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Nobel Prize winners in Literature by year

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Year
Winner(s)
Nationality
Works
2002   show Hungarian   Fateless, Fiasco, Kaddish for a Child Not Born  
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show Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul   British   The Mystic Masseur, A House for Mr. Biswas, The Enigma of Arrival  
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2000   Gao Xingjian   Chinese   show
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1999   Gunter Grass   show The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Show Your Tongue  
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1998   Jose Saramago   show Objecto Quase, Levantado do Chao, A Jangada de Pedra  
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1997   Dario Fo   Italian   show
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1996   Wislawa Szymborska   show Dlatego zyjemy (1952), Pytania zadawane sobie (1954), Wolanie do Yeti (1957), Sól (1962), Wiersze wybrane (1964), Poezje wybrane (1967), Sto pociech (1967), Poezje (1970)  
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show Seamus Heaney   Irish   Seeing Things, Death of a Naturalist, Wintering Out  
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1994   show Japanese   Shisha no ogori, Man'en gannen no futtoboru, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness  
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1993   show American   The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz  
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1992   Derek Walcott   show Epitaph for the Young, Xll Cantos, In a Green Night, Poems 1948–60, The Fortunate Traveller  
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1991   show South African   A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story  
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show Octavio Paz   Mexican   Sun Stone, Obsidian Butterfly, The Monkey Crammarian  
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show Camilo José Cela   Spanish   La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942), Pabellón de reposo (1943), Nuevas andanzas y desventuras de Lazarillo de Tormes (1944), La colmena (1951), Mrs. Caldwell habla con su hijo (1952), La catira (1955), Tobogán de hambrientos (1962), San Camilo I936 (1969)  
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show Naguib Mahfouz   Egyptian   The Thief and the Dogs (1961), Autumn Quail (1962), Small Talk on the Nile (1966)  
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1987   Joseph Brodsky   show To Urania, Watermark, A Part of Speech  
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1986   show Nigerian   Requiem for a Futurologist (1985), A Play of Giants (1984), The Strong (1966), The Interpreters (1965)  
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1985   Claude Simon   French   show
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1984   show Czech   Various collections and newspapers  
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1983   show British   Lord of the Flies, Close Quarters, Rites of Passage  
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1982   Gabriel García Márquez   show El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Ojos de perro azul, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera  
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1981   Elias Canetti   British   show
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show Czeslaw Milosz   Polish   Volumes of poetry  
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show Odysseus Elytis   Greek   "Diary of an Invisible April", "The Monogram", "The Little Mariner"  
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1978   Isaac Bashevis Singer   show The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), Satan in Goray, The Spinoza of Market Street (1961)  
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show Vicente Aleixandre   Spanish   Ambit, Destruction or Love, The Shadow of Paradise  
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show Saul Bellow   American   Dangling Man, Henderson The Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970)  
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1975   Eugenio Montale   Italian   show
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1974   Eyvind Johnson & Harry Martinson   show De fyra främlingarna, Bobinack, Vinterresa i Norrbotten /// Vägen till Klockrike, Aniara  
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1973   Patrick White   Australian   show
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1972   show German   Der Zug war pünktlich  
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show Pablo Neruda   Chilean   Crepusculario, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, Residencia en la tierra  
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1970   Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn   Russian   show
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1969   show Irish   Molloy, Malone Dies, Endgame, Waiting for Godot  
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show Yasunari Kawabata   Japanese   Izu dancer, Snow Country, The Old Capital  
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1967   Miguel Angel Asturias   Guatemalan   show
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show Shmuel Yosef Agnon & Nelly Sachs   Israeli / Swedish   Hakhnasat Kalah (The Bridal Canopy), Oreach Nata Lalun (A Guest for the Night), Temol Shilshom (Only Yesterday) /// In den Wohnungen des Todes (In the Houses of Death), Sternverdunkelung (Eclipse of Stars), 1949, Und niemand weiss weiter (And No One Know  
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1965   show Russian   Donskie rasskazy (Tales from the Don), Tikhi Don (And Quiet Flows the Don), Podnyataya tselina (Virgin Soil Upturned)  
