1980
Czeslaw Milosz - "who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"
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1979
Odysseus Elytis - "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness"
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1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer - "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life"
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1977
Vicente Aleixandre - "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry beween the wars"
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1976
Saul Bellow - "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work"
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1975
Eugenio Montale - "for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions"
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1974
Eyvind Johnson - "for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom"
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Harry Martinson - "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos"
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1973
Patrick White - "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature"
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1972
Heinrich Böll - "for his writing which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature"
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1971
Pablo Neruda - "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams"
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1970
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn - "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"
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1969
Samuel Beckett - "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation"
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1968
Yasunari Kawabata - "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"
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1967
Miguel Angel Asturias - "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America"
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1966
Shmuel Yosef Agnon - "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people"
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Nelly Sachs - "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength"
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1965
Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov - "for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people"
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1964
Jean-Paul Sartre - "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age"
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1963
Giorgos Seferis - "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture"
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1962
John Steinbeck - "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"
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1961
Ivo Andric - "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted humandestinies drawn from the history of his country"
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