The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 117 times to 121 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2024. Click on the links to get more information.
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Nobel Prize in Literature 2009
“who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2008
“author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2007
“that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2006
“who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2005
“who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2004
“for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2003
“who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2002
“for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2001
“for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2000
“for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama”