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Nobel Prize Winners
Nobel Prize winners for literature, 1901-2023 (district, region, and state)
Year | Author and work name |
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1901 | Sully Prudhomme |
1902 | Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen |
1903 | Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson |
1904 | José Echegaray y Eizaguirre and Frédéric Mistral |
1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz |
1906 | Giosué Carducci |
1907 | Rudyard Kipling |
1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken |
1909 | Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf |
1910 | Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse |
1911 | Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck |
1912 | Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann |
1913 | Rabindranath Tagore |
1914 | No prize given |
1915 | Romain Rolland |
1916 | Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam |
1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan |
1918 | No prize given |
1919 | Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler |
1920 | Knut Pedersen 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 |
1935 | No prize given |
1936 | Eugene Gladstone O'Neill |
1937 | Roger Martin du Gard |
1938 | Pearl Buck |
1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää |
1940 | No prize given |
1941 | No prize given |
1942 | No prize given |
1943 | No prize given |
1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen |
1945 | Gabriela Mistral |
1946 | Hermann Hesse |
1947 | André Paul Guillaume Gide |
1948 | Thomas Stearns Eliot |
1949 | William 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 Steinbeck |
1963 | Giorgos Seferis |
1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre |
1965 | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
1966 | Nelly Sachs and Shmuel Yosef Agnon |
1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias |
1968 | Yasunari Kawabata |
1969 | Samuel Beckett |
1970 | Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
1971 | Pablo Neruda |
1972 | Heinrich Böll |
1973 | Patrick White |
1974 | Harry Martinson and Eyvind Johnson |
1975 | Eugenio Montale |
1976 | Saul Bellow |
1977 | Vicente Aleixandre |
1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
1979 | Odysseus Elytis |
1980 | Czesław Miłosz |
1981 | Elias Canetti |
1982 | Gabriel García Márquez |
1983 | William 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 | Wisława Szymborska |
1997 | Dario Fo |
1998 | José Saramago |
1999 | Günter Grass |
2000 | Gao Xingjian |
2001 | Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul |
2002 | Imre Kertész |
2003 | John M. Coetzee |
2004 | Elfriede Jelinek |
2005 | Harold Pinter |
2006 | Orhan Pamuk |
2007 | Doris Lessing |
2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio |
2009 | Herta Müller |
2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa |
2011 | Tomas Tranströmer |
2012 | Mo Yan |
2013 | Alice Munro |
2014 | Patrick Modiano |
2015 | Svetlana Alexievich |
2016 | Bob Dylan |
2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro |
2018 | Olga Tokarczuk |
2019 | Peter Handke |
2020 | Louise Glück |
2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah |
2022 | Annie Ernaux |
2023 | Jon Fosse |