The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 108
times to 112 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015. Click on the links
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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature has not been awarded yet. The date will be set later.
"for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time"
"for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and
uncovered the life-world of the occupation"
"master of the contemporary short story"
"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"
"because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality"
"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"
"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy,
explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"
"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and
visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"
"who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has
discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"
"who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"
"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"
"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"
"for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"
"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in
works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"
"for an æuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic
ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama"
"whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history"
"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 with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth
condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament
today"
"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"
"for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability"
"who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic,
now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that
applies to all mankind"
"for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"
"who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence"
"who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness
with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human
condition"
"for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich
inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and
versatility of man"
"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 writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"
"who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"
"for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition,
depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern
man's struggle for freedom and creativeness"
"for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a
Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to
life"
"for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in
the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the
great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars"
"for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work"
"for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity,
has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with
no illusions"
"for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom"
"for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos"
"for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature"
"for his writing which through its combination of a broad perspective
on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed
to a renewal of German 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 narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"
"for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America"
"for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people"
"for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength"
"for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the
Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the
Russian people"
"for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of
freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on
our age"
"for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture"
"for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"
"for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country"
"for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which
in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"
"for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"
"for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition"
"for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted
earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our
times"
"for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity"
"for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland"
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