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<th colspan="2">Laureate</th>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sully-Prudhomme.jpg"
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sully_Prudhomme"
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title="Sully Prudhomme">Sully Prudhomme</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></td>
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<td>"in special recognition of his poetic composition, which
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evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination
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of the qualities of both heart and intellect"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1901_8-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1901-8"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:T-mommsen-2.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="T-mommsen-2.jpg"
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height="105" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Mommsen"
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title="Theodor Mommsen">Theodor Mommsen</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a></td>
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<td>"the greatest living master of the art of historical writing,
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with special reference to his monumental work, <i><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rome_%28Mommsen%29"
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title="History of Rome (Mommsen)">A History of Rome</a></i>"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1902_9-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1902-9"><span>[</span>10<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bj%C3%B6rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B6rnson,_1901.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="Björnstjerne Björnson, 1901.jpg"
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson"
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title="Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson">Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a></td>
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<td>"as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry,
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has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration
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and the rare purity of its spirit"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1903_10-0"
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1903-10"><span>[</span>11<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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<td rowspan="2">1904</td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Mistral_by_Paul_Sa%C3%AFn.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="Frédéric Mistral by Paul Saïn.jpg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Mistral_by_Paul_Sa%C3%AFn.jpg/75px-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Mistral_by_Paul_Sa%C3%AFn.jpg"
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height="102" width="75"></a></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Mistral"
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title="Frédéric Mistral">Frédéric Mistral</a></td>
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<td>"in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration
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his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery
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and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work
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as a Provençal philologist"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1904_11-0"
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1904-11"><span>[</span>12<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jos%C3%A9_Echegaray_y_Eizaguirre.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="José Echegaray y Eizaguirre.jpg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Jos%C3%A9_Echegaray_y_Eizaguirre.jpg/75px-Jos%C3%A9_Echegaray_y_Eizaguirre.jpg"
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height="105" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Echegaray"
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title="José Echegaray">José Echegaray</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a></td>
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<td>"in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions
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in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions
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of the Spanish drama"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1904_11-1"
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1904-11"><span>[</span>12<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henryk_Sienkiewicz_02.jpg"
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height="102" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Sienkiewicz"
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title="Henryk Sienkiewicz">Henryk Sienkiewicz</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a></td>
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<td>"because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1905_12-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1905-12"><span>[</span>13<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carducci.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="Carducci.jpg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Carducci.jpg/75px-Carducci.jpg"
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height="98" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giosu%C3%A8_Carducci"
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title="Giosuè Carducci">Giosuè Carducci</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a></td>
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<td>"not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical
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research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness
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of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1906_13-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1906-13"><span>[</span>14<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kiplingcropped.jpg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Kiplingcropped.jpg/75px-Kiplingcropped.jpg"
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height="90" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling"
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title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom"
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title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td>
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<td>"in consideration of the power of observation, originality of
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imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration
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which characterize the creations of this world-famous author"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1907_14-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1907-14"><span>[</span>15<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rudolf_Christoph_Eucken.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="Rudolf Christoph Eucken.jpg"
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height="107" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Christoph_Eucken"
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title="Rudolf Christoph Eucken">Rudolf Christoph Eucken</a></td>
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<td>"in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his
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power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength
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in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and
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developed an idealistic philosophy of life"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1908_15-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1908-15"><span>[</span>16<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Selma_Lagerl%C3%B6f.jpg"
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height="105" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Lagerl%C3%B6f"
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title="Selma Lagerlöf">Selma Lagerlöf</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a></td>
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<td>"in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and
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spiritual perception that characterize her writings"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1909_16-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1909-16"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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height="115" width="75"></a></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Johann_Ludwig_von_Heyse"
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title="Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse">Paul von Heyse</a></td>
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<td>"as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with
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which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric
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poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1910_17-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1910-17"><span>[</span>18<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maurice_Maeterlinck.jpg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Maurice_Maeterlinck.jpg/75px-Maurice_Maeterlinck.jpg"
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height="118" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck"
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title="Maurice Maeterlinck">Maurice Maeterlinck</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a></td>
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<td>"in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and
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especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth
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of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the
