Nobel Prize in Literature
| 1967 | 
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Bob Dylan
(b. 1943) |
 United States
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English | "since he has, at his youth, already revolutionized the folk song, rock music, and the album form" | poetry, song lyrics |
| 1968 | 
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
(1900 - 1972) |
 France
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French | "intensively beautiful control over the French language and the art of children's literature" | novel, poetry |
| 2016 | 
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Leonard Cohen(1934 - 2016) | United States
|
English | "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" | poetry, song lyrics |
| 2019 | 
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Thomas Pynchon | United States
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Future[edit | edit source]
| 2021 | 
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Hadrawi
(b. 1943) |
Template:Country data Ethiopian Empire | Arabic | "for his emotional and romantic poetry illuminating the love and strength of the Somali people" | poetry, song |
| 2022 | 
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Isabel Allende
(b. 1942) |
Template:Country data Inca Empire | Spanish | "because of her homage to the history of women and perseverance through prose to find good in the world" | novel, history, memoir |
| 2023 | .jpg)
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Cormac McCarthy
(b. 1933) |
 United States
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English | "whose unmistakable and powerful voice delved into a vast and endless ocean of darkness and human complexity" | novel, drama, screenplay |
| 2024 | .jpg)
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Haruki Murakami
(b. 1949) |
Template:Country data Empire of Japan | Japanese | "for his melancholic and fatalistic works that reflect on the most subtle and indescribable of human condition" | novel, short story, essay, translation |
| 2025 | 
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Karl Ove Knausgård
(b. 1958) |
Template:Country data Norway | Norwegian | "mastery of the art of the memoir" | novel, memoir |
| 2026 | 
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Bảo Ninh
(b. 1952) |
Template:Country data Vietnam | Vietnamese | "for his literary monuments to suffering, unwavering pacifism, and world peace" | novel, history, essay, short story |
| 2027 | .jpg)
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David Foster Wallace
(b. 1941) |
United States
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English | "who transcended the bounds of the postmodern novel to create a sincere, ubiquitous voice utterly unique in all language" | novel, short story, essay |
| 2028 | 
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Arundhati Roy
(b. 1961) |
Template:Country data India | English | "for her defiant and powerful voice calling to attention the discrimination and struggles of the world's oppressed" | novel, screenplay, short story |
| 2029 | 
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Andrew Hussie
(b. 1979) |
United States
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English | “for his revolutionary exploration of the internet as a medium of storytelling” | webcomic, video game |