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Replying To:
By day Fri Nov 1st, 2002 at 12:16:12 GMT
Nobel's pricy prize
Last month Imre Kertesz from Hungary won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

First awarded in 1901, the prize has honored 95 writers including 72 who use a language other than English.

 
Here is a summary of the non-English authors, based on information from this page.

2002HungaryImre Kertesz
2000ChinaGao Xingjian
1999GermanyGunter Grass
1998PortugalJose Saramago
1997ItalyDario Fo
1996PolandWislawa Szymborska
1994JapanKenzaburo Oe
1990MexicoOctavio Paz
1989SpainCamilo Jose Cela
1988EgyptNaguib Mahfouz
1987 USSR-USAJoseph Brodsky
1985FranceClaude Simon
1984CzechoslovakiaJaroslav Seifert
1982ColombiaGabriel García Márquez
1981 Bulgaria-Austria-BritainElias Canetti
1980Poland-United StatesCzeslaw Milosz
1979GreeceOdysseus Elytis (Odysseus Alepoudhelis)
1978Poland-United StatesIsaac Bashevis Singer
1977SpainVicente Aleixandre
1975ItalyEugenio Montale
1974Sweden(shared) Eyvind Johnson
1972GermanyHeinrich Böll
1971ChilePablo Neruda (Ricardo Reyes y Basoalto)
1970USSRAleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
1968JapanYasunari Kawabata
1967GuatemalaMiguel Angel Asturias
1966IsraelSamuel Joseph Agnon (Shmuel Czaczkes)
1965USSRMikhail Sholokhov
1964FranceJean-Paul Sartre
1963GreeceGiorgios Seferis (pseudonym Giorgos Seferiadis)
1961YugoslaviaIvo Andric
1960FranceSt-John Perse (Alexis St. Léger)
1959ItalySalvatore Quasimodo
1958USSRBoris Pasternak
1957FranceAlbert Camus
1956SpainJuan Ramón Jiménez
1955IcelandHalidór Kiljian Laxness (pseudonym of Halldor Gudjonsson)
1952FranceFrancois Mauriac
1951SwedenPär Lagerkvist
1947FranceAndré Gide
1946Germany-SwitzerlandHerman Hesse
1945ChileGabriela Mistral (pen-name of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga)
1944DenmarkJohannes V. Jensen
1939FinlandFrans Eemil Sillanpää
1937FranceRobert Martin du Gard
1934ItalyLuigi Pirandello
1933RussiaIvan G. Bunin
1931SwedenErik A. Karlfeldt
1929GermanyThomas Mann
1928NorwaySigrid Undset
1927FranceHenri Bergson
1926ItalyGrazia Deledda (pseudonym of Grazia Madesani)
1924PolandWladyslaw Reymount (Pen Name of Wladyslaw Rejment)
1922SpainJacinto Benavente y Martinez
1921FranceAnatole France (a k a Jacques Anatole Thibault)
1920NorwayKnut Hamsun (pseudonym of Knud Hamsund)
1919SwitzerlandCarl F. G. Spitteler
1917DenmarkKarl Gjellerup
1916SwedenCarl Verner von Heidenstam
1915FranceRomain Rolland
1913IndiaRabindranath Tagore
1912GermanyGerhart Hauptmann
1911BelgiumCount Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck
1910GermanyPaul J. L. Heyse
1909SwedenSelma Lagerlöf
1908GermanyRudolf Eucken
1906ItalyGiusuè Carducci
1905PolandHenryk Sienkiewicz
1904FranceFrédéric Mistral
1903NorwayBjörnstjerne Björnson
1902GermanyC. M. Theodor Mommsen
1901FranceSully Prudhomme (a.k.a. René F. A. Sully-Prudhomme, RENÉ FRANÇOIS ARMAND)

What do people think of this prize? Does it favor English-language authors? And what about Asian writers, who have only received the award three times (see this article from People's Daily)? Is the world's greatest writing prize unfair? Or must it necessarily be determined largely by politics?



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