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NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2000–2021

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Year - Laureate - Country - Language  - Genre(s)
2000 Gao Xingjian China, France Chinese novel, drama, literary criticism
2001 V. S. Naipaul  English novel, essay Trinidad & Tobago / United Kingdom
2002 Imre Kertesz Hungary Hungarian novel
2003 J. M. Coetzee South Africa English novel, essay, translation
2004 Elfriede Jelinek Austria German novel, drama
2005 Harold Pinter United Kingdom English drama
2006 Orhan Pamuk Turkey Turkish novel, screenplay, essay
2007 Doris Lessing United Kingdom English novel, drama, poetry, short story, memoirs
2008 J. M. G. Le Clezio France Mauritius French translation novel, short story, essay
2009 Herta Muller Germany Romania German novel, poetry
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa Peru Spain Spanish drama novel, short story, essay
2011 Tomas Transtromer Sweden Swedish poetry, translation
2012 Mo Yan China Chinese novel, short story
2013 Alice Munro Canada English short story
2014 Patrick Modiano France French novel
2015 Svetlana Alexievich Belarus (Born in Russian history, essay Ukrainian SSR)
2016 Bob Dylan United States English poetry, songwriting
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro United Kingdom English novel (born in Japan)
2018 Olga Tokarczuk Poland Polish novel
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2019 Peter Handke Austria German novel
2020 Louise Gluck United States English poetry
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah United Kingdom English novel (born in Tanzania)