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guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way
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they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their
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imaginations"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1911_18-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1911-18"><span>[</span>19<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:G_Hauptmann.jpg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/G_Hauptmann.jpg/75px-G_Hauptmann.jpg"
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height="120" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhart_Hauptmann"
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title="Gerhart Hauptmann">Gerhart Hauptmann</a></td>
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<td>"primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and
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outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1912_19-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1912-19"><span>[</span>20<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tagore3.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="Tagore3.jpg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Tagore3.jpg/75px-Tagore3.jpg"
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height="101" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore"
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title="Rabindranath Tagore">Rabindranath Tagore</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></td>
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<td>"because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful
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which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed
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in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1913_20-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1913-20"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romain_Rolland_1915.jpg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Romain_Rolland_1915.jpg/75px-Romain_Rolland_1915.jpg"
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height="105" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romain_Rolland"
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title="Romain Rolland">Romain Rolland</a></td>
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<td>"as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary
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to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different
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types of human beings"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1915_21-0"
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1915-21"><span>[</span>22<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johan_Krouth%C3%A9n_-_Portr%C3%A4tt_av_Verner_von_Heidenstam.jpg"
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alt="Johan Krouthén - Porträtt av Verner von Heidenstam.jpg"
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height="58" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner_von_Heidenstam"
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title="Verner von Heidenstam">Verner von Heidenstam</a></td>
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<td>"in recognition of his significance as the leading
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representative of a new era in our literature"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1916_22-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1916-22"><span>[</span>23<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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<td rowspan="2">1917</td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Gjellerup.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="Karl Gjellerup.jpg"
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height="98" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Adolph_Gjellerup"
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title="Karl Adolph Gjellerup">Karl Adolph Gjellerup</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a></td>
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<td>"for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty
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ideals"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1917_23-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1917-23"><span>[</span>24<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henrik_Pontoppidan.jpg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Henrik_Pontoppidan.jpg/75px-Henrik_Pontoppidan.jpg"
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height="110" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Pontoppidan"
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title="Henrik Pontoppidan">Henrik Pontoppidan</a></td>
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<td>"for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in
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Denmark"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1917_23-1" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1917-23"><span>[</span>24<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_spitteler_1905.jpg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Carl_spitteler_1905.jpg/75px-Carl_spitteler_1905.jpg"
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height="73" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Spitteler"
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title="Carl Spitteler">Carl Spitteler</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland"
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title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a></td>
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<td>"in special appreciation of his epic, <i>Olympian Spring</i>"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1919_24-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1919-24"><span>[</span>25<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Knut_Hamsun.jpeg"
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class="image"><img alt="Knut Hamsun.jpeg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Knut_Hamsun.jpeg/75px-Knut_Hamsun.jpeg"
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height="98" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Hamsun"
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title="Knut Hamsun">Knut Hamsun</a></td>
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<td>"for his monumental work, <i><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_the_Soil"
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title="Growth of the Soil">Growth of the Soil</a></i>"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1920_25-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1920-25"><span>[</span>26<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AnatoleFrance.JPG"
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height="104" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_France"
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title="Anatole France">Anatole France</a></td>
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<td>"in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements,
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characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human
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sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1921_26-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1921-26"><span>[</span>27<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jacinto_Benavente_y_Martinez.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="Jacinto Benavente y Martinez.jpg"
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height="111" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinto_Benavente"
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title="Jacinto Benavente">Jacinto Benavente</a></td>
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<td>"for the happy manner in which he has continued the
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illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama"<sup
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id="cite_ref-Literature1922_27-0" class="reference"><a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1922-27"><span>[</span>28<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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height="107" width="75"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats"
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title="William Butler Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a></td>
392
<td>"for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic
393
form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation"<sup
394
id="cite_ref-Literature1923_28-0" class="reference"><a
395
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1923-28"><span>[</span>29<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
400
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Reymont.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="Władysław Reymont.jpg"
402
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Reymont.jpg/75px-W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Reymont.jpg"
403
height="107" width="75"></a></td>
405
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Reymont"
406
title="Władysław Reymont">Władysław Reymont</a></td>
407
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a></td>
408
<td>"for his great national epic, <i><a
409
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%82opi" title="Chłopi">The
410
Peasants</a></i>"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1924_29-0"
412
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1924-29"><span>[</span>30<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
417
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_bernard_shaw.jpg"
418
class="image"><img alt="George bernard shaw.jpg"
419
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/George_bernard_shaw.jpg/75px-George_bernard_shaw.jpg"
420
height="115" width="75"></a></td>
421
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw"
422
title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a></td>
424
<td>"for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity,
426
stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty"<sup
427
id="cite_ref-Literature1925_30-0" class="reference"><a
428
