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2009 Winner: Herta Müller

Book Cover Image. Title: The Passport, Author: by Herta  Muller

The Passportby Herta Muller

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With an array of work portraying the difficulties of life in Romania during the brutal Ceausescu dictatorship, Herta Müller was selected as the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born into Romania's German minority, Müller started her luminous writing career -- sometimes penning works under clandestine conditions -- with a searing short story collection, Nadirs, and continued to publish essays, novels, and collections to critical acclaim. The Nobel Prize committee described Müller's work by noting that “with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, [it] depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."
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2008 Winner: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Book Cover Image. Title: Desert, Author: by J. M. G. Le Clezio

Desertby J. M. G. Le Clezio

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Noted French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio took home the Nobel Prize in 2008, already having garnered the Prix Renaudot in 1963 for Proces-Verbal and the first Grand Prix Paul-Morand in 1980. With an eye toward ecological issues and Western thought -- but more recently childhood and travel -- Le Clézio has been hailed by such literary luminaries as Michel Foucault and was described by the Nobel committee as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
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2006 Winner: Orhan Pamuk

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Acclaimed novelist Orhan Pamuk, who has been mentioned in the same breath as Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, and Gabriel García Márquez, shows he's just as skilled at nonfiction with Istanbul -- a mesmerizing memoir that weaves discussions of family lore, personal demons, literature, religion, art, and urban history into a fascinating portrait of one of the world's most complex cities.
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2005 Winner: Harold Pinter

Book Cover Image. Title: Death Etc., Author: by Harold  Pinter

Death Etc.by Harold Pinter

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Death etc. reveals Pinter's passions with poignant and powerful writings about war, from chilling psychological portraits of those who commit atrocities in the name of a higher power to solemn hymns commemorating the faceless masses that perish unrecognized.
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2004 Winner: Elfriede Jelinek

Book Cover Image. Title: Piano Teacher, Author: by Elfriede  Jelinek

Piano Teacherby Elfriede Jelinek

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Erika Knout's career comes to a dangerous head when she embraces the advances of her student in this riveting psychological novel.
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2003 Winner: J. M. Coetzee

Book Cover Image. Title: The Life and Times of Michael K, Author: by J. M. Coetzee

The Life and Times of Michael Kby J. M. Coetzee

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A young man sets out to escort his mother to the safety of her home in the South African countryside but discovers that the violence of war follows wherever he goes.
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2002 Winner: Imre Kertesz

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Book Cover Image. Title: Fatelessness, Author: by Imre  Kertesz

Fatelessnessby Imre Kertesz

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Kertesz's 1975 debut novel, Fateless, is the first in a trilogy of books that reflect on the Holocaust. It is the harrowing tale of a 14-year-old boy who survives captivity in Auschwitz and Buchenwald and tries to reconcile himself to the events of his day and the torments he has experienced.
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2001 Winner: V. S. Naipaul

Book Cover Image. Title: The Enigma of Arrival, Author: by V. S. Naipaul

The Enigma of Arrivalby V. S. Naipaul

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Perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work, this is the story of a writer's singular journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.
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2000 Winner: Gao Xingjian

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Book Cover Image. Title: Soul Mountain, Author: by Gao  Xingjian

Soul Mountainby Gao Xingjian

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Inspired by Gao's true-life epic journey to freedom through the ancient forests of China -- a five-month trek over 15,000 kilometers -- Soul Mountain challenges conventions and lays bare the human condition. In awarding the 2000 literature prize, the Swedish Academy described Soul Mountain as "an odyssey in time and space through the Chinese countryside."
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