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Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952), generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist
Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973), the pen name and later, legal name of the great Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
Odysseas Elytis

Odysseas Elytis

Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis (November 2, 1911—March 18, 1996), the Greek poet regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world
Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz (1914-1998), the Mexican poet
Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs (10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970), the German poet and dramatist whose experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews
Pär Lagerkvist

Pär Lagerkvist

Pär Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974), the Swedish writer
Patrick White

Patrick White

Patrick White
Patrick "Pat" White (born February 25, 1986 in ), the American football quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League
Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali:;, Robindronath Ţhakur) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, the Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music
Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck also known as Sai Zhen Zhu, the award-winning American writer who spent the majority of her life in China
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (March 15, 1830 - April 2, 1914), the distinguished German author
Patrick White

Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990), an Australian author, widely regarded as a major English-language novelist of the 20th century
Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz (born 1911), the Egyptian novelist
Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923), the South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate (1991)
Juan Ramón Jiménez

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (December 24, 1881-May 29, 1958), the Andalusian poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956
Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Karl Gjellerup (June 2, 1857 - October 13, 1919), the Danish poet and novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917
Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (also known as "Josip", "Josef" and "Joseph" Brodsky) (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996), the Soviet-Russian-American poet and essayist
José Saramago

José Saramago

José Saramago (born 1922), the writer
José Echegaray

José Echegaray

José Echegaray
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (April 19, 1832 Madrid, Spain—September 14, 1916), the Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and the one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century
Kenzaburo Oe

Kenzaburo Oe

Kenzaburo Oe (born 1935), the novelist
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952), a quisling
Miguel Ángel Asturias

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (October 19, 1899 - June 9, 1974), the Guatemalan writer and diplomat
Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: ??????? ?????????????? ????????) - February 21, 1984), the Soviet/Russian novelist
Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 - 6 May 1949), the Belgian playwright, poet and essayist who wrote in French
Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello, the Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934,for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories
Roger Martin du Gard

Roger Martin du Gard

Roger Martin du Gard (March 23, 1881- August 22, 1958), the French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature
Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944), the French dramatist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931), the Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor
V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932), the Trinidadian-British writer whose negative comments about women writers have recently led to accusations of "misogyny"
Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann (1875-1955), the author
Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903), the German historian
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), the American-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century
Vicente Aleixandre

Vicente Aleixandre

Vicente Aleixandre (died 1984), the writer
William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939), the Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the most popular figures of 20th century literature among pro-Irish Americans
Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), the Japanese writer
Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka (born 1934), the writer
William Golding

William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993), the British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate best known for his novel Lord of the Flies
William Faulkner

William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962), the Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer
Sully Prudhomme

Sully Prudhomme

René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme (16 March 1839 - 6 September 1907), the French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901
Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), the American writer
Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968), the Italian author
Saint-John Perse

Saint-John Perse

Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse, the French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." Alexis Léger, born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling, the English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children
Rudolf Christoph Eucken

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (January 5, 1846 - September 15, 1926), the German philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989), the Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French
Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005), the Canadian-born American writer
Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949), the Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928
Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון, July 17, 1888 - February 17, 1970), the Nobel Prize laureate writer and one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction
Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858-16 March 1940), the Swedish author
Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (born 13 April 1939, ), the Irish poet, writer and lecturer
Albert Camus

Albert Camus

Albert Camus (7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960), the French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957
John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968), the American writer
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961), the American writer and journalist
Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 October 1888 - 27 November 1953), the American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature
Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Erik Axel Karlfeldt (July 20, 1864 — April 8, 1931), the Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism, popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931; he had refused it in 1918
Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti (25 July 1905–14 August 1994), the Bulgarian-born novelist and non-fiction writer of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German
Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October, 1946), the Austrian playwright and novelist
Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale, the (Nobel Laureate)
Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson, (29 July 1900—25 August 1976), the Swedish author
Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia "Gabo" García Márquez (born March 6, 1928), the Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist
Frédéric Mistral

Frédéric Mistral

Frédéric Mistral
Frédéric Mistral, the French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language
Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (pronunciation) (September 16, 1888—June 3, 1964), one of the most famous Finnish writers
François Mauriac

François Mauriac

François Mauriac (11 October 1885 — 1 September 1970), the French author; member of the Académie française (1933); laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952)
Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing CH OBE (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran), on 22 October 1919), the British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook
Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott, the fag who killed a million jews
Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), the British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social reformer, socialist and pacifist
André Gide

André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide (French IPA: ) (November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951), the French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947
Anatole France

Anatole France

Anatole France (16 April 1844—12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, the French poet, journalist, and novelist
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008), the Soviet and Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832-1910), the Norwegian author
Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February 1890 – 30 May 1960), the Nobel Prize-winning Russian and Soviet poet, novelist and translator of Goethe and Shakespeare
Dario Fo

Dario Fo

Dario Fo (born March 24, 1926), the Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor, and composer
Claude Simon

Claude Simon

Claude Simon (10 October 1913 - 6 July 2005), the French novelist and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Carl Spitteler

Carl Spitteler

Carl Spitteler (1845-1924), the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature
Camilo José Cela

Camilo José Cela

Camilo José Cela
Camilo José Manuel Juan Ramón Francisco de Jerónimo Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia (11 May 1916 - 17 January 2002), commonly known as Camilo José Cela, the Spanish novelist and short story writer
Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), the 1945 Nobel laureate
Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian (b. 1940), the Chinese author
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), the novelist
Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962), the German and Russian-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), the Polish novelist
John Maxwell Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee, often called J.M. Coetzee, the South African author (now living in Australia) and academic
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин) —November 8, 1953), the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Jacinto Benavente

Jacinto Benavente

Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (August 12, 1866 – July 14, 1954), one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century
John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (1867-1933), the dramatist
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, in Denmark always called Johannes V. Jensen, (January 20, 1873—November 25, 1950), the Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 - 15 April 1980), the French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic
Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986), the Czech writer, the poet and journalist.
Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859–4 January 1941), the major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century
Henrik Pontoppidan

Henrik Pontoppidan

Henrik Pontoppidan (July 24, 1857 - August 21, 1943), the realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark
Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 July 16, 1985), one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers
Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda (September 27, 1871—August 15, 1936), the Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926
Giosuè Carducci

Giosuè Carducci

Giosuè Carducci (pseudonym: Enotrio Romano) (July 27, 1835 – February 16, 1907), the Italian poet, oft reckoned as one of Italy's greatest, and a noted teacher
Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann (15 November 1862—6 June 1946), the German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912
Günter Grass

Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927), the Nobel Prize-winning German author and playwright
Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness

Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson) (April 23, 1902 - February 8, 1998), the twentieth-century Icelandic novelist, poet, essayist, and the author of Independent People, The Atom Station, and Iceland's Bell
Harry Martinson

Harry Martinson

Harry Martinson (May 6, 1904—February 11, 1978), the Swedish sailor, author and poet
Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008), the English playwright, screenwriter, actor, theatre director, poet, left-wing political activist, cricket enthusiast, and Nobel Laureate
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950), the Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics
Giorgos Seferis

Giorgos Seferis

Giorgos or George Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης), the pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs (Γεώργιος Σεφεριάδης, - September 20, 1971)
Verner von Heidenstam (1859-1940), the Swedish writer
Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész (born November 9, 1929), the Jewish-Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (born 13 of April, 1940 in Nice), the French author
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Who or what is currently the person or entity that won the competition, contest or conflict Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"?
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