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The Swedish Academy announces Norway's Jon Fosse as this year's winner of the Nobel literature prize "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable", says Mats Malm, the academy's permanent secretary. SOUNDBITE
Images of French author Annie Ernaux's books on display in Stockholm as she wins the Nobel Literature Prize. IMAGES
Mats Malm, Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy announces that French author Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Literature Prize "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." SOUNDBITE
Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". SOUNDBITE
British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day", wins the Nobel Literature Prize. SOUNDBITE