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Old 10-06-2014, 05:09 PM   #5
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No clue. These prizes are always won by authors I've never heard of.
Looking back at the last decade or so, who was largely unknown? Le Clézio and Tranströmer, sure, but V.S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee, Doris Lessing, Mario Vargas Llosa etc. were certainly known to a global audience.
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