Tipped as a potential Nobel prize winner for many years, Transtroemer is the eighth European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in the last 10 years.
The time has come for the vast majority of Israelis who aren't interested in the Nobel Prize for Literature or a sabbatical at Berkeley or the University of Trondheim to call a spade a spade.
The event began last year as a way of celebrating Spain's National Book Day, but it also coincides with the award of the Cervantes Prize for Literature, the Spanish-speaking world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Buck's most well-known novel, "The Good Earth, " won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and helped earn her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 and the citation said "in his plays he uncovers the precipice in everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms".
Mr Pamuk had also been in the running for the Nobel prize for literature , which was won by Harold Pinter, a British playwright and critic of the war in Iraq.
Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for Babbitt--the story of a small-minded Realtor in the 1920s.
Relatively few people know of Alfred Nobel as the inventor of dynamite, but he will forever be known as the creator of the Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel prizes for literature, economics, medicine, and the sciences.
He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948, and is probably best known for The Waste Land, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats - which was later became Lloyd Webber's musical, Cats.
Given Ms Winfrey's extraordinary influence her endorsement is reckoned to boost a book's sales more than the Nobel Prize for literature it is surely no coincidence that cattle futures plunged when the show was aired.
Nadine Gordimer gets away with it, but she won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Sinclair Lewis, in 1930, became the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Coetzee, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in his 1999 novel, Disgrace.
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Newspapers run extensive coverage of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for literature to Chinese author Mo Yan.
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Considered Italy's national poet, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906.
It was an impressive feat, given that Ms Morrison was hardly unknown: she won the Nobel prize for literature in 1993.
In a further initiative, African writers are preparing a book, coordinated by Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
The question has consumed the country since Orhan Pamuk became the first Turk to win the Nobel prize for literature (or indeed any Nobel).
Use Winston Churchill as a model: He gave up running the free world and winning the Nobel Prize for literature and retired and painted pictures.
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Coward corresponded with a wide range of 20th-century figures, including Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia, the Queen Mother and Harold Pinter, a British playwright who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2005 and who was 30 years younger than Coward.
He did produce an acute monograph on the early technical work of Bertrand Russell, but this languished in obscurity: it appeared in a minor literary series for which it was commissioned, in apparent ignorance of the real nature of Russell's work, after Russell won the Nobel prize for literature.
As he accepted the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, he declared himself a happy and grateful receiver of Egyptian, Islamic and Western cultural traditions.
Now many more leading Polish painters, musicians and writers, including Wislawa Szymborska, the poet who won the 1996 Nobel prize for literature, live as well as work in Poland.
Mario Vargas Llosa, the winner of a Nobel prize for literature and a passionate liberal, has given an energetic endorsement to a man whose politics he recently abhorred.
The late William Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature is heading for auction at Sotheby's in June.
China celebrated another achievement last week, as Mo Yan became the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize for literature.
Moving now from one untold story to another, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for literature will be announced this morning.
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