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1925-30"><span>[</span>31<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
433
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grazia_Deledda_1926.jpg"
434
class="image"><img alt="Grazia Deledda 1926.jpg"
435
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Grazia_Deledda_1926.jpg/75px-Grazia_Deledda_1926.jpg"
436
height="105" width="75"></a></td>
437
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grazia_Deledda"
438
title="Grazia Deledda">Grazia Deledda</a></td>
440
<td>"for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic
441
clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and
442
sympathy deal with human problems in general"<sup
443
id="cite_ref-Literature1926_31-0" class="reference"><a
444
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1926-31"><span>[</span>32<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
449
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bergson-Nobel-photo.jpg"
450
class="image"><img alt="Bergson-Nobel-photo.jpg"
451
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/22/Bergson-Nobel-photo.jpg/75px-Bergson-Nobel-photo.jpg"
452
height="105" width="75"></a></td>
453
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson"
454
title="Henri Bergson">Henri Bergson</a></td>
456
<td>"in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the
457
brilliant skill with which they have been presented"<sup
458
id="cite_ref-Literature1927_32-0" class="reference"><a
459
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1927-32"><span>[</span>33<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
464
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sigrid_Undset_crop.jpg"
465
class="image"><img alt="Sigrid Undset crop.jpg"
466
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Sigrid_Undset_crop.jpg/75px-Sigrid_Undset_crop.jpg"
467
height="119" width="75"></a></td>
468
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrid_Undset"
469
title="Sigrid Undset">Sigrid Undset</a></td>
471
<td>"principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life
472
during the Middle Ages"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1928_33-0"
474
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1928-33"><span>[</span>34<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
479
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Mann_1937.jpg"
480
class="image"><img alt="Thomas Mann 1937.jpg"
481
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Thomas_Mann_1937.jpg/75px-Thomas_Mann_1937.jpg"
482
height="95" width="75"></a></td>
483
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann"
484
title="Thomas Mann">Thomas Mann</a></td>
486
<td>"principally for his great novel, <i><a
487
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddenbrooks" title="Buddenbrooks">Buddenbrooks</a></i>,
488
which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic
489
works of contemporary literature"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1929_34-0"
491
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1929-34"><span>[</span>35<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
496
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sinclair_Lewis_1930.jpg"
497
class="image"><img alt="Sinclair Lewis 1930.jpg"
498
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Sinclair_Lewis_1930.jpg/75px-Sinclair_Lewis_1930.jpg"
499
height="105" width="75"></a></td>
500
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis"
501
title="Sinclair Lewis">Sinclair Lewis</a></td>
502
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States"
503
title="United States">United States</a></td>
504
<td>"for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his
505
ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters"<sup
506
id="cite_ref-Literature1930_35-0" class="reference"><a
507
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1930-35"><span>[</span>36<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
512
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erik_Axel_Karlfeldt.jpg"
513
class="image"><img alt="Erik Axel Karlfeldt.jpg"
514
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Erik_Axel_Karlfeldt.jpg/75px-Erik_Axel_Karlfeldt.jpg"
515
height="94" width="75"></a></td>
516
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Axel_Karlfeldt"
517
title="Erik Axel Karlfeldt">Erik Axel Karlfeldt</a></td>
519
<td>"The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt"<sup
520
id="cite_ref-Literature1931_36-0" class="reference"><a
521
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1931-36"><span>[</span>37<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
526
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_galsworthy.jpg"
527
class="image"><img alt="John galsworthy.jpg"
528
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/John_galsworthy.jpg/75px-John_galsworthy.jpg"
529
height="110" width="75"></a></td>
530
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galsworthy"
531
title="John Galsworthy">John Galsworthy</a></td>
532
<td>United Kingdom</td>
533
<td>"for his distinguished art of narration which takes its
534
highest form in <i><a
535
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forsyte_Saga"
536
title="The Forsyte Saga">The Forsyte Saga</a></i>"<sup
537
id="cite_ref-Literature1932_37-0" class="reference"><a
538
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1932-37"><span>[</span>38<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
543
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buninturzhansky.jpg"
544
class="image"><img alt="Buninturzhansky.jpg"
545
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Buninturzhansky.jpg/75px-Buninturzhansky.jpg"
546
height="86" width="75"></a></td>
547
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Alekseyevich_Bunin"
548
title="Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin" class="mw-redirect">Ivan Bunin</a></td>
549
<td>stateless domicile in <a
550
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></td>
551
<td>"for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the
552
classical Russian traditions in prose writing"<sup
553
id="cite_ref-Literature1933_38-0" class="reference"><a
554
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1933-38"><span>[</span>39<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
559
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Luigi_Pirandello.jpg"
560
class="image"><img alt="Luigi Pirandello.jpg"
561
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Luigi_Pirandello.jpg/75px-Luigi_Pirandello.jpg"
562
height="106" width="75"></a></td>
563
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Pirandello"
564
title="Luigi Pirandello">Luigi Pirandello</a></td>
565
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a></td>
566
<td>"for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic
567
art"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1934_39-0" class="reference"><a
568
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1934-39"><span>[</span>40<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
573
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eugene_O%27Neill_1936.jpg"
574
class="image"><img alt="Eugene O'Neill 1936.jpg"
575
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Eugene_O%27Neill_1936.jpg/75px-Eugene_O%27Neill_1936.jpg"
576
height="105" width="75"></a></td>
577
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill"
578
title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a></td>
579
<td>United States</td>
580
<td>"for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his
581
dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy"<sup
582
id="cite_ref-Literature1936_40-0" class="reference"><a
583
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1936-40"><span>[</span>41<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
588
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roger_Martin_du_Gard_1937.jpg"
589
class="image"><img alt="Roger Martin du Gard 1937.jpg"
590
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Roger_Martin_du_Gard_1937.jpg/75px-Roger_Martin_du_Gard_1937.jpg"
591
height="105" width="75"></a></td>
592
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Martin_du_Gard"
593
title="Roger Martin du Gard">Roger Martin du Gard</a></td>
595
<td>"for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted
597
conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in
598
his novel cycle <i>Les Thibault</i>"<sup
599
id="cite_ref-Literature1937_41-0" class="reference"><a
600
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1937-41"><span>[</span>42<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
604
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pearl_Buck.jpg"
605
class="image"><img alt="Pearl Buck.jpg"
606
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Pearl_Buck.jpg/75px-Pearl_Buck.jpg"
607
height="100" width="75"></a></td>
608
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck"
609
title="Pearl S. Buck">Pearl S. Buck</a></td>
610
<td>United States</td>
611
<td>"for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in
612
China and for her biographical masterpieces"<sup
613
id="cite_ref-Literature1938_42-0" class="reference"><a
614
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1938-42"><span>[</span>43<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
619
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FransEemilSillanp%C3%A4%C3%A4.jpg"
620
class="image"><img alt="FransEemilSillanpää.jpg"
621
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/FransEemilSillanp%C3%A4%C3%A4.jpg/75px-FransEemilSillanp%C3%A4%C3%A4.jpg"
622
height="104" width="75"></a></td>
624
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Eemil_Sillanp%C3%A4%C3%A4"
625
title="Frans Eemil Sillanpää">Frans Eemil Sillanpää</a></td>
626
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a></td>
627
<td>"for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and
629
exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their
630
relationship with Nature"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1939_43-0"
632
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1939-43"><span>[</span>44<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
637
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_Vilhelm_Jensen_1944.jpg"
638
class="image"><img alt="Johannes Vilhelm Jensen 1944.jpg"
639
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Johannes_Vilhelm_Jensen_1944.jpg/75px-Johannes_Vilhelm_Jensen_1944.jpg"
640
height="105" width="75"></a></td>
641
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Vilhelm_Jensen"
642
title="Johannes Vilhelm Jensen">Johannes Vilhelm Jensen</a></td>
643
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a></td>
644
