2010 Literature Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa reads from one of his works.Literature Readings
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2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature Orhan Pamuk reads an excerpt from "Istanbul: Memories of a City". The video was recorded in Stockholm in December 2006.
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2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa reads from his book "El Hablador" (in Spanish). The video was recorded in Stockholm in December 2010.
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The 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka reads his poem 'Lost Poems' from "Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known". The video was recorded at Harvard University in April, 2005.
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2002 Nobel Laureate in Literature Imre Kertész reads an excerpt (in German) from his book "Roman eines Schicksallosen" ("Fatelessness").
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