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Literature Nobels
Literature Nobel Prize Winners
| Date | People | Nationality |
|---|---|---|
| 1901 | Rene F. A. Sully Prudhomme | French |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen | German |
| 1903 | Bjornstjerne Bjornson | Norwegian |
| 1904 | Frederic Mistral Jose Echegaray | French Spanish |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Polish |
| 1906 | Giosue Carducci | Italian |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | British |
| 1908 | Rudolf C. Eucken | German |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlof | Swedish |
| 1910 | Paul J. L. Heyse | German |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgian |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | German |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | Indian |
| 1914 | World War I | Special Fund |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland | French |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Swedish |
| 1917 | Karl. A. Gjellerup Henrik Pontoppidan | Danish Danish |
| 1918 | World War I | Special Fund |
| 1919 | Carl F. G. Splitter | Swiss |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | Norwegian |
| 1921 | Anatole France | French |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente y Martinez | Spanish |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats | Irish |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw S. Reymont | Polish |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | British b. Irish |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italian |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson | French |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norwegian b. Denmark |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann | German |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | American |
| 1931 | Erik. A Karlfeldt | Swedish (awarded posthumously) |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy | English |
| 1933 | Ivan A. Bunin | French b. Russian |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Italian |
| 1935 | Requirement unmet | none |
| 1936 | Eugene O'neill | American |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | French |
| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck | American |
| 1939 | Frans E. Stilanpaa | Finish |
| 1940 | World War II | Occupation of Oslo by Germany |
| 1941 | World War II | Occupation of Oslo by Germany |
| 1942 | World War II | Occupation of Oslo by Germany |
| 1943 | World War II | Occupation of Oslo by Germany |
| 1944 | Johannes V. Jensen | Danish |
| 1945 | Gabriela Minstral | Chilean |
| 1946 | Herman Hesse | Swiss b. Germany |
| 1947 | Andre Gide | French |
| 1948 | T. S. Eliot | British b. United States |
| 1949 | William Faulkner | American |
| 1950 | Bertrand A. W. Russel | British |
| 1951 | Par F. Lagerkvist | Swedish |
| 1952 | Francois Mauriac | French |
| 1953 | Sir Winston Churchill | British |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | American |
| 1955 | Halldor K. Laxness | Icelandic |
| 1956 | Juan Ramon Jimenez | Spanish |
| 1957 | Alber Camus | French |
| 1958 | Brois L. Pasternak | Russian p. Declined |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Italian |
| 1960 | Saint John Perse | French |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric | Yuogslav |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck | American |
| 1963 | George Seferis | Greek |
| 1964 | Jean Paul Sartre | French p. Declined |
| 1965 | Mikhail A. Sholokhov | Russian |
| 1966 | Shmuel J. Agnon Nelly Sachs | Israeli b. Poland Swedish b. Germany |
| 1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias | Guatemalan |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japanese |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | Anglo-French b. Ireland |
| 1970 | Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn | Russian |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | Chilean |
| 1972 | Henrich Boll | German |
| 1973 | Patrick White | Australian |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson Harry Edmund Martison | Swedish Swedish |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | Italian |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | American |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Spanish |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | American b. Poland |
| 1979 | Oysseus Elytis | Greek |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz | Polish American b. Lithuania |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | Bulgarian r. UK |
| 1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Colombian |
| 1983 | William Golding | British |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | Czech |
| 1985 | Claude Simon | French |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigerian |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | Russian American b. Russia |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Egyptian |
| 1989 | Camilo Jose Cela | Spanish |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz | Mexican |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South African |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | West Indian |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | American |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japanese |
| 1995 | Seasmus Heany | Irish b. Northern Ireland |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | Polish |
| 1997 | Dario Fo | Italian |
| 1998 | Jose Saramago | Portugese |
| 1999 | Gunter Grass | German |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | Chinese |
| 2001 | V. S. Naipaul | British Indian b. Trinidad |
| 2002 | Imre Kertesz | Hungarian |
| 2003 | John M. Coetzee | South African |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austrian |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter | British |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkish |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing | British |
| 2008 | Jean Marie Gustave Le Clezio | French |
| 2009 | Herta uller | German b. romania |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peruvian |
| 2011 | Tomas Transtromer | Swedish |
| 2012 | Mo Yan | Chinese |
| 2013 | Alice Munro | Canadian |
| 2014 | Patrick Modiano | French |
| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus b. Ukraine |
| 2016 | Bob Dylan | American |
| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Japanese |
| 2018 | Olga Tocaczuk | Polish |
| 2019 | Peter Handke | France b. Austria |
| 2020 | Louise Gluck | American |
| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | England b. Tanzania |
| 2022 | Annie Ernaux | French |