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Lit. Nobel Prize
1901-2025
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme - French - Poet in the French Parnassian school |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen - German - Historical author, especially Römische Geschichte, a 3 volume history of Rome |
| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Norwegian - Poetry and drama, Ja, vi elsker dette landet became Norways national anthem |
| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral - Occitan - Poetry, wrote Miréio, José Echegaray - Spanish - wrote plays |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz - Polish - epic historical novels, wrote: Ogniem i mieczem, Potop, Pan Wolodyjowski, Quo Vadis. |
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci - Italian - poetry: Rime, Hymn to Satan |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling - English - Writer, novelist, journalist, Poet. Wrote The Jungle Book, |
| 1908 | Rudolf Eucken - German - Philosophical writer: Main Currents of Modern Thoughts, Individual and Society |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf - Swedish - folk tales, legends, stories Wrote Gösta Berling's Saga. |
| 1910 | Paul Heyse - German - Novel/Poetry, "L'Errante" |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck - Belgian - Drama/Poetry, "The Blue Bird" |
| 1912 | Gerhardt Hauptmann - German - Drama, "The Weavers" |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore - Indian - Poetry/Novel, "Gitanjali" |
| 1914 | No Award |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland - French - Playwright/novelist/essayist, "The soul enchanted" |
| 1916 | Vernier von Heidenstam - Swedish - Poetry, "Fran Fjall och Dalar" |
| 1917 | Karl Gjellerup - Danish - Novel/Poetry "Lucky Peter's Journey" and Henrik Pontoppidan -Danish - Novelist, "Lucky Per" |
| 1918 | No Award |
| 1919 | Carl Spitteler - German - Poetry, "Olympian Spring" |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun - Norwegian - Novel, "Growth of the Soil" |
| 1921 | Anatole France - French - Novel, "The Gods Are Athirst" |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente - Spanish - Drama, "The Bonds of Interest" |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats - Irish - Poetry, " The Tower" |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw Reymont - Polish - Poetry, "The Peasants |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw - English - Playwright, "Pygmalion" |
| 1926 | Grazie Deledda - Italian - Novel, "Reed" |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson - French - Philosophy, "Creative Evolution" |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset - Norwegian - Novel, "Kristin Lavransdatter" |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann - German - Novel, "Buddenbrooks" |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis - American - Novel, "Main Street" |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt - Swedish - Poetry, "Frid" |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy - British - Novel, "The Forsyte Saga" |
| 1933 | Ivan Bunion - Russian - Fiction/Poetry, "The life of Arseniev" |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello - Italian - Drama, "Six characters in search of an author" |
| 1935 | No Award |
| 1936 | Eugene O'Neil - American - Drama, " Long Day's Journey into Night" |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard - French - Novel, "Les Thibault" |
| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck - American - Novel, " The Good Earth" |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil SIllanpaa - Finnish - Novel, "Meek Heritage" |
| 1940 | No Award |
| 1941 | No Award |
| 1942 | No Award |
| 1943 | No Award |
| 1944 | Johannes V. Jenson - Danish - Novel, "The Long Journey" |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral - Chilean - Poetry, "Desolacion" |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse - German - Novel, "Steppenwolf" |
| 1947 | Andre Gide - French - Novel, "The Counterfeiters" |
| 1948 | T.S Eliot - British - Poetry, "The Waste Land" |
| 1949 | William Faulkner - American - Novel, "The Sound and the Fury" |
| 1950 | Bertran Russell - British - Philosophy, "Principia Mathematica" |
| 1951 | Par Lagerkvist - Swedish - Poetry, "Barabbas" |
| 1952 | Francois Mauriac - French - Novel, "Therese Desqueyroux" |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill - British - History/Politics, "The Second World War" |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway - American - Novel, "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| 1955 | Halldor Laxness - Icelandic - Novel, "Independent People" |
| 1956 | Juan Ramon Jimenez - Spanish - Poetry, "Platero y yo" |
| 1957 | Albert Camus - French - Novel/Philospohy, "The Stranger" |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak -Russian - Novel/Poetry, "Doctor Zhivago" |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo - Italian - Poetry, "The Storm" |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse - French - Poetry, "Anabase" |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric - Bosnian - Novel, "The Bridge on the Drina" |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck - American - Novel, "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis - Greek - Poetry, "Strophe" |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre - French - Philosophy/Drama, "Being and Nothingness" |
| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov - Russian - Novel, "And Quiet Flows the Don" |
| 1966 | Shmuel Agnon - Israeli - Novel/Short Stories, "Only Yesterday" Nelly Sachs - German - Poetry/Drama, "Verzauberung" |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias - Guatemalan - Novel, "Men of Maize" |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata - Japanese - Novel, "Snow Country" |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett - Irish - Drama, "Waiting for Godot" |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Russian - Novel, "One Day in the LIfe of Ivan Denisovich" |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda - Chilean -Poetry, "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" |
| 1972 | Heinrich Boll - German - Novel, "The Clown" |
| 1973 | Patrick White - Australian - Novel, "The Eye of the Storm" |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson - Swedish - Novel, "The Return" Harry Martinson - Swedish - Poetry, "Aniara" |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale - Italian - Poetry, "Ossi di seppia" |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow - American - Novel, "The Adventures of Augie March" |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre - Spanish - Poetry, "Shadow of the Wind" |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer - American - Novel/Short Stories, "The Slave" |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis - Greek - Poetry, "To Axion Esti" |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz - Polish - Poetry, "The Captive Mind" |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti - Bulgarian - Novel, "Auto-da-Fe" |
| 1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Colombian - Novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" |
| 1983 | William Golding - British - Novel, "Lord of the Flies" |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert - Czech - Poetry, "The Lark" |
| 1985 | Claude Simon - French - Novel, "The Flanders Road" |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka - Nigerian - Drama/Poetry, "Death and the King's Horseman" |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky - Russian - Poetry, "A Part of Speech" |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz - Egyptian - Novel, "The Cairo Trilogy" |
| 1989 | Camilo Jose Cela - Spanish - Novel, "The Family of Pascual Duarte" |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz - Mexican - Poetry, "The Labyrinth of Solitude" |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer - South African - Novel, "Burger's Daughter" |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott - Saint Lucian - Poetry, "Omeros" |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison - American - Novel, "Beloved" |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe - Japanese - Novel, "A Personal Matter" |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney - Irish - Poetry, "Death of a Naturalist" |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska - Polish - Poetry, "View with a Grain of Sand" |
| 1997 | Dario Fo - Italian - Drama, "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" |
| 1998 | Jose Saramago - Portuguese - Novel, "Blindness" |
| 1999 | Gunter Grass - German - Novel," The Tin Drum" |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian - Chinese - Novel/Drama, "Soul Mountain" |
| 2001 | Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul - British - Novel, "A House for Mr. Biswas" |
| 2002 | Imre Kertesz - Hungarian - Novel, "Fatelessness" |
| 2003 | J. M. Coetzee - South African - Novel, "Disgrace" |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek - Austrian - Novel/Drama, "The Piano Teacher" |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter - British - Drama, "The Birthday Party" |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk - Turkish - Novel, "My Name is Red" |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing - British - Novel, "The Golden Notebook" |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - French - Novel, "Desert" |
| 2009 | Herta Muller - Romanian - Novel, "The Hunger Angel" |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa - Peruvian - Novel, "The Time of the Hero" |
| 2011 | Tomas Transtromer - Swedish - Poetry, "Baltics" |
| 2012 | Mo Yan - Chinese - Novel, "Red Sorghum" |
| 2013 | Alice Munro - Canadian - Short Stories, "Dear Life" |
| 2014 | Patrick Modiano - French - Novel, "Honeymoon" |
| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich - Belarusian - Non-fiction, "Voices from Chernobyl" |
| 2016 | Bob Dylan - American - Songwriting, "Blowin' in the Wind" |
| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro - British - Novel, "Never Let Me Go" |
| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk - Polish - Novel, "Flights" |
| 2019 | Peter Handke - Austrian - Novel/Drama, "A Sorrow Beyond Dreams" |
| 2020 | Louise Gluck - American - Poetry, "A Village Life" |
| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah - Tanzanian - Novel, "Paradise" |
| 2022 | Annie Ernaux - French - Memoir, "A Woman's Story" |
| 2023 | Jon Fosse - Norwegian - Drama/Novel, "Trilogie" |
| 2024 | Han Kang - South Korea - Poetry, "The Vegetarian" |
| 2025 | László Krasznahorkai - Hungary - Novel/Epic "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art," |
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