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Literature Nobels
Literature Nobel Prize Winners
Date | People | Nationality |
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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 |