List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature (2000–present)

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The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish : Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors who, according to the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the benefactor of the prize, have produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction". ^[1] It is one of the five Nobel Prizes that are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. ^[2]

Nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature are officially confidential for a period of 50 years, in accordance with the statutes of the Nobel Foundation. ^[3] As a result, the Swedish Academy does not release official nomination data for recent decades. ^[3] The individuals included in this list are therefore limited to those whose nominations have been publicly disclosed by nominators themselves, reported by reliable secondary sources, or revealed through other verifiable public statements. The absence of an writer from this list does not indicate that they were not nominated. It reflects only publicly available information and may be subject to change as additional sources emerge or as archival material is released in future decades.

Due to its size, this list has been split into two parts:

• List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1901–1999)
• List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature (2000–present)

Nominees by their first nomination

The list is ordered by the year in which individuals received their first reported nomination. Some writers who were first nominated between 1900–1999 and were renominated after 1999 are listed in the former part only.

2000–2009

• 2000
• 2001
• 2002
• 2003
• 2004
• 2005
• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
2000
	Gao Xingjian	4 January 1940 Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China	(aged 86)	2000	Awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Alice Munro	10 July 1931 Wingham, Ontario, Canada	13 May 2024 Port Hope, Ontario, Canada	2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013	Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Li Ao	25 April 1935 Harbin, Heilongjiang, China	18 March 2018 Taipei, Taiwan	2000	[4]
	Ben Okri	15 March 1959 Minna, Niger, Nigeria	(aged 66)	2000, 2002, 2003, 2005
	Juan Goytisolo	6 January 1931 Barcelona, Spain	4 June 2017 Marrakesh, Morocco	2000, 2004, 2005
	Lev Rubinstein	19 February 1947 Moscow, Russia	14 January 2024 Moscow, Russia	2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
	Amos Oz	4 May 1939 Jerusalem, Israel	28 December 2018 Petah Tikva, Israel	2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
2001
	Herta Müller	17 August 1953 Nițchidorf, Romania	(aged 72)	2001, 2006, 2007, 2009	Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen	6 November 1919 Porto, Portugal	2 July 2004 Lisbon, Portugal	2001
	Henrik Nordbrandt	21 March 1945 Frederiksberg, Denmark	31 January 2023 Copenhagen, Denamrk	2001
	Yordan Radichkov	24 October 1929 Kalimanitza, Montana, Bulgaria	21 January 2004 Sofia, Bulgaria	2001	[5]
	Richard Ford	16 February 1944 Jackson, Mississippi, United States	(aged 81)	2001, 2002, 2006
	Li Kuei-hsien	19 June 1937 Taipei, Taiwan	15 January 2025 Taipei, Taiwan	2001, 2003, 2006	[6]
	Ko Un	1 August 1933 Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea	(aged 95)	2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007	[7]
	Adam Zagajewski	21 June 1945 Lviv, Ukraine	21 March 2021 Kraków, Poland	2001, 2002, 2010	[8]
	Assia Djebar	30 June 1936 Cherchell, Tipaza, Algeria	6 February 2015 Paris, France	2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
2002
	Imre Kertész	9 November 1929 Budapest, Hungary	31 March 2016 Budapest, Hungary	2002	Awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Orhan Pamuk	7 June 1952 Istanbul, Türkiye	(aged 73)	2002, 2005, 2006	Awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	John Banville	8 December 1945 Wexford, Ireland	(aged 80)	2002
