She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy termed 'skepticism, fire and visionary power.' She is perhaps most famous for her 1962 novel, 'The Golden Notebook,' a seminal work of feminist literature.įrench author/professor Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (1940– ) has penned more than 40 books. His controversial works have been banned in his native Turkey.īritish writer Doris Lessing (1919–2013) was born in Persia (now Iran). Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Columbia University Professor of Comparative Literature and Writing Orhan Pamuk (1952– ), 'who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures,' was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2006.

Noted Austrian playwright, novelist, and feminist Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature thanks to the '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.'įamed British playwright Harold Pinter (1930–2008), 'who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms,' was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005. South African novelist, essayist, literary critic, linguist, translator, and professor John Maxwell (1940– ) 'who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider,' was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hungarian writer Imre Kertész (1929–2016), a survivor of the Holocaust, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2002 'for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.' Trinidadian-British writer Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932–2018) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 'for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.'

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