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Noble Nobels - 21st Century Laureates in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature was first awarded in 1901, for outstanding contributions in literature. There have been 7 years in which the prize was not awarded: 1914, 1918, 1935, and 1940-43; four years where the award was given to 2 people: 1904, 1917, 1966, and 1974; and two awards have been rejected (although the Nobel committee does not acknowledge refusals): Boris Pasternak was forced to publicly reject his award under pressure from the Soviet Union government (1958) and Jean-Paul Sartre rejected his award in 1964. Up to and including 2023 the award has been won by 17 women.
This list is a selection of works by laureates who have been awarded prizes in the 21st Century - year 2000 up to the present day. Some authors have few works available in English translation; other authors have several works to choose from so there is a maximum of 4 works per author in the list... just to get you started.

Septology — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Jon Fosse
£16.99 £16.142023 Nobel laureate

A Shining — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Jon Fosse
£8.99 £8.542023 Nobel laureate

I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture
Annie Ernaux
£6.99 £6.642022 Nobel laureate

Getting Lost – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Annie Ernaux
£12.99 £12.342022 Nobel laureate

A Village Life
Louise Gluck
£9.95 £9.45The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."

The Left-Handed Woman
Peter Handke
£7.99 £7.59The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 was awarded to Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
£9.99 £9.49The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."

Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Kazuo Ishiguro
£20.002017 Nobel laureate

Tarantula
Bob Dylan
£9.99 £9.49The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl
Svetlana Alexievich
£9.99 £9.49The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."

The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder
Patrick Modiano
£9.99 £9.49The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 was awarded to Patrick Modiano "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation."

The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Etoile – The Night Watch – Ring Roads
Patrick Modiano
£16.99 £16.142014 Nobel laureate

Dear Life
Alice Munro
£9.99 £9.49The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 was awarded to Alice Munro "master of the contemporary short story."

Red Sorghum
Mo Yan
£9.99 £9.49The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."

New Collected Poems
Tomas Transtromer
£14.99 £14.24The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 was awarded to Tomas Tranströmer "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality."

The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa
£9.99 £9.49The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."

The Land Of Green Plums
Herta (Y) Muller
£9.99 £9.49The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 was awarded to Herta Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."

Desert
J.M.G LE CLEZIO
£10.99 £10.44The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 was awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."

The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
£9.99 £9.49The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 was awarded to Doris Lessing "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny."

Orhan Pamuk: Orange
Orhan Pamuk, Holger Feroudj, et al.
£28.00 £26.60The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 was awarded to Orhan Pamuk "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures."

Istanbul: Memories and the City (The Illustrated Edition)
Orhan Pamuk
£30.00 £28.502006 Nobel laureate

Harold Pinter Plays 1: The Birthday Party; The Room; The Dumb Waiter; A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; A Night Out; The Black and Wh
Harold Pinter
£19.99 £18.99The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 was awarded to Harold Pinter "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms."

Harold Pinter Plays 2: The Caretaker; Night School; The Dwarfs; The Collection; The Lover
Harold Pinter
£18.99 £18.042005 Nobel laureate

Harold Pinter Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Man’s Land
Harold Pinter
£18.99 £18.042005 Nobel laureate

Rein Gold
Elfriede Jelinek
£12.99 £12.34The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 was awarded to Elfriede Jelinek "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."

Three Plays: Rechnitz, The Merchant's Contracts, Charges (The Supplicants)
Elfriede Jelinek
£14.992004 Nobel laureate

The Death of Jesus
J.M. Coetzee
£9.99 £9.49The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 was awarded to John M. Coetzee "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider."

Fateless
Imre Kertesz
£9.99 £9.49The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 was awarded to Imre Kertész "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history."

A House for Mr Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
£12.99 £12.34The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 was awarded to Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."

Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian
£16.99 £16.14The Nobel Prize in Literature 2000 was awarded to Gao Xingjian "for an æuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama."

Gravel Heart: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Abdulrazak Gurnah
£9.99 £9.492021 Nobel laureate

Desertion: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Abdulrazak Gurnah
£9.99 £9.492021 Nobel laureate

The Last Gift: By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
Abdulrazak Gurnah
£9.99 £9.492021 Nobel laureate