Awarded the Prize “for whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history.”German poet, novelist playwright. Grass was born in Danzi……>>more
Awarded the Prize “for who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality……>>more
Awarded the Prize “for who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden.”Italian playw……>>more
Awarded the Prize “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”Pol……>>more
Awarded the Prize “for works of lyrical beauty ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles the living past.”Irish poet. Heaney was born in County ……>>more