STOCKHOLM — The 2014 Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday by the Swedish Academy. Here is a list of previous winners of the award since 1980:
— 2013: Alice Munro, Canada.
— 2012: Mo Yan, China.
— 2011: Tomas Transtromer, Sweden.
— 2010: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru.
— 2009: Herta Mueller, Germany.
— 2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, France.
— 2007: Doris Lessing, Britain.
— 2006: Orhan Pamuk, Turkey.
— 2005: Harold Pinter, Britain.
— 2004: Elfriede Jelinek, Austria.
— 2003: J.M. Coetzee, South Africa.
— 2002: Imre Kertesz, Hungary.
— 2001: V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born Briton.
— 2000: Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French.
— 1999: Guenter Grass, Germany.
— 1998: Jose Saramago, Portugal.
— 1997: Dario Fo, Italy.
— 1996: Wislawa Szymborska, Poland.
— 1995: Seamus Heaney, Ireland.
— 1994: Kenzaburo Oe, Japan.
— 1993: Toni Morrison, United States.
— 1992: Derek Walcott, St. Lucia.
— 1991: Nadine Gordimer, South Africa.
— 1990: Octavio Paz, Mexico.
— 1989: Camilo Jose Cela, Spain.
— 1988: Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt.
— 1987: Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born American.
— 1986: Wole Soyinka, Nigeria.
— 1985: Claude Simon, France.
— 1984: Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia.
— 1983: William Golding, Britain.
— 1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia.
— 1981: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born Briton.
— 1980: Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born American.
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