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Jon Fosse is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his innovative plays, prose and style, which has come to be known as Fosse minimalism.
2023-10-5

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
2020-10-8

Jayne Svenungsson announces she is leaving the Swedish Academy, the body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the eighth person to quit amid sex abuse and financial crime scandals at the exclusive group.
2018-11-7

Per Wästberg, a member of the Swedish Academy, says that songwriter and artist Bob Dylan has not yet indicated whether he intends to accept the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2016-10-21

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2016-10-13

The Swedish Academy releases secret documents of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature that ultimately was awarded the Greek poet Giorgos Seferis, revealing that writers such as Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov were dismissed early in the selection process.
2014-01-2

The Canadian writer Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2013-10-10

Chinese author Mo Yan, famous for working in the style of writing known as hallucinatory realism, wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2012-10-11

German Health Minister Daniel Bahr tells "Die Welt" that the Israeli government's declaration of Günter Grass as "persona non grata" in reaction to his poem "What Must Be Said" is "exaggerated". Meanwhile, a sculpture celebrating freedom of speech in Göttingen is daubed in red paint telling the recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature to "shut your mouth".
2012-04-9

1998 Nobel Laureate José Saramago from Portugal dies at the age of 87.
2010-06-18