Reading the World discussion

This folder will be used for our Challenges for 2020. I am in planning mode. :) Feel free to post anything you would like to see.

World Wide woman award winners :
14 woman nobel prize winners (119 altogether

I am looking thru the major awards right now

How many countries would we hit if we read all the Nobel prize winning women authors? I am missing all the smaller countries now...I have plenty of UK, US, France, Germany...

This is what I have found: There are only 14 woman represented in the Noble Prize winners:

Female Nobel prize winners: 14
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf 1st 1909 Sweden
Grazia Deledda 1926 Italy
Sigrid Undset 1928 Norway
Pearl Buck 1938 USA (from China)
Gabriela Mistral 1945 Chile
Nelly Sachs 1966 Sweden (born Germany)
Wislawa Szymborska 1991 Poland
Nadine Gordimer 1991 South Africa
Toni Morrison 1993 USA (first African-American)
Elfriede Jelinek 2004 Germany
Doris Lessing 2007 English (born Iran)
Herta Müller 2009 Romania
Alice Munro 2013 Canada
Svetlana Alexievich 2015 Belarus
Olga Tokarczuk 2019 Poland

I think this is only USA but they could be used for the USA states challenge:
Pulitzer Prize 1917-1947 "Novels" (12)

1942 In This Our Life, by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)
1939 The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
1937 Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1935 Now in November, by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
1934 Lamb in His Bosom, by Caroline Miller (Harper)
1932 The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1931 Years of Grace, by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary, by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)
1925 So Big, by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)
1924 The Able McLaughlins, by Margaret Wilson (Harper)
1923 One of Ours, by Willa Cather (Knopf)
1921 The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1948-present "Fiction" (17)
2014 The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)
2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A.. Knopf)
2009 Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
2006 March, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
2005 Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
1995 The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields (Viking)
1994 The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons
1992 A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved, by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1985 Foreign Affairs, by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1983 The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1973 The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty (Random)
1970 Collected Stories, by Jean Stafford (Farrar)
1966 Collected Stories, by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1965 The Keepers Of The House, by Shirley Ann Grau

Of the 14 Nobel prize winning female authors I have only read 4 so that would be a great challenge for me.. I am a bit better on the pulitzers but still plenty I have not read. How about Booker Prize winners?
Thank you MaryAnn

I think I will give this some thought and figure out how to create a challenge to read prize winning female authors.