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for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art
for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life
for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable
for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory
for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents
for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal
for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience
for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life
who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world
for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition
for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time
for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and
uncovered the life-world of the occupation
master of the contemporary short story
who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary
because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality
for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat
who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed
author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization
that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny
who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures
who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms
for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power
who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider
for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history
for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories
