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Turkish author Orhan Pamuk was on Thursday awarded this year's Nobel Literature Prize by the Swedish Academy. Here follows a list of the 15 most recent winners of the prize:
2006: Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
2005: Harold Pinter (Britain)
2004: Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2003: J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
2002: Imre Kertesz (Hungary)
2001: V.S. Naipaul (Britain)
2000: Gao Xingjian (France)
1999: Guenter Grass (Germany)
1998: Jose Saramago (Portugal)
1997: Dario Fo (Italy)
1996: Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1995: Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
1994: Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
1993: Toni Morrison (United States)
1992: Derek Walcott (St Lucia)
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AFP 121128 GMT 10 06
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