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 Literary Nobel Laureates (since 1982)

Can you tell who they are from their year of win/country and official citation?
 
 Year/Country/Citation Nobel Laureate
26.
1984 - Czechoslovakia - "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man"
 
 
AnswerJaroslav Seifert
25.
1989 - Spain - "for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability"
 
 
AnswerCamilo José Cela
24.
1988 - Egypt - "who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind"
 
 
AnswerNaguib Mahfouz
23.
Poland - 1996 - "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"
 
 
AnswerWislawa Szymborska
22.
2005 - UK - "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"
 
 
AnswerHarold Pinter
21.
1993 - USA - "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"
 
 
AnswerToni Morrison
20.
1994 - Japan - "who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today"
 
 
AnswerKanzaburo Oe
19.
2004 - Austria - "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"
 
 
AnswerElfriede Jelinek
18.
2000 - France - "for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama"
 
 
AnswerGao Xingjian
17.
1997 - Italy - "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden"
 
 
AnswerDario Fo
16.
2001 - United Kingdom - "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"
 
 
AnswerV.S. Naipaul
15.
2003 - South Africa - "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"
 
 
AnswerJ.M. Coetzee
14.
1985 - France - "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"
 
 
AnswerClaude Simon
13.
1992 - Saint Lucia - "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment"
 
 
AnswerDerek Walcott
12.
1990 - Mexico - "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity"
 
 
AnswerOctavio Paz
11.
1987 - USA - "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"
 
 
AnswerJoseph Brodsky
10.
1983 - UK - "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"
 
 
AnswerWilliam Golding
9.
1982 - Columbia - "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"
 
 
AnswerGabriel Garcia Marquez
8.
2002 - Hungary - "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"
 
 
AnswerImre Kertész
7.
1991 - South Africa - "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity"
 
 
AnswerNadine Gordimer
6.
1998 - Portugal - "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality"
 
 
AnswerJose Saramago
5.
2007 - UK - "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"
 
 
AnswerDoris Lessing
4.
2006 - Turkey - "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"
 
 
AnswerOrhan Pamuk
3.
1986 - Nigeria - "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence"
 
 
AnswerWole Soyinka
2.
1995 - Ireland - "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past"
 
 
AnswerSeamus Heaney
1.
1999 - Germany - "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history"
 
 
AnswerGunter Grass
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