2025
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"for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art" |
2024
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"for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life" |
2023
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"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable" |
2022
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"for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory" |
2021
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"for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents" |
2018
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"for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life" |
2017
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"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world" |
2016
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"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" |
2015
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"for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time" |
2014
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"for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the Occupation" |
2013
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"master of the contemporary short story" |
2010
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"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat" |
2008
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"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization" |
2007
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"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny" |
2006
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"who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures" |
2005
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"who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms" |
2001
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"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories" |
2000
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"for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama" |
1999
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"whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history" |
1998
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"who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality" |
1995
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"for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past" |
1994
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"who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today" |
1993
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"who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality" |
1991
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"who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity" |
1988
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"who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind" |
1983
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"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" |
1982
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"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" |
1978
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"for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life" |
1976
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"for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work" |
1973
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"for an epic and psychological narrative art, which has introduced a new continent into literature" |
1972
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"for his writing, which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature" |
1971
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"for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams" |
1970
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"for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature" |
1969
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"for his writing, which – in new forms for the novel and drama – in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation" |
1962
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"for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception" |
1958
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"for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition" |
1957
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"for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times" |
1954
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"for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style" |
1953
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"for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values" |
1949
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"for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel" |
1948
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"for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry" |
1946
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"for his inspired writings, which while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style" |
1945
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"for her lyric poetry, which inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world" |
1938
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"for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces" |
1936
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"for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy" |
1932
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"for his distinguished art of narration, which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga" |
1925
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"for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty" |
1923
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"for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation" |
1907
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"in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration that characterize the creations of this world-famous author" |