	Noam Chomsky	7 December 1928 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	(aged 97)	2002	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Leyla Erbil	12 January 1931 Istanbul, Türkiye	19 July 2013 Istanbul, Türkiye	2002	[9]
	Ferreira Gullar	10 September 1930 São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil	4 December 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2002	[10]
	Arnošt Lustig	21 December 1926 Prague, Czech Republic	26 February 2011 Prague, Czech Republic	2002
	John Ralston Saul	19 June 1947 Ottawa, Canada	(aged 78)	2002
	Jorge Semprún	10 December 1923 Madrid, Spain	7 June 2011 Paris, France	2002
	Harry Mulisch	29 July 1927 Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands	30 October 2010 Amsterdam, Netherlands	2002, 2003
	Susan Sontag	16 January 1933 New York City, United States	28 December 2004 New York City, United States	2002, 2003, 2004
	Aharon Appelfeld	16 February 1932 Stara Zhadova, Chernivtsi, Ukraine	4 January 2018 Petah Tikva, Israel	2002, 2005
	Nuruddin Farah	24 November 1945 Baidoa, Somalia	(aged 80)	2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
	Umberto Eco	5 January 1932 Alessandria, Italy	19 February 2016 Milan, Italy	2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
	Don DeLillo	20 November 1936 The Bronx, New York, United States	(aged 89)	2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
2003
	Elfriede Jelinek	20 October 1946 Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria	(aged 79)	2003, 2004	Awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Svetlana Alexievich	31 May 1948 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine	(aged 77)	2003, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2015	Awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Klára Jarunková	28 April 1922 Šumiac, Brezno, Slovakia	11 July 2005 Bratislava, Slovakia	2003	[11]
	Giovanna Mulas	6 May 1969 Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy	(aged 56)	2003	[12]
	Kelinu Vella Haber	1 October 1913 Nadur, Gozo, Malta	28 January 2014 Qala, Gozo, Malta	2003	[13]
	Jacques Derrida	15 July 1930 El Biar, Algiers, Algeria	9 October 2004 Paris, France	2003, 2004
2004
	Isabel Allende	2 August 1942 Lima, Peru	(aged 83)	2004
	Péter Esterházy	14 April 1950 Budapest, Hungary	14 July 2016 Budapest, Hungary	2004
	Oliver Friggieri	27 March 1947 Floriana, Malta	21 November 2020 Valletta, Malta	2004	[14]
	Álvaro Pombo	23 June 1939 Santander, Cantabria, Spain	(aged 86)	2004
	Mykola Rohozhynskyy	28 August 1965 Kiev, Ukraine	(aged 60)	2004
	Gunturu Seshendra Sarma	20 October 1927 Marripadu, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India	30 May 2007 Hyderabad, Telangana, India	2004	[15]
	Muriel Spark	1 February 1918 Edinburgh, Scotland	13 April 2006 Uliveto Terme, Pisa, Italy	2004
	Per Olov Enquist	23 September 1934 Skellefteå, Västerbotten, Sweden	25 April 2020 Vaxholm, Sweden	2004, 2005
	Claudio Magris	10 April 1939 Trieste, Italy	(aged 86)	2004, 2005, 2007
	Frederick Turner	19 November 1943 Northamptonshire, England	(aged 82)	2004, 2006, 2007, 2008	[16]
	Haruki Murakami	12 January 1949	(aged 76)	2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
	Péter Nádas	14 October 1942 Budapest, Hungary	(aged 83)	2004, 2016	[17]
2005
	Jon Fosse	29 September 1959 Haugesund, Norway	(aged 66)	2005, 2023	Awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Anne-Marie Albiach	9 August 1937 Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France	4 November 2012 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France	2005
	Kamau Brathwaite	11 May 1930 Bridgetown, Barbados	4 February 2020 Christ Church, Barbados	2005
	Ernesto Cardenal	20 January 1925 Granada, Nicaragua	1 March 2020 Managua, Nicaragua	2005	[18]
	John le Carré	19 October 1931 Poole, Dorset, England	12 December 2020 Truro, Cornwall, England	2005
	Hélène Cixous	5 June 1937 Oran, Algeria	(aged 88)	2005
