# The Nobel Prize in Literature winners of the 1990s

The ten writers awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1990 to 1999, including José Saramago, the only Portuguese-language laureate.

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- May 3, 2021 · leitora_porto
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## Top 10

1. **Octavio Paz** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Mexico, 1990. The Labyrinth of Solitude.
2. **Nadine Gordimer** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — South Africa, 1991. Novels against apartheid.
3. **Toni Morrison** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — United States, 1993. Beloved and the memory of slavery.
4. **Kenzaburō Ōe** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Japan, 1994. A Personal Matter.
5. **Dario Fo** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Italy, 1997. Playwright and actor, author of Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
6. **Günter Grass** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Germany, 1999. The Tin Drum.
7. **Derek Walcott** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Saint Lucia, 1992. The epic poem Omeros.
8. **José Saramago** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Portugal, 1998. Blindness; the only Portuguese-language Nobel laureate.
9. **Seamus Heaney** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Ireland, 1995. Poet of the Irish countryside and the Troubles.
10. **Wisława Szymborska** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Poland, 1996. Ironic, luminous poetry.

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