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Year | Nobel Laureate | Born in |
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2020 | Glück, Louise "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal" | USA |
2016 | Dylan, Bob "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" | USA |
2005 | Pinter, Harold "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms" | UK |
2002 | Kertesz, Imre "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history" | Hungary |
1991 | Gordimer, Nadine "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity" | South Africa |
1987 | Brodsky, Joseph "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity" | Russia |
1981 | Canetti, Elias "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power" | Bulgaria |
1978 | Singer, Isaac Bashevis "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life" | Poland |
1976 | Bellow, Saul "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work" | Canada |
1966 | Sachs, Nelly "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength" | Germany |
1966 | Agnon, Shmuel Yosef "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people" | Ukraine |
1958 | Pasternak, Boris L. "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition" | Russia |
1927 | Bergson, Henri "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented" | France |
1910 | Heyse, Paul "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories" | Germany |
Total number of Jewish Laureates: 14