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The 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Japanese novelist Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) "who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." [1] He is the second Japanese Nobel laureate in Literature after Yasunari Kawabata was awarded in 1968.
1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. Samuel Beckett. "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." Date. 23 October 1969 (announcement) 10 December 1969. (ceremony)
The 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British playwright Harold Pinter (1930–2008) "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms." [1] He is the 11th British writer to become a recipient of the prize after William Golding in 1983 and was followed later by Doris ...
January 18 – The first books are transferred from the old to the new National Library of Latvia in Riga. March 6 – Joseph Boyden 's novel The Orenda wins the 2014 edition of Canada Reads. [5] April 24 – Writers including Mark Haddon and Mary Beard join a campaign against a ban on sending books to U.K. prison inmates.
The 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Italian poet Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) "for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions". [1] He is the fifth Italian laureate for the literature prize.
The 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South African [1] [2] novelist John Maxwell Coetzee (born 1940), better known simply as J. M. Coetzee, "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider." [3] He is the fourth African writer to be so honoured [4] and the second South African after Nadine Gordimer ...
Official website. ← 1954 ·. Nobel Prize in Literature. · 1956 →. The 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Icelandic writer Halldór Kiljan Laxness (1902–1998) "for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland." [1] He is the first and only Icelandic recipient of the Nobel prize in all categories.