	Michel Houellebecq	26 February 1956 Saint-Denis, Réunion, France	(aged 69)	2005
	Nedžad Ibrišimović	20 October 1940 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	15 September 2011 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	2005
	Eeva Kilpi	18 February 1928 Khiytola, Karelia, Russia	(aged 97)	2005
	Torgny Lindgren	16 June 1938 Norsjö, Västerbotten, Sweden	16 March 2017 Norsjö, Västerbotten, Sweden	2005
	Javier Marías	20 September 1951 Madrid, Spain	11 September 2022 Madrid, Spain	2005
	Cormac McCarthy	20 July 1933 Providence, Rhode Island, United States	13 June 2023 Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States	2005
	Sami Michael	15 August 1926 Baghdad, Iraq	1 April 2024 Haifa, Israel	2005	[19]
	Nancy Morejón	7 August 1944 Havana, Cuba	(aged 81)	2005
	Adélia Prado	13 December 1935 Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil	(aged 90)	2005
	Cecil Rajendra	1941 George Town, Penang, Malaysia	(aged 85)	2005	[20]
	Adrienne Rich	16 May 1929 Baltimore, Maryland, United States	27 March 2012 Santa Cruz, California, United States	2005
	Tom Stoppard	3 July 1937 Zlín, Czech Republic	29 November 2025 Dorset, England	2005
	Luisa Valenzuela	26 November 1938 Buenos Aires, Argentina	(aged 87)	2005
	Ian McEwan	21 June 1948 Aldershot, Hampshire, England	(aged 77)	2005, 2006
	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	5 January 1938 Kamirithu, Kiambu, Kenya	28 May 2025 Buford, Georgia, United States	2005, 2006
	Ryszard Kapuściński	4 March 1932 Pinsk, Belarus	23 January 2007 Warsaw, Poland	2005, 2006
	Maryse Condé	11 February 1934 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe	2 April 2024 Apt, Vaucluse, France	2005, 2007
	Dương Thu Hương	1947 Thái Bình, Vietnam	(aged 79)	2005, 2009	[21]
	Umberto Piersanti	26 February 1941 Urbino, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy	(aged 84)	2005, 2024	[22]
2006
	Paul Auster	3 February 1947 Newark, New Jersey, United States	30 April 2024 New York City, United States	2006
	Ryhor Baradulin	24 February 1935 Vierasoŭka, Ushachy, Belarus	2 March 2014 Minsk, Belarus	2006	[23]
	Julian Barnes	19 January 1946 Leicester, England	(aged 79)	2006
	Eduardo Galeano	3 September 1940 Montevideo, Uruguay	13 April 2015 Montevideo, Uruguay	2006
	Hanna Krall	20 May 1935 Warsaw, Poland	(aged 90)	2006
	Mikael Niemi	13 August 1959 Tärnaby, Storuman, Sweden	(aged 66)	2006
	Elena Poniatowska	19 May 1932 Paris, France	(aged 93)	2006
	Barry Unsworth	10 August 1930 Wingate, County Durham, England	4 June 2012 Perugia, Italy	2006
	Vijaydan Detha	1 September 1926 Borunda, Rajasthan, India	10 November 2013 Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India	2006, 2011	[24]
2007
	Carlos Germán Belli	15 September 1927 Lima, Peru	10 August 2024 Surquillo, Peru	2007	[25]
	Roberto Benigni	27 October 1952 Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo, Italy	(aged 73)	2007	[26]
	Peter Carey	7 May 1943 Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia	(aged 82)	2007
	Philippe Jaccottet	30 June 1925 Moudon, Vaud, Switzerland	24 February 2021 Grignan, Drôme, France	2007
	Luz Pozo Garza	21 July 1922 Ribadeo, Lugo, Spain	20 April 2020 A Coruña, Spain	2007	[27]
	Marcio Veloz Maggiolo	13 August 1936 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	10 April 2021 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	2007	[28]
	Boris Pahor	26 August 1913 Trieste, Italy	20 May 2022 Trieste, Italy	2007, 2008, 2009	[29] [30]
2008
	Marjorie Boulton	7 May 1924 Teddington, Greater London, United Kingdom	30 August 2017 London, United Kingdom	2008	[31] [32]
	Shlomo Kalo	25 February 1928 Sofia, Bulgaria	30 August 2014 Tel Aviv, Israel	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014	[33]
2009
	Georgi Vasilyevich Marchuk	1 January 1947 Davyd-Haradok, Belarus	23 August 2023 Minsk, Belarus	2009	[34]
	Franck Étienne	12 April 1936 Ravine-Sèche, Artibonite, Haiti	20 February 2025 Delmas, Ouest, Haiti	2009, 2010	[35]

