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The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936) "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." [1] The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 7 October 2010. [2] He is the first Nobel laureate in Literature from ...
Leo Tolstoy, one of the most widely read writers who never won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors which, according to the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the benefactor of the prize, has produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". [1] [2] It was announced by the Swedish Academy on 6 October 2022. [3] [4] [5] Ernaux was the 16th French writer – the first ...
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". [1] She is the tenth female and the first Austrian Nobel ...
The 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the French writer Albert Camus (1913–1960) "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times." [1] He is the ninth French author to become a recipient of the prize after Catholic novelist François Mauriac in ...
Nobel Prize in Literature. · 2014 →. The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian writer Alice Munro (born 1931) as "master of the contemporary short story." [1] She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the prize. [2] [3] [4] [5]
The Nobel Prize in Literature is one of many Nobel Prizes given in honor of Alfred Nobel. Every year, a writer is chosen by the Swedish Academy to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. They choose someone who they think has written something that has great value. The prize was awarded the first time in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme of France.
