent century.
Han Kang
b. 1970Confronts historical trauma and bodily fragility; The Vegetarian, Human Acts.
Malala Yousafzai
b. 1997Shot for going to school; now the youngest Nobel laureate in history.