Who won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature?
"Zimbabwe) published her first novel ""The Grass is Singing"" in 1950, after immigrating to England. She initially wrote about her African experiences. Lessing soon became a dominant presence in the English literary scene, publishing frequently, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Sir V. S. Naipaul (1932– ) was another immigrant, born in Trinidad, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Also from the West Indies is George Lamming (1927– ) who wrote ""In the Castle of My Skin"" (1953), while from Pakistan came Hanif Kureshi (1954–), a playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. 2017 Nobel"
"Nobel Prize in Literature the same year, Elfriede Jelinek (2004) and Harold Pinter (2005). The criteria for winning the award include the artwork's ""humanistic character and contribution to cultural, national, language and religious tolerance, its existential, timeless character, its generally human validity and its ability to hand over a testimony about our times."" Previous winners. Franz Kafka Prize The Franz Kafka Prize is an international literary award presented in honour of Franz Kafka, the German language novelist. The prize was first awarded in 2001 and is co-sponsored by the Franz Kafka Society and the city of Prague, Czech Republic. At"
"and the people primitive. In awarding Naipaul the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy praised his work ""for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."" The Committee added: ""Naipaul is a modern ""philosopher"" carrying on the tradition that started originally with ""Lettres persanes"" and ""Candide"". In a vigilant style, which has been deservedly admired, he transforms rage into precision and allows events to speak with their own inherent irony."" The Committee also noted Naipaul's affinity with the novelist Joseph Conrad: Naipaul's fiction and especially his travel"
"as minor, inconsequential or transitional have won the prize. From 1901 to 1912, the committee's work reflected an interpretation of the ""ideal direction"" stated in Nobel's will as ""a lofty and sound idealism"", which caused Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Émile Zola and Mark Twain to be rejected. Sweden's historic antipathy towards Russia was cited as the reason neither Tolstoy nor Anton Chekhov took the prize. During World War I and its immediate aftermath, the committee adopted a policy of neutrality, favoring writers from non-combatant countries. Another notable omission for the Prize is R. K. Narayan, an Indian writer known for"
"Mario Vargas Llosa, Jose Saramago, Toni Morrison, Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, Kenzaburō Ōe, and Orhan Pamuk (before he won the prize), as well as other celebrated authors and scholars including Chinua Achebe, Umberto Eco, Tom Stoppard, W. G. Sebald, James Kelman, Alice Walker, Nuruddin Farah, Mahmoud Darwish, Hanan al-Shaykh, Elias Khoury, Alaa al-Aswany, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Amin Maalouf, Isabel Allende, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Eric Hobsbawm, George Steiner, Jeanette Winterson, Caryl Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Arundhati Roy, Walter Mosley, Terry McMillan, Amy Tan, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Aminatta Forna, Nadeem Aslam, Romesh Gunesekera, Junot Diaz and Edward Said (the latter praising"
"many US literary critics and professors had never heard of Müller before. This reignited criticism that the committee was too Eurocentric. The 2005 prize went to Harold Pinter ""who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"". The award was delayed for some days, apparently due to Knut Ahnlund's resignation. In turn, this renewed speculation about a ""political element"" existing in the Swedish Academy's awarding of the Prize. Although poor health prevented him from giving his controversial Nobel Lecture, ""Art, Truth and Politics"", in person, he appeared on video, which was simultaneously"
