Nobel Prize Winners in Literature by year and works
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| 1907 | Kim, Just So Stories, The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling
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| 1923 | The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Sailing to Byzantium | William Butler Yeats
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| 1925 | Arms and the Man, The Devil's Discipline, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw
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| 1929 | Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Dr. Faustus | Thomas Mann
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| 1930 | Main Street, Babbit, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry | Sinclair Lewis
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| 1932 | The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy
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| 1934 | Right You Are If You Think You Are, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Tonight We Improvise | Luigi Pirandello
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| 1936 | Beyond the Horizon, The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, Ah Wilderness!, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Long Day's Journey Into Night | Eugene O'Neill
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| 1938 | The Good Earth, Pavillion of Women | Pearl S. Buck
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| 1946 | Siddhartha, Steepenwolf | Herman Hesse
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| 1947 | The Immoralist, Strait is the Gate, The Counterfeiters | Andre Gide
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| 1948 | The Wasteland, Ash Wednesday, Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party, Four Quartets | T.S. Eliot
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| 1949 | Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, The Hamlet, A Fable, The Reivers | William Faulkner
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| 1950 | Marriage and Morals, A History of Western Philosophy, Principles of Mathematics | Bertrand Russell
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| 1953 | The Second World War, History of the English Speaking Peoples | Winston Churchill
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| 1954 | A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway
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| 1957 | The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall, The Myth of Sysiphus (essay) | Albert Camus
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| 1958 | Dr. Zhivago | Boris Pasternack
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| 1959 | Day After Day, To Give and to Have | Salvatore Quasimodo
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| 1962 | East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, The Winter of Our Discontent, The Red Pony, The Pearl | John Steinbeck
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| 1964 | Nausea, The Roads to Freedom, Being and Nothingness, No Exit, The Flies, The Age of Reason, The Critique of Dialectical Reason, The Family Idiot, The Respectful Protitute, (this man declined the Nobel Prize) | Jean-Paul Satre
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| 1969 | Endgame, Waiting for Godot, (Theatre of the Absurd writer) | Samuel Beckett
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| 1970 | The First Circle, The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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| 1976 | Herzog, Humboldt's Gift, The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow
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| 1978 | The Family Moskat, Satan in Goray, The Slave | Isaac Bashevic Singer
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| 1982 | Leaf Storm, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in a Time of Cholera, (Columbian Novelist) | Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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| 1983 | The Spire, Rites of Passage, Fire Down Below, Lord of the Flies | William Golding
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| 1991 | A Guest of Honor, A Sport of Nature, (South African Novelist) | Nadine Gordimer
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| 1993 | The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved | Toni Morrison
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| 1995 | Death of a Naturalist, Door Into the Dark, (Irish) | Seamus Heany
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| 1996 | (From Cracow, Poland) | Wislawa Symborska
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| 1997 | Accidental Death of Anarchist, Can't Pay, Won't Pay, Female Parts, Tricks of the Trade, Archangels Don't Pay Pinball, (Italian) | Dario Fo
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| 1998 | Blindness, The Tale of the Unknown Island, The Gospel According to Jesus, The History of the Siege of Lisbon, The Stone Raft, The Years of the Death of Ricardo Reis, (Born in Portugal, lives in Canary Islands) | Jose Saramago
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| 1999 | The Tin Drum | Gunter Grass
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| 2000 | (One of the most important Chinese dramatists of the 20th Century | Gao Xingjian
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| 2001 | ("compells us to see the presence of suppressed histories" | V.S. Naipaul
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| 2003 | Dusklands, Foe, The Master of Petersburg, Boyhood, Youth, (South African Novelist) | J.M. Coetzee
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