WORLD STARS
Famous Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (1982)
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
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Nigerian writer, poet and playwright,
Nobel
Prize Laureate in Literature (1986)
Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka
Famous South African writer and political activist, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (1991)
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West Indies poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in
English,
Nobel
Prize Laureate in Literature (1992)
Derek Alton Walcott
Famous American author,
editor, and professor,
Nobel
Prize Laureate in Literature (1993)
Toni Morrison (born Chloe
Anthony Wofford)
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Japanese writer,
Nobel
Prize Laureate in Literature (1994)
Kenzaburō Ōe
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Irish poet, writer, and lecturer,
Nobel
Prize Laureate in Literature (1995)
Seamus Justin Heaney
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Polish poet, essayist and translator,
Nobel
Prize Laureate in Literature (1996)
Wisława Szymborska
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Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor, and composer,
Nobel
Prize Laureate in Literature (1997)
Dario Fo
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Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist,
Nobel
Prize Laureate in Literature (1998)
José de Sousa Saramago
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German author and playwright,
Nobel
Prize Laureate in Literature (1999)
Günter Wilhelm Grass
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French Chinese émigré novelist, dramatist and critic,
Nobel
Prize Laureate in Literature (2000)
Gao Xingjian
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Trinidadian-born British writer of Indo-Trinidadian descent, currently
resident in Wiltshire, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (2001)
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad
Naipaul
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Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, Nobel Prize
Laureate in Literature (2002)
Imre Kertész
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author and academic from South Africa (now an Australian citizen living in
South Australia), novelist and literary critic as well as translator, Nobel
Prize Laureate in Literature (2003)
John Maxwell Coetzee
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Austrian feminist playwright and novelist, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature
(2004)
Elfriede Jelinek
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English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, and political
activist, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (2005)
Harold Pinter
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Turkish novelist and professor of comparative literature at Columbia
University, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (2006)
Orhan Pamuk
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British writer, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (2007)
Doris Lessing (born Doris
May Tayler)