<td>"for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic
646
which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold,
647
freshly creative style"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1944_44-0"
649
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1944-44"><span>[</span>45<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
654
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gabriela_Mistral-01.jpg"
655
class="image"><img alt="Gabriela Mistral-01.jpg"
656
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Gabriela_Mistral-01.jpg/75px-Gabriela_Mistral-01.jpg"
657
height="101" width="75"></a></td>
658
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral"
659
title="Gabriela Mistral">Gabriela Mistral</a></td>
660
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a></td>
661
<td>"for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions,
663
made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire
664
Latin American world"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1945_45-0"
666
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1945-45"><span>[</span>46<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
671
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hermann_Hesse_1927_Photo_Gret_Widmann.jpg"
672
class="image"><img alt="Hermann Hesse 1927 Photo Gret Widmann.jpg"
673
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Hermann_Hesse_1927_Photo_Gret_Widmann.jpg/75px-Hermann_Hesse_1927_Photo_Gret_Widmann.jpg"
674
height="103" width="75"></a></td>
675
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse"
676
title="Hermann Hesse">Hermann Hesse</a></td>
677
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland"
678
title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a></td>
679
<td>"for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness
681
penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high
682
qualities of style"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1946_46-0"
684
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1946-46"><span>[</span>47<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
689
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Andr%C3%A9_Gide_1947.jpg"
690
class="image"><img alt="André Gide 1947.jpg"
691
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Andr%C3%A9_Gide_1947.jpg/75px-Andr%C3%A9_Gide_1947.jpg"
692
height="105" width="75"></a></td>
693
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide"
694
title="André Gide">André Gide</a></td>
696
<td>"for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings,
698
which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless
699
love of truth and keen psychological insight"<sup
700
id="cite_ref-Literature1947_47-0" class="reference"><a
701
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1947-47"><span>[</span>48<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
706
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:T.S._Eliot,_1923.JPG"
707
class="image"><img alt="T.S. Eliot, 1923.JPG"
708
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/T.S._Eliot%2C_1923.JPG/75px-T.S._Eliot%2C_1923.JPG"
709
height="92" width="75"></a></td>
710
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot"
711
title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a></td>
712
<td>United States / United Kingdom</td>
713
<td>"for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day
714
poetry"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1948_48-0" class="reference"><a
715
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1948-48"><span>[</span>49<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
720
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_Faulkner_01_KMJ.jpg"
721
class="image"><img alt="William Faulkner 01 KMJ.jpg"
722
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/William_Faulkner_01_KMJ.jpg/75px-William_Faulkner_01_KMJ.jpg"
723
height="106" width="75"></a></td>
724
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner"
725
title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a></td>
726
<td>United States</td>
727
<td>"for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the
728
modern American novel"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1949_49-0"
730
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1949-49"><span>[</span>50<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
735
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bertrand_Russell_1950.jpg"
736
class="image"><img alt="Bertrand Russell 1950.jpg"
737
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Bertrand_Russell_1950.jpg/75px-Bertrand_Russell_1950.jpg"
738
height="100" width="75"></a></td>
739
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell"
740
title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a></td>
741
<td>United Kingdom</td>
742
<td>"in recognition of his varied and significant writings in
743
which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought"<sup
744
id="cite_ref-Literature1950_50-0" class="reference"><a
745
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1950-50"><span>[</span>51<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
749
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lagerkvist.jpg"
750
class="image"><img alt="Lagerkvist.jpg"
751
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Lagerkvist.jpg/75px-Lagerkvist.jpg"
752
height="106" width="75"></a></td>
753
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4r_Lagerkvist"
754
title="Pär Lagerkvist">Pär Lagerkvist</a></td>
756
<td>"for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with
758
he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions
759
confronting mankind"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1951_51-0"
761
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1951-51"><span>[</span>52<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
766
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fran%C3%A7ois_Mauriac_%281932%29.jpg"
767
class="image"><img alt="François Mauriac (1932).jpg"
768
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mauriac_%281932%29.jpg/75px-Fran%C3%A7ois_Mauriac_%281932%29.jpg"
769
height="97" width="75"></a></td>
770
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mauriac"
771
title="François Mauriac">François Mauriac</a></td>
773
<td>"for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity
774
with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life"<sup
775
id="cite_ref-Literature1952_52-0" class="reference"><a
776
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1952-52"><span>[</span>53<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
781
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Churchill_portrait_NYP_45063.jpg"
782
class="image"><img alt="Churchill portrait NYP 45063.jpg"
783
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Churchill_portrait_NYP_45063.jpg/75px-Churchill_portrait_NYP_45063.jpg"
784
height="92" width="75"></a></td>
785
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill"
786
title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a></td>
787
<td>United Kingdom</td>
788
<td>"for his mastery of historical and biographical description
789
as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"<sup
790
id="cite_ref-Literature1953_53-0" class="reference"><a
791
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1953-53"><span>[</span>54<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
796
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ernest_Hemingway_1950.jpg"
797
class="image"><img alt="Ernest Hemingway 1950.jpg"
798
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Ernest_Hemingway_1950.jpg/75px-Ernest_Hemingway_1950.jpg"
799
height="75" width="75"></a></td>
800
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway"
801
title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a></td>
802
<td>United States</td>
803
<td>"for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently
804
demonstrated in <i><a
805
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea"
806
title="The Old Man and the Sea">The Old Man and the Sea</a></i>, and
807
for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"<sup
808
id="cite_ref-Literature1954_54-0" class="reference"><a
809
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1954-54"><span>[</span>55<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
814
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laxness_portrett_einar_hakonarson_1984.jpg"
815
class="image"><img alt="Laxness portrett einar hakonarson 1984.jpg"
816
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Laxness_portrett_einar_hakonarson_1984.jpg/75px-Laxness_portrett_einar_hakonarson_1984.jpg"
817
height="103" width="75"></a></td>
818
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxness"
819
title="Halldór Laxness">Halldór Laxness</a></td>
820
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a></td>
821
<td>"for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great
822
narrative art of Iceland"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1955_55-0"
824
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1955-55"><span>[</span>56<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
829
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload?wpDestFile=Juan_Ram%C3%B3n_Jim%C3%A9nez.jpg"
830
class="new" title="File:Juan Ramón Jiménez.jpg">75px</a></td>
832
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ram%C3%B3n_Jim%C3%A9nez"
833
title="Juan Ramón Jiménez">Juan Ramón Jiménez</a></td>
835
<td>"for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language
836
constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity"<sup
837
id="cite_ref-Literature1956_56-0" class="reference"><a
838
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1956-56"><span>[</span>57<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
843
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Camus,_gagnant_de_prix_Nobel,_portrait_en_buste,_pos%C3%A9_au_bureau,_faisant_face_%C3%A0_gauche,_cigarette_de_tabagisme.jpg"
845
alt="Albert Camus, gagnant de prix Nobel, portrait en buste, posé au bureau, faisant face à gauche, cigarette de tabagisme.jpg"
846
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Albert_Camus%2C_gagnant_de_prix_Nobel%2C_portrait_en_buste%2C_pos%C3%A9_au_bureau%2C_faisant_face_%C3%A0_gauche%2C_cigarette_de_tabagisme.jpg/75px-Albert_Camus%2C_gagnant_de_prix_Nobel%2C_portrait_en_buste%2C_pos%C3%A9_au_bureau%2C_faisant_face_%C3%A0_gauche%2C_cigarette_de_tabagisme.jpg"
847
height="90" width="75"></a></td>
848
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus"
849
title="Albert Camus">Albert Camus</a></td>
851
<td>"for his important literary production, which with
853
earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our
854
times"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1957_57-0" class="reference"><a
855
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1957-57"><span>[</span>58<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
860
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boris_Pasternak_cropped.jpg"
861
class="image"><img alt="Boris Pasternak cropped.jpg"
862
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Boris_Pasternak_cropped.jpg/75px-Boris_Pasternak_cropped.jpg"
863
height="95" width="75"></a></td>
864
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak"
865
title="Boris Pasternak">Boris Pasternak</a></td>
866
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union"
867
title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></td>
868
<td>"for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical
869
poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition"<sup
870
id="cite_ref-Literature1958_58-0" class="reference"><a
871
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1958-58"><span>[</span>59<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
876
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Salvatore_Quasimodo_1959.jpg"
877
class="image"><img alt="Salvatore Quasimodo 1959.jpg"
878
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Salvatore_Quasimodo_1959.jpg/75px-Salvatore_Quasimodo_1959.jpg"
879
height="105" width="75"></a></td>
880
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Quasimodo"
881
title="Salvatore Quasimodo">Salvatore Quasimodo</a></td>
883
<td>"for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses
884
the tragic experience of life in our own times"<sup
885
id="cite_ref-Literature1959_59-0" class="reference"><a
886
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1959-59"><span>[</span>60<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
891
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-John_Perse_1960.jpg"
892
class="image"><img alt="Saint-John Perse 1960.jpg"
893
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Saint-John_Perse_1960.jpg/75px-Saint-John_Perse_1960.jpg"
894
height="105" width="75"></a></td>
895
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-John_Perse"
896
title="Saint-John Perse">Saint-John Perse</a></td>
898
<td>"for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his
900
which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"<sup
901
id="cite_ref-Literature1960_60-0" class="reference"><a
902
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1960-60"><span>[</span>61<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
906
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Andric_Ivo.jpg"
907
class="image"><img alt="Andric Ivo.jpg"
908
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Andric_Ivo.jpg/75px-Andric_Ivo.jpg"
909
height="93" width="75"></a></td>
910
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Andri%C4%87"
911
title="Ivo Andrić">Ivo Andrić</a></td>
912
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFRY" title="SFRY"
913
class="mw-redirect">Yugoslavia</a></td>
914
<td>"for the epic force with which he has traced themes and
915
depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country"<sup
916
id="cite_ref-Literature1961_61-0" class="reference"><a
917
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1961-61"><span>[</span>62<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
922
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JohnSteinbeck_crop.JPG"
923
class="image"><img alt="JohnSteinbeck crop.JPG"
924
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/JohnSteinbeck_crop.JPG/75px-JohnSteinbeck_crop.JPG"
925
height="101" width="75"></a></td>
926
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck"
927
title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a></td>
928
<td>United States</td>
929
<td>"for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as
930
they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"<sup
931
id="cite_ref-Literature1962_62-0" class="reference"><a
932
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1962-62"><span>[</span>63<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
937
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giorgos_Seferis.jpg"
938
class="image"><img alt="Giorgos Seferis.jpg"
939
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Giorgos_Seferis.jpg/75px-Giorgos_Seferis.jpg"
940
height="90" width="75"></a></td>
941
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgos_Seferis"
942
title="Giorgos Seferis">Giorgos Seferis</a></td>
943
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a></td>
944
<td>"for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling
945
for the Hellenic world of culture"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1963_63-0"
947
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1963-63"><span>[</span>64<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
952
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Paul_Sartre_FP.JPG"
953
class="image"><img alt="Jean-Paul Sartre FP.JPG"
954
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Jean-Paul_Sartre_FP.JPG/75px-Jean-Paul_Sartre_FP.JPG"
955
height="76" width="75"></a></td>
956
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre"
957
title="Jean-Paul Sartre">Jean-Paul Sartre</a></td>
959
<td>"for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit
961
freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence
962
on our age"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1964_64-0" class="reference"><a
963
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1964-64"><span>[</span>65<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
967
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sholokhov-1938.jpg"
968
class="image"><img alt="Sholokhov-1938.jpg"
969
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Sholokhov-1938.jpg/75px-Sholokhov-1938.jpg"
970
height="100" width="75"></a></td>
972
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Aleksandrovich_Sholokhov"
973
title="Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov">Mikhail Sholokhov</a></td>
974
<td>Soviet Union</td>
975
<td>"for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic
977
the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the
978
Russian people"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1965_65-0" class="reference"><a
979
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1965-65"><span>[</span>66<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
982
<td rowspan="2">1966</td>
983
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agnon.jpg"
984
class="image"><img alt="Agnon.jpg"
985
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Agnon.jpg/75px-Agnon.jpg"
986
height="113" width="75"></a></td>
987
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon"
988
title="Shmuel Yosef Agnon">Shmuel Yosef Agnon</a></td>
989
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a></td>
990
<td>"for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs
991
from the life of the Jewish people"<sup
992
id="cite_ref-Literature1966_66-0" class="reference"><a
993
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1966-66"><span>[</span>67<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
997
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nelly_Sachs_1966.jpg"
998
class="image"><img alt="Nelly Sachs 1966.jpg"
999
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Nelly_Sachs_1966.jpg/75px-Nelly_Sachs_1966.jpg"
1000
height="105" width="75"></a></td>
1001
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelly_Sachs"
1002
title="Nelly Sachs">Nelly Sachs</a></td>
1004
<td>"for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which
1005
interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength"<sup
1006
id="cite_ref-Literature1966_66-1" class="reference"><a
1007
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1966-66"><span>[</span>67<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1011
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asturias.jpg"
1012
class="image"><img alt="Asturias.jpg"
1013
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e9/Asturias.jpg/75px-Asturias.jpg"
1014
height="105" width="75"></a></td>
1016
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_Asturias"
1017
title="Miguel Ángel Asturias">Miguel Ángel Asturias</a></td>
1018
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala"
1019
title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a></td>
1020
<td>"for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the
1021
national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America"<sup
1022
id="cite_ref-Literature1967_67-0" class="reference"><a
1023
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1967-67"><span>[</span>68<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1028
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kawabata_Yasunari.jpg"
1029
class="image"><img alt="Kawabata Yasunari.jpg"
1030
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/Kawabata_Yasunari.jpg/75px-Kawabata_Yasunari.jpg"
1031
height="89" width="75"></a></td>
1032
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunari_Kawabata"
1033
title="Yasunari Kawabata">Kawabata Yasunari</a></td>
1034
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a></td>
1035
<td>"for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility
1036
expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"<sup
1037
id="cite_ref-Literature1968_68-0" class="reference"><a
1038
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1968-68"><span>[</span>69<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1043
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Beckett_01.jpg"
1044
class="image"><img alt="Samuel Beckett 01.jpg"
1045
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Samuel_Beckett_01.jpg/75px-Samuel_Beckett_01.jpg"
1046
height="85" width="75"></a></td>
1047
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett"
1048
title="Samuel Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a></td>
1050
<td>"for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and
1051
drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation"<sup
1052
id="cite_ref-Literature1969_69-0" class="reference"><a
1053
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1969-69"><span>[</span>70<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1057
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_solzhenitsin.JPG"
1058
class="image"><img alt="A solzhenitsin.JPG"
1059
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/A_solzhenitsin.JPG/75px-A_solzhenitsin.JPG"
1060
height="62" width="75"></a></td>
1061
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn"
