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All Nobel Prizes in Literature

Collage: Eyvind Johnson, Kenzaburo Oe and Elfriede Jelinek
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 102 times to 106 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2009. Click on the names to get more information.

 

2009, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Herta Müller
2008, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2007, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Doris Lessing
2006, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Orhan Pamuk
2005, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Harold Pinter
2004, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Elfriede Jelinek
2003, The Nobel Prize in Literature
John M. Coetzee
2002, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Imre Kertész
2001, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
2000, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Gao Xingjian
1999, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Günter Grass
1998, The Nobel Prize in Literature
José Saramago
1997, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Dario Fo
1996, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Wislawa Szymborska
1995, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Seamus Heaney
1994, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Kenzaburo Oe
1993, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Toni Morrison
1992, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Derek Walcott
1991, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Nadine Gordimer
1990, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Octavio Paz
1989, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Camilo José Cela
1988, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Naguib Mahfouz
1987, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Joseph Brodsky
1986, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Wole Soyinka
1985, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Claude Simon
1984, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Jaroslav Seifert
1983, The Nobel Prize in Literature
William Golding
1982, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Gabriel García Márquez
1981, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Elias Canetti
1980, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Czeslaw Milosz
1979, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Odysseus Elytis
1978, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Vicente Aleixandre
1976, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Saul Bellow
1975, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Eugenio Montale
1974, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
1973, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Patrick White
1972, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Heinrich Böll
1971, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Pablo Neruda
1970, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
1969, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Samuel Beckett
1968, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Yasunari Kawabata
1967, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Miguel Angel Asturias
1966, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
1964, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Jean-Paul Sartre
1963, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Giorgos Seferis
1962, The Nobel Prize in Literature
John Steinbeck
1961, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Ivo Andric
1960, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Saint-John Perse
1959, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Salvatore Quasimodo
1958, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
1957, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Albert Camus
1956, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Halldór Kiljan Laxness
1954, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Ernest Miller Hemingway
1953, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1952, The Nobel Prize in Literature
François Mauriac
1951, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
1950, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
1949, The Nobel Prize in Literature
William Faulkner
1948, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Thomas Stearns Eliot
1947, The Nobel Prize in Literature
André Paul Guillaume Gide
1946, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Hermann Hesse
1945, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Gabriela Mistral
1944, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
1939, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Pearl Buck
1937, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Roger Martin du Gard
1936, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
1934, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Luigi Pirandello
1933, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
1932, The Nobel Prize in Literature
John Galsworthy
1931, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Sinclair Lewis
1929, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Thomas Mann
1928, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Sigrid Undset
1927, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Henri Bergson
1926, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Grazia Deledda
1925, The Nobel Prize in Literature
George Bernard Shaw
1924, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
1923, The Nobel Prize in Literature
William Butler Yeats
1922, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Jacinto Benavente
1921, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Anatole France
1920, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Knut Pedersen Hamsun
1919, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
1917, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
1915, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Romain Rolland
1913, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Rabindranath Tagore
1912, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
1911, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
1910, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
1909, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
1908, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1907, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Rudyard Kipling
1906, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Giosuè Carducci
1905, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
1903, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
1902, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
1901, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Sully Prudhomme

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