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1901
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Sully Prudhomme
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French (poetry, essay)
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1902
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Theodor Mommsen
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German (history, law)
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1903
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Bjornstjerne Bjornson
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Norweigan (poetry, novel, drama)
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1904
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Frederic Mistral
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French (poetry, philology)
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1904
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Jose Echegaray
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Spanish (drama)
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1905
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Polish (novel)
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1906
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Giosue Carducci
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Italian (poetry)
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1907
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Rudyard Kipling
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English (novel, short story, poetry)
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1908
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Rudolf Christoph Eucken
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German (philosophy)
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1909
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Selma Lagerlof
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Swedish (novel, short story)
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1910
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Paul von Heyse
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German (poetry, novel, drama, short story)
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1911
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Maurice Maeterlinck
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Belgian (drama, poetry, essay)
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1912
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Gerhart Hauptmann
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German (drama, novel)
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1913
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Indian (poetry, novel, drama, short story, music, essay, philosophy, literary criticism, translation)
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1915
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Romain Rolland
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French (novel)
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1916
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Verner von Heidenstam
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Swedish (poetry, novel)
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1917
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Karl Adolph Gjellerup
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Danish (poetry)
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1917
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Henrik Pontoppidan
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Danish (novel)
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1919
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Carl Spitteler
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German (poetry)
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1920
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Knut Hamsun
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Norweigan (novel)
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1921
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Anatole France
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French (novel, poetry)
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1922
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Jacinto Benavente
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Spanish (drama)
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1923
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William Butler Yeats
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Irish (poetry)
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1924
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Wladyslaw Reymont
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Polish (novel)
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1925
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George Bernard Shaw
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English (drama, literary criticism)
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1926
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Grazia Deledda
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Italian (poetry, novel)
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1927
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Henri Bergson
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French (philosophy)
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1928
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Sigrid Undset
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Norweigan (novel)
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1929
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Thomas Mann
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German (novel, short story, essay)
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1930
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Sinclair Lewis
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American (novel, short story, drama)
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1931
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Erik Axel Karlfeldt
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Swedish (poetry)
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1932
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John Galsworthy
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English (novel)
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1933
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Ivan Bunin
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Russian (short story, poetry, novel)
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1934
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Luigi Pirandello
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Italian (drama, novel, short story)
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1936
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Eugene O'Neill
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American (drama)
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1937
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Roger Martin du Gard
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French (novel)
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1938
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Pearl Buck
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American (novel, biography)
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1939
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Frans Eemil Sillanpää
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Finnish (novel)
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1944
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Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
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Danish (novel, short story)
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1945
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Gabriela Mistral
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Chilean (poetry)
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1946
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Herman Hesse
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German (novel, poetry)
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1947
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Andre Gide
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French (novel, essay)
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1948
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T.S. Eliot
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American (poetry)
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1949
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William Faulkner
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American (novel, short story)
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1950
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Betrand Russell
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English (philosophy)
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1951
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Pär Lagerkvist
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Swedish (poetry, novel, short story, drama)
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1952
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Francois Mauriac
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French (novel, short story)
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1953
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Winston Churchill
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English (history, essay, memoirs)
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1954
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Ernest Hemingway
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American (novel, short story, screenplay)
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1955
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Haldor Laxness
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Icelandic (novel, short story, drama, poetry)
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1956
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
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Spanish (poetry)
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1957
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Albert Camus
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French (novel, short story, drama, philosophy, essay)
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1958
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Boris Pasternak
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Russian (novel, poetry, translation)
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1959
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Salvatore Quasimodo
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Italian (poetry)
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1960
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Saint-John Perse
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French (poetry)
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1961
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Ivo Andric
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Serbo-Croatian (novel, short story)
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1962
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John Steinbeck
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American (novel, short story, screenplay)
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1963
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Giorgos Seferis
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Greek (poetry, essay, memoirs)
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1964
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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French (novel, short story, philosophy, drama, literary criticism, screenplay)
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1965
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Mikhail Sholokhov
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Russian (novel)
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1966
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Hungarian/Israelian (novel, short story)
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1966
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Nelly Sachs