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show Jean-Paul Sartre (refused the prize)   French   La Nausée (Nausea), Le Mur (Intimacy), L'Etre et le néant (Being and Nothingness), Les Mouches (The Flies), Huis Clos (No Exit)  
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show Giorgos Seferis   Greek   Strophe (Turning Point), E Sterna (The Cistern), Mythistorema  
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1962   John Steinbeck   show Of Mice and Men, the Red Pony, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, the Grapes of Wrath  
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1961   Ivo Andric   Yugoslavian   show
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1960   Saint-John Perse   show Anabase (Anabasis), Exil (Exile), Poème l'Etrangère (Poem to a Foreign Lady)  
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1959   Salvatore Quasimodo   Italian   show
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1958   Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (could not accept prize)   Russian   show
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1957   Albert Camus   show Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), L'Étranger (The Stranger), La Peste (The Plague), La Chute (The Fall)  
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show Juan Ramón Jiménez   Spanish   Almas de violeta (Souls of Violet), Elejías puras (Pure Elegies), Platero y yo (Platero and I), Diario de un poeta recién casado (Diary of a Newly-Wed Poet)  
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1955   Halldór Kiljan Laxness   Icelandic   show
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1954   Ernest Miller Hemingway   show The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea  
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1953   show British   The World Crisis (1923-29), a History of the English-speaking Peoples (4 vols., 1956-58), The Unrelenting Struggle (1942), The Dawn of Liberation (1945)  
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1952   François Mauriac   French   show
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1951   show Swedish   Ångest (1916) [Anguish], Hjärtats sånger (1926) [Songs from the Heart], Bödeln (1933) [The Hangman], Mannen utan själ (1936) [The Man without a Soul]  
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1950   Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell   show The Principles of Mathematics (1903), History of Western Philosophy (1946), Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919)  
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show William Faulkner   American   The Sound and the Fury (1929), Requiem For A Nun (1951), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Intruder In the Dust (1948), The Reivers  
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1948   show British   Prufrock, the Four Quartets, the Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, Murder in the Cathedral  
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1947   show French   Les Cahiers d'André Walter (1891) [The Notebooks of André Walter], Les Nourritures terrestres (1897) [Fruits of the Earth], Le Retour de l'enfant prodigue (1907) [The Return of the Prodigal], La Porte étroite (1909) [Strait is the Gate], Les Faux Monnayeu  
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1946   Hermann Hesse   show Glasperlenspiel (1943) [Magister Ludi], Knulp (1915), Demian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), Der Steppenwolf (1927) [Steppenwolf], Narziss und Goldmund. (1930), Die Morgenlandfahrt (1932) [The Journey to the East]  
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1945   Gabriela Mistral   show Sonetos de la muerte, Desolación [Despair], Ternura [Tenderness]  
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show Johannes Vilhelm Jensen   Danish   Himmerlandshistorier (1898-1910) [Himmerland Stories], Den lange rejse (1908-22) [The Long Journey], Myter, 1907-45 [Myths])  
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show None   --   --  
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1942   show --   --  
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1941   show --   --  
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1940   None   --   show
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1939   Frans Eemil Sillanpää   Finnish   show
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show Pearl Buck   American   East Wind, West Wind, The Good Earth (1931), Sons (1932), A House Divided (1935)  
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1937   Roger Martin du Gard   French   show
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1936   Eugene O'Neill   American   show
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show None   --   --  
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1934   Luigi Pirandello   Italian   show
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show Ivan Bunin   Russian   Derévnya [The Village], as Sukhodól (1911-12) and Mítina lyubóv (1924-25) [Mitya's Love], the short story Gospodín iz San Francisco (19I6) [The Gentleman from San Francisco], end the autobiographical novel in two volumes, Zhizn Arsénieva (Part I, Istóki d  
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1932   John Galsworthy   show The Island Pharisees (1904), The Forsyte Saga, The Silver Box (1906)  
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1931   Erik Axel Karlfeldt   Swedish   show
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1930   show American   The Trail of the Hawk, Arrowsmith, Main Street, The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928)  
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1929   show German   Buddenbrooks, Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1898) [Little Herr Friedemann], Tristan (1903), Der Zauberberg (1924) [The Magic Mountain]  
