Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

The Swedish Academy decides who will receive the prize.

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

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

The Grass Is Singing, published in 1950, is the first novel by the British author Doris Lessing. It takes place in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in southern Africa, during the 1940s, and deals with racial politics.

One of her famous short story collections is Runaway.

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

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.

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

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

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