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German/Swedish (poetry, drama)
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1967
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Miguel Angel Asturias
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Spanish (novel, poetry)
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1968
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Yasunari Kawabata
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Japanese (novel, short story)
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1969
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Samuel Beckett
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Irish (novel, drama, poetry)
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1970
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Russian (novel)
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1971
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Pablo Neruda
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Spanish (poetry)
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1972
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Heinrich Böll
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German (novel, short story)
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1973
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Patrick White
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English/Australian (novel, short story, drama)
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1974
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Eyvind Johnson
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Swedish (novel)
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1974
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Harry Martinson
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Swedish (poetry, novel, drama)
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1975
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Eugenio Montale
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Italian (poetry)
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1976
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Saul Bellow
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American/Canadian (novel, short story)
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1977
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Vicente Aleixandre
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Spanish (poetry)
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1978
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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American/Polish (Novel, short story, memoirs)
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1979
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Odysseas Elytis
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Greece (poetry, essay)
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1980
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Czeslaw Milosz
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American/Polish (poetry, essay)
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1981
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Elias Canetti
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English/Bulgarian (novel, drama, memoirs, essay)
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1982
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Spanish (novel, short story, screenplay)
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1983
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William Golding
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English (novel, poetry, drama)
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1984
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Jaroslav Seifert
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Czechoslovakian/Hungarian (poetry)
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1985
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Claude Simon
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French (novel, literary criticism)
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1986
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Wole Soyinka
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Nigerian (drama, novel, poetry, screenplay)
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1987
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Joseph Brodsky
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American/Russian (poetry, essay)
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1988
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Egyptian (novel, short story)
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1989
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Camilo Jose Cela
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Spanish (novel, short story, essay, poetry)
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1990
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Octavio Paz
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Spanish (poetry, essay)
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1991
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Nadine Gordimer
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South African (novel, short story, essay, drama)
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1992
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Derek Walcott
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Saint Lucian (poetry, drama)
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1993
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Toni Morrison
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American (novel)
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1994
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Kenzaburo Oe
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Japanese (novel, short story, essay)
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1995
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Seamus Heaney
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Irish (poetry, drama, translation)
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1996
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Wislawa Szymborska
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Polish (poetry, essay, translation)
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1997
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Dario Fo
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Italian (drama, songwriting)
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1998
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Jose Saramago
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Portugese (novel, drama, poetry)
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1999
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Günter Grass
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German (novel, drama, poetry)
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2000
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Gao Xingjian
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China/France (novel, drama, literary criticism)
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2001
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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English/Trinidad & Tobago /novel, essay)
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2002
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Imre Kertesz
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Hungarian (novel)
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2003
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J.M. Coetzee
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Australian/South African (novel, essay, translation)
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2004
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Elfriede Jelinek
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Austrian (novel, drama)
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2005
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Harold Pinter
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English (drama, screenplay)
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2006
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Orhan Pamuk
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Turkish (novel, screenplay, autobiography, essay)
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2007
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Doris Lessing
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Iranian/Zimbawean/English (novel, drama, poetry, short story, memoirs, autobiography)
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2008
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Jean-Marie Gustave le Clezio
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French (novel, short story, essay, translation)
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2009
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Herta Muller
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German/Romanian (novel, short story, poetry, essay)
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2010
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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Peruvian/Spanish (novel, short story, essay, drama, memoirs)
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2011
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Tomas Tranströmer
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Swedish (poetry, translation)
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2012
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Mo Yan
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Chinese (novel, short story)
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2013
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Alice Munroe
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Canadian (short story)
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2014
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Patrick Modiano
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French (novel, screenplay
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2015
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Svetlana Alexievich
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Russian (history, essay)
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2016
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Bob Dylan
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American (poetry, songwriting)
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2017
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Japanse/English (novel, screenplay, short story)
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2018
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Olga Tokarczuk
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Polish (novel, short story, poetry, essay, screenplay)
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2019
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Peter Handke
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Austrian (novel, short story, drama, translation, screenplay)
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2020
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Louise Glück
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American (poetry, essay)
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2021
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Tanzanian, Brittisk (novel, short story, essay)
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2022
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Annie Ernaux
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French (autobiography, novel)
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2023
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Jon Fosse
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Norwegian (drama, novel, poetry, essay)
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2024
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Han Kang
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South korean (novel, poetry)
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2025
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László Krasznahorkai
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Hungarian (novel)
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