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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 2703 (English Lang.)—13-II 2019 Peter Handke Austria German novel 2020 Louise Gluck United States English poetry 2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah United Kingdom English novel (born in Tanzania)
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