The Top 5 Most Recent Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008 to 2013

  Winner Year Country of Residence
(place/ date of birth)
1 Alice Munro
(novelist)
2013 Canada
(Wingham, 10 July 1931 )
2 Mo Yan
(prose)
2012 China
(Gaomi, 17 February1955 )
3 Tomas Tranströmer
(poet)
2011 Sweden
(Stockholm, 5 April 1931)
4 Mario Vargas Llosa
(novelist)
2010 Peru
(Arequipa, 28 March, 1936)
5 Herta Müller
(novelist, poet)
2009 Romania
(Nitzkydorf, 17 August, 1953)
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Sources:  Nobelprize.org. Please visit the original source of the data here.

List Notes: In the case of more than one winner, the prize is divided into equal amounts. Each winner receives their portion of 8,000,000 Swedish Kronor ($1.1 million U.S. dollars). Country of residence is where the winner was residing at the time they received the Nobel Prize.
Most Recent Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008 to 2013

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