2008 Nobel for Literature..

[Captain Beefheart]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/09/europe/nobel.php

Engdahl provoked a wave of indignation this month when he criticized American writers as "too isolated, too insular" and "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture," adding that "that ignorance is restraining." Europe, he declared, was "the center of the literary world." No American has been awarded the Nobel literature prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and after Engdahl's remarks, it was hard to imagine that an American would win this year, either.

Authors from France have won 14 Nobel's in literature which I believe is a record, the only one who's won and didn't accept it was Sartre.