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  09 Oct 2025, 19:50

Recent winners of the Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM, Oct 9, 2025 (AFP) - Here is a list of the 15 most recent winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, after this year's award on Thursday went to Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

2025: Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Hungary)

2024: Han Kang (South Korea)

2023: Jon Fosse (Norway)

2022: Annie Ernaux (France)

2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania, Britain)

2020: Louise Gluck (US)

2019: Peter Handke (Austria)

2018: Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)

2017: Kazuo Ishiguro (Britain)

2016: Bob Dylan (US)

2015: Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)

2014: Patrick Modiano (France)

2013: Alice Munro (Canada)

2012: Mo Yan (China)

2011: Tomas Transtromer (Sweden)