Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel literature
Physics | Chemistry | Physiology or Medicine
Economic Sciences | Literature | Peace
Year | Awardee(s) |
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2021 |
Awarded to: Abdulrazak Gurnah - United Kingdom (born in Zanzibar). |
2020 |
Awarded to: Louise Glück - U.S.A. |
2019 |
Awarded to: Peter Handke - Austria. |
2018 |
Awarded to: Olga Tokarczuk - Poland. |
2017 |
Awarded to: Kazuo Ishiguro - United Kingdom (born in Nagasaki, Japan). |
2016 |
Awarded to: Bob Dylan - U.S.A. |
2015 |
Awarded to: Svetlana Alexievich - Belarus (born in Ukraine). |
2014 |
Awarded to: Patrick Modiano - France. |
2013 |
Awarded to: Alice Munro - Canada. |
2012 |
Awarded to: Mo Yan - China. |
2011 |
Awarded to: Tomas Tranströmer - Sweden. |
2010 |
Awarded to: Mario Vargas Llosa - Peru. |
2009 |
Awarded to: Herta Müller - Germany (born in Nitzkydorf, Banat, Romania). |
2008 |
Awarded to: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - France. |
2007 |
Awarded to: Doris Lessing - United Kingdom. |
2006 |
Awarded to: Orhan Pamuk - Turkey. |
2005 |
Awarded to: Harold Pinter - United Kingdom. |
2004 |
Awarded to: Elfriede Jelinek - Austria. |
2003 |
Awarded to: John Maxwell Coetzee - South Africa. |
2002 |
Awarded to: Imre Kertész - Hungary. |
2001 |
Awarded to: V. S. Naipaul - Great Britain. |
2000 |
Awarded to: Gao Xingjian - China. |
1999 |
Awarded to: Günter Grass - Germany. |
1998 |
Awarded to: Jose Saramago - Portugal. |
1997 |
Awarded to: Dario Fo - Italy. |
1996 |
Awarded to: Wislawa Szymborska - Poland. |
1995 |
Awarded to: Seamus Heaney - Ireland. |
1994 |
Awarded to: Kenzaburo Oe - Japan. |
1993 |
Awarded to: Toni Morrison - U.S.A. |
1992 |
Awarded to: Derek Walcott - Saint Lucia. |
1991 |
Awarded to: Nadine Gordimer - South Africa. |
1990 |
Awarded to: Octavio Paz - Mexico. |
1989 |
Awarded to: Camilo José Cela - Spain. |
1988 |
Awarded to: Naguib Mahfouz - Egypt. |
1987 |
Awarded to: Joseph Brodsky - U.S.A. (born in Leningrad, Soviet Union). |
1986 |
Awarded to: Wole Soyinka - Nigeria. |
1985 |
Awarded to: Claude Simon - France. |
1984 |
Awarded to: Jaroslav Seifert - Czechoslovakia. |
1983 |
Awarded to: Sir William Golding - Great Britain. |
1982 |
Awarded to: Gabriel García Márquez - Colombia. |
1981 |
Awarded to: Elias Canetti - Great Britain (born in Rustschuk, Bulgaria). |
1980 |
Awarded to: Czeslaw Milosz - U.S.A. and Poland. |
1979 |
Awarded to: Elytis Odysseus - (pen name of Odysseus Alepoudhelis) - Greece. |
1978 |
Awarded to: Isaac Bashevis Singer - U.S.A. (born in Radzymin, Poland). |
1977 |
Awarded to: Vicente Aleixandre - Spain. |
1976 |
Awarded to: Saul Bellow - U.S.A. |
1975 |
Awarded to: Eugenio Montale - Italy. |
1974 |
The prize was divided equally between: Eyvind Johnson - Sweden. and Harry Martinson - Sweden. |
1973 |
Awarded to: Patrick White - Australia (born in Great Britain). |
1972 |
Awarded to: Heinrich Böll - Federal Republic of Germany. |
1971 |
Awarded to: Pablo Neruda - (pen name of Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto) - Chile. |
1970 |
Awarded to: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn - Soviet Union. |
1969 |
Awarded to: Samuel Beckett - Ireland. |
1968 |
Awarded to: Yasunari Kawabata - Japan. |
1967 |
Awarded to: Miguel Angel Asturias - Guatemala. |
1966 |
The prize was divided equally between: Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Israel. and Nelly Sachs - Sweden (born in Germany). |
