Herta Müller 2009

Germany/Romania (novel/poetry) communism under Nicolae Ceaușescu

Work: Nadirs, The Land of Green Plums, The Passport

J. M. G. Le Clézio 2008

France/Mauritania (novel/poetry/short story)

Work: Le Procès-Verbal (The Interrogation), Désert (Desert)

Doris Lessing 2007

Britain (novel/short story)

Work: The Grass Is Singing, Cat Tales (The Old Age of El Magnifico)

Orhan Pamuk 2006

Turkey (novel, screenwriting)

Work: The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red,Snow, The Museum of Innocence, A Strangeness in My Mind

Harold Pinter 2005

UK (drama, screenplay)

Work: screenplay: The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981),The Trial (1993), Sleuth (2007). Drama: The Birthday Party, The Homecoming