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Noble Prizes LitCrit
noble prize winner for literary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1940 | NO AWARD |
| 1948 | T.S. Elliot(1888-1965) BRITISH(B. UNITED STATES) |
| 1956 | Juan Ramon Jimenez(1881-1958) SPANISH |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre(1905-1980) FRENCH(PRIZE DECLINED) |
| 1972 | Henrich Boll(1975-1985) GERMAN |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison(1931- ) AMERICAN |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe(1935- ) JAPANESE |
| 2002 | Imre Kertesz(1929- ) HUNGARY |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa(1936- ) PERU |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter(1930- ) UNITED KINGDOM |
| 1997 | Dario Fo(1926- ) ITALIAN |
| 1989 | Camilo Jose Cela(1916- ) SPANISH |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz(1914-1998) MEXICAN |
| 1998 | Jose Saramago(1922- ) PORTUGUESE |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk(1952- ) TURKEY |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz(1911- ) EGYPTIAN |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka(1934- ) NIGERIAN |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert(1901-1986) CZECH |
| 1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez(1928- ) COLOMBIAN |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky(l940-1996) RUSSIAN-AMERICAN |
| 1985 | Claude Simon(1913- ) FRENCH |
| 1983 | William Golding(1911-1993) BRITISH |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti(1905- ) BULGARIAN |
| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck(1892- 1973) AMERICAN |
| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill(1888-1953) AMERICAN |
| 1944 | Johannes V. Jenson(1873-1950) DANISH |
| 1952 | Francois Mauriac(1885-1970) FRENCH |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse(1887-1975) FRENCH |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata(1899-1972) JAPANESE |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow(1915- ) AMERICAN |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello(1867-1936) ITALIAN |
| 1942 | NO AWARD |
| 1950 | Bertrand A. W. Russell(1872-1970) BRITISH |
| 1958 | Boris L. Pasternak(1890-1960) RUSSIAN(PRIZE DECLINED) |
| 1966 | Shmuel J. Agnon(1888-1970)--ISRAELI(B.POLAND) Nelly Sachs(1891-1970)--SWEDISH(B.GERMANY) |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson(1900-1976)--SWEDISH Harry Edmund Martinson(1904-1978)--SWEDISH |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre(1898-1984) SPANISH |
| 1969 | Samual Beckett(1906-1989) ANGLO-FRENCH(B.IRELAND) |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric(1892-1975) YUGOSLAV |
| 1953 | Sir Winston Churchill(1874-1965) BRITISH |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral(1889-1957) CHILEAN |
| 1933 | Ivan A. Bunin(1870-1953) FRENCH(B.RUSSIA) |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave le Clezio(1940- ) FRENCH |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing(1919- ) BRITISH |
| 2004 | Elfrede Jelinek(1946- ) AUSTRIA |
| 2003 | J.M. Coetzee(1940- ) SOUTH AFRICAN |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian(1940- ) FRANCH(B.CHINA) |
| 1999 | Gunter Grass(1927- ) FEDERATION REPUBLIC OF GERMANY |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska(1923- ) POLISH |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney(1939- ) NORTHERN IRISH |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott(1930- ) WEST INDIAN |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer(1923- ) SOUTH AFRICAN |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz(1911- ) POLISH-AMERICAN |
| 1970 | Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn(1918- ) RUSSIAN |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck(1902-1968) AMERICAN |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936) BRITISH |
| 1935 | NO AWARD |
| 1941 | NO AWARD |
| 1943 | NO AWARD |
| 1949 | William Faulkner(1897-1962) AMERICAN |
| 1951 | Par F. Lagerkvist(1891-1974) SWEDISH |
| 1957 | Albert Camus(1913-1960) FRENCH |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo(1901-1968) ITALIAN |
| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov(1905-1984) RUSSIAN |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias(1899-1974) GUATEMALAN |
| 1973 | Patrick White(1912-1990) AUSTRALIAN |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale(1896-1981) ITALIAN |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann(1875-1955) GERMAN |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961) AMERICAN |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941) INDIAN |
| 1921 | Anatole France(1844-1924) FRENCH |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy(1867-1933) ENGLISH |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse(1877-1962) SWISS(B.GERMANY) |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz(1846-1946) POLISH |
| 1906 | Giosue Carducci(1835-1907) ITALIAN |
| 1914 | NO AWARD |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente Y Martinez(1866-1954) SPANISH |
| 1931 | Erik A. Karlfeldt(1864-1931) SWEDISH(AWARDED POSTHUMOUSLY) |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis(1885-1951) AMERICAN |
| 2001 | V.S. Naipaul(1932- ) UNITED KINGDOM(B.TRINIDAD) |
| 2009 | Herta Muller(1953- ) ROMANIA |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson(1859-1941) FRENCH |
| 1919 | Carl F. Spitteler(1845-1924) SWISS |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck(1862-1949) BELGIAN |
| 1903 | Bjornstjerne Bjornson(1832-1910) NORWEGIAN |
| 1904 | Frederic Mistral(1830-1914)--FRENCH Jose Echegaray(1832-1916)--SPANISH |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann(1862-1946) GERMAN |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun(1859-1952) NORWEGIAN |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset(1882-1949) NORWEGIAN(B.DENMARK) |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) BRITISH(B.IRELAND) |
| 1917 | Karl A. Gjellerup(1857-1919)--DANISH Henrik Pontoppidan(1857-1943)--DANISH |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlof(1858-1940) SWEDISH |
| 1901 | Rene F. A. Sully-Prudhomme(1839-1907) FRENCH |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen(1817-1903) GERMAN |
| 1910 | Paul J. L. Heyse(1830-1914) GERMAN |
| 1918 | NO AWARD |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda(1871-1936) ITALIAN |
| 1939 | Frans E. Sillanpaa(1888-1964) FINNISH |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats(1865-1939) IRISH |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland(1866-1944) FRENCH |
| 1908 | Rudolf C. Eucken(1846-1926) GERMAN |
| 1916 | Verner Von Heidenstam(1859-1940) SWEDISH |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw S. Reymont(1868-1925) POLISH |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer(1904-1991) AMERICAN(B.POLAND) |
| 1947 | Andre Gide(1869-1951) FRENCH |
| 1955 | Halldor K. Laxness(1902-1998) ICELANDIC |
| 1963 | George Seferis(1900-1971) GREEK |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda(1904-1973) CHILEAN |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis(1911-1996) GREEK |
| 1937 | Roger Martin Du Gard(1881-1958) FRENCH |
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