2006 Orhan Pamuk
2004 Elfriede Jelinek
2003 J.M. Coetzee
2002 Imre Kertész, Hungaria
2001 V.S. Naipaul
2000 Gao Xingjian
1999 Günter Grass
1998 José Saramago
1997 Dario Fo

1996 Wislawa Szymborska, polandia
1995 Samuas Heaney, Irlandia
1994 Kenzaburo Oe, Jepang
1993 Toni Morrison, AS
1992 Derek Walcott, Swedia
1991 Nadine Gordimer, Afrika Selatan
1990 Oclavio Paz, Mexico
1989 Camilo Jose Cela, Spanyol
1988 Nagib Mahfuz, Mesir
1987 Joseph Brodisky, Mesir
1986 Wole Soyinka, Nigeria
1985 Claude Simon, Prancis
1984 Jaroslav Seifert, Cekoslowakia
1983 William Golding, Inggris
1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kolombia
1981 Elias Canneti, Bulgaria
1980 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish, AS
1979 Odysseus Elytis, Yunani
1978 Isaac Basheilvis Singer, AS
1977 Vicente Aleandre, Spanyol
1976 Saul Bellow, AS
1975 Eugenio Montale, Italia
1974 Eyvind Johnson dan Harry Edmund Martison, Swedia .
1973 Patrick White, Australia
1972 Heinrich Boll, Jerman Barat
1971 Pablo Neruda, Chili
1970 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Sovyet
1969 Samuel Beckett
1968 Yasunari Kawabata
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
1963 Giorgos Seferis
1962 John Steinbeck
1961 Ivo Andric
1960 Saint-John Perse
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 Boris Pasternak
1957 Albert Camus
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955 Halldór Laxness
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1953 Winston Churchill
1952 François Mauriac
1951 Pär Lagerkvist
1950 Bertrand Russell
1949 William Faulkner
1948 T.S. Eliot
1947 André Gide
1946 Hermann Hesse
1945 Gabriela Mistral
1944 Johannes V. Jensen
1943 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1942 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1941 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1940 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938 Pearl Buck
1937 Roger Martin du Gard
1936 Eugene O'Neill
1935 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1934 Luigi Pirandello
1933 Ivan Bunin
1932 John Galsworthy
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930 Sinclair Lewis
1929 Thomas Mann
1928 Sigrid Undset
1927 Henri Bergson
1926 Grazia Deledda
1925 George Bernard Shaw
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
1923 William Butler Yeats
1922 Jacinto Benavente
1921 Anatole France
1920 Knut Hamsun
1919 Carl Spitteler
1918 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1917 Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 Verner von Heidenstam
1915 Romain Rolland
1914 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1913 Rabindranath Tagore
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 Paul Heyse
1909 Selma Lagerlöf
1908 Rudolf Eucken
1907 Rudyard Kipling
1906 Giosuč Carducci
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1903 Bjřrnstjerne Bjřrnson
1902 Theodor Mommsen
1901 Sully Prudhomme

Peraih Nobel Sastra 2006

NOBEL SASTRA 2002
Imre Kertész was born in Budapest on 9th November 1929. He is of Jewish descent. 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and from there to Buchenwald, where he was liberated in 1945. On his return to Hungary he worked from 1948 for a Budapest newspaper, Világosság, but was dismissed in 1951, when it adopted the party line. After two years of military service he has since supported himself as an independent writer and translator of German authors such as Nietzsche, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Freud, Roth, Wittgenstein and Canetti, who have all had significance for his own writing.

In 1975 Kertész’s first novel, Sorstalanság (Fateless, 1992), was published, a work based on his experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He has himself said, “When I am thinking about a new novel, I always think of Auschwitz.” This does not mean, however, that Sorstalanság is autobiographical in any simple sense: Kertész says himself that he has used the form of the autobiographical novel but that it is not autobiography. Initially Sorstalanság was refused. When eventually it was published in 1975 it was received with compact silence. Kertész has written about this experience in A kudarc (“Fiasco”), 1988. This novel is normally regarded as the second volume in a trilogy that began with Sorstalanság and of which the third volume is Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért, 1990 (Kaddish for a Child not Born, 1997). Kaddish is the name of the Jewish prayer for their dead. In Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért the protagonist of Sorstalanság and A kudarc, György Köves, reappears. His Kaddish is said for the child which he refuses to beget in a world that permitted the existence of Auschwitz. Other prose works are A nyomkereső (“The pathfinder”), 1977, and Az angol labogó (“The English flag”), 1991.

In 1992 Gályanapló (“Galley Diary”), a diary in fictional form, was published. This covers the years 1961–1991. Valaki más : a változás krónikája (“I – Another : chronicle of a metamorphosis"), 1997, continues this inner monologue in the form of notes made during the years 1991–1995. After the political upheavals of 1989, Kertész was able to make more public appearances. His lectures and essays have been collected in A holocaust mint kultúra (“The Holocaust as Culture”), 1993, A gondolatnyi csend, amíg kivégzőoztag újratölt (“Moments of silence while the execution squad reloads”), 1998, and A száműzött nyelv (“The exiled language”), 2001.

Kertész was awarded the Brandenburger Literaturpreis in 1995, the Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung in 1997, the Herder-Preis and the WELT-Literaturpreis in 2000, the Ehrenpreis der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung in 2001 and Hans Sahl-Preis in 2002.

HADIAH NOBEL

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