Here is the list of the last ten winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature before the announcement of the 2022 prize, today Thursday, October 6, in Stockholm.
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2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah
(Tanzania) for “
his empathetic and uncompromising account of the effects of colonialism and the fate of refugees caught between cultures and continents
”.
2020:
Louise Glück
(USA) "
for her characteristic poetic voice, which with its austere beauty makes individual existence universal
".
2019: Peter Handke
(Austria) “
for his influential work which, strong in linguistic ingenuity, explored the periphery and singularity of human experience
”.
2018: Olga Tokarczuk
(Poland) “
for a narrative imagination which, with an encyclopedic passion, symbolizes the crossing of borders as a form of life
”.
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro
(United Kingdom) “
who revealed, in novels of powerful emotional force, the abyss beneath our illusory sense of comfort in the world
”.
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2016: Bob Dylan
(USA) “
for creating new modes of poetic expression within the great tradition of American music
”.
2015: Svetlana Alexievitch
(Belarus) “
for her polyphonic work, a memorial of suffering and courage in our time
”.
2014: Patrick Modiano
(France) “
for the art of memory with which he evoked the most elusive human destinies and unveiled the world of the Occupation
”.
2013: Alice Munro
(Canada) “
sovereign of contemporary short story art
”.
2012: Mo Yan
(China) “
which with hallucinatory realism unites storytelling, history and the contemporary
”.