The Top 5 Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2001 to 2005

  Winner Year Country
1 Harold Pinter
(playwright & poet)
2005 United Kingdom
2 Elfriede Jelinek
(playwright and novelist)
2004 Austria
3 John Maxwell Coetzee
(novelist)
2003 South Africa
4 Imre Kertész
(novelist)
2002 Hungary
5 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
(novelist)
2001 United Kingdom
(born in Trinidad)
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Sources:  Various including nobelprize.org.

List Notes: In the case of more than one winner, the prize is divided into equal amounts. Each winner receives their portion of 10,000,000 Swedish Kronor ($1.3 million U.S. dollars).
Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2001 to 2005

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