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Nobel Prize
First awarded in 1901, this international prize was established by researcher and inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) to recognise people who "conferred the greatest benefit on mankind" in the five areas of physics, chemistry, medicine, peace and literature.
The Official Nobel Prize Page
Year Winner Novels
2005 Harold Pinter Harold Pinter
"who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"
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Various Voices: Prose Poetry Politics 1948-1998
War
2004 Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek
"for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clich and their subjugating power"
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2003 John Maxwell CoetzeeJohn Maxwell Coetzee
"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"
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Disgrace
Elizabeth Costello
Youth
2002 Imre Kert?Imre Kert
"for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"
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Essere Senza Destino
Fiasko
Roman eines Schicksallosen

2001 V.S. NaipaulV.S. Naipaul
"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"
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Half a Life
Reading and Writing: A Personal Account
Enigma of Arrival
2000 Gao Xingjian
John Maxwell Coetzee
"for an ceuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama"
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Soul Mountain
Buying A Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
One Mans Bible

                                                                                                                                                                    

 

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