Nobel Prize in Literature: List of winners since 1986
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Published: 13 Oct, 2005 CET.
Updated: Thu 13 Oct 2005 14:11 CET
Harold Pinter is the second British winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in the last five years.
2005: Harold Pinter (Britain)
2004: Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2003: J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
2002: Imre Kertesz (Hungary)
2001: V.S. Naipaul (Britain)
2000: Gao Xingjian (France)
1999: Guenter Grass (Germany)
1998: Jose Saramago (Portugal)
1997: Dario Fo (Italy)
1996: Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1995: Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
1994: Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
1993: Toni Morrison (USA)
1992: Derek Walcott (St Lucia)
1991: Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1990: Octavio Paz (Mexico)
1989: Camilo José Cela (Spain)
1988: Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
1987: Joseph Brodsky (USA)
1986: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
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2005: Harold Pinter (Britain)
2004: Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2003: J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
2002: Imre Kertesz (Hungary)
2001: V.S. Naipaul (Britain)
2000: Gao Xingjian (France)
1999: Guenter Grass (Germany)
1998: Jose Saramago (Portugal)
1997: Dario Fo (Italy)
1996: Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1995: Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
1994: Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
1993: Toni Morrison (USA)
1992: Derek Walcott (St Lucia)
1991: Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1990: Octavio Paz (Mexico)
1989: Camilo José Cela (Spain)
1988: Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
1987: Joseph Brodsky (USA)
1986: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
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