Among authors who have won the Nobel Prize for literature is Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet who wrote the collection $text{underline{Sonnets of Death}}$.

Her later poems are concerned with the joys of motherhood, social justice, and the plight of the poor $text{underline{campesinos}}$ (rural people of Latin America).

Sigrid Undset, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1928, is the author of
$text{underline{Kristin Lavrasdatter}}$, an epic story of life and love in medieval Norway.

The winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize in literature was American Pearl Buck, whose famous novel, $text{underline{The Good Earth}}$, is based on her experiences living in China.

$text{underline{The Good Earth}}$, which tells the story of Chinese peasants very much like the ones Pearl Buck lived with in the 1920s and 1930s, has been translated into at least sixty-five different languages.

Another American winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is Toni Morrison. Her rich, absorbing novels, such as $text{underline{The Bluest Eye}}$ reveal both beauties and tragedies of African American life.