Nobel Prize for Literature
List of winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1901 : Sully Prudhomme
- 1902 : Theodor Mommsen
- 1903 : Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
- 1904 : Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
- 1905 : Henryk Sienkiewicz
- 1906 : Giosuè Carducci
- 1907 : Rudyard Kipling
- 1908 : Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- 1909 : Selma Lagerlöf
- 1910 : Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
- 1911 : Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
- 1912 : Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
- 1913 : Sir Rabindranath Tagore
- 1915 : Romain Rolland
- 1916 : Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
- 1917 : Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
- 1919 : Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
- 1920 : Knut Hamsun
- 1921 : Anatole France
- 1922 : Jacinto Benavente
- 1923 : William Butler Yeats
- 1924 : Wladyslaw Stanislaw 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 Alekseyevich Bunin
- 1934 : Luigi Pirandello
- 1936 : Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- 1937 : Roger Martin du Gard
- 1938 : Pearl S. Buck
- 1939 : Frans Eemil Sillanpää
- 1944 : Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
- 1945 : Gabriela Mistral
- 1946 : Hermann Hesse
- 1947 : André Paul Guillaume Gide
- 1948 : Thomas Stearns Eliot
- 1949 : William Cuthbert Faulkner
- 1950 : Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
- 1951 : Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
- 1952 : François Mauriac
- 1953 : Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
- 1954 : Ernest Miller Hemingway
- 1955 : Halldór Kiljan Laxness
- 1956 : Juan Ramón Jiménez
- 1957 : Albert Camus
- 1958 : Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
- 1959 : Salvatore Quasimodo
- 1960 : Saint-John Perse
- 1961 : Ivo Andric
- 1962 : John Ernest Steinbeck
- 1963 : Giorgos Seferis
- 1964 : Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize)
- 1965 : Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
- 1966 : Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
- 1967 : Miguel Angel Asturias
- 1968 : Yasunari Kawabata
- 1969 : Samuel Barclay Beckett
- 1970 : Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
- 1971 : Pablo Neruda
- 1972 : Heinrich Böll
- 1973 : Patrick Victor Martindale White
- 1974 : Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
- 1975 : Eugenio Montale
- 1976 : Saul Bellow
- 1977 : Vicente Aleixandre
- 1978 : Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1979 : Odysseas Elytis
- 1980 : Czeslaw Milosz
- 1981 : Elias Canetti
- 1982 : Gabriel García Márquez
- 1983 : William Gerald Golding
- 1984 : Jaroslav Seifert
- 1985 : Claude Simon
- 1986 : Wole Soyinka
- 1987 : Joseph Brodsky
- 1988 : Naguib Mahfouz
- 1989 : Camilo José Cela
- 1990 : Octavio Paz
- 1991 : Nadine Gordimer
- 1992 : Derek Walcott
- 1993 : Toni Morrison
- 1994 : Kenzaburo Oe
- 1995 : Seamus Heaney
- 1996 : Wislawa Szymborska
- 1997 : Dario Fo
- 1998 : José Saramago
- 1999 : Günter Grass
- 2000 : Gao Xingjian
- 2001 : Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- 2002 : Imre Kertész
- 2003 : John Maxwell Coetzee
Note: The women who have received the Nobel Prize for Literature are Selma Lagerlöf, Grazia Deledda, Sigrid Undset, Pearl S. Buck, Gabriela Mistral, Nelly Sachs, Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, and Wislawa Szymborska. The other recipients are men.
External links
- http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/index.html
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