China News Service, October 6. According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, on October 6, Beijing time, the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature was announced and awarded in recognition.

　　The Nobel Prize for Literature was first awarded in 1901.

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.

The following are the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature in the past 10 years and their main representative works:

　　【List of winners in the past 10 years】

　　2021:

　　Tanzanian writer Abdul-Razak Gurna.

Citation: "Uncompromising yet compassionate insight into the influence of colonialism, while focusing on the fate of refugees caught between cultural and geographic divides".

Representative works include "Paradise", "Memories of Departure" and "Afterlife".

　　2020:

　　American poetess Louise Glick.

Why she won the award: "She made personal presence universal with an unpretentious aesthetic with an irrefutable poetic voice".

Representative works include "The Triumph of Achilles" and "Wild Iris".

　　2019:

　　Austrian writer Peter Handke.

Reason for award: "His works of linguistic ingenuity and impact explore the periphery and specificity of the human experience".

Representative works include "Curse the Audience", "Casper" and "On Tiredness".

　　2018:

　　Polish writer Olga Tokachuk.

Reasons for award: "Her narrative imaginative, full of encyclopedic enthusiasm, makes her work transcend cultural borders and make her own."

Representative works include "City in the Mirror", "Swire and Other Times", "House by Day, House by Night".

　　2017:

　　Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro.

Reason for award: "Finding the connection between the real world and the illusory abyss in the fictional world of great emotion".

Representative works include "The Long Day Will End", "Don't Let Me Go", and "Buried Memories".

　　2016:

　　American folk artist Bob Dylan.

Citation: "For creating a new form of poetry in the great American song tradition."

Representative songs include "Answer Blows in the Wind", "Times Are Changing" and "Like a Rolling Stone".

　　2015:

　　Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexeyevich.

Reason for award: "Her polyphonic writing is a memorial to the suffering and courage of our time".

Representative works include "The Non-Female Face of War", "The Last Witness" and "Memories of Chernobyl: An Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster".

　　Year 2014:

　　French writer Patrick Modiano.

Reason for award: "The art of memory shows the fate of mankind and the world in which people live in the most difficult to grasp during the German occupation."

Representative works include "Star Square", "Dark Shop Street" and "Youth Cafe".

　　year 2013:

　　Canadian author Alice Monroe.

Reason for award: "Master of Contemporary Short Stories".

Representative works include "Escape", "Happy Shadow Dance" and "The Process of Love".

　　2012:

　　Chinese writer Mo Yan.

Citation: "Following folktales, history and contemporary society through hallucinatory realism".

　　Representative works include "Red Sorghum", "Wine Country" and "Enriching Breasts and Buttocks".