2010–2019

• 2010
• 2011
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2015
• 2016
• 2017
• 2018
• 2019

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
2010
	Néstor Amarilla	24 July 1980 Coronel Oviedo, Caaguazú, Paraguay	(aged 45)	2010	[36]
	Valentin Rasputin	15 March 1937 Ust-Uda, Ust-Udinsky, Russia	14 March 2015 Moscow, Russia	2010	[37]
	Kanta Ibraguimov	9 July 1960 Grozny, Chechnya, Russia	(aged 65)	2010, 2012	[38]
2011
	Besik Kharanauli	11 November 1939 Tianeti, Georgia	(aged 86)	2011, 2015	[39]
	David Magradze	28 June 1962 Tbilisi, Georgia	(aged 63)	2011, 2018, 2019	[40]
	Nawal El Saadawi	22 October 1931 Kafr Tahla, Qalyubiyya, Egypt	21 March 2021 Cairo, Egypt	2011, 2012, 2021	[41] [42]
2012
	Mo Yan	5 March 1955 Gaomi, Shandong, China	(aged 70)	2012	Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Kamal Mehdi Abdullayev	4 December 1950 Baku, Azerbaijan	(aged 75)	2012	[43]
	Mahasweta Devi	14 January 1926 Dhaka, Bangladesh	28 July 2016 Kolkata, West Bengal, India	2012	[44]
	Maksud Ibrahimbeyov	11 May 1935 Baku, Azerbaijan	22 March 2016 Baku, Azerbaijan	2012	[45]
	Dacia Maraini	13 November 1936 Florence, Italy	(aged 89)	2012	[46]
	Ariano Suassuna	16 June 1927 João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil	23 July 2014 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil	2012	[47] [48]
	Fazil Iskander	6 March 1929 Sukhumi, Georgia	31 July 2016 Peredelkino, Moscow, Russia	2012, 2013	[49]
2013
	Paul Goma	2 October 1935 Seliște, Nisporeni, Moldova	25 March 2020 Paris, France	2013	[50]
	Dante Maffia	17 January 1946 Roseto Capo Spulico, Cosenza, Italy	(aged 79)	2013	[51]
	Varujan Vosganian	25 July 1958 Craiova, Romania	(aged 67)	2013, 2014, 2015	[52] [53]
	Luiz de Miranda	6 April 1945 Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	29 July 2022 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020	[54]
2014
	Patrick Modiano	30 July 1945 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France	(aged 80)	2014	Awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Nicolae Breban	1 February 1934 Baia Mare, Romania	(aged 91)	2014	[53]
	Vasyl Holoborodko	7 April 1945 Adrianopil, Perevalsk, Ukraine	(aged 80)	2014	[55]
	Norman Manea	19 July 1936 Suceava, Romania	(aged 89)	2014	[53]
	Boualem Sansal	15 October 1949 Théniet El Had, Algeria	(aged 76)	2014	[56]
	Mircea Cărtărescu	1 June 1955 Bucharest, Romania	(aged 70)	2014, 2015	[53] [57]
2015
	Bernardo Atxaga	27 July 1951 Asteasu, Guipuzkoa, Spain	(aged 74)	2015	[58]
	Moniz Bandeira	30 December 1935 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	10 November 2017 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	2015	[59]
	Sebastiano Vassalli	24 October 1941 Genoa, Italy	26 July 2015 Casale Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy	2015	[60]
	Anna Nerkagi	15 February 1951 Yamalo-Nenets, Russia	(aged 74)	2015, 2018, 2020	[61] [62]
	Pierfranco Bruni	18 January 1955 San Lorenzo del Vallo, Cosenza, Italy	(aged 70)	2015, 2023	[63]
	Francesco Benozzo	22 February 1969 Modena, Italy	(aged 56)	2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024	[64] [65] [66]
2016
	Lygia Fagundes Telles	19 April 1918 São Paulo, Brazil	3 April 2022 São Paulo, Brazil	2016	[67]
	José Manuel Caballero Bonald	11 November 1926 Jerez de la Frontera, Spain	9 May 2021 Madrid, Spain	2016	[68]
	Predrag Matvejević	7 October 1932 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina	2 February 2017 Zagreb, Croatia	2016	[69]
	Tess Osonye Onwueme	8 September 1955 Ogwashi Ukwu, Delta, Nigeria	(aged 70)	2016	[70]
2017
	Kazuo Ishiguro	8 November 1954 Nagasaki, Japan	(aged 71)	2017	Awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Alessio Arena	12 October 1996 Palermo, Italy	(aged 29)	2017	[71]
	Carlos Nejar	11 January 1939 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	(aged 86)	2017	[72]
	Jamal Qaiser	27 July 1972 Rawalpindi, Pakistan	(aged 53)	2017	[73]
2018
	Olga Tokarczuk	29 January 1962 Sulechów, Zielona Góra, Poland	(aged 63)	2018, 2019	Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019.
	Manuel Alegre	12 May 1936 Águeda, Aveiro, Portugal	(aged 89)	2018	[74]
	Hafez Haidar	25 May 1953 Baalbek, Baalbek-Hermel, Lebanon	(aged 72)	2018	[75]
	Emanuel Medeiros Vieira	31 March 1945 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil	29 July 2019 Brasília, Brazil	2018	[76]
	Ernő Polgár	27 January 1954 Bácsalmás, Bács-Kiskun, Hungary	28 October 2018 Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei	2018
	Damdinsurengiin Urainkhai	12 January 1940 Bulgan, Mongolia	(aged 85)	2018	[77]
2019
	Jamal Sanad Al Suwaidi	30 July 1959 Dubai, United Arab Emirates	(aged 66)	2019	[78]
	Leo Butnaru	5 January 1949 Negureni, Telenești, Moldova	(aged 77)	2019	[79]
	Kyriakos Kytoudis	1961 Larissa, Greece	(aged 65)	2019	[80]