"and handed over by the President of Austria. Each prize also included a one-year scholarship at an Austrian university given to a young person nominated by the winning scholar. The prize was open to humanities scholars and artists from a wide variety of fields, including ethnographers, writers, architects, composers, poets, folklorists, painters, historians, literary scholars, art historians, archeologists, theatre directors, musicologists, museologists, linguists, playwrights, etc. Several writers who received the Herder Prize went on to later win the Nobel Prize in Literature, such as Wisława Szymborska (in 1995 and 1996), Imre Kertész (in 2000 and 2002), and Svetlana Alexievich (in"
"the Nobel Prize in Literature, he bemoaned the ""pure political correctness"" of the award to an author of ""fourth-rate science fiction."" In 2004 author Naomi Wolf wrote an article for ""New York Magazine"" accusing Harold Bloom of a sexual ""encroachment"" more than two decades earlier, by touching her thigh. She said that what she alleged Bloom did was not harassment, either legally or emotionally, and she did not think herself a ""victim"", but that she had harbored this secret for 21 years. Explaining why she had finally gone public with the charges, Wolf wrote, ""I began, nearly a year ago,"
"who have won the most prestigious literary award in the world, the Nobel Prize for Literature, are: Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 1945), Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala, 1967), Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1971), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, 1982), Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1990), and Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru, 2010). The Neustadt International Prize for Literature, perhaps the most important international literary award after the Nobel Prize, counts several Latin American authors among its recipients; they include: Claribel Alegría (Nicaragua), Álvaro Mutis (Colombia), João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil), Octavio Paz (Mexico), and Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia). Candidates for the prize include: Ricardo Piglia (Argentina),"
"2011, Adonis emerged as the front runner to be crowned Nobel Prize in Literature, instead the prize was awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Peter Englund said it was not awarded based on politics, describing such a notion as ""literature for dummies"". Adonis has helped to spread Tomas Tranströmer fame in the Arab world, accompanying him on readings., he also wrote the introduction to the first translation of Transtromer complete Works into Arabic (published by Bedayat publishing house, translated by the Iraqi Kassem Hamady), he stated that: Adonis' poetry and criticism have"
"Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, ""for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of Nazi Holocaust (he was a survivor of a German concentration camp), dictatorship and personal freedom. He died on 31 March 2016, aged 86, at his home in Budapest after suffering from Parkinson's disease for several years. Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 9"
"almost as much to see mediocre books over-praised."" In reaction, ""The New York Times"" invited eight literary experts to pick their winners for the prize. The experts and their picks were Sam Anderson and Macy Halford: ""The Pale King"" by David Foster Wallace; Maud Newton: ""Pym"" by Mat Johnson; Gregory Cowles: ""The Year We Left Home"" by Jean Thompson; Garth Risk Hallberg: ""The Angel Esmeralda"" by Don DeLillo; Laila Lalami: ""State of Wonder"" by Ann Patchett; Alexander Chee: ""Silver Sparrow"" by Tayari Jones, and John Williams: ""Open City"" by Teju Cole. There were 21 prizes awarded in three categories. The"
"award that year's Nobel Prize in Literature to Müller ""who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."" The academy compared Müller's style and her use of German as a minority language with Franz Kafka and pointed out the influence of Kafka on Müller. The award coincided with the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism. Michael Krüger, head of Müller's publishing house, said: ""By giving the award to Herta Müller, who grew up in a German-speaking minority in Romania, the committee has recognized an author who refuses to let the inhumane"
