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“for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”
Jon Foss (2023)
“for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”
Annie Ernaux (2022)
“for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”
Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021)
“for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”
Peter Handke (2019)
“who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world” -
2017
“for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”
2016
“master of the contemporary short story”
2013
“who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”
2012
“for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat”
“that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”
2007
“who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures”
2006
“who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms”
Harold Pinter 2005
“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”
2004
“who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider”
2003
“for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories”
2001
“whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history”
Gunter Grass
1999
“who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality”
“who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden”
“for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality”
“for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”
“who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”
“for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment”
“who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity”
“for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity”
“who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind”
“who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence”
“for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today”
“for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts”
“for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work”
“for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature”
“for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams”
“for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature”
“for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation”
“for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception”
“for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”
“for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”
“in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought”
“for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”
Han Kang (2024)
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