South African novelist, essayist, literary critic, linguist, translator, and professor John Maxwell (1940– ) "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider," was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hungarian writer Imre Kertész (1929–2016), a survivor of the Holocaust, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." Trinidadian-British writer Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932–2018) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."
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