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The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 117 times to 121 Nobel Prize laureates since 1901. Ahead of the announcement of the 118th Laureate we present a selection of readings by those awarded the prize, from the first winner, Sully Prudhomme, to 2024's - Han Kang. We have poetry from Gabriela Mistral and WB Yeats, drama from George Bernard Shaw and Harold Pinter, Svetlana Alexievich's polyphonic reportage as well as speeches from those accepting - and refusing the award. The readers are Samuel West and Jasmine Hyde. Readings: Ernest Hemingway – Novel Prize Acceptance Speech Sully Prudhomme – The Broken Vase Han Kang – The Vegetarian John Galsworthy – The Forsyte Saga Rudyard Kipling – The Way Through The Woods Tomas Tranströmer – Allegro Gabriela Mistral – Give me Your Hand Wole Soyinka - You Must Set Forth At Dawn Olga Tokarczuk – Flights Rabindreth Tagore - Song Offerings - Gitanjali 35 Toni Morrison- Beloved George Bernard Shaw -Pygmalion Selma Lagerlöf - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Svetlana Alexievich Last Witnesses - Unchildlike Stories Seamus Heaney  - Sloe Gin Louise Gluck - Wild Iris Jean-Paul Sartre – Statement to the Swedish Press Producer in Salford: Jessica Treen