List of Nobel Prize winners in Literature

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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.[1] The prize was awarded the first time in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme of France.[2]

List of laureates

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

YearNameReasonCountryLanguage(s)
1901Sully 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"[3]FranceFrench
1902Theodor MommsenGermanyGerman
1903Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonNorwayNorwegian
1904Frédéric MistralFranceOccitan
José Echegaray y EizaguirreSpainSpanish
1905Henryk SienkiewiczPolandPolish
1906Giosuè CarducciItalyItalian
1907Rudyard KiplingUnited KingdomEnglish
1908Rudolf Christoph EuckenGermanyGerman
1909Selma LagerlöfSwedenSwedish
1910Paul HeyseGermanyGerman
1911Count Maurice MaeterlinckBelgiumFrench
1912Gerhart HauptmannGermanyGerman
1913Rabindranath TagoreIndiaBengali
1915Romain RollandFranceFrench
1916Verner von HeidenstamSwedenSwedish
1917Karl Adolph GjellerupDenmarkDanish
Henrik PontoppidanDenmarkDanish
1919Carl SpittelerSwitzerlandGerman
1920Knut HamsunNorwayNorwegian
1921Anatole FranceFranceFrench
1922Jacinto BenaventeSpainSpanish
1923William Butler YeatsIrelandEnglish
1924Władysław ReymontPolandPolish
1925George Bernard ShawIrelandEnglish
1926Grazia DeleddaItalyItalian
1927Henri BergsonFranceFrench
1928Sigrid UndsetNorwayNorwegian
1929Thomas MannGermanyGerman
1930Sinclair LewisUnited StatesEnglish
1931Erik Axel KarlfeldtSwedenSwedish
1932John GalsworthyUnited KingdomEnglish
1933Ivan Alekseyevich BuninRussia (in exile)Russian
1934Luigi PirandelloItalyItalian
1936Eugene O'NeillUnited StatesEnglish
1937Roger Martin du GardFranceFrench
1938Pearl S. BuckUnited StatesEnglish
1939Frans Eemil SillanpääFinlandFinnish
1944Johannes Vilhelm JensenDenmarkDanish
1945Gabriela MistralChileSpanish
1946Hermann HesseSwitzerlandGerman
1947André GideFranceFrench
1948T. S. EliotUnited States/United KingdomEnglish
1949William FaulknerUnited StatesEnglish
1950Bertrand RussellUnited KingdomEnglish
1951Pär LagerkvistSwedenSwedish
1952François MauriacFranceFrench
1953Sir Winston ChurchillUnited KingdomEnglish
1954Ernest HemingwayUnited StatesEnglish
1955Halldór LaxnessIcelandIcelandic
1956Juan Ramón JiménezSpainSpanish
1957Albert CamusFranceFrench
1958Boris Pasternak (declined the prize)[1] Archived 2009-01-08 at the Wayback MachineRussiaRussian
1959Salvatore QuasimodoItalyItalian
1960Saint-John PerseFranceFrench
1961Ivo AndricYugoslaviaSerbo-Croat
1962John SteinbeckUnited StatesEnglish
1963Giorgos SeferisGreeceGreek
1964Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize)[2][permanent dead link]FranceFrench
1965Michail SholokhovRussiaRussian
1966Shmuel Yosef AgnonIsraelHebrew
Nelly SachsGermanyGerman
1967Miguel Ángel AsturiasGuatemalaSpanish
1968Yasunari KawabataJapanJapanese
1969Samuel BeckettIrelandEnglish/French
1970Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRussiaRussian
1971Pablo NerudaChileSpanish
1972Heinrich BöllGermany (West)German
1973Patrick WhiteAustraliaEnglish
1974Eyvind JohnsonSwedenSwedish
Harry MartinsonSwedenSwedish
1975Eugenio MontaleItalyItalian
1976Saul BellowCanada/United StatesEnglish
1977Vicente AleixandreSpainSpanish
1978Isaac Bashevis SingerUnited StatesYiddish
1979Odysseas ElytisGreeceGreek
1980Czesław MiłoszLithuania/Poland/United StatesPolish
1981Elias CanettiUnited KingdomGerman
1982Gabriel García MárquezColombiaSpanish
1983William GoldingUnited KingdomEnglish
1984Jaroslav SeifertCzechoslovakiaCzech
1985Claude SimonFranceFrench
1986Akinwande Oluwole SoyinkaNigeriaEnglish
1987Joseph BrodskyRussia/United StatesRussian/English
1988Naguib MahfouzEgyptArabic
1989Camilo José CelaSpainSpanish
1990Octavio PazMexicoSpanish
1991Nadine GordimerSouth AfricaEnglish
1992Derek WalcottSt. LuciaEnglish
1993Toni MorrisonUnited StatesEnglish
1994Kenzaburo OeJapanJapanese
1995Seamus HeaneyIrelandEnglish
1996Wisława SzymborskaPolandPolish
1997Dario FoItalyItalian
1998José SaramagoPortugalPortuguese
1999Günter GrassGermanyGerman
2000Gao XingjianFrance/ChinaChinese
2001Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulUnited KingdomEnglish
2002Imre KertészHungaryHungarian
2003John Maxwell CoetzeeSouth AfricaEnglish
2004Elfriede JelinekAustriaGerman
2005Harold PinterUnited KingdomEnglish
2006Orhan PamukTurkeyTurkish
2007Doris LessingUnited KingdomEnglish
2008J. M. G. Le ClézioFranceFrench
2009Herta MüllerGermanyGerman
2010Mario Vargas LlosaPeruSpanish
2011Tomas TranströmerSwedenSwedish
2012Mo YanPeople's Republic of ChinaChinese
2013Alice MunroCanadaEnglish
2014Patrick ModianoFranceFrench
2015Svetlana AlexievichBelarusRussian
2016Bob DylanUnited StatesEnglish
2017Kazuo IshiguroUnited KingdomEnglish
2018Olga TokarczukPolandPolish
2019Peter HandkeGermanyGerman
2020Louise GlückUnited StatesEnglish
2021Abdulrazak GurnahTanzaniaEnglish
2022Annie ErnauxFranceFrench
2023Jon FosseNorwayNorwegian

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