All Nobel Prize in Literature 1901-2021:
2004 -2021
2021
Winner:Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gulnai (Abdul Razak Gulnai won the Prize)
Represented works:
The Paradise, By the Sea, and The Afterlife. >Reason for award:For his impact on colonialism and his uncompromising and compassionate insight into the fate of refugees caught between cultures and continents."
2020
Winner:For the work of Louise Glick
Representation:Until the World Reflects the Soul's Deepest Needs, Moonshine Alloy
Reason for Award:For universalizing personal existence with stark beauty and poetic precision of language.
2019
In 2019, the Swedish Academy of Letters honored two Nobel Prize winners, Polish author Olga Dorka_ (Olga Dorka_) and Austrian author Peter Handke (Peter Handke).
Orja Dorka_
Representative works:City of Mirrors, Travels of Book Characters, Swire and Other Times, The House of Day, The House of Night.
Peter Handke
Represented by:Casper, the play that scolds the audience, the novel The Painful Chinese, the goalie's anxiety about penalty kicks, and the Wim Wenders films The Wrong Way and Under the Berlin Dome.
2018
The Swedish Academy of Letters canceled the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature after it was plunged into a crisis of confidence over its involvement in a sex scandal and other incidents.
2017
Winner:Kazuo Ishiguro
Represented works:Landscape in the Mountains, Painter of the Flowing World and The End of a Long Day.
Reason for winning:His novels have a powerful emotional force that opens up the illusory abyss of our connection to the world.
2016
Winner:Bob Dylan
Works:Fluttering in the Wind
Reason for award:Creating new poetic expression out of traditional American songs.
2015
Winner:Svetlana Alexeevich (F)
For:Chernobyl Memory:An Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster
Reason for Award:A work of diverse voices, a monument to the suffering and courage of our times.
2014
Winner:Patrick Modiano
Works:Dark Shopping Street, Star Plaza, Café des Jeunes
Reason for the award:He used the art of memory to show the most difficult fate of mankind and the world in which people lived during the German occupation.
2013
Winner:Alice Munro (F)
For:Happy Shadow Dance and Escape
Reason for the award:Master of the contemporary short story.
2012
Winner:Mo Yan
Representative works:Red Sorghum, Breasts and Hips, and Frogs
Reason for award:Combination of folktales, history, and contemporary society with hallucinatory realist writing techniques.
2011
Winner:Thomas Transtr?mer
For:Seventeen Poems, Secrets on the Way
Reason for Award:Provides a new pathway to reality through simple, penetrating images.
2010
Winner:Mario Vargas Llosa
Works:The Green House, Armageddon, The City and the Dog
Reasons for the award:Detailed descriptions of power structures, sharp narratives of individual revolt, resistance, and defeat.
2009
Winner:Herta Miller (F)
For:Breathing Pendulum, River Run, Walking the Boundary, Fox was a hunter by then.
Why it won:It blends the simplicity of poetry with the candor of prose, depicting the plight of those who have nothing and no hope.
2008
Winner:Le Clezio
Works:War
Reasons for the award:Shows new beginnings, poetic adventures, the ecstasy of the senses; as a searcher, I have discovered the human nature hidden underneath and outside of the dominant civilization.
2007
Winner:Doris Lessing (F)
For:The Golden Notebook
Reasons for the award:Examining a fractured civilization with skepticism, passion, and the power of her imagination, her work reads like an epic of the female experience.
2006
Winner:Orhan Pamuk
For:My Name is Red
Reasons for the award:In searching for the melancholic souls of my homeland, I discovered a new phenomenon in the collision and fusion of cultures.