Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

My Name Is Red is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk, who won the prize in 2006

In 2023, Jon Olav Fosse was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable.

One of her famous short story collections is Runaway.

The Swedish Academy decides who will receive the prize.

Doctor Zhivago is a novel by Boris Pasternak that was first published in 1957.

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. The novel takes place in Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's hometown), and tells the story of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grew up following the Great Depression.

Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian author best known for his novel: One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Rabindranath Tagore from India was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Pearl S. Buck won the Nobel Prize in 1938 and Kawabata in 1968.

William Golding received the prize in 1983, and Saul Bellow in 1976.

The play in which two characters wait for someone who never arrives is Waiting for Godot.