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show Sigrid Undset   Norwegian   Kransen (The Garland), Husfrue (The Mistress of Husaby), Korset (The Cross); and Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken (1925 ) [The Master of Hestviken] and its sequel Olav Audunssen og hans børn (1927) [Olav Audunssøn and his Children]  
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1927   Henri Bergson   French   show
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1926   Grazia Deledda   Italian   show
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show George Bernard Shaw   British   appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898), Arms and the Man, Man and Superman (1903), Saint Joan (1923), Major Barbara  
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show Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont   Polish   (Pielgrzymka do Jasnej Góry, 1895 [Pilgrimage to the Mountain of Light]), Komedjantka (1896) [The Comedian], Ziemia obiecana (1899) [The Promised Land], The Peasants  
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1923   William Butler Yeats   show The Countess Cathleen (1892), The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), The King's Threshold (1904), and Deirdre (1907)  
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1922   show Spanish   Cartas de mujeres (1892-93) [Women's Letters], were El nido ajeno (1894) [Another's Nest] and Gente conocida (1896) [High Society]  
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show Anatole France   French   Le Jardin d'Épicure (1895) [The Garden of Epicurus], Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), , La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque [At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque]  
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show Knut Pedersen Hamsun   Norwegian   Sult (1890) [Hunger], Pan (1894), masterpiece Markens Grøde (1917) [Growth of the Soil]  
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1919   Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler   Swiss   show
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show None   --   --  
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1917   show Danish   Scipio Africanus, En idealist (1878) [An Idealist], Saint Just (1885) /// Fra hytterne (1887) [From the Cottages], Det forjaettede land (1891-95) [The Promised Land], Lykke-Per (1898-1904) [Lucky Peter], and De dødes rige (1912-16) [The Kingdom of the Dea  
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1916   Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam   show Ett folk (1902) [One People], Karolinerna (1897-98) [The Charles Men], Folkunga Trädet (1905-07) [The Tree of the Folkungs], Folke Filbyter and Bjälboarvet [The BjäIbo Inheritance]  
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1915   show France   Les Tragédies de la foi (1909) [Tragedies of Faith], Théâtre de la révolution (1909), : L'Aube, Le Matin, L'Adolescent, La Révolte, La Foire sur la place, Antoinette, Dans la maison, Les Amies, Le Buisson ardent, and La Nouvelle Journée [Dawn, Morning, Yo  
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1914   show --   --  
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1913   Rabindranath Tagore   Indian   show
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1912   Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann   German   show
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show Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck   Belgian   Serres chaudes [Ardent Talons], L'Intruse (1890) [The Intruder], Les Aveugles (1890) [The Blind], and the love dramas Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), Alladine et Palomides (1894), and Aglavaine et Sélysette (1896)  
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1910   show German   Jugenderinnerungen und Bekenntnisse (Berlin, 1900) [Memories of my Youth and Confessions], Gesammelte Werke (1871-191O) [Collected Works], 36 vols.; Dramatische Dichtungen (1864-1905) [Dramatic Works], 36 vols.; Romane, Novellen, lyrische und epische Gedi  
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1909   Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf   Swiss   show
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1908   Rudolf Christoph Eucken   German   show
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1907   Rudyard Kipling   British   show
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1906   Giosuè Carducci   show Levia Gravia (1868) [Light and Heavy], Inno a Satana (1865) [Hymn to Satan], Odi barbare (1877, 1882, and 1889) [The Barbarian Odes]  
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1905   Henryk Sienkiewicz   Polish   show
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1904   show French /// Spanish   Miréio (1859), Calendau (1867), include Lis Isclo d'or (1876) [Islands of Gold], a collection of poems; «Nerto» (1884), a narrative poem based on a chronicle of the Avignon Popes; La Rèino Jano (1890); and Lou pouémo dóu rose (1897) [The Song of the Rhone  
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1903   show Norwegian   Mellem slagene (Between the Battles), En hanske (1883) "A Gauntlet", Det flager i byen og på havnen(1884) "The Heritage of the Kurts" and På Guds veie (1889) "In God's Way"  
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1902   show German   A History of Rome,  
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1901   Sully Prudhomme   show , Stances et Poèmes (1865) [Stanzas and Poems], Croquis Italiens (1866-68) [Italian Notebook]; Solitudes (1869); Impressions de la guerre (1870) [Impressions of War]; Les Destins (1872) [Destinies]; La Révolte des fleurs (1872) [Revolt of the Flowers ]; L  
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