1062
title="Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</a></td>
1063
<td>Soviet Union</td>
1064
<td>"for the ethical force with which he has pursued the
1065
indispensable traditions of Russian literature"<sup
1066
id="cite_ref-Literature1970_70-0" class="reference"><a
1067
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1970-70"><span>[</span>71<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1071
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pablo_Neruda.jpg"
1072
class="image"><img alt="Pablo Neruda.jpg"
1073
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Pablo_Neruda.jpg/75px-Pablo_Neruda.jpg"
1074
height="100" width="75"></a></td>
1075
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda"
1076
title="Pablo Neruda">Pablo Neruda</a></td>
1078
<td>"for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force
1079
brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams"<sup
1080
id="cite_ref-Literature1971_71-0" class="reference"><a
1081
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1971-71"><span>[</span>72<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1086
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F062164-0004,_Bonn,_Heinrich_B%C3%B6ll.jpg"
1088
alt="Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F062164-0004, Bonn, Heinrich Böll.jpg"
1089
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F062164-0004%2C_Bonn%2C_Heinrich_B%C3%B6ll.jpg/75px-Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F062164-0004%2C_Bonn%2C_Heinrich_B%C3%B6ll.jpg"
1090
height="113" width="75"></a></td>
1091
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_B%C3%B6ll"
1092
title="Heinrich Böll">Heinrich Böll</a></td>
1093
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany"
1094
title="West Germany">West Germany</a></td>
1095
<td>"for his writing which through its combination of a broad
1096
perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has
1097
contributed to a renewal of German literature"<sup
1098
id="cite_ref-Literature1972_72-0" class="reference"><a
1099
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1972-72"><span>[</span>73<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1105
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_White"
1106
title="Patrick White">Patrick White</a></td>
1107
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia"
1108
title="Australia">Australia</a></td>
1109
<td>"for an epic and psychological narrative art which has
1110
introduced a new continent into literature"<sup
1111
id="cite_ref-Literature1973_73-0" class="reference"><a
1112
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1973-73"><span>[</span>74<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1115
<td rowspan="2">1974</td>
1116
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eyvindj.gif"
1117
class="image"><img alt="Eyvindj.gif"
1118
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Eyvindj.gif/75px-Eyvindj.gif"
1119
height="175" width="75"></a></td>
1120
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyvind_Johnson"
1121
title="Eyvind Johnson">Eyvind Johnson</a></td>
1123
<td>"for a narrative art, farseeing in lands and ages, in the
1124
service of freedom"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1974_74-0"
1125
class="reference"><a
1126
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1974-74"><span>[</span>75<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1130
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Martinson.jpg"
1131
class="image"><img alt="Harry Martinson.jpg"
1132
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Harry_Martinson.jpg/75px-Harry_Martinson.jpg"
1133
height="102" width="75"></a></td>
1134
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Martinson"
1135
title="Harry Martinson">Harry Martinson</a></td>
1137
<td>"for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos"<sup
1138
id="cite_ref-Literature1974_74-1" class="reference"><a
1139
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1974-74"><span>[</span>75<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1145
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Montale"
1146
title="Eugenio Montale">Eugenio Montale</a></td>
1148
<td>"for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic
1150
has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with
1151
no illusions"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1975_75-0" class="reference"><a
1152
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1975-75"><span>[</span>76<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1157
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saul_Bellow,_1990.jpg"
1158
class="image"><img alt="Saul Bellow, 1990.jpg"
1159
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Saul_Bellow%2C_1990.jpg/75px-Saul_Bellow%2C_1990.jpg"
1160
height="51" width="75"></a></td>
1161
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow"
1162
title="Saul Bellow">Saul Bellow</a></td>
1163
<td>United States</td>
1164
<td>"for the human understanding and subtle analysis of
1165
contemporary culture that are combined in his work"<sup
1166
id="cite_ref-Literature1976_76-0" class="reference"><a
1167
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1976-76"><span>[</span>77<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1172
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vicentealeixandre.jpg"
1173
class="image"><img alt="Vicentealeixandre.jpg"
1174
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Vicentealeixandre.jpg/75px-Vicentealeixandre.jpg"
1175
height="112" width="75"></a></td>
1176
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Aleixandre"
1177
title="Vicente Aleixandre">Vicente Aleixandre</a></td>
1179
<td>"for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's
1181
the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing
1182
the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars"<sup
1183
id="cite_ref-Literature1977_77-0" class="reference"><a
1184
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1977-77"><span>[</span>78<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1189
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac_Bashevis_Singer.jpg"
1190
class="image"><img alt="Isaac Bashevis Singer.jpg"
1191
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer.jpg/75px-Isaac_Bashevis_Singer.jpg"
1192
height="49" width="75"></a></td>
1193
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer"
1194
title="Isaac Bashevis Singer">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a></td>
1195
<td>United States</td>
1196
<td>"for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a
1197
Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to
1198
life"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1978_78-0" class="reference"><a
1199
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1978-78"><span>[</span>79<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1204
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elytis,_Odysseas_%281911-1996%29.jpg"
1205
class="image"><img alt="Elytis, Odysseas (1911-1996).jpg"
1206
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Elytis%2C_Odysseas_%281911-1996%29.jpg/75px-Elytis%2C_Odysseas_%281911-1996%29.jpg"
1207
height="75" width="75"></a></td>
1208
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseas_Elytis"
1209
title="Odysseas Elytis">Odysseas Elytis</a></td>
1210
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a></td>
1211
<td>"for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek
1213
depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness
1214
modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness"<sup
1215
id="cite_ref-Literature1979_79-0" class="reference"><a
1216
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1979-79"><span>[</span>80<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1221
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Czeslaw_Milosz_1998_by_Kubik.jpg"
1222
class="image"><img alt="Czeslaw Milosz 1998 by Kubik.jpg"
1223
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Czeslaw_Milosz_1998_by_Kubik.jpg/75px-Czeslaw_Milosz_1998_by_Kubik.jpg"
1224
height="107" width="75"></a></td>
1226
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz"
1227
title="Czesław Miłosz">Czesław Miłosz</a></td>
1229
<td>"who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's
1230
exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"<sup
1231
id="cite_ref-Literature1980_80-0" class="reference"><a
1232
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1980-80"><span>[</span>81<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1238
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Canetti"
1239
title="Elias Canetti">Elias Canetti</a></td>
1240
<td>United Kingdom</td>
1241
<td>"for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas
1242
and artistic power"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1981_81-0"
1243
class="reference"><a
1244
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1981-81"><span>[</span>82<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1249
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez_1984.jpg"
1250
class="image"><img alt="Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1984.jpg"
1251
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez_1984.jpg/75px-Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez_1984.jpg"
1252
height="127" width="75"></a></td>
1254
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez"
1255
title="Gabriel García Márquez">Gabriel García Márquez</a></td>
1256
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia"
1257
title="Colombia">Colombia</a></td>
1258
<td>"for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and
1260
realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination,
1261
reflecting a continent's life and conflicts"<sup
1262
id="cite_ref-Literature1982_82-0" class="reference"><a
1263
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1982-82"><span>[</span>83<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1268
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_Golding.jpeg"
1269
class="image"><img alt="William Golding.jpeg"
1270
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/William_Golding.jpeg/75px-William_Golding.jpeg"
1271
height="98" width="75"></a></td>
1272
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Golding"
1273
title="William Golding">William Golding</a></td>
1274
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom"
1275
title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td>
1276
<td>"for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic
1278
art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human
1279
condition in the world of today"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1983_83-0"
1280
class="reference"><a
1281
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1983-83"><span>[</span>84<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1286
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jaroslav_Seifert_grave_at_Kralupy_nad_Vltavou_cemetery_CZ_0008.jpg"
1288
alt="Jaroslav Seifert grave at Kralupy nad Vltavou cemetery CZ 0008.jpg"
1289
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Jaroslav_Seifert_grave_at_Kralupy_nad_Vltavou_cemetery_CZ_0008.jpg/75px-Jaroslav_Seifert_grave_at_Kralupy_nad_Vltavou_cemetery_CZ_0008.jpg"
1290
height="73" width="75"></a></td>
1291
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Seifert"
1292
title="Jaroslav Seifert">Jaroslav Seifert</a></td>
1293
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia"
1294
title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a></td>
1295
<td>"for his poetry which endowed with freshness, and rich
1296
inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and
1297
versatility of man"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1984_84-0"
1298
class="reference"><a
1299
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1984-84"><span>[</span>85<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1305
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Simon"
1306
title="Claude Simon">Claude Simon</a></td>
1308
<td>"who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's
1309
creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the
1310
human condition"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1985_85-0" class="reference"><a
1311
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1985-85"><span>[</span>86<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1316
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soyinka,_Wole_%281934%29.jpg"
1317
class="image"><img alt="Soyinka, Wole (1934).jpg"
1318
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Soyinka%2C_Wole_%281934%29.jpg/75px-Soyinka%2C_Wole_%281934%29.jpg"
1319
height="106" width="75"></a></td>
1320
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wole_Soyinka"
1321
title="Wole Soyinka">Wole Soyinka</a></td>
1322
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a></td>
1323
<td>"who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones
1324
fashions the drama of existence"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1986_86-0"
1325
class="reference"><a
1326
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1986-86"><span>[</span>87<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1330
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Brodsky.jpg"
1331
class="image"><img alt="Joseph Brodsky.jpg"
1332
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/46/Joseph_Brodsky.jpg/75px-Joseph_Brodsky.jpg"
1333
height="113" width="75"></a></td>
1334
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky"
1335
title="Joseph Brodsky">Joseph Brodsky</a></td>
1336
<td>United States</td>
1337
<td>"for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of
1338
thought and poetic intensity"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1987_87-0"
1339
class="reference"><a
1340
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1987-87"><span>[</span>88<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1344
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Necip_Mahfuz.jpg"
1345
class="image"><img alt="Necip Mahfuz.jpg"
1346
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Necip_Mahfuz.jpg/75px-Necip_Mahfuz.jpg"
1347
height="108" width="75"></a></td>
1348
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naguib_Mahfouz"
1349
title="Naguib Mahfouz">Naguib Mahfouz</a></td>
1350
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a></td>
1351
<td>"who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly
1353
now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that
1354
applies to all mankind"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1988_88-0"
1355
class="reference"><a
1356
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1988-88"><span>[</span>89<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1360
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_Cela.jpg"
1361
class="image"><img alt="Portrait Cela.jpg"
1362
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Portrait_Cela.jpg/75px-Portrait_Cela.jpg"
1363
height="71" width="75"></a></td>
1364
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_Jos%C3%A9_Cela"
1365
title="Camilo José Cela">Camilo José Cela</a></td>
1367
<td>"for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained
1368
compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability"<sup
1369
id="cite_ref-Literature1989_89-0" class="reference"><a
1370
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1989-89"><span>[</span>90<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1374
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paz0.jpg"
1375
class="image"><img alt="Paz0.jpg"
1376
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Paz0.jpg/75px-Paz0.jpg"
1377
height="110" width="75"></a></td>
1378
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Paz"
1379
title="Octavio Paz">Octavio Paz</a></td>
1380
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a></td>
1381
<td>"for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by
1382
sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity"<sup
1383
id="cite_ref-Literature1990_90-0" class="reference"><a
1384
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1990-90"><span>[</span>91<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1390
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer"
1391
title="Nadine Gordimer">Nadine Gordimer</a></td>
1392
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa"
1393
title="South Africa">South Africa</a></td>
1394
<td>"who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words
1395
of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity"<sup
1396
id="cite_ref-Literature1991_91-0" class="reference"><a
1397
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1991-91"><span>[</span>92<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1401
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Derek_Walcott.jpg"
1402
class="image"><img alt="Derek Walcott.jpg"
1403
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Derek_Walcott.jpg/75px-Derek_Walcott.jpg"
1404
height="113" width="75"></a></td>
1405
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott"
1406
title="Derek Walcott">Derek Walcott</a></td>
1407
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucia"
1408
title="Saint Lucia">Saint Lucia</a></td>
1409
<td>"for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a
1410
historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment"<sup
1411
id="cite_ref-Literature1992_92-0" class="reference"><a
1412
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1992-92"><span>[</span>93<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1417
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toni_Morrison_2008-2.jpg"
1418
class="image"><img alt="Toni Morrison 2008-2.jpg"
1419
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Toni_Morrison_2008-2.jpg/75px-Toni_Morrison_2008-2.jpg"
1420
height="71" width="75"></a></td>
1421
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison"
1422
title="Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a></td>
1423
<td>United States</td>
1424
<td>"who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic
1425
import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"<sup
1426
id="cite_ref-Literature1993_93-0" class="reference"><a
1427
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1993-93"><span>[</span>94<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1431
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kenzaburo_Oe.jpg"
1432
class="image"><img alt="Kenzaburo Oe.jpg"
1433
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Kenzaburo_Oe.jpg/75px-Kenzaburo_Oe.jpg"
1434
height="187" width="75"></a></td>
1435
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzabur%C5%8D_%C5%8Ce"
1436
title="Kenzaburō Ōe">Ōe Kenzaburō</a></td>
1438
<td>"who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life
1440
myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament
1441
today"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1994_94-0" class="reference"><a
1442
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1994-94"><span>[</span>95<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1447
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seamus_Heaney_2004.jpg"
1448
class="image"><img alt="Seamus Heaney 2004.jpg"
1449
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Seamus_Heaney_2004.jpg/75px-Seamus_Heaney_2004.jpg"
1450
height="98" width="75"></a></td>
1451
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Heaney"
1452
title="Seamus Heaney">Seamus Heaney</a></td>
1454
<td>"for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt
1455
everyday miracles and the living past"<sup
1456
id="cite_ref-Literature1995_95-0" class="reference"><a
1457
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1995-95"><span>[</span>96<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1462
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Szymborska%28closeup%29.jpg"
1463
class="image"><img alt="Szymborska(closeup).jpg"
1464
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Szymborska%28closeup%29.jpg/75px-Szymborska%28closeup%29.jpg"
1465
height="104" width="75"></a></td>
1466
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wis%C5%82awa_Szymborska"
1467
title="Wisława Szymborska">Wisława Szymborska</a></td>
1469
<td>"for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical
1471
biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"<sup
1472
id="cite_ref-Literature1996_96-0" class="reference"><a
1473
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1996-96"><span>[</span>97<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1478
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dario_Fo-Cesena.jpg"
1479
class="image"><img alt="Dario Fo-Cesena.jpg"
1480
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Dario_Fo-Cesena.jpg/75px-Dario_Fo-Cesena.jpg"
1481
height="94" width="75"></a></td>
1482
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Fo"
1483
title="Dario Fo">Dario Fo</a></td>
1485
<td>"who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging
1486
authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden"<sup
1487
id="cite_ref-Literature1997_97-0" class="reference"><a
1488
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1997-97"><span>[</span>98<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1493
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jose_Saramago-Sep2006.jpg"
