STOCKHOLM (AP) – The 2014 Nobel Prize in literature was announced Thursday by the Swedish Academy. Here is a list of winners of the award since 1980:
– 2014: Patrick Modiano, France.
– 2013: Alice Munro, Canada.
– 2012: Mo Yan, China.
– 2011: Tomas Transtromer, Sweden.
– 2010: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru.
– 2009: Herta Mueller, Germany.
– 2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, France.
– 2007: Doris Lessing, Britain.
– 2006: Orhan Pamuk, Turkey.
– 2005: Harold Pinter, Britain.
– 2004: Elfriede Jelinek, Austria.
– 2003: J.M. Coetzee, South Africa.
– 2002: Imre Kertesz, Hungary.
– 2001: V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born Briton.
– 2000: Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French.
– 1999: Guenter Grass, Germany.
– 1998: Jose Saramago, Portugal.
– 1997: Dario Fo, Italy.
– 1996: Wislawa Szymborska, Poland.
– 1995: Seamus Heaney, Ireland.
– 1994: Kenzaburo Oe, Japan.
– 1993: Toni Morrison, United States.
– 1992: Derek Walcott, St. Lucia.
– 1991: Nadine Gordimer, South Africa.
– 1990: Octavio Paz, Mexico.
– 1989: Camilo Jose Cela, Spain.
– 1988: Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt.
– 1987: Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born American.
– 1986: Wole Soyinka, Nigeria.
– 1985: Claude Simon, France.
– 1984: Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia.
– 1983: William Golding, Britain.
– 1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia.
– 1981: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born Briton.
– 1980: Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born American.