News That South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee has been awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Nobel Academy’s head, Horace Engdahl, said Coetzee “in innumerable guises portrays the surprise involvement of the outsider”.
See also: Great writers who never won the Nobel, Among those considered in the running but who have died in the past few years was R.K. Narayan, of whom his friend Graham Greene once remarked that thanks to his writing he had known what it was like to be Indian.
2003 JM Coetzee
2002 Imre Kertesz
2001 VS Naipaul
2000 Gao Xingjian
1999 Günter Grass
1998 Jose Saramago
1997 Dario Fo
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1995 Seamus Heaney
1994 Kenzaburo Oe
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