The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 117 times to 121 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2024. Click on the links to get more information.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
“for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023
“for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022
“for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
“for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
“for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”