The Best 5 books by women won a literary nobel prize (2013-2022)

  Women are also involved in creating change, and they serve as role models in a variety of disciplines, including literature. Here are the top five novels penned by women who have received the Noble Prize for Literature. Happy International Women's Day!

1)  Happening

By: Annie Ernaux 

The novel "Happening" by Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022. The book is a memoir of the author's experience as a young woman in 1963 when she discovered she was pregnant and attempted to self-administer an abortion with a knitting needle. Fearing social shame and failure, she eventually found an abortionist, but her experience nearly killed her. The book reflects on her trauma and the societal stigma surrounding abortion at the time. The New York Times describes the book as urgent and of the moment. In writing the memoir, Ernaux sifts through her memories and journal entries from the time to gain a deeper understanding of her experience.

2)Marigold and Rose: A Fiction

By: Louise Glück

"Marigold and Rose" is a novel by Nobel laureate Louise Glück that tells the story of twin girls in their first year of life. The book combines elements of fairy tales and multigenerational sagas with an investigation of language and time itself. The twins learn to climb stairs and speak, while their parents, grandparents, and other characters provide additional perspectives on their world. The book is simultaneously sad and funny, shot through with a sense of stoic wonder. Glück, known primarily as a poet, brings her poetic sensibility to this work of fiction, which is both unlike anything she has written before and inevitable and transcendent.

3) The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk 

"The Books of Jacob" is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk that follows the rise and fall of a mysterious religious leader in 18th-century Europe. Jacob Frank, a young Jew of unknown origins, arrives in a village in Poland and soon casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. He reinvents himself multiple times, converts to different religions, and is revered as the Messiah and condemned as a heretic. The story is narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries, capturing a world on the cusp of change and searching for transcendence. The novel is paginated in reverse, starting at page 955 and ending at page 1, as a nod to books written in Hebrew. This is Tokarczuk's richest, most sweeping, and most ambitious novel to date.


By: Svetlana Alexievich

Secondhand Time is a non-fiction work by Svetlana Alexievich that documents the fall of communism in Russia. Using her distinctive documentary style, Alexievich records the stories of ordinary Russian citizens, providing a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia. The interviews span from 1991 to 2012, taking readers behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts to reveal what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and in the new Russia left in its wake. Through the personal accounts of those who lived through this period of history, Secondhand Time reveals the sorrows and triumphs of the human spirit and offers insight into human nature, dreams, choices, good, and evil. Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize for inventing "a new kind of literary genre" that is "a history of emotions--a history of the soul."



By: Alice Munro

Alice Munro's collection of short stories, Dear Life, explores the transformative moments that change the course of a person's life. Munro's characters are deeply human, flawed, and relatable, and her stories illuminate the unexpected twists of fate that shape their lives. The collection includes an autobiographical suite of four stories, offering a glimpse into Munro's own childhood. Set mostly around Lake Huron, these stories draw readers in with their quiet depth and surprise us with unexpected turns. Dear Life is a testament to Munro's masterful storytelling and her ability to capture the extraordinary within the ordinary moments of life.

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