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Nobel Prize Lit
Nobel Prize for Literature
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen |
| 1903 | Bjornstjerne Bjornson |
| 1904 | Frederic Mistral, Jose Echegaray |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| 1906 | Giosue Carducci |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling |
| 1908 | Rudolf Eucken |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlof |
| 1910 | Paul Heyse |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam |
| 1917 | Karl Gjellerup Henrik Pontoppidan |
| 1919 | Carl Spitteler |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun |
| 1921 | Anatole France |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente |
| 1923 | William Yeats |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw Reymont |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy |
| 1933 | Ivan Bunin |
| 1934 | ,Luigi Pirandello |
| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard |
| 1914 | None |
| 1938 | Pearl Buck |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpaa |
| 1944 | Johannes V. Jensen |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse |
| 1947 | André Gide |
| 1948 | T.S. Eliot |
| 1949 | William Faulkner - USA |
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell - UK |
| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist - Sweden |
| 1952 | François Mauriac - France |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill - UK |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway - USA |
| 1955 | Halldór Laxness - Iceland |
| 1956 | Juan Ramon Jimenez - Spain |
| 1957 | Albert Camus - Born Algeria Lived in France |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak - Russia |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo - Italy |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse - France |
| 1961 | Ivo Andrić - Born in Bosnia Lived in Serbia |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck - USA |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis - Born in Ottoman Empire Lived in Greece |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre (declined) - France |
| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokov - Russia |
| 1966 | Shmuel Agnon - Born Austria Hungary Lived in Israel, Nelly Sachs - Born Germany Lived in Sweden |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias - Guatemala |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata - Japan |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett - Ireland |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Solshenitsyn - Russia |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda - Chile |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll - Germany |
| 1973 | Patrick White - Born in UK Lived in Australia |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson - Sweden - Harry Martinson - Sweden |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale - Italy |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow - Born in Canada Lived in the USA |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre - Spain |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer - Born in Poland Lived in USA |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis - Greece |
| 1980 | Czesław Miłosz Born in Lithuania Lived in Poland |
| 1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Born in Colombia Lived in Mexico |
| 1983 | William Golding - UK |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert - Born in Prague (Austria Hungary) Lived in Prague Czech Republic |
| 1985 | Claude Simon - Born in Madagascar Lived in France |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka - Nigeria |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky - Born in Russia Lived in USA |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz - Egypt |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela - Spain |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz - Mexico |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer - South Africa |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott - St Lucia |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison - USA |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe - Japan |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney - Born N Ireland Lived Ireland |
| 1996 | Wisława Szymborska - Poland |
| 1997 | Dario Fo - Italy |
| 1998 | José Saramago - Portugal |
| 1999 | Günter Grass - Born in Poland Lived in Germany |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian - Born in China Lived in France |
| 2001 | V. S. Naipaul - Born Trinidad & Tobago Lived in the UK |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész - Hungary |
| 2003 | J. M. Coetzee - South Africa |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek - Austria |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter - UK |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk - Turkey |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing - Born in Persia (Iran) Lived in UK |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Born in France Lives in Mauritius |
| 2009 | Herta Müller - Born in Romaina Lives in Germany |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa - Peru |
| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer - Sweden |
| 2012 | Mo Yan - China |
| 2013 | Alice Munro - Canada |
| 2014 | Patrick Modiano - France |
| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich - Born in Ukraine Lives in Belarus |
| 2016 | Bob Dylan - USA |
| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro - Japan |
| 2018 | Olgo Tokarczuk - Poland |
| 2019 | Peter Handke - Born in Austria Live in France |
| 2020 | Louise Glück - USA |
| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah - Born in Zanzibar Lives in England |
| 2022 | Annie Ernaux - France |
| 2023 | Jon Fosse - Born in Norway Lives in Austria |
| 2024 | Han Kang - South Korea |
| 2025 | László Krasznahorkai - Hungary |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti - Born - Bulgaria Lived in UK |
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