Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020 has been awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that, with austere beauty, makes individual existence universal”

113 Nobel Prizes in Literature awarded from 1901 to 2020

41 Age of the youngest laureate, Rudyard Kipling, best known for The Jungle Book, who won in 1915

88 Age of oldest laureate, Doris Lessing, winner in 2007


RECENT LAUREATES
2019: Peter Handke, Austria 
2018: Olga Tokarczuk, Poland 
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro, UK
2016: Bob Dylan, U.S.
2015: Svetlana Alexievich, Belarus 
2014: Patrick Modiano, France


Source: Nobelprize.org 
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