List of Nobel laureates, their Prize motivations and Nobel Lectures:

2006 Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"; Nobel Lecture: My Father's Suitcase; 2007 Doris Lessing (UK) "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"; Nobel Lecture: On Not Winning the Nobel Prize; 2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl zio (France) "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"; Nobel Lecture: In the Forest of Paradoxes; 2009 Herta M ller (Germany) "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"; Nobel Lecture: Every Word Knows Something of a Vicious Circle; 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"; Nobel Lecture: In Praise of Reading and Fiction.