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2024-2025: Murasaki Shikibu
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2023-2024: Salman Rushdie
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2022-2023: Naguib Mahfouz
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2021-2022: Gabriel Garcia Márquez
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2020-2021: Virginia Woolf
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2019-2020: James Baldwin
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2018-2019: William Faulkner
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2017-2018: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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2016-2017: Miguel de Cervantes
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2015-2016: Herman Melville
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2014-2015: George Eliot
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2013-2014: Marcel Proust
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2012-2013: Flannery O’Connor
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2011-2012: Leo Tolstoy
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