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Nobel Prize in Literature

Order these Literature laureates by the year each won. Place all 44 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

Nobel Prize in Literature
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Order these Literature laureates by the year each won. Drag or tap it onto the line
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release years and dates
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How Nobel Prize in Literature is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 44 cards you could be dealt, plus 16 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Gabriel García Márquez Colombia
  • William Golding United Kingdom
  • Claude Simon France
  • Wole Soyinka Nigeria
  • Naguib Mahfouz Egypt
  • Camilo José Cela Spain
  • Nadine Gordimer South Africa
  • Toni Morrison United States
  • Kenzaburō Ōe Japan
  • Wisława Szymborska Poland
  • Dario Fo Italy
  • Günter Grass Germany
  • Gao Xingjian France
  • Imre Kertész Hungary
  • Elfriede Jelinek Austria
  • Harold Pinter United Kingdom
  • Doris Lessing United Kingdom
  • J. M. G. Le Clézio France
  • Mario Vargas Llosa Peru
  • Tomas Tranströmer Sweden
  • Alice Munro Canada
  • Svetlana Alexievich Belarus
  • Bob Dylan United States
  • Olga Tokarczuk Poland
  • Peter Handke Austria
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah Tanzania
  • Annie Ernaux France
  • Han Kang South Korea

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