| 1 | She is the 12th woman to win a Nobel Literature Prize. | |
| 2 | Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature. | |
| 3 | Pearl Buck later became the first American woman to win a Nobel for literature. | |
| 4 | Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. | |
| 5 | But as history would have it, he won the Nobel prize and Borges didn' t. |