China News Service, October 8th. On the afternoon of October 8, local time, in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature to American poet Louise Gluck. The awarding party said her "Poetic Voice" can "make the existence of the individual universal."
American poet Louise Glick won the 2021 Nobel Prize.
(Image source: Nobel Prize official website)
The Nobel Prize for Literature has had many famous literary master-level winners. In recent years, literary writers including Chinese writer Mo Yan have also been on the list.
[Introduction to some famous winners in history]
Tagore: Indian poet, awarded in 1913.
Reasons for the award: "Because of his sharp, fresh and beautiful poem; this poem comes from superb skills, and because he himself expresses it in English, his poetic thought has become a part of Western literature."
Representative works: "New Moon Collection", "Flying Bird Collection", "Sunken Ship" and "Gola".
Data map: Nobel Prize Medal.
Romain Rolland: French writer, awarded in 1915.
Reason for the award: "Respect for the lofty idealism in his literary works, and for his sympathy and love for truth in depicting various types of characters."
Representative works: "Biography of Beethoven", "Biography of Michelangelo", "Biography of Tolstoy" and "John Christopher".
Yeats: Irish poet, awarded in 1923.
Reason for award: "Because of his poetry that is always full of inspiration, they show the spirit of the whole nation through a high degree of art."
Representative works: "Countess Kathleen and other legends and lyric poems", "Fantasia of Youth" and "When You Are Old".
Bernard Shaw: Irish writer, awarded in 1925.
Reasons for the award: "Because of his idealistic and humane works-their irritating irony, they often contain a high degree of poetic beauty."
Representative works: "Joan of Arc", "Mrs. Warren's Profession", "The Flower Girl"
Data map: "Angry Churchill" Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Yong
Winston Churchill: British politician, awarded in 1953.
Reasons for the award: "Because of his accomplishments in describing history and biography, and also because of his brilliant speech that defends the noble human values."
Representative works: "Memoirs of the Second World War" and "Biography of the Duke of Marlborough".
Ernest Hemingway: American writer, awarded in 1954.
Reason for the award: "Because he is proficient in narrative art, which is prominently displayed in his recent book "The Old Man and the Sea"; and also because of his influence on contemporary style.
Representative works: "The Old Man and the Sea", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Farewell, Weapon".
Kawabata Yasunari: Japanese writer, awarded in 1968.
Reason for the award: "Due to his superb narrative works, he expresses the spiritual characteristics of the Japanese with extraordinary acumen."
Representative works: "Snow Country", "Dancing Girl of Izu", "A Thousand Cranes" and "Ancient Capital".
[List of winners in recent years]
2019: Peter Handke.
Reason for award: "His works with both originality and influence of language explore the periphery and particularity of human experience."
Representative works: "Abusing the Audience", "Casper", "On Tiredness"
2018: Polish writer Olga Tokachuk.
Reason for winning: "The imagination in her narrative is full of encyclopedic enthusiasm, which makes her work cross cultural boundaries and stand alone."
Representative works: "The City in the Mirror", "The Ancient Time and Other Time", "The House by Day, the House by Night"
2017: Japanese-born British writer Kazuo Ishiguro.
Reason for award: "Find the connection between the real world and the illusory abyss in the world of great emotions."
Representative works: "Long Days Are Ending", "Don't Let Me Go", and "Buried Memories".
Data map: Nobel Prize winner, American singer and poet Bob Dylan.
2016: American folk artist Bob Dylan.
Reason for the award: "A new form of poetry was created in the great American song tradition."
Representative songs: "The answer is blowing in the wind", "Times are changing", "Like a rolling stone".
2015: Belarusian female writer Svetlana Alekseyevich.
Reason for award: "Her polyphonic writing is a commemoration of the suffering and courage of our time".
Representative works: "Non-Female Faces of War", "The Last Witness", "Chernobyl Memories: An Oral History of Nuclear Disaster".
2014: French writer Patrick Modiano.
Reason for award: "The art of memory shows the fate of mankind and the world in which people live, which was the most difficult to grasp during the German occupation."
Representative works: "Star Square", "Dark Store Street", "Youth Cafe".
2013: Canadian writer Alice Monroe.
Reason for award: "Master of Contemporary Short Story".
Representative works: "Escape", "Happy Shadow Dance" and "The Process of Love".
Data map: Mo Yan, China's first Nobel Prize winner in literature.
Photo by Liu Kegeng
2012: Chinese writer Mo Yan.
Reason for the award: "The fusion of folk tales, history and contemporary society through illusion realism."
Representative works: "Red Sorghum", "Wine Country", "Full Breast and Fat Buttocks"
2011: Swedish writer Thomas Tronstrom.
Reason for the award: "Through condensed and thorough imagery, he provides us with a new way to reality."
Representative works: "Secrets on the way", "Seeing the Darkness" and "Sorrowful Gondola".
2010: Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
Reasons for the award: "A detailed description of the power structure and a sharp narrative of individual resistance, resistance and failure."
Representative works: "Green House", "City and Dogs", "Bar Talk".
2009: German female writer Herta Muller.
Reason for the award: "Focus on the honesty of poetry and prose, describing the life of the unemployed."
Representative works: "Beyond Light Years", "River Flowing", and "Breathing Pendulum".
2008: French writer Le Clézio.
Reason for the award: "A writer of new starting point, poetic adventure, and sensory psychedelic literature is an explorer of human nature outside of modern civilization."
Main works: "Litigation Notes", "Juvenile Mind" and "War".