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The 21st century in literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st century. The range of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) the year 2001 to the present.
- 2001 – The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen; Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand; Life of Pi by Yann Martel;
Nobel Prize: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul - 2002 – Atonement by Ian McEwan; Middlesex (novel) by Jeffrey Eugenides; Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer;
Nobel Prize: Imre Kertész - 2003 – Roman Triptych (Meditation);
Nobel Prize: J. M. Coetzee - 2004 – Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig;
Nobel Prize: Elfriede Jelinek - 2005 –
Nobel Prize: Harold Pinter - 2006 – The Road by Cormac McCarthy; Les Bienveillantes by Jonathan Littell; Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon;
Nobel Prize: Orhan Pamuk - 2007 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz; A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini; On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan;
Nobel Prize: Doris Lessing - 2008 – 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolaño; Feuchtgebiete by Charlotte Roche;
Nobel Prize: J. M. G. Le Clézio - 2009 – The Humbling by Philip Roth; Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel;
Nobel Prize: Herta Müller
2010s
Nobel laureates: List of Nobel laureates in Literature
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