Previous Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature and Why They Won Them!

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was won by Mario Vargas Llosa (1936), a dual Peruvian and Spanish national**.

Main works: "The City and the Dog", "The Green House", "Aunt Julia and the Writer", "The Armageddon", "Who Killed Palomino Morero", "The Festival of the Ram", etc.

Reason for the award: "He not only depicts the structure of power, but also sharply portrays the resistance, rebellion and failure of individuals." ”

The winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature was Thomas Tronström (1931-2015), a Swedish poet who is regarded as the most outstanding master of symbolism and surrealism in contemporary European poetry.

His main works include the poetry collections "Seventeen Poems", "Secrets on the Way", "Half-Finished Sky", "Seeing the Darkness", "The Path", "The Shield of Truth", "To the Living and the Dead", "Gondola of Sorrow", "The Great Mystery", "Gallery", etc.

Reason for the award: "He uses concise and thorough imagery to provide us with a new way to reality. ”

The winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature is Mo Yan (1955), a Chinese scholar from Gaomi County, Shandong Province, who began his literary creation in 1981.

Main works: short and medium-length stories "Transparent Carrot", "Woman with Flowers", etc., long "Red Sorghum Family", "Breast and Fat Buttocks", "Herbivorous Family", "Song of Garlic in Paradise", "Thirteen Steps", "Forty-one Cannons", "Wine Country", "Sandalwood Punishment", "Life and Death Fatigue", "Frog", etc.

Reason for the award: "Blending magical realism with folk tales, history and contemporary society." ”

The winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature is Alice Monroe (1931), female, Canada.

Main works: "The Life of Girls and Women", "Who Do You Think You Are?" ", "The Process of Love", "The Open Secret", "The Love of a Good Woman", "Hate, Friendship, Courtship, Love, Marriage", "Escape", "Stone City Vision", etc.

Reason for the award: "Contemporary Short Story **Master".

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.

The famous Swedish poet, Thomas Tronström won the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 6, 2011, and at 13 o'clock on October 11, 2012, the Nobel Prize Review Committee of the Swedish Academy of Letters and the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy of Letters, Peter Enlund, announced that the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature is the Chinese writer Mo Yan, and the winner of the 2013 Literature Award was announced at 7 pm Beijing time on October 10, and the Canadian female writer Alice Monroe became the final winner.

1901 Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907) French poet. His main poems include "Destiny", prose "The Will of Poetry" and "On Art". In 1901, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "Loneliness and Deep Thought".

Reason for the award: "It is a noble ideal, perfect art, and a rare proof of heart and wisdom.""

1902 Theodor Monson (1817-1903) German historian. His main poems include the five-volume History of Rome, and the 16-volume Encyclopedia of Latin Inscriptions. In 1902, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "The Roman Storm".

Reason for the award: "The greatest historian of our time, this is undoubtedly expressed in his magnum opus, The History of Rome".

1903 Björnsten Björnsson (1832-1910) Norwegian dramatist, poet and home. His main works include the plays "The Emperor", "The Glove of Challenge", and the poetry collection "Poems and Songs". In 1903, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "The Gloves of Challenge".

Reason for the award: "With the poet's vivid inspiration and rare innocence, he writes his works gracefully, gorgeously and colorfully."