1494
class="image"><img alt="Jose Saramago-Sep2006.jpg"
1495
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Jose_Saramago-Sep2006.jpg/75px-Jose_Saramago-Sep2006.jpg"
1496
height="56" width="75"></a></td>
1497
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago"
1498
title="José Saramago">José Saramago</a></td>
1499
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal"
1500
title="Portugal">Portugal</a></td>
1501
<td>"who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and
1503
continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality"<sup
1504
id="cite_ref-Literature1998_98-0" class="reference"><a
1505
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1998-98"><span>[</span>99<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1509
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grass.JPG"
1510
class="image"><img alt="Grass.JPG"
1511
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Grass.JPG/75px-Grass.JPG"
1512
height="72" width="75"></a></td>
1513
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass"
1514
title="Günter Grass">Günter Grass</a></td>
1516
<td>"whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of
1517
history"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature1999_99-0" class="reference"><a
1518
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature1999-99"><span>[</span>100<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1522
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gao_Xingjian.jpg"
1523
class="image"><img alt="Gao Xingjian.jpg"
1524
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Gao_Xingjian.jpg/75px-Gao_Xingjian.jpg"
1525
height="81" width="75"></a></td>
1526
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Xingjian"
1527
title="Gao Xingjian">Gao Xingjian</a></td>
1529
<td>"for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and
1530
linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel
1531
and drama"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature2000_100-0" class="reference"><a
1532
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature2000-100"><span>[</span>101<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1538
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._S._Naipaul"
1539
title="V. S. Naipaul">V. S. Naipaul</a></td>
1540
<td>United Kingdom</td>
1541
<td>"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible
1543
in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"<sup
1544
id="cite_ref-Literature2001_101-0" class="reference"><a
1545
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature2001-101"><span>[</span>102<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1550
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Imre_Kert%C3%A9sz_%281929-%29_Hungarian_writer_II._by_Csaba_Segesv%C3%A1ri.JPG"
1552
alt="Imre Kertész (1929-) Hungarian writer II. by Csaba Segesvári.JPG"
1553
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Imre_Kert%C3%A9sz_%281929-%29_Hungarian_writer_II._by_Csaba_Segesv%C3%A1ri.JPG/75px-Imre_Kert%C3%A9sz_%281929-%29_Hungarian_writer_II._by_Csaba_Segesv%C3%A1ri.JPG"
1554
height="49" width="75"></a></td>
1555
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Kert%C3%A9sz"
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title="Imre Kertész">Imre Kertész</a></td>
1557
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a></td>
1558
<td>"for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the
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individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"<sup
1560
id="cite_ref-Literature2002_102-0" class="reference"><a
1561
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature2002-102"><span>[</span>103<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1565
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:J.M._Coetzee.JPG"
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class="image"><img alt="J.M. Coetzee.JPG"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/J.M._Coetzee.JPG/75px-J.M._Coetzee.JPG"
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height="100" width="75"></a></td>
1569
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee"
1570
title="J. M. Coetzee">J. M. Coetzee</a></td>
1571
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa"
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title="South Africa">South Africa</a></td>
1573
<td>"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising
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involvement of the outsider"<sup id="cite_ref-Literature2003_103-0"
1575
class="reference"><a
1576
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature2003-103"><span>[</span>104<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1581
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elfriede_jelinek_2004_small.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="Elfriede jelinek 2004 small.jpg"
1583
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Elfriede_jelinek_2004_small.jpg/75px-Elfriede_jelinek_2004_small.jpg"
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height="65" width="75"></a></td>
1585
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfriede_Jelinek"
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title="Elfriede Jelinek">Elfriede Jelinek</a></td>
1587
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a></td>
1588
<td>"for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels
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plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of
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society's clichés and their subjugating power"<sup
1592
id="cite_ref-Literature2004_104-0" class="reference"><a
1593
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature2004-104"><span>[</span>105<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1597
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HaroldPinter.jpg"
1598
class="image"><img alt="HaroldPinter.jpg"
1599
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/11/HaroldPinter.jpg/75px-HaroldPinter.jpg"
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height="93" width="75"></a></td>
1601
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter"
1602
title="Harold Pinter">Harold Pinter</a></td>
1603
<td>United Kingdom</td>
1604
<td>"who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday
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prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"<sup
1606
id="cite_ref-Literature2005_105-0" class="reference"><a
1607
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature2005-105"><span>[</span>106<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1612
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orhanpamuk2_cropped.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="Orhanpamuk2 cropped.jpg"
1614
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Orhanpamuk2_cropped.jpg/75px-Orhanpamuk2_cropped.jpg"
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height="75" width="75"></a></td>
1616
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk"
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title="Orhan Pamuk">Orhan Pamuk</a></td>
1618
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a></td>
1619
<td>"who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city
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discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"<sup
1622
id="cite_ref-Literature2006_106-0" class="reference"><a
1623
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature2006-106"><span>[</span>107<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1628
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doris_lessing_20060312_%28square%29.jpg"
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class="image"><img alt="Doris lessing 20060312 (square).jpg"
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Doris_lessing_20060312_%28square%29.jpg/75px-Doris_lessing_20060312_%28square%29.jpg"
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height="75" width="75"></a></td>
1632
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing"
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title="Doris Lessing">Doris Lessing</a></td>
1634
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom"
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title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td>
1636
<td>"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism,
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and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"<sup
1639
id="cite_ref-Literature2007_107-0" class="reference"><a
1640
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature2007-107"><span>[</span>108<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1645
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Marie_Gustave_Le_Cl%C3%A9zio-press_conference_Dec_06th,_2008-2.jpg"
1647
alt="Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio-press conference Dec 06th, 2008-2.jpg"
1648
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Jean-Marie_Gustave_Le_Cl%C3%A9zio-press_conference_Dec_06th%2C_2008-2.jpg/75px-Jean-Marie_Gustave_Le_Cl%C3%A9zio-press_conference_Dec_06th%2C_2008-2.jpg"
1649
height="106" width="75"></a></td>
1650
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._G._Le_Cl%C3%A9zio"
1651
title="J. M. G. Le Clézio">J. M. G. Le Clézio</a></td>
1653
<td>"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual
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explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"<sup
1656
id="cite_ref-Literature2008_108-0" class="reference"><a
1657
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature2008-108"><span>[</span>109<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
1662
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Herta_M%C3%BCller_2007.JPG"
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class="image"><img alt="Herta Müller 2007.JPG"
1664
src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Herta_M%C3%BCller_2007.JPG/75px-Herta_M%C3%BCller_2007.JPG"
1665
height="127" width="75"></a></td>
1666
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herta_M%C3%BCller"
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title="Herta Müller">Herta Müller</a></td>
1669
<td>"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of
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prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"<sup
1671
id="cite_ref-Literature2009_109-0" class="reference"><a
1672
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature#cite_note-Literature2009-109"><span>[</span>110<span>]</span></a></sup></td>
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