Nobel Prize in Literature



2024 Han Kang
2023 Jon Fosse
2022 Annie Ernaux
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah
2020 Louise Gluck
2019 Peter Handke
2018 Olga Tokarczuk
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro
2016 Bob Dylan
2015 Svetlana Alexievich
2014 Patrick Modiano
2013 Alice Munro
2012 Mo Yan
2011 Tomas Tranströmer
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa
2009 Herta Müller
2008 J M G Le Clézio
2007 Doris Lessing
2006 Orhan Pamuk
2005 Harold Pinter
2004 Elfriede Jelinek
2003 J M Coetzee
2002 Imre Kertész
2001 V S Naipaul
2000 Gao Xingjian
1999 Günter Grass
1998 José Saramago
1997 Dario Fo
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1995 Seamus Heaney
1994 Kenzaburo Ōe
1993 Toni Morrison
1992 Derek Walcott
1991 Nadine Gordimer
1990 Octavio Paz
1989 Camilo José Cela
1988 Naguib Mahfouz
1987 Joseph Brodsky
1986 Wole Soyinka
1985 Claude Simon
1984 Jaroslav Seifert
1983 William Golding
1982 Gabriel García Márquez
1981 Elias Canetti
1980 Czeslaw Milosz
1979 Odysseas Elytis
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977 Vicente Aleixandre
1976 Saul Bellow
1975 Eugenio Montale
1974 Harry Martinson
1974 Eyvind Johnson
1973 Patrick White
1972 Heinrich Böll
1971 Pablo Neruda
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1969 Samuel Beckett
1968 Yasunari Kawabata
1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 Nelly Sachs
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
1963 Giorgos Seferis
1962 John Steinbeck
1961 Ivo Andrić
1960 Saint-John Perse
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 Juan Ramón Jiménez
1958 Boris Pasternak
1957 Albert Camus
1955 Halldór Laxness
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1953 Winston S Churchill
1952 François Mauriac
1951 Pär Lagerkvist
1950 Bertrand Russell
1949 William Faulkner
1948 T S Eliot
1947 André Gide
1946 Hermann Hesse
1945 Gabriela Mistral
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938 Pearl S Buck
1937 Roger Martin du Gard
1936 Eugene O'Neill
1934 Luigi Pirandello
1933 Ivan Bunin
1932 John Galsworthy
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930 Sinclair Lewis
1929 Thomas Mann
1928 Sigrid Undset
1927 Henri Bergson
1926 Grazia Deledda
1925 George Bernard Shaw
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
1923 W B Yeats
1922 Jacinto Benavente
1921 Anatole France
1920 Knut Hamsun
1919 Carl Spitteler
1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup
1917 Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 Verner von Heidenstam
1915 Romain Rolland
1913 Rabindranath Tagore
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 Paul von Heyse
1909 Selma Lagerlöf
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1907 Rudyard Kipling
1906 Giosuè Carducci
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 José Echegaray
1904 Frédéric Mistral
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1902 Theodor Mommsen
1901 Sully Prudhomme

About the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Literature is a prestigious Swedish award presented annually to authors from any country who have produced outstanding work in an idealistic direction within the field of literature.   Website


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