# The Nobel Prize in Literature winners of the 2000s

The ten writers awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature from 2000 to 2009.

- 130 votes · 10 items
- Nov 11, 2024 · Brooke Parker
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## Top 10

1. **Gao Xingjian** (18 · ▲19 ▼1) — China/France, 2000. Novelist and playwright, author of Soul Mountain.
2. **V. S. Naipaul** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — Trinidad/United Kingdom, 2001. A House for Mr Biswas.
3. **Imre Kertész** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Hungary, 2002. Fatelessness, about a teenager in the camps.
4. **J. M. Coetzee** (10 · ▲13 ▼3) — South Africa, 2003. Disgrace and Waiting for the Barbarians.
5. **Harold Pinter** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — United Kingdom, 2005. The playwright of menacing pauses.
6. **Elfriede Jelinek** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Austria, 2004. The Piano Teacher.
7. **Orhan Pamuk** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Turkey, 2006. My Name Is Red and Istanbul.
8. **J. M. G. Le Clézio** (6 · ▲10 ▼4) — France, 2008. Desert and the 'poetic adventure'.
9. **Doris Lessing** (6 · ▲9 ▼3) — United Kingdom, 2007. The Golden Notebook; at 88, the oldest laureate at the time.
10. **Herta Müller** (1 · ▲5 ▼4) — Germany, 2009. Life under Ceaușescu's dictatorship.

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