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Pramoedya Ananta Toer

1925 – 2006

Composed the Buru Quartet orally in a prison camp.

Indonesia·Literature

Kenzaburō Ōe

1935 – 2023

Wrote disability, Hiroshima and postwar conscience.

Japan·LiteratureNobel

Orhan Pamuk

b. 1952

Novelist of Istanbul's melancholy and East–West fracture.

Türkiye·LiteratureNobel

Mo Yan

b. 1955

Hallucinatory realism of rural Shandong across China's violent century.

China·LiteratureNobel

Han Kang

b. 1970

Confronts historical trauma and bodily fragility; The Vegetarian, Human Acts.

South Korea·LiteratureNobel

Malala Yousafzai

b. 1997

Shot for going to school; now the youngest Nobel laureate in history.

Pakistan·Peace · LiteratureNobel