Since the Nobel Prize winners are, in theory, the best writers, it is obvious their works resulted in great films, right? Wrong. Truth to be told, it is not easy to find Cinema classics based on works by a Nobel Prize winner. This could be explained due to the difficulties in adapting complex, dense and prosaic writing into something visual as a film.
That's why adaptations from extremely well written books are a very hard task to achieve. Nevertheless, there are some amazing examples of what happens when literature and cinema cross hands. This list contains some of them.
