Works by Nobel Prize winning authors

Connected Sites: 38

WHS which are "described" in a work by a Nobel Prize Winning author. Name author and work (book, poem, etc).

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Connected Sites

Istanbul
Istanbul
Turkiye
Inscribed: 1985
4.38
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Istanbul, Memories Of A City By Orhan Pamuk
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge
Inscribed: 2007
2.32
118
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The Bridge On The Drina By Ivo Andri
Historic Cairo
Inscribed: 1979
3.65
396
11
Cairo Trilogy By Naguib Mahfouz
Mountain Railways of India
Inscribed: 1999
3.41
109
8
Plain Tales From The Hills By Rudyard Kipling. Many Set In Simla (Now Shimla, Part Of Kalka-Shimla Railway).
Kilimanjaro National Park
Inscribed: 1987
3.92
103
7
Hemingway (1954) - Snows Of Kilimanjaro
Reims
Reims
France
Inscribed: 1991
3.43
353
9
Gb Shaw (1925) - St Joan
Lübeck
Lübeck
Germany
Inscribed: 1987
3.17
349
8
Thomas Mann (1929) - Buddenbrooks
Cartagena
Cartagena
Colombia
Inscribed: 1984
3.37
177
5
Marquez (1982) - Love In The Time Of Cholera - Fictional Place But Probably Cartagena
Machu Picchu
Inscribed: 1983
4.62
355
8
Neruda (1971) - Alturas De Macchu Picchu
Old City of Jerusalem
Inscribed: 1981
4.37
369
12
Agnon (1966) - Only Yesterday (Among Others)
Venice and its Lagoon
Inscribed: 1987
4.51
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Thomas Mann (1929) - Death In Venice
Maulbronn Monastery
Inscribed: 1993
3.13
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11
Herman Hesse (1946) "Unterm Rad" 1906 ("Beneath The Wheel" Or "The Prodigy")
Tipasa
Tipasa
Algeria
Inscribed: 1982
2.88
52
3
"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).
Djémila
Djémila
Algeria
Inscribed: 1982
3.40
43
3
"Le Vent A Djemila" (1938)- Essay By Albert Camus From The Collection "Noces". Camus Muses On Death - Inspired By The Ruins!.
Solovetsky Islands
Inscribed: 1992
3.43
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2
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)
Santa Cruz de Mompox
Inscribed: 1995
2.72
37
4
Marquez (1982) - Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
Valparaiso
Inscribed: 2003
3.12
207
12
Pablo Neruda (1971) - "Oda A Valparaiso"
See Www.Neruda.Uchile.Cl
Brú na Bóinne
Inscribed: 1993
3.62
258
11
Seamus Heaney (1995) - "Funeral Rites" In Volume North
Paris, Banks of the Seine
Inscribed: 1991
4.19
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Roger Martin Du Gard (1937) - The Thibaults; Patrick Modiano (2014) - Un Cirque Passe
Pitons Management Area
Inscribed: 2004
2.93
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5
Derek Walcott (1992) - Omeros
Southern Öland
Inscribed: 2000
2.52
126
7
Selma Lagerlof (1909) - The Wonderful Adventures Of Nils
St. Petersburg
Inscribed: 1990
4.22
356
9
Mikhail Sholokhov (1965) - And Quiet Flows The Don
Mexico City and Xochimilco
Inscribed: 1987
3.83
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8
Octavio Paz (1990) - The Labyrinth Of Solitude
Taj Mahal
Inscribed: 1983
4.24
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Rabindranath Tagore (1913) - "Shah Jahan"
Mafra
Mafra
Portugal
Inscribed: 2019
2.85
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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)
Canterbury
Canterbury
United Kingdom
Inscribed: 1988
3.39
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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")
Stone Town of Zanzibar
Inscribed: 2000
3.44
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Gurnah (2021): Several (Gurnah Was Born Here), Including Gravel Heart
Lake District
Lake District
United Kingdom
Inscribed: 2017
3.52
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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
Great Spa Towns of Europe
Great Spa Towns of Europe
Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
Inscribed: 2021
3.28
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"The Future Nobel Prize Winner Paul Heyse Memorialised The Ems Region In His Novella, "Der Blinde Von Dausenau"." (Nomination File, P. 205)
Santiniketan
Inscribed: 2023
1.65
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The Shantiniketan School Song By Rabindranath Tagore (Np Winner 1913).
See En.Wikisource.Org
Le Morne
Le Morne
Mauritius
Inscribed: 2008
2.59
107
5
J.M.G. Leclézio (2008), The Prospector
Auschwitz Birkenau
Inscribed: 1979
4.08
453
14
Imre Kertész (2002), Fatelessness
Budapest
Budapest
Hungary
Inscribed: 1987
3.88
754
15
Imre Kertész (2002), Fatelessness
Vienna
Vienna
Austria
Inscribed: 2001
4.03
812
20
Jose Saramago (1998), The Elephant's Journey
Thingvellir
Inscribed: 2004
3.42
381
8
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.
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
Inscribed: 2023
2.96
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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.
Lima
Lima
Peru
Inscribed: 1988
2.85
357
10
“La Ciudad De Los Perros” From Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa (2010) Takes Place In Lima.
Nice
Nice
France
Inscribed: 2021
2.79
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"Dimanches D'Août" By Patrick Modiano Is Set In Nice. (Nomination File, P. 203)
See Fr.Wikipedia.Org