Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded each October by the Swedish Academy. In some years, joint awards were given to two authors. For more information on the prize and the laureates, see http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
| Year | Laureate | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme | France |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen | Germany |
| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Norway |
| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral | France |
| 1904 | José Echegaray | Spain |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Poland |
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci | Italy |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | U.K. |
| 1908 | Rudolf Eucken | Germany |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden |
| 1910 | Paul von Heyse | Germany |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | Germany |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | India |
| 1914 | No prize given | |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland | France |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Sweden |
| 1917 | Karl Gjellerup | Denmark |
| 1917 | Henrik Pontoppidan | Denmark |
| 1918 | No prize given | |
| 1919 | Carl Spitteler | Switzerland |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | Norway |
| 1921 | Anatole France | France |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | Spain |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats | Ireland |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw Reymont | Poland |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italy |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson | France |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norway |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann | Germany |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | U.S. |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Sweden |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy | U.K. |
| 1933 | Ivan Bunin | Russia/France |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Italy |
| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill | U.S. |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | France |
| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck | U.S. |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Finland |
| 1940 | No prize given | |
| 1941 | No prize given | |
| 1942 | No prize given | |
| 1943 | No prize given | |
| 1944 | Johannes V. Jensen | Denmark |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chile |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse | Switzerland |
| 1947 | André Gide | France |
| 1948 | T. S. Eliot | U.K. |
| 1949 | William Faulkner | U.S. |
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | U.K. |
| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | Sweden |
| 1952 | François Mauriac | France |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill | U.K. |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | U.S. |
| 1955 | Halldòr Laxness | Iceland |
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Spain |
| 1957 | Albert Camus | France |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak (declined) | U.S.S.R. |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Italy |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | France |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric | Yugoslavia |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck | U.S. |
| 1963 | Giorgios Seferis | Greece |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre (declined) | France |
| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | U.S.S.R. |
| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Israel |
| 1966 | Nelly Sachs | Germany/Sweden |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias | Guatemala |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japan |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | Ireland/France |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | U.S.S.R. |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | Chile |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | Germany |
| 1973 | Patrick White | Australia |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson | Sweden |
| 1974 | Harry Martinson | Sweden |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | Italy |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | U.S. |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Spain |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | U.S. |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis | Greece |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz | Poland/U.S. |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | Bulgaria/U.K. |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | Colombia |
| 1983 | William Golding | U.K. |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | Czechoslovakia |
| 1985 | Claude Simon | France |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | U.S.S.R./U.S. |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Egypt |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | Spain |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz | Mexico |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | St. Lucia/Trinidad |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | U.S. |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japan |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | Ireland |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | Poland |
| 1997 | Dario Fo | Italy |
| 1998 | José Saramago | Portugal |
| 1999 | Günter Grass | Germany |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | France |
| 2001 | V. S. Naipaul | U.K. |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész | Hungary |
| 2003 | J. M. Coetzee | South Africa |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter | U.K |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing | U.K |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clèzio | France |
| 2009 | Herta Müller | Germany |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peru |
| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer | Sweden |
| 2012 | Mo Yan | China |
| 2013 | Alice Munro | Canada |
| 2014 | Patrick Modiano | France |
| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus |
| 2016 | Bob Dylan | U.S. |
| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | U.K. |
| 2018 (prize awarded in 2019) | Olga Tokarczuk | Poland |
| 2019 | Peter Handke | Austria |
| 2020 | Louise Glück | U.S. |
| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | U.K. |
| 2022 | Annie Ernaux | France |
Women Who Have Won the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Selma Lagerlöf (1909)
- Grazia Deledda (1926)
- Sigrid Undset (1928)
- Pearl S. Buck (1938)
- Gabriela Mistral (1945)
- Nelly Sachs (1966)
- Nadine Gordimer (1991)
- Toni Morrison (1993)
- Wislawa Szymborska (1996)
- Elfriede Jelinek (2004)
- Doris Lessing (2007)
- Herta Müller (2009)
- Alice Munro (2013)
- Svetlana Alexievich (2015)
- Olga Tokarczuk (2018)
- Louise Glück (2020)
- Annie Ernaux (2022)
