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Recent winners of the Nobel Literature Prize

News Desk (Agence France-Presse)
Stockholm
Fri, October 6, 2017

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Recent winners of the Nobel Literature Prize Books of British writer Kazuo Ishiguro are on display at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, where Ishiguro was announced as winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature on October 5, 2017. (AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand)

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ere is a list of the 15 most recent winners of the Nobel Literature Prize, including this year's award on Thursday to British author Kazuo Ishiguro.

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2017: Kazuo Ishiguro (UK)

2016: Bob Dylan (US)

2015: Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)

2014: Patrick Modiano (France)

2013: Alice Munro (Canada)

2012: Mo Yan (China)

2011: Tomas Transtromer (Sweden)

2010: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)

2009: Herta Mueller (Germany)

2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (France)

2007: Doris Lessing (Britain)

2006: Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)

2005: Harold Pinter (Britain)

2004: Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)

2003: J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)

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