Most Recent Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Günter Grass (1999)
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Herta Müller (2009)
A Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist who is famous for her works portraying the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, especially in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime which she lived through herself.
6 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (2008)
The author of over forty works, Le Clézio has been writing since age seven and indeed deserves the award for his work such as Le Procès-Verbal.
6 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
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Doris Lessing (2007)
An Iranian-born British writer whose skepticism, fire and visionary power subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny...according to the Swedish Academy.
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Harold Pinter (2005)
6 points - added 14 years ago by writershire - 1 comment
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Among the most influential British playwrights of modern times...Pinter received numerous awards in addition to the Nobel prize, including the Tony Award for Best Play in 1967 for The Homecoming, the BAFTA awards, the French Légion d'honneur and 20 honorary degrees.
Added 14 years ago by writershire, 0 points
6.
Orhan Pamuk (2006)
One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, Pamuk's work has sold over seven million books in more than fifty languages.
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Elfriede Jelenik (2004)
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J. M. Coetzee (2003)
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Imre Kertész (2002)
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V.S. Naipaul (2001)
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José Saramago (1998)
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Dario Fo (1997)
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Wislawa Szymborska (1996)
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Seamus Heaney (1995)
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15.
Kenzaburo Oe (1994)
0 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
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Toni Morrison (1993)
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Derek Walcott (1992)
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Nadine Gordimer (1991)
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Octavio Paz (1990)
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20.
Gao Xingjian (2000)
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