China News Service, October 6. According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, according to the official website of the Nobel Prize, on October 6, Beijing time, the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature was announced.
French writer Annie Eraux won.
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On November 27, 1895, the famous Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel proposed in his will the establishment of five reward fields, and literature was placed fourth.
Nobel said in his will that part of the prize should be awarded to "a prize to the person who has produced the best work in the literary world with ideal tendencies".
The Nobel Prize in Literature was first awarded on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of Nobel's death.
From the first edition to the French writer Sully Prudhomme until 2021, there are 118 winners.
Famous writers such as Yeats, Romain Rolland, Marquez, Bernard Shaw and Hemingway have all won this award.