Nobel Prize Winners
- Gao Xingjian (PWF 2009, Nobel Prize 2000)
- Wole Soyinka (PWF 2006, Nobel Prize 1986)
- Nadine Gordimer (PWF 2004, Nobel Prize 1991)
- Harold Pinter (PWF 1999, Nobel Prize 2005)
- José Saramago (PWF 1994, Nobel Prize 1998)
- Herta Müller (PWF 1999, Nobel Prize 2009)
- Derek Walcott (PWF 2011, Nobel Prize 1992)
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“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”
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