noble prize winner for literary
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| 1940 | NO AWARD
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| 1948 | T.S. Elliot(1888-1965)
BRITISH(B. UNITED STATES)
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| 1956 | Juan Ramon Jimenez(1881-1958)
SPANISH
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| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre(1905-1980)
FRENCH(PRIZE DECLINED)
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| 1972 | Henrich Boll(1975-1985)
GERMAN
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| 1993 | Toni Morrison(1931- )
AMERICAN
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| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe(1935- )
JAPANESE
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| 2002 | Imre Kertesz(1929- )
HUNGARY
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| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa(1936- )
PERU
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| 2005 | Harold Pinter(1930- )
UNITED KINGDOM
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| 1997 | Dario Fo(1926- )
ITALIAN
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| 1989 | Camilo Jose Cela(1916- )
SPANISH
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| 1990 | Octavio Paz(1914-1998)
MEXICAN
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| 1998 | Jose Saramago(1922- )
PORTUGUESE
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| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk(1952- )
TURKEY
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| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz(1911- )
EGYPTIAN
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| 1986 | Wole Soyinka(1934- )
NIGERIAN
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| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert(1901-1986)
CZECH
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| 1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez(1928- )
COLOMBIAN
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| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky(l940-1996)
RUSSIAN-AMERICAN
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| 1985 | Claude Simon(1913- )
FRENCH
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| 1983 | William Golding(1911-1993)
BRITISH
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| 1981 | Elias Canetti(1905- )
BULGARIAN
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| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck(1892- 1973)
AMERICAN
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| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill(1888-1953)
AMERICAN
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| 1944 | Johannes V. Jenson(1873-1950)
DANISH
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| 1952 | Francois Mauriac(1885-1970)
FRENCH
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| 1960 | Saint-John Perse(1887-1975)
FRENCH
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| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata(1899-1972)
JAPANESE
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| 1976 | Saul Bellow(1915- )
AMERICAN
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| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello(1867-1936)
ITALIAN
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| 1942 | NO AWARD
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| 1950 | Bertrand A. W. Russell(1872-1970)
BRITISH
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| 1958 | Boris L. Pasternak(1890-1960)
RUSSIAN(PRIZE DECLINED)
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| 1966 | Shmuel J. Agnon(1888-1970)--ISRAELI(B.POLAND)
Nelly Sachs(1891-1970)--SWEDISH(B.GERMANY)
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| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson(1900-1976)--SWEDISH
Harry Edmund Martinson(1904-1978)--SWEDISH
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| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre(1898-1984)
SPANISH
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| 1969 | Samual Beckett(1906-1989)
ANGLO-FRENCH(B.IRELAND)
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| 1961 | Ivo Andric(1892-1975)
YUGOSLAV
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| 1953 | Sir Winston Churchill(1874-1965)
BRITISH
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| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral(1889-1957)
CHILEAN
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| 1933 | Ivan A. Bunin(1870-1953)
FRENCH(B.RUSSIA)
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| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave le Clezio(1940- )
FRENCH
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| 2007 | Doris Lessing(1919- )
BRITISH
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| 2004 | Elfrede Jelinek(1946- )
AUSTRIA
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| 2003 | J.M. Coetzee(1940- )
SOUTH AFRICAN
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| 2000 | Gao Xingjian(1940- )
FRANCH(B.CHINA)
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| 1999 | Gunter Grass(1927- )
FEDERATION REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
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| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska(1923- )
POLISH
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| 1995 | Seamus Heaney(1939- )
NORTHERN IRISH
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| 1992 | Derek Walcott(1930- )
WEST INDIAN
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| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer(1923- )
SOUTH AFRICAN
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| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz(1911- )
POLISH-AMERICAN
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| 1970 | Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn(1918- )
RUSSIAN
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| 1962 | John Steinbeck(1902-1968)
AMERICAN
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| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)
BRITISH
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| 1935 | NO AWARD
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| 1941 | NO AWARD
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| 1943 | NO AWARD
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| 1949 | William Faulkner(1897-1962)
AMERICAN
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| 1951 | Par F. Lagerkvist(1891-1974)
SWEDISH
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| 1957 | Albert Camus(1913-1960)
FRENCH
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| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo(1901-1968)
ITALIAN
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| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov(1905-1984)
RUSSIAN
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| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias(1899-1974)
GUATEMALAN
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| 1973 | Patrick White(1912-1990)
AUSTRALIAN
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| 1975 | Eugenio Montale(1896-1981)
ITALIAN
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| 1929 | Thomas Mann(1875-1955)
GERMAN
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| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)
AMERICAN
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| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941)
INDIAN
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| 1921 | Anatole France(1844-1924)
FRENCH
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| 1932 | John Galsworthy(1867-1933)
ENGLISH
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| 1946 | Hermann Hesse(1877-1962)
SWISS(B.GERMANY)
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| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz(1846-1946)
POLISH
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| 1906 | Giosue Carducci(1835-1907)
ITALIAN
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| 1914 | NO AWARD
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| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente Y Martinez(1866-1954)
SPANISH
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| 1931 | Erik A. Karlfeldt(1864-1931)
SWEDISH(AWARDED POSTHUMOUSLY)
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| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis(1885-1951)
AMERICAN
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| 2001 | V.S. Naipaul(1932- )
UNITED KINGDOM(B.TRINIDAD)
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| 2009 | Herta Muller(1953- )
ROMANIA
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| 1927 | Henri Bergson(1859-1941)
FRENCH
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| 1919 | Carl F. Spitteler(1845-1924)
SWISS
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| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck(1862-1949)
BELGIAN
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| 1903 | Bjornstjerne Bjornson(1832-1910)
NORWEGIAN
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| 1904 | Frederic Mistral(1830-1914)--FRENCH
Jose Echegaray(1832-1916)--SPANISH
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| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann(1862-1946)
GERMAN
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| 1920 | Knut Hamsun(1859-1952)
NORWEGIAN
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| 1928 | Sigrid Undset(1882-1949)
NORWEGIAN(B.DENMARK)
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| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)
BRITISH(B.IRELAND)
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| 1917 | Karl A. Gjellerup(1857-1919)--DANISH
Henrik Pontoppidan(1857-1943)--DANISH
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| 1909 | Selma Lagerlof(1858-1940)
SWEDISH
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| 1901 | Rene F. A. Sully-Prudhomme(1839-1907)
FRENCH
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| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen(1817-1903)
GERMAN
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| 1910 | Paul J. L. Heyse(1830-1914)
GERMAN
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| 1918 | NO AWARD
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| 1926 | Grazia Deledda(1871-1936)
ITALIAN
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| 1939 | Frans E. Sillanpaa(1888-1964)
FINNISH
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| 1923 | William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)
IRISH
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| 1915 | Romain Rolland(1866-1944)
FRENCH
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| 1908 | Rudolf C. Eucken(1846-1926)
GERMAN
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| 1916 | Verner Von Heidenstam(1859-1940)
SWEDISH
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| 1924 | Wladyslaw S. Reymont(1868-1925)
POLISH
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| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer(1904-1991)
AMERICAN(B.POLAND)
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| 1947 | Andre Gide(1869-1951)
FRENCH
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| 1955 | Halldor K. Laxness(1902-1998)
ICELANDIC
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| 1963 | George Seferis(1900-1971)
GREEK
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| 1971 | Pablo Neruda(1904-1973)
CHILEAN
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| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis(1911-1996)
GREEK
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| 1937 | Roger Martin Du Gard(1881-1958)
FRENCH
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