Nobel Prize in Literature

2016: Bob Dylan, U.S., “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

2015: Svetlana Alexievich, Belarus

2014: Patrick Modiano, France

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

Source: NobelPrize.org

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