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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

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee". Gurnah's most renowned novel is "Paradise", set in colonial East Africa during World War I.
2021-10-7

The Nobel Committee awards Japanese-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."
2017-10-5

The Swedish Academy announces that American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has agreed to accept his Nobel Prize in Literature this weekend at a private location in Stockholm.
2017-03-29

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

Poet Seamus Heaney from Northern Ireland, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, dies aged 74.
2013-08-30

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

The Internal Affairs Minister of Israel declares German poet and former Waffen-SS soldier Günter Grass, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "persona non grata" in a row over his poem "What Must Be Said".
2012-04-8

Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2011-10-6

Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa is announced as the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2010-10-7