Nobel Prize in Literature

2014: Patrick Modiano, France, “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the Occupation”

2013: Alice Munro, Canada
2012: Mo Yan, China
2011: Tomas Tranströmer, Sweden
2010: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
2009: Herta Mueller, Germany
2008: J.M.G. Le Clézio, France
2007: Doris Lessing, UK
2006: Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
2005: Harold Pinter, UK

Source: NobelPrize.org
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