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Originally Posted by HarryT
Generally, I completely agree with you - who the heck has every heard of most of the people who win?
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Out of curiosity, I looked at the winners for the past twenty years; 9 were unknown to me before they won:
JEAN-MARIE GUSTAVE LE CLÉZIO
ORHAN PAMUK
ELFRIEDE JELINEK
IMRE KERTÉSZ
GAO XINGJIAN
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
KENZABURO OE
OCTAVIO PAZ
CAMILO JOSÉ CELA
I had heard of the other 11:
DORIS LESSING
HAROLD PINTER
JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE
V. S. NAIPAUL
GUNTER GRASS
JOSE SARAMAGO
DARIO FO
SEAMUS HEANEY
TONI MORRISON
DEREK WALCOTT
NADINE GORDIMER