Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 has been awarded to British writer Kazuo Ishiguro “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”

RECENT LAUREATES
2016: Bob Dylan, U.S.
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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