"charge Myers with living in an ""imagined past"", in which all the authors were more talented. Myers agrees to a point, but gives the example of the National Book Award winners between 1990 and 2001 compared to those of 1950 through 1961 winners. 1950 Nelson Algren...1990 Charles R. Johnson 1951 William Faulkner...1991 Norman Rush 1952 James Jones...1992 Cormac McCarthy 1953 Ralph Ellison...1993 E. Annie Proulx 1954 Saul Bellow...1994 William Gaddis 1955 William Faulkner...1995 Philip Roth 1956 John O'Hara...1996 Andrea Barrett 1957 Wright Morris...1997 Charles Frazier 1958 John Cheever...1998 Alice McDermott 1959 Bernard Malamud...1999 Ha Jin 1960 Philip Roth...2000 Susan Sontag"
"(2004 to 2009). She won the 2010 Prize for the concluding volume, ""Ghost Hunter"". 2004 (8) Cottrell Boyce won the Carnegie Medal for the listed work; Morpurgo made the shortlist. 2003 (8) ""The Curious Incident"" won two Whitbread Awards: Novel (not children's book) and overall ""Book of the Year"". Haddon and Almond made the Carnegie Medal shortlist for the listed works. 2002 (9) Pratchett won the Carnegie Medal for the listed work; Laird, Newbery and Sedgwick made the shortlist. 2001 (10) Naidoo won the Carnegie Medal for the listed work; Geras was a highly commended runner up. The longlist was"
"Books: ""Slave"" by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis; Special: Mordechai Vanunu; Censor of the Year: John Ashcroft. 2003 winners: Journalism: Fergal Keane; Whistleblowing: Tony Kevin; Censor of the Year: Jonathan Moyo; Circumvention of Censorship: Al Jazeera; Defence of Free Expression: Hashem Aghajari. 2002 winners: Defence of Free Expression: Anna Politkovskaya; Circumvention of Censorship: Şanar Yurdatapan; Whistleblowing: Jiang Weiping; Censor of the Year: Silvio Berlusconi. 2001 winners: Defence of Free Expression: Mashallah Shamsolvaezin; Whistleblowing: Grigory Pasko; Circumvention of Censorship: Lorrie Cranor, Avi Rubin and Marc Waldman; Censor of the Year: UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). In December 2002 Index on Censorship"
"American rap lyrics, and was a clear break with the serious modern tradition of the twentieth century in Icelandic poetry. There were no poems about nature, silent lakes or lava fields. In 2001 Helgason published his biggest and most ambitious novel, Höfundur Íslands (The Author of Iceland). It was a succès de scandale, since the main character was based on the biggest Icelandic writer, Halldór Laxness (1902-1998), who received the Nobel prize in 1955. The novel tells the story of a very old and famous Icelandic writer who dies and wakes up inside a novel he wrote some fifty years"
"were German President Joachim Gauck, federal Commissioner for Culture Monika Grütters, and Paweł Adamowicz, mayor of Gdańsk. Grütters, in remarks to mourners, noted that Grass through his work championed the independence of artists and of art itself. Adamowicz said Grass had ""bridged the chasm between Germany and Poland,"" and praised the novelist's ""unwillingness to compromise."" Collections in English translation Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig"
"Marcello Di Cintio 2008—2009 Charlotte Gill 2007—2008 Sina Queyras 2006—2007 Jaspreet Singh 2005—2006 Melanie Little 2004—2005 Natalee Caple 2003—2004 Robert Finley 2002—2003 Suzette Mayr 2001—2002 Eden Robinson 2000—2001 Laura Robinson 1999—2000 Richard Sanger 1998—1999 Peter Oliva 1997—1998 Larissa Lai 1996—1997 Rosemary Nixon 1995—1996 Richard Harrison 1994—1995 Ven Begamudré 1993—1994 Roberta Rees 2017–2018 Marlon James 2016–2017 Michael Chabon 2015–2016 Zadie Smith 2014—2015 Shyam Selvadurai, Evelyn Lau 2013—2014 Neil Gaiman, Alberto Manguel 2012—2013 Margaret Atwood 2011—2012 Billy Collins 2010—2011 Art Spiegelman 2009—2010 Margaret MacMillan 2008—2009 Alberto Rios 2007—2008 Daphne Marlatt, Derek Walcott 2006—2007 Frederick Busch Tribute 2005—2006 Rudy Wiebe, Oliver Sacks 2004—2005"
"prize went to French poet Sully Prudhomme, the year after to German historian Theodor Mommsen. Reports suggest that Tolstoy did not receive the prize because of the jury's reservations towards his political and religious positions as well as Sweden's rocky relationship with Russia at the time. In 1901, 42 Swedish writers, including August Strindberg wrote Tolstoy a letter following the announcement, expressing their dissatisfaction with the decision. Czech writer Karel Čapek's ""War With the Newts"" was considered too offensive to the German government, and he declined to suggest a non-controversial publication that could be cited in its stead (""Thank you"
"Prize): Jorge Guillén (1968, Spain), Jorge Luis Borges (1969, Argentina), Octavio Paz (1971, Mexico), Dámaso Alonso (1973, Spain), Julio Cortázar (1975, Argentina), Mario Vargas Llosa (1977, Peru), Yves Bonnefoy (1979, France), Michel Butor (1981, France), Carlos Fuentes (1983, Mexico), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1987, Cuba), Edouard Glissant (1989, Martinique), Manuel Puig (1991, Argentina), Maryse Condé (1993, Guadeloupe), Luisa Valenzuela (1995, Argentina), J.M.G. Le Clézio (1997, France), Czesław Miłosz (1999, Poland), Kenzaburō Ōe (2001, Japan), Roberto Fernández Retamar (2002, Cuba), J. M. Coetzee (2003, South Africa), Nélida Piñon (2004, Brazil), Orhan Pamuk (2006, Turkey), Bei Dao (2008, China), Sherman Alexie (2010, United"
"works had been translated into a number of languages. On 26 October 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy. Documents released 50 years later revealed that the Nobel Committee had selected Andrić over writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Frost, John Steinbeck and E.M. Forster. The Committee cited ""the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from his country's history"". Once the news was announced, Andrić's Belgrade apartment was swarmed by reporters, and he publicly thanked the Nobel Committee for selecting him as the winner of that year's"
"because of his controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"". According to the rules of the Academy, Gyllensten remained a passive member for the remainder of his life. <br> Lars Gyllensten Lars Johan Wictor Gyllensten (12 November 1921 – 25 May 2006) was a Swedish author and physician, and a member of the Swedish Academy, which has the aim of furthering the ""purity, vigour and majesty"" of the Swedish language and selects the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature each year. Gyllensten was born and grew up in a middle-class family in Stockholm, son of Carl Gyllensten and Ingrid Rangström, and"
"de Cervantes Prize include Octavio Paz (1981 Cervantes, 1990 Nobel); Mario Vargas Llosa (1994 Cervantes, 2010 Nobel); and Camilo José Cela (1995 Cervantes, 1989 Nobel). José Saramago is the only author to receive both the Camões Prize (1995) and the Nobel Prize (1998) to date. The Hans Christian Andersen Award is sometimes referred to as ""the Little Nobel"". The award has earned this appellation since, in a similar manner to the Nobel Prize in Literature, it recognizes the lifetime achievement of writers, though the Andersen Award focuses on a single category of literary works (children's literature). Nobel Prize in Literature"
"It then became a part of the Creative Writing program at Griffith University, Gold Coast, in Queensland. Starting in 2013, the Arts, Education and Law Group at Griffith University funded the award fully, and the name was changed to the Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize. Winners of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize (1998-2012) and the Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize (2013–2014): 1998 WINNER: Roland Leach 1999 WINNER: Jean Kent 2000 WINNER: Kathryn Lomer 2001 WINNER: Anthony Lawrence RUNNERS-UP: Jan Kapelas, Jean Kent, Ronn Morris and Jan Owen 2002 WINNER: Judy Johnson HIGHLY COMMENDED: Ted Nielse and Patricia Sykes"
"transmitted on Britain's Channel Four. The issue of ""political stance"" was also raised in response to Orhan Pamuk and Doris Lessing, prizewinners in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The 2004 prize was awarded to Elfriede Jelinek. Academy member Knut Ahnlund, who had been inactive since 1996, resigned, alleging that selecting Jelinek had caused ""irreparable damage"" to the prize's reputation. The 1997 prize went to Italian actor-playwright Dario Fo who was initially considered ""rather lightweight"" by some critics, as he was seen primarily as a performer and had previously been censured by the Roman Catholic Church. Salman Rushdie and Arthur Miller had"
"issue of their ""political stance"" was also raised in response to the awards of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Orhan Pamuk and Doris Lessing in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The 2016 choice of Bob Dylan was the first time a musician and song-writer won the Nobel for Literature. The award caused some controversy, particularly among writers arguing that the literary merits of Dylan's work are not equal to those of some of his peers. Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine tweeted that ""Bob Dylan winning a Nobel in Literature is like Mrs Fields being awarded 3 Michelin stars."" The French Moroccan"
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"more famous after their deaths than during their lifetime (and often were completely or relatively unknown) include Greek philosopher Socrates; scientist Galileo Galilei; 1800s-era poet John Keats; painter Vincent van Gogh; poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe; singer Eva Cassidy; comedian Bill Hicks; writer Emily Dickinson; artist Edith Holden, whose 1906 diary was a best-seller when published posthumously in 1977; writer Franz Kafka; singer Jeff Buckley; diarist Anne Frank; philosopher Søren Kierkegaard; writer John Kennedy Toole (who posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 12 years after his death); author Stieg Larsson (who died with his ""Millennium"" novels unpublished); musician,"
"for the good will, but I have already written my doctoral dissertation""). He never received a prize. French novelist and intellectual André Malraux was considered for the Literature prize in the 1950s, according to Swedish Academy archives studied by newspaper ""Le Monde"" on their opening in 2008. Malraux was competing with Albert Camus, but was rejected several times, especially in 1954 and 1955, ""so long as he does not come back to novel"", while Camus won the prize in 1957. W. H. Auden's missing prize was attributed to errors in his translation of 1961 Peace Prize winner Dag Hammarskjöld's ""Vägmärken"""
"for ""Berlin's Architectural Citations: Reconstruction, Simulation, and the Problems of Historical Authenticity"" (October 2003) 2003 Anne Mallory, University of Georgia, for ""Burke, Boredom, and the Theater of Counterrevolution"" (March 2003) Honorable mention: Paul Giles, University of Oxford, for ""Transnationalism and Classic American Literature"" (January 2003) 2002 Geoffrey Sanborn, Bard College, for ""Keeping Her Distance: Cisneros, Dickinson, and the Politics of Private Enjoyment"" (October 2001) 2001 Ian Baucom, Duke University, for ""Globalit, Inc.; or, The Cultural Logic of Global Literary Studies"" (January 2001) Rita Felski, University of Virginia, for ""Nothing to Declare: Identity, Shame, and the Lower Middle Class"" (January 2000)"
"'94 (2003), Lynn Nottage '86 (twice, 2009, 2017), Quiara Alegría Hudes '04 (2012), and Ayad Akhtar '93 (2013); Pulitzer Prize for Biography-winner David Kertzer '69 (2015); Pulitzer Prize for Journalism-winners James Risen '77 (twice, 2002, 2006), Mark Maremont '80 (twice, 2003, 2007), Gareth Cook '91 (2005), Tony Horwitz '80 (2005), Peter Kovacs '77 (2006), Stephanie Grace '86 (2006), Mary Swerczek '98 (2006), Jane B. Spencer '99 (2006), Usha Lee McFarling '89 (2007), James Bandler '89 (2007), Amy Goldstein '75 (2009), David Rohde '90 (twice, 1996, 2009), Kathryn Schulz '96 (2016), and Alissa J. Rubin '80 (2016); Pulitzer Prize for General"
"more popularity. For his writings he was awarded some of the most prestigious Polish literary awards, including the ""Kisiel Award"" (1999), ""Ksawery Pruszyński Memorial Prize"" of the Polish Pen-club (2001) and the ""Superwiktor"" award for television personalities. In 2003 he was also awarded the ""Człowiek Pojednania"" prize by the Polish Council of Christians and Jews for his part in the Polish-Jewish dialogue. Finally, he was made the doctor honoris causa of many Polish universities, including the Warsaw University, Jagiellonian University and his alma mater, the University in Poznań. He died in Warsaw on 20 January 2005. He donated all his"