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Fri Nov 1st, 2002 at 12:16:12 GMT
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Nobel's pricy prize
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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.
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Here is a summary of the non-English authors, based on information from this page.
| 2002 | Hungary | Imre Kertesz |
| 2000 | China | Gao Xingjian |
| 1999 | Germany | Gunter Grass |
| 1998 | Portugal | Jose Saramago |
| 1997 | Italy | Dario Fo |
| 1996 | Poland | Wislawa Szymborska |
| 1994 | Japan | Kenzaburo Oe |
| 1990 | Mexico | Octavio Paz |
| 1989 | Spain | Camilo Jose Cela |
| 1988 | Egypt | Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1987 | USSR-USA | Joseph Brodsky |
| 1985 | France | Claude Simon |
| 1984 | Czechoslovakia | Jaroslav Seifert |
| 1982 | Colombia | Gabriel García Márquez |
| 1981 | Bulgaria-Austria-Britain | Elias Canetti |
| 1980 | Poland-United States | Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1979 | Greece | Odysseus Elytis (Odysseus Alepoudhelis) |
| 1978 | Poland-United States | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1977 | Spain | Vicente Aleixandre |
| 1975 | Italy | Eugenio Montale |
| 1974 | Sweden | (shared) Eyvind Johnson |
| 1972 | Germany | Heinrich Böll |
| 1971 | Chile | Pablo Neruda (Ricardo Reyes y Basoalto) |
| 1970 | USSR | Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn |
| 1968 | Japan | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 1967 | Guatemala | Miguel Angel Asturias |
| 1966 | Israel | Samuel Joseph Agnon (Shmuel Czaczkes) |
| 1965 | USSR | Mikhail Sholokhov |
| 1964 | France | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1963 | Greece | Giorgios Seferis (pseudonym Giorgos Seferiadis) |
| 1961 | Yugoslavia | Ivo Andric |
| 1960 | France | St-John Perse (Alexis St. Léger) |
| 1959 | Italy | Salvatore Quasimodo |
| 1958 | USSR | Boris Pasternak |
| 1957 | France | Albert Camus |
| 1956 | Spain | Juan Ramón Jiménez |
| 1955 | Iceland | Halidór Kiljian Laxness (pseudonym of Halldor Gudjonsson) |
| 1952 | France | Francois Mauriac |
| 1951 | Sweden | Pär Lagerkvist |
| 1947 | France | André Gide |
| 1946 | Germany-Switzerland | Herman Hesse |
| 1945 | Chile | Gabriela Mistral (pen-name of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga) |
| 1944 | Denmark | Johannes V. Jensen |
| 1939 | Finland | Frans Eemil Sillanpää |
| 1937 | France | Robert Martin du Gard |
| 1934 | Italy | Luigi Pirandello |
| 1933 | Russia | Ivan G. Bunin |
| 1931 | Sweden | Erik A. Karlfeldt |
| 1929 | Germany | Thomas Mann |
| 1928 | Norway | Sigrid Undset |
| 1927 | France | Henri Bergson |
| 1926 | Italy | Grazia Deledda (pseudonym of Grazia Madesani) |
| 1924 | Poland | Wladyslaw Reymount (Pen Name of Wladyslaw Rejment) |
| 1922 | Spain | Jacinto Benavente y Martinez |
| 1921 | France | Anatole France (a k a Jacques Anatole Thibault) |
| 1920 | Norway | Knut Hamsun (pseudonym of Knud Hamsund) |
| 1919 | Switzerland | Carl F. G. Spitteler |
| 1917 | Denmark | Karl Gjellerup |
| 1916 | Sweden | Carl Verner von Heidenstam |
| 1915 | France | Romain Rolland |
| 1913 | India | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1912 | Germany | Gerhart Hauptmann |
| 1911 | Belgium | Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck |
| 1910 | Germany | Paul J. L. Heyse |
| 1909 | Sweden | Selma Lagerlöf |
| 1908 | Germany | Rudolf Eucken |
| 1906 | Italy | Giusuè Carducci |
| 1905 | Poland | Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| 1904 | France | Frédéric Mistral |
| 1903 | Norway | Björnstjerne Björnson |
| 1902 | Germany | C. M. Theodor Mommsen |
| 1901 | France | Sully 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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