Frans Eemil Sillanpää was a famous Finnish writer, and the first Finn to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He is known for such novels as The Maid Silja.

Wisława Szymborska (2, July 1923 – 1, February 2012) was a Nobel Prize winning poet. Translator, and essayist from Poland.

Yasunari Kawabata (11 June, 1899 –16 April, 1972) was a Nobel Prize winning novelist from Japan. He was the first Japanese author to have been awarded the prize

The book follows Dr. Doudna’s journey to create a gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is a revolution in the genetic engineering field, felt around the world

John Galsworthy (14 August, 1867 – 31 January, 1933) was an English novelist and playwright, as well as the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature winner.

Pablo Neruda (12 July, 1904 – 23 September, 1973) was a Nobel Prize winning poet from in Parral, Chile he was the son of a railway employee and a school teacher

Odysseas Elytis (2 November, 1911 – 18 March, 1996) was a Greek poet, Program Director of the Greek National Radio Foundation, and a 1979 Nobel Prize laureate.

Giosuè Carducci (27 July, 1835 – 16 February, 1907) was a Nobel Prize winning Italian poet and author born in a small town in Tuscany, Italy

Erik Karlfeldt (20 July, 1864 – 8 April, 1931) was a popular Swedish poet, member of the Swedish Academy, and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April, 1906 – 22 December, 1989) was a Nobel Prize winning playwright and novelist from Ireland. Mr. Beckett is mostly known for his play Waiting for Godot