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Mats Malm, the current permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announcing the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature ( Swedish : Nobelpriset i litteratur ) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature.
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 116 times to 120 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2023. Click on the links to get more information. Find all prizes in | physics | chemistry | physiology or medicine | literature | peace | economic sciences | all categories.
The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded, according to the will of Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” in the field of literature.
YearNameCountry*Literary Area2023Norwaynovelist, playwright, poet2022Francenovelist, memoirist2021Tanz.novelist2020U.S.poet- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” His immense oeuvre written in Norwegian Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations.
All Nobel Prizes in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 116 times to 120 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2023. Click on the links to get more information.
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 116 times between 1901 and 2023 to 120 individuals: 103 men and 17 women. The prize has been shared between two individuals on four occasions. It was not awarded on seven occasions. The laureates have included writers in 25 different languages.
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