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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20071014
Author:Stuart Kelly

HERE'S a little literary puzzle. What connects the following writers: Sigrid Undset, author of Kristin Lavransdatter; Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of Quo Vadis?; Halldr Laxness, author of The Atom Station and Anatole France, author of Penguin Island? Here's a clue: it also unites George Bernard Shaw and Dario Fo, Yasunari Kawabata and Naguib Mahfouz, Derek Walcott and Toni Morrison. They have all written "outstanding works of an idealistic tendency" - in other words, they have received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This week their august company was augmented by the election of Doris Lessing ...

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