Nobel Prize

Writers recognised by the Nobel Prize in Literature.

People in Nobel Prize

5 profiles

Writer

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Writing novels about colonialism, displacement and the lives of people caught between cultures.

Writer

Han Kang

Writing The Vegetarian and Human Acts, exploring violence, memory and human vulnerability.

Writer

Naguib Mahfouz

Writing the Cairo Trilogy and becoming the first Arabic-language Nobel literature laureate.

Writer

Kazuo Ishiguro

Writing The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.

Writer

Orhan Pamuk

Writing My Name Is Red and exploring Istanbul’s layered identities.