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.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 will be announced on Thursday 10 October, 13:00 CEST at the earliest.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019
“for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018
“for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017
“who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
“for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015
“for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014
“for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013
“master of the contemporary short story”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012
“who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011
“because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010
“for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat”