Archives | Festival Laureates
Nobel Prize in Literature
Gao Xingjian (PWF 2010) Nadine Gordimer (PWF 2004)
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Herta Müller (PWF 1999) Harold Pinter (PWF 1999)
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José Saramago (PWF 1994) Wole Soyinka (PWF 2006)
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Derek Walcott (PWF 2011) Orhan Pamuk (PWF 2013)
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Günter Grass (PWF 2013) Svetlana Alexievich (PWF 2014)
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J. M. Coetzee (PWF 2016)
Nobel Prize Chronology
 Bob Dylan, 2016 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" |
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Svetlana Alexievich, 2015 "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time" |
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Patrick Modiano, 2014 "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the Occupation" |
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Alice Munro, 2013 "master of the contemporary short story" |
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Mo Yan, 2012 "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary" |
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Tomas Tranströmer, 2011 "...because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality". |
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Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010 "...for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat". |
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Herta Müller, 2009 "...who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed". |
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, 2008 "...author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization". |
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Doris Lessing, 2007 "...that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". |
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Orhan Pamuk, 2006 "...who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures". |
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Harold Pinter, 2005 "...who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms". |
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Elfriede Jelinek, 2004 "...for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés..." |
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John Maxwell Coetzee, 2003 "...who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider". |
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Imre Kertész, 2002 "...for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". |
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 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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Gao Xingjian, 2000 "...for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama". |
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Günter Grass, 1999 "...whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history". |
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José Saramago, 1998 "...who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality". |
Booker Prize laureates at Prague Writers' Festival
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Pulitzer Prize laureates at Prague Writers' Festival
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Prix Goncourt laureates at Prague Writers' Festival
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