# The Nobel Prize in Literature winners of the 2010s

The ten writers awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the years 2010 to 2019 (the 2018 prize was announced in 2019).

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- Nov 28, 2023 · Sean
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## Top 10

1. **Mario Vargas Llosa** (18 · ▲18 ▼0) — Peru, 2010. For his 'cartography of structures of power'.
2. **Tomas Tranströmer** (14 · ▲14 ▼0) — Sweden, 2011. The poet of condensed, luminous images.
3. **Mo Yan** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — China, 2012. 'Hallucinatory realism', author of Red Sorghum.
4. **Peter Handke** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Austria, 2019. A controversial choice for his stance on the Balkan wars.
5. **Kazuo Ishiguro** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — United Kingdom, 2017. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.
6. **Bob Dylan** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — United States, 2016. 'New poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'.
7. **Patrick Modiano** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — France, 2014. Memory and the Occupation in Paris.
8. **Olga Tokarczuk** (4 · ▲8 ▼4) — Poland, 2018 (announced in 2019). Flights and The Books of Jacob.
9. **Alice Munro** (3 · ▲7 ▼4) — Canada, 2013. 'Master of the contemporary short story'.
10. **Svetlana Alexievich** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — Belarus, 2015. Polyphonic oral histories, from Chernobyl to World War II.

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