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    Associated Press

    Thursday, October 11, 2012

    Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1998:

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    _ 2012: Mo Yan, China.

    _ 2011: Tomas Transtromer, Sweden.

    _ 2010: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru.

    _ 2009: Herta Mueller, Germany.

    _ 2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, France.

    _ 2007: Doris Lessing, Britain.

    _ 2006: Orhan Pamuk, Turkey.

    _ 2005: Harold Pinter, Britain.

    _ 2004: Elfriede Jelinek, Austria.

    _ 2003: J.M. Coetzee, South Africa.

    _ 2002: Imre Kertesz, Hungary.

    _ 2001: V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born Briton.

    _ 2000: Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French.

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