1965 |
Awarded to: Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov - Soviet Union. |
1964 |
Awarded to: Jean-Paul Sartre - France (declined the prize). |
1963 |
Awarded to: Giorgos Seferis - (pen name of Giorgos Seferiadis) - Greece (born in Smyrna, Turkey). |
1962 |
Awarded to: John Steinbeck - U.S.A. |
1961 |
Awarded to: Ivo Andric - Yugoslavia (born in Dolac, Bosnia). |
1960 |
Awarded to: Saint-John Perse - (pen name of Alexis Léger) - France (born in French Antilles). |
1959 |
Awarded to: Salvatore Quasimodo - Italy. |
1958 |
Awarded to: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak - Soviet Union (accepted first, later caused by the authorities of his country to decline the prize). |
1957 |
Awarded to: Albert Camus - France (born in Mondovi, Algeria). |
1956 |
Awarded to: Juan Ramón Jiménez - Spain (domicile in Puerto Rico, U.S.A.). |
1955 |
Awarded to: Halldór Kiljan Laxness. |
1954 |
Awarded to: Ernest Miller Hemingway - U.S.A. |
1953 |
Awarded to: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill - Great Britain. |
1952 |
Awarded to: Françla;ois Mauriac - France. |
1951 |
Awarded to: Pär Fabian Lagerkvist - Sweden. |
1950 |
Awarded to: Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell - Great Britain. |
1949 |
Awarded to: William Faulkner - U.S.A. |
1948 |
Awarded to: Thomas Stearns Eliot - Great Britain (born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.). |
1947 |
Awarded to: André Paul Guillaume Gide - France. |
1946 |
Awarded to: Hermann Hesse - Switzerland (born in Germany). |
1945 |
Awarded to: Gabriela Mistral - (pen name of Lucila Godoy Y Alcayaga) - Chile. |
1944 |
Awarded to: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen - Denmark. |
1943 |
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section. |
1939 |
Awarded to: Frans Eemil Sillanpää - Finland. |
1938 |
Awarded to: Pearl Buck - (pen name of Pearl Walsh Née Sydenstricker) - U.S.A. |
1937 |
Awarded to: Roger Martin Du Gard - France. |
1936 |
Awarded to: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill - U.S.A. |
1935 |
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section. |
1934 |
Awarded to: Luigi Pirandello - Italy. |
1933 |
Awarded to: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin - Stateless, Domicile in France (born in Voronezh, Russia). |
1932 |
Awarded to: John Galsworthy - Great Britain. |
1931 |
Awarded to: Erik Axel Karlfeldt - Sweden. |
1930 |
Awarded to: Sinclair Lewis - U.S.A. |
1929 |
Awarded to: Thomas Mann - Germany. |
1928 |
Awarded to: Sigrid Undset - Norway (born in Denmark). |
1927 |
Awarded to: Henri Bergson - France. |
1926 |
Awarded to: Grazia Deledda - (pen name of Grazia Madesani Née Deledda) - Italy. |
1925 |
Awarded to: George Bernard Shaw - Great Britain (born in Dublin, Ireland). |
1924 |
Awarded to: Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont - (pen name of Reyment) - Poland. |
1923 |
Awarded to: William Butler Yeats - Ireland. |
1922 |
Awarded to: Jacinto Benavente - Spain. |
1921 |
Awarded to: Anatole France - (pen name of Jacques Anatole Thibault) - France. |
1920 |
Awarded to: Knut Pedersen Hamsun - Norway. |
1919 |
Awarded to: Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler - Switzerland. |
1918 |
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. |
1917 |
Divided equally between: Karl Adolph Gjellerup - Denmark. and Henrik Pontoