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Nobel Prize for Literature: 2020s

2020-2029

2020s

Winner

Louise Glück of the United States.  Genres:  poetry, essay.

Abdulrazak Gurnah; born in Zanzibar, active in England.  "For his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents."

Annie Ernaux; born in France, writing in the genres of memoirs and novels.  "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory."

John Fosse; born in Norway.  Writes in the genres drama, novel, poetry, & essay.  "For his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."