...or based on short stories or plays. Some films or docs about literary themes are included too.

Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he was awarded in 1964.

Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel in The Piano Teacher (2001)

No adaptations: 2021 - Abdulrazak Gurnah (novel) 2011 - Tomas Tranströmer (poetry, translation) 2000 - Gao Xingjian (novel, drama, literary criticism) 1985 - Claude Simon (novel) 1984 - Jaroslav Seifert (poetry) 1979 - Odysseas Elytis (poetry) 1960 - Saint-John Perse (poetry) 1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo (poetry) (no adaptations, but he did write the Italian dialogue in Barabbas (1961)) 1950 - Bertrand Russell (philosophy) 1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt (poetry) 1927 - Henri Bergson (philosophy) 1919 - Carl Spitteler (poetry) 1916 - Verner von Heidenstam (poetry, novel) 1910 - Paul von Heyse (poetry, drama, novel, short story) 1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (philosophy) 1906 - Giosuè Carducci (poetry) 1902 - Theodor Mommsen (history, law) 1901 - Sully Prudhomme (poetry, essay)

The Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded in 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940-1943.

Adaptations of stories written by Nobel laureates in Literature

F.S..FITZGERALD,ERNEST HEMINGWAY,TOLSTOY,JULES VERNE,JACK LONDON, FRANZ KAFKA,CHARLOTTE BRONTE,EMILY BRONTE, LOUISA MAY AlCOTT,CHESTERTON, GASTON LEROUX,SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE,H.G WELLS,TRUMAN CAPOTE,WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ,HONORÉ DE BALZAC,JANE AUSTEN,AGATHA CHRISTIE,ALBERT CAMUS, AND A LOT OF OTHERS

Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting in Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Elders with illness-related dependency; healthy older folk rebelling against their age. From heartbreak to hilarity, the extreme diversity of ageing within film.

There is a growing list of films with older couples Today, there are about 600 million older people around the world, three times more than 50 years ago – and by 2050 there should be three times more again. 

In 2012, France's National Centre for Cinema and Animation (CNC) carried out a survey of audience attendance in the country over the past 20 years. It showed that in 2011, for the first time, seniors made up the biggest section of the audience, with the over-50s accounting for 33.6%, compared with 31.3% of under-25s. In 1993 the figures were 18.2% for seniors and 43.9% for young people.

According to Benoît Danard, the CNC's head of research, there are two reasons for this: "First, because of demographic changes in France. The population is ageing and the percentage of seniors is about 26% higher than it was 20 years ago. And [second] that age group tends to go to the cinema far more often than before." Cinema attendance for the over-60s rose from 28% to 57% between 1993 and 2011. One explanation may be that having grown up with classic films and the French New Wave, this generation has remained faithful to its first love – and now has time and money to devote to it.

Valérie Stroh in A Man and Two Women (1991)

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