• Nobel Prize Winners

     

    All Nobel Laureates in Literature

     

    Adapted from the Nobel Foundation’s Website:

    //nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/

    Each author has their own page at the Nobel Site
     
    For some more info on some of these authors go here:

    //www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/literature.html

    Watch your step with some of the older authors—they’re not the most exciting.

    The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 103 persons since 1901.

    2006 - Orhan Pamuk

    2005 - Harold Pinter

    2004 - Elfriede Jelinek

    2003 - J. M. Coetzee

    2002 - Imre Kertész

    2001 - V. S. Naipaul

    2000 - Gao Xingjian

    1999 - Günter Grass

    1998 - José Saramago

    1997 - Dario Fo

    1996 - Wislawa Szymborska

    1995 - Seamus Heaney

    1994 - Kenzaburo Oe

    1993 - Toni Morrison

    1992 - Derek Walcott

    1991 - Nadine Gordimer

    1990 - Octavio Paz

    1989 - Camilo José Cela

    1988 - Naguib Mahfouz

    1987 - Joseph Brodsky

    1986 - Wole Soyinka

    1985 - Claude Simon

    1984 - Jaroslav Seifert

    1983 - William Golding

    1982 - Gabriel García Márquez

    1981 - Elias Canetti

    1980 - Czeslaw Milosz

    1979 - Odysseus Elytis

    1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer

    1977 - Vicente Aleixandre

    1976 - Saul Bellow

    1975 - Eugenio Montale

    1974 - Eyvind Johnson,
            - Harry Martinson

    1973 - Patrick White

    1972 - Heinrich Böll

    1971 - Pablo Neruda

    1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

    1969 - Samuel Beckett 

    1968 - Yasunari Kawabata

    1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias

    1966 - Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs

    1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov

    1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre

    1963 - Giorgos Seferis

    1962 - John Steinbeck

    1961 - Ivo Andric

    1960 - Saint-John Perse

    1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo

    1958 - Boris Pasternak

    1957 - Albert Camus

    1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez

    1955 - Halldór Laxness

    1954 - Ernest Hemingway

    1953 - Winston Churchill

    1952 - François Mauriac

    1951 - Pär Lagerkvist

    1950 - Bertrand Russell

    1949 - William Faulkner

    1948 - T.S. Eliot

    1947 - André Gide

    1946 - Hermann Hesse

    1945 - Gabriela Mistral

    1944 - Johannes V. Jensen

    1943 – no prize

    1942 - no prize

    1941 - no prize

    1940 - no prize

    1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää

    1938 - Pearl Buck

    1937 - Roger Martin du Gard

    1936 - Eugene O'Neill

    1935 - no prize

    1934 - Luigi Pirandello

    1933 - Ivan Bunin

    1932 - John Galsworthy

    1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt

    1930 - Sinclair Lewis

    1929 - Thomas Mann

    1928 - Sigrid Undset

    1927 - Henri Bergson

    1926 - Grazia Deledda

    1925 - George Bernard Shaw

    1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont

    1923 - William Butler Yeats

    1922 - Jacinto Benavente

    1921 - Anatole France

    1920 - Knut Hamsun

    1919 - Carl Spitteler

    1918 - no prize

    1917 - Karl Gjellerup,
           - Henrik Pontoppidan

    1916 - Verner von Heidenstam

    1915 - Romain Rolland

    1914 - no prize

    1913 - Rabindranath Tagore

    1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann

    1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck

    1910 - Paul Heyse

    1909 - Selma Lagerlöf

    1908 - Rudolf Eucken

    1907 - Rudyard Kipling

    1906 - Giosuè Carducci

    1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz

    1904 - Frédéric Mistral,
            -José Echegaray

    1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

    1902 - Theodor Mommsen

    1901 - Sully Prudhomme


     

     
Last Modified on September 26, 2016