2020–2025

• 2020
• 2021
• 2022
• 2023
• 2024
• 2025

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
2020
	Louise Glück	22 April 1943 New York City, New York, United States	13 October 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	2020	Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Mário Cláudio	6 December 1941 Porto, Portugal	(aged 84)	2020	[81]
	Giovanna Giordano	12 November 1961 Milan, Italy	(aged 64)	2020	[82] [83]
	Scholastique Mukasonga	20 December 1956 Gikongoro, Rwanda	(aged 69)	2020, 2021, 2022	[84] [85]
	Antonia Lera	13 May 1958 Roseto degli Abruzzi, Teramo, Italy	(aged 67)	2020, 2021, 2023, 2024	[86] [87]
2021
	Abdulrazak Gurnah	20 December 1948 Zanzibar, Tanzania	(aged 77)	2021	Awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Denny Januar Ali	4 January 1963 Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia	(aged 63)	2021	[88]
	Indran Amirthanayagam	1960 Colombo, Sri Lanka	(aged 126)	2021	[89]
	Drago Jančar	13 April 1948 Maribor, Slovenia	(aged 77)	2021	[90]
	Guido Oldani	2 May 1947 Melegnano, Milan, Italy	(aged 78)	2021	[91]
	Vassilis Pappas	5 July 1958 Vrion, Sarandë, Albania	(aged 67)	2021, 2023, 2024	[92] [93]
2022
	Annie Ernaux	1 September 1940 Lillebonne, Seine-Maritime, France	(aged 85)	2022	Awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Deonísio da Silva	30 November 1948 Siderópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil	(aged 77)	2022	[94] [95]
	Edwidge Danticat	19 January 1969 Port-au-Prince, Haiti	(aged 56)	2022	[96]
	Georgi Gospodinov	7 January 1968 Yambol, Bulgaria	(aged 57)	2022	[97]
	Noé Jitrik	23 January 1928 Rivera, Buenos Aires, Argentina	6 October 2022 Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia	2022	[98] [99]
	Fatos Kongoli	12 January 1944 Elbasan, Albania	(aged 81)	2022	[100] [101]
	Serhiy Zhadan	23 August 1974 Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine	(aged 51)	2022	[102]
	Adam Kadir	1942 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia	(aged 84)	2022, 2023, 2024	[103]
2023
	José Humberto da Silva Henriques	17 December 1958 Cruzeiro da Fortaleza, Minas Gerais, Brazil	(aged 67)	2023	[104]
	Carlos Hugo Garrido Chalén	16 October 1951 Zorritos, Contralmirante Villar, Peru	(aged 74)	2023	[105]
	Ida Vitale	2 November 1923 Montevideo, Uruguay	(aged 102)	2023	[106]
2024
	Han Kang	27 November 1970 Gwangju, South Korea	(aged 55)	2024	Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
	Nicolae Ciucă	7 February 1967 Plenița, Dolj, Romania	(aged 58)	2024	[107]
	Maciel de Aguiar	11 February 1952 Conceição da Barra, Espírito Santo, Brazil	(aged 73)	2024	[108]
	Aka Morchiladze	10 November 1966 Tbilisi, Georgia	(aged 59)	2024	[109] [110]
	Ihor Pavlyuk	1 January 1967 Rozhysche, Volyn, Ukraine	(aged 59)	2024	[111]
	Giulio "Mogol" Rapetti	17 August 1936 Milan, Italy	(aged 89)	2024	[112]
	Maria Tedeschi	3 January 1972 Naples, Italy	(aged 54)	2024	[113]
2025
	László Krasznahorkai	5 January 1954 Gyula, Hungary	(aged 72)	2025	Awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
	Cristina Rivera Garza	1 October 1964 Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico	(aged 61)	2025	[114] [115]

See also

• Literature portal

• List of Nobel laureates in Literature
• List of female nominees for the Nobel Prize

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