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Hungary
for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art
2024
2023
2022
Literature
France
for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory
2021
Literature
for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents
2020
Literature
USA
for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal
2019
Literature
Austria
for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience
2018
Literature
Poland
for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life
2017
Literature
Japan
who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world
2016
2015
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Ukraine
for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time
2014
Literature
France
for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and
uncovered the life-world of the occupation
2013
2012
2011
Literature
Sweden
because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality
2010
Literature
Peru
for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat
2009
Literature
Romania
who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed
2008
Literature
France
author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization
2007
Literature
Iran
that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny
2006
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Turkey
who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures
2005
Literature
United Kingdom
who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms
2004
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Austria
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
2003
Literature
South Africa
who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider
2002
Literature
Hungary
for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history
2001
Literature
Trinidad and Tobago
for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories
