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

The Swedish Academy awards the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature to Olga Tokarczuk, "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life", and the 2019 prize to Peter Handke, "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience". The 2018 prize is awarded only now because last year it was postponed due to a scandal.
2019-10-10

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 is postponed to 2019 after Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of the former Swedish Academy member Katarina Frostenson, is accused of sexual assault, resulting in her resignation, and leaving the academy without a quorum.
2018-05-4

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

Belarusian author and journalist Svetlana Alexievich wins the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2015-10-8

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

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