Public libraries are institutions that develop their activities for the benefit of the community. Today, in modern times, they are focused on information, education, creation of cultural identity and intercultural communication. In order for the same tasks of a public library to be achieved, it is necessary that through its library fund, the library provides its users with a diverse selection of materials. The creation of cultural identity and intercultural communication is possible through texts, books, materials from other cultures. These are culturally concious books that come from other countries, written in another language, and give an authentic feeling of a certain culture. In this work, books from other cultures were selected according to authors awarded the Nobel Prize in the period from 1980 to 2000. The aim of the work is to investigate the availability and borrowing of works by Nobel Prize-winning authors in the holdings of six Croatian public libraries: Zagreb City Libraries, City Library Marko Marulić Split, City Library Rijeka, City Library and Reading Room Pula, City Library Ivan Goran Kovačić Karlovac and City Library Požega. The research is necessary because works on the topic of culturally concious literature are not represented and the results would serve to gain insight into the state of availability of the mentioned culturally concious works and their borrowing during the period of one year in Croatian public libraries. The research part of the work will present the results obtained by searching the library catalogs of selected Croatian public libraries, according to the names of the authors awarded the Nobel Prize in the period from 1980 to 2000.