The Nobel Prize in Literature Flashcards
(6 cards)
2012
The Nobel Prize in Literature
Mo Yan
“who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”
2011
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Tomas Tranströmer
“because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”
2010
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Mario Vargas Llosa
“for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat”.
2009
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Herta Müller
“who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”
2008
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
“author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”
2007
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Doris Lessing
“that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”.
