{"id":46915,"count":103,"description":"The Nobel Prize in Literature<\/a>, probably the most prestigious prize an author of books can aspire to, has been awarded annually (with some breaks) since 1901, with more than 115 winners. Alfred Nobel's will stipulated that the prize should go \"to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction\", and its winners include not only novelists and poets but also philosophers and politicians. It is also an impressively international list, drawing attention to the authors from around the globe, writing in an array of languages.\r\n\r\nThe most recent winners have been: Hungarian novelist L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai<\/a> (2025), Han Kang<\/a> (2024), Jon Fosse<\/a> (2023), Annie Ernaux<\/a> (2022), Abdulrazak Gurnah<\/a> (2021), Louise Gl\u00fcck (2020), Peter Handke (2019), Olga Tokarczuk<\/a> (2018), Kazuo Ishiguro<\/a> (2017), Bob Dylan<\/a> (2016), Svetlana Alexievich<\/a> (2015).\r\n\r\nBelow, we've collected together all the times books by winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature have been recommended on Five Books. These books were chosen in interviews on an array of topics.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/fiction\/nobel-prize-literature-books\/","name":"Best Books by Nobel Prize in Literature Winners","slug":"nobel-prize-literature-books","taxonomy":"category","parent":11186,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/46915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11186"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=46915"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=46915"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=46915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}