List of Nobel Prize winners in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature is one of many Nobel Prizes given in honor of Alfred Nobel. Every year, a writer is chosen by the Swedish Academy to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. They choose someone who they think has written something that has great value.^[1] The prize was awarded the first time in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme of France.^[2]

List of laureates

List of Nobel Prize laureates (winners) in Literature from 1901 to the present date.

Year	Name	Reason	Country	Language(s)
1901	Sully Prudhomme	"in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect"[3]	France	French
1902	Theodor Mommsen		Germany	German
1903	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson		Norway	Norwegian
1904	Frédéric Mistral		France	Occitan
	José Echegaray y Eizaguirre		Spain	Spanish
1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz		Poland	Polish
1906	Giosuè Carducci		Italy	Italian
1907	Rudyard Kipling		United Kingdom	English
1908	Rudolf Christoph Eucken		Germany	German
1909	Selma Lagerlöf		Sweden	Swedish
1910	Paul Heyse		Germany	German
1911	Count Maurice Maeterlinck		Belgium	French
1912	Gerhart Hauptmann		Germany	German
1913	Rabindranath Tagore		India	Bengali
1915	Romain Rolland		France	French
1916	Verner von Heidenstam		Sweden	Swedish
1917	Karl Adolph Gjellerup		Denmark	Danish
	Henrik Pontoppidan		Denmark	Danish
1919	Carl Spitteler		Switzerland	German
1920	Knut Hamsun		Norway	Norwegian
1921	Anatole France		France	French
1922	Jacinto Benavente		Spain	Spanish
1923	William Butler Yeats		Ireland	English
1924	Władysław Reymont		Poland	Polish
1925	George Bernard Shaw		Ireland	English
1926	Grazia Deledda		Italy	Italian
1927	Henri Bergson		France	French
1928	Sigrid Undset		Norway	Norwegian
1929	Thomas Mann		Germany	German
1930	Sinclair Lewis		United States	English
1931	Erik Axel Karlfeldt		Sweden	Swedish
1932	John Galsworthy		United Kingdom	English
1933	Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin		Russia (in exile)	Russian
1934	Luigi Pirandello		Italy	Italian
1936	Eugene O'Neill		United States	English
1937	Roger Martin du Gard		France	French
1938	Pearl S. Buck		United States	English
1939	Frans Eemil Sillanpää		Finland	Finnish
1944	Johannes Vilhelm Jensen		Denmark	Danish
1945	Gabriela Mistral		Chile	Spanish
1946	Hermann Hesse		Switzerland	German
1947	André Gide		France	French
1948	T. S. Eliot		United States/United Kingdom	English
1949	William Faulkner		United States	English
1950	Bertrand Russell		United Kingdom	English
1951	Pär Lagerkvist		Sweden	Swedish
1952	François Mauriac		France	French
1953	Sir Winston Churchill		United Kingdom	English
1954	Ernest Hemingway		United States	English
1955	Halldór Laxness		Iceland	Icelandic
1956	Juan Ramón Jiménez		Spain	Spanish
1957	Albert Camus		France	French
1958	Boris Pasternak (declined the prize) Archived 2009-01-08 at the Wayback Machine		Russia	Russian
1959	Salvatore Quasimodo		Italy	Italian
1960	Saint-John Perse		France	French
1961	Ivo Andric		Yugoslavia	Serbo-Croat
1962	John Steinbeck		United States	English
1963	Giorgos Seferis		Greece	Greek
1964	Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize)[permanent dead link]		France	French
1965	Michail Sholokhov		Russia	Russian
1966	Shmuel Yosef Agnon		Israel	Hebrew
	Nelly Sachs		Germany	German
1967	Miguel Ángel Asturias		Guatemala	Spanish
1968	Yasunari Kawabata		Japan	Japanese
1969	Samuel Beckett		Ireland	English/French
1970	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn		Russia	Russian
1971	Pablo Neruda		Chile	Spanish
1972	Heinrich Böll		Germany (West)	German
1973	Patrick White		Australia	English
1974	Eyvind Johnson		Sweden	Swedish
	Harry Martinson		Sweden	Swedish
1975	Eugenio Montale		Italy	Italian
1976	Saul Bellow		Canada/United States	English
1977	Vicente Aleixandre		Spain	Spanish
1978	Isaac Bashevis Singer		United States	Yiddish
1979	Odysseas Elytis		Greece	Greek
1980	Czesław Miłosz		Lithuania/Poland/United States	Polish
1981	Elias Canetti		United Kingdom	German
1982	Gabriel García Márquez		Colombia	Spanish
1983	William Golding		United Kingdom	English
1984	Jaroslav Seifert		Czechoslovakia	Czech
1985	Claude Simon		France	French
1986	Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka		Nigeria	English
1987	Joseph Brodsky		Russia/United States	Russian/English
1988	Naguib Mahfouz		Egypt	Arabic
1989	Camilo José Cela		Spain	Spanish
1990	Octavio Paz		Mexico	Spanish
1991	Nadine Gordimer		South Africa	English
1992	Derek Walcott		St. Lucia	English
1993	Toni Morrison		United States	English
1994	Kenzaburo Oe		Japan	Japanese
1995	Seamus Heaney		Ireland	English
1996	Wisława Szymborska		Poland	Polish
1997	Dario Fo		Italy	Italian
1998	José Saramago		Portugal	Portuguese
1999	Günter Grass		Germany	German
2000	Gao Xingjian		France/China	Chinese
2001	Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul		United Kingdom	English
2002	Imre Kertész		Hungary	Hungarian
2003	John Maxwell Coetzee		South Africa	English
2004	Elfriede Jelinek		Austria	German
2005	Harold Pinter		United Kingdom	English
2006	Orhan Pamuk		Turkey	Turkish
2007	Doris Lessing		United Kingdom	English
2008	J. M. G. Le Clézio		France	French
2009	Herta Müller		Germany	German
2010	Mario Vargas Llosa		Peru	Spanish
2011	Tomas Tranströmer		Sweden	Swedish
2012	Mo Yan		People's Republic of China	Chinese
2013	Alice Munro		Canada	English
2014	Patrick Modiano		France	French
2015	Svetlana Alexievich		Belarus	Russian
2016	Bob Dylan		United States	English
2017	Kazuo Ishiguro		United Kingdom	English
2018	Olga Tokarczuk		Poland	Polish
2019	Peter Handke		Germany	German
2020	Louise Glück		United States	English
2021	Abdulrazak Gurnah		Tanzania	English
2022	Annie Ernaux		France	French
2023	Jon Fosse		Norway	Norwegian
2024	Han Kang		South Korea	Korean

Related pages

• List of Nobel Prize winners by country
• List of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry
• List of Nobel Prize winners in Economics
• List of Nobel Prize winners in Physics
• List of Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine
• List of Nobel Peace Prize winners

References

1. "Alfred Nobel – The Man Behind the Nobel Prize". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
2. "Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature | Nobel Prize in Literature". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2017-08-24. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
3. "Nobel Prize in Literature 1901". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-10-21. Retrieved 2008-10-17.

Other websites

• The Nobel Prize in Literature - Laureates Archived 2002-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
• The Nobel Prize
• Written in Stone Archived 2006-08-14 at the Wayback Machine - Burial locations of literary figures.

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