Mario Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. Who else won in the past decade?

5. 2005: Harold Pinter

The late British playwright Harold Pinter produced 29 original stage plays, 27 screenplays, and numerous other essays, letters, and literary works. Mr. Pinter "in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms," the committee said in a statement awarding him the 2005 Nobel for Literature.

His style is so notable as to be called "Pinteresque," and he is best known for the plays "The Caretaker" and "Betrayal." The writer, who died in 2008, was a longtime pacifist, and was highly critical of the war in Iraq.

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