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. The prize was awarded the first time in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme of France.

 List of laureates 

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

YearNameReasonCountryLanguage(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" 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)  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) 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 English2017Kazuo IshiguroUnited KingdomEnglish2018Olga TokarczukPolandPolish2019Peter HandkeGermanyGerman2020Louise GlückUnited StatesEnglish2021Abdulrazak GurnahTanzaniaEnglish2022Annie ErnauxFranceFrench2023Jon FosseNorwayNorwegian2024Han KangSouth KoreaKorean2025László KrasznahorkaiHungaryHungarian

 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

 Other websites 

 The Nobel Prize in Literature - Laureates 
 Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
 The Nobel Prize
 Written in Stone  - Burial locations of literary figures.

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