Nobel Prize in Literature laureates, 2010 to 2025

the actual winners, not who I thought should've won. that list lives in my head, not here

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2010 - Mario Vargas Llosa

for his cartography of structures of power (deserved)

2011 - Tomas Tranströmer

2012 - Mo Yan

hallucinatory realism was the phrase the committee used, and it's exactly right

2013 - Alice Munro

master of the short story, no notes

2014 - Patrick Modiano

2015 - Svetlana Alexievich

the shortlist was better most years, but not this one

2016 - Bob Dylan

still the most argued-about pick on this whole list

2017 - Kazuo Ishiguro

2018 - Olga Tokarczuk

awarded in 2019 alongside 2019's, after the academy's scandal year with no prize

2019 - Peter Handke

the most controversial name on here for reasons that have nothing to do with his prose

2020 - Louise Glück

2021 - Abdulrazak Gurnah

2022 - Annie Ernaux

(deserved), and overdue

2023 - Jon Fosse

2024 - Han Kang

first Nobel win I actually celebrated in real time

2025 - László Krasznahorkai

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