This presentation is aimed at acquainting the aspirants of the National and State level Eligibility Tests with the Nobel Prize winners for Literature of the past five years i.e. 2019-2023.
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1. The Nobel, The Booker and
The Pulitzer (2019-2023)
Prepared by:
Prakruti Bhatt,
Research Scholar,
Department of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
2. Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature [2019-23]
Year Author Why?
2019 Peter Handke “For an influential work that with linguistic
ingenuity has explored the periphery and
specificity of human experience.”
2020 Louise Gluck “For her unmistakable poetic voice that with
austere beauty makes individual existence
universal"
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah “For his uncompromising and compassionate
penetration of the effects of colonialism and
the fate of the refugee in the gulf between
cultures and continents.”
2022 Annie Ernaux “For the courage and clinical acuity with
which she uncovers the roots, estrangements
and collective restraints of personal memory.”
2023 To be announced on 5th October 2023 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/
3.
4. Peter Handke
● novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter
● Offending the Audience (1966) [play]
● Kaspar (1967) [play]
● The Goalie’s Anxiety at The Penalty Kick (1970)
● A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972)
● The Left-Handed Woman (1976) [drama film directed by Handke]
● The plays earned him the reputation of the avant garde during the
1960s
● A dominant theme of his works is the deadening effects and
underlying irrationality of ordinary language, everyday reality, and
rational order.
5. Louise Gluck
● Glück is known for her poetry’s technical precision, sensitivity, and insight
into loneliness, family relationships, divorce, and death.
● Has also received the Pulitzer Prize for her The Wild Iris (1992)
● Two notable essay collections:
1. Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994)
2. American Originality: Essays on Poetry(2017)
● Notable Poetry Collections:
1. Firstborn (1968)
2. The House on Marshland (1975)
3. The Garden (1976)
4. Descending Figure (1980)
5. The Triumph of Achilles (1985)
6. Ararat (1990)
7. Winter Recipes from the Collective. (2021)
6. Abdulrazak Gurnah
● Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his Paradise (1994) and By
the Sea (2001)
● Also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ prize for his
Desertion (2005)
● Other notable works:
1. Memory of Departure (1987)
2. Afterlives (2020)
3. Cages (1984) [short story]
4. The Stateless Person’s Tale (2019) [short story]
5. Matigari: A Tract of Resistance (1991) [critical essay]
6. Learning to Read (2015) [critical essay)
7. Annie Ernaux:
● Came to London in 1960 and worked as an au pair; an experience she
later shared in her A Girl’s Story (2016)
● First work was the autobiographical novel Cleaned Out published in
1974
● Other notable works:
1. Do What They Say or Else (2022)
2. The Frozen Woman (1994)
3. A Man’s Place (1983), A Woman’s Story (1988) and Shame (1998)
[autosociobiographical texts]
8. References:
● McKenna, Amy. “Abdulrazak Gurnah | Nobel Prize, Family, Paradise, and by the Sea.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Oct. 2021,
www.britannica.com/biography/Abdulrazak-Gurnah. Accessed 27 Aug. 2023.
● “The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019.” NobelPrize.org, www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2019/summary. Accessed 27
Aug. 2023.
● “The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020.” NobelPrize.org, www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/summary. Accessed 27
Aug. 2023.
● “The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021.” NobelPrize.org, www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/summary. Accessed 27
Aug. 2023.
● “The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022.” NobelPrize.org, www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2022/summary. Accessed 27
Aug. 2023.
● “Nomination and Selection of Literature Laureates - NobelPrize.org.” NobelPrize.org, 27 Oct. 2021,
www.nobelprize.org/nomination/literature.
● The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Louise Gluck | Biography, Poetry, Awards, and Facts.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 20
July 1998, www.britannica.com/biography/Louise-Gluck. Accessed 27 Aug. 2023.
---. “Peter Handke | Biography, Books, and Facts.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 July 1998, www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-
Handke. Accessed 27 Aug. 2023.
● Zelazko, Alicja. “Annie Ernaux | Biography, Books, Nobel, and Facts.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2023,
www.britannica.com/biography/Annie-Ernaux.
![Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature [2019-23]
Year Author Why?
2019 Peter Handke “For an influential work that with linguistic
ingenuity has explored the periphery and
specificity of human experience.”
2020 Louise Gluck “For her unmistakable poetic voice that with
austere beauty makes individual existence
universal"
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah “For his uncompromising and compassionate
penetration of the effects of colonialism and
the fate of the refugee in the gulf between
cultures and continents.”
2022 Annie Ernaux “For the courage and clinical acuity with
which she uncovers the roots, estrangements
and collective restraints of personal memory.”
2023 To be announced on 5th October 2023 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)