Nobel Laureates

Work by the five African-born winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

• Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, 1947
• Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, 1956
• Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1975
• Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee, South Africa, 1980
• Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1981
• July's People by Nadine Gordimer, South Africa, 1981
• Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 1994
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee, South Africa, 1999
• By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2001
• Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2020