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Nobel prizes started in 1901. The awards is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. First laureate is Sully Prudhomme from France.
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Rudyar Kipling won Nobel Prize in Literature when he was 42 in 1907. He is youngest laureate.
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Selma Lagerlöf was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
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Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 but he reject it because he was scared the reaction of the Soviet State.
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Jean Paul Sartre was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it. He was saying that he always declined official honours.
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Dario Fo is a recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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2006 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Orhan Pamuk. He is first Turkish person who wins the Nobel Prize.
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Herta Müller was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.
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Mo Yan was on 11 october announced as winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.The first ever Chinese laureate.
