Patrick Modiano of France, who has made a lifelong study of the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature for what one academic called "crystal clear and resonant" prose.

Chinese writer Mo Yan has today been named the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.

SWEDEN’S most famous living poet, Tomas Tranströmer, won the Nobel Prize for literature yesterday, more than 20 years after a stroke severely limited his speech and movement, but not the power of his writing.

The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him acclaim.

A PERUVIAN author whose latest novel is based on the life of Irish nationalist Roger Casement has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature.

HERTA MUELLER, a member of Romania’s ethnic German minority who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism’s collapse.

Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature today.

French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature today for his poetic adventure and “sensual ecstasy”.

Announcements of the winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes will start on October 8 with the award in medicine or physiology, the Nobel Foundation said in Sweden today.

TURKISH writer Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel literature prize yesterday, for his multitude of works that deal with the symbols of clashing cultures.

Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel literature prize today for his multitude of works that deal with the symbols of clashing cultures.

This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature will not be announced until October 12 at the earliest, Swedish Academy officials said today.

The letter ’W’ entered the mainstream of the Swedish language this week, when it for the first time was given its own section in the country’s most respected dictionary, published annually by the Swedish Academy.

BRITISH playwright Harold Pinter, a master of sparse dialogue and menacing silences who has been an outspoken critic of the US-led war in Iraq, was the surprise winner of the Nobel literature prize yesterday.

Briton Harold Pinter has won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature.

Royalty, scientists, business leaders and diplomats gathered in the capitals of Sweden and Norway today to honour this year’s 12 Nobel laureates from Kenya, Austria, Israel and the United States.

AUSTRIAN novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature yesterday.

For someone who had just won the Nobel prize for literature and the €1.1m cash that comes with it, Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek was not in the best of moods today.

Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek, whose works feature themes of feminist struggle between men and women, was 'in despair' after winning the Nobel Prize in literature today.

Austrian novelist and poet Elfriede Jelinek, 57, won the Nobel Prize in literature today.

SOUTH African novelist JM Coetzee was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for literature yesterday.

NINE prominent Swedish female writers, journalists and academics on yesterday criticised the Nobel Prizes as “sexist” because there are no women among this year’s winners.

Hungarian Imre Kertesz won the Nobel Prize in literature today for writing that “upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”.

Two British scientists and an American researcher today won this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology.