Nobel Prize in Literature

French author Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”


2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania / UK 

2020: Louise Glück, U.S.

2019: Peter Handke, Austria

2018: Olga Tokarczuk, Poland 

2017: Kazuo Ishiguro, UK 

2016: Bob Dylan, U.S.


41 Age of youngest laureate, Rudyard Kipling, best known for The Jungle Book, who won in 1907

88 Age of oldest laureate, Doris Lessing, winner in 2007 for her life’s work


Source: Nobelprize.org 
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