I don't care about the Nobel Prize--take a look at the list of winners someday and you will be saying "Who?" so much your family will think there's an owl in the house. Besides, he was too blind to see the damned thing, so who cares? His imagination influenced so many, directly and indirectly, that he will live on a lot longer than most Nobel winners.
What about Fredrich Mistral and Pearl S. Buck! /sarcasm
I recognize just a handful of the names, and have read only Naipaul, Heaney, and Brodsky (only Naipaul was worth it). I tried to read Paz, but found it lacking in comparison with other Lat.am. writers such as Borges, Cortazar, and GG Marquez.
The Nobel Prize in Literature since 1985
2004 Elfriede Jelinek
2003 J.M. Coetzee
2002 Imre Kertész
2001 V.S. Naipaul
2000 Gao Xingjian
1999 Günter Grass
1998 José Saramago
1997 Dario Fo
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1995 Seamus Heaney
1994 Kenzaburo Oe
1993 Toni Morrison
1992 Derek Walcott
1991 Nadine Gordimer
1990 Octavio Paz
1989 Camilo José Cela
1988 Naguib Mahfouz
1987 Joseph Brodsky
1986 Wole Soyinka
1985 Claude Simon