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2000
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China
for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama
1999
1998
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Portugal
who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality
1997
1996
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Poland
for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality
1995
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Northern Ireland
for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past
1994
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Japan
who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today
1993
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USA
who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality
1992
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Saint Lucia
for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment
1991
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South Africa
who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity
1990
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Mexico
for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity
1989
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Spain
for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability
1988
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Egypt
who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind
1987
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Russia
for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity
1986
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Nigeria
who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence
1985
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Madagascar
who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition
1984
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Czech Republic
for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man
1983
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United Kingdom
for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today
1982
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Colombia
for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts
1981
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Bulgaria
for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power
1980
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Lithuania
who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts
1979
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Greece
for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness
1978
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Poland
for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life
1977
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Spain
for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars
1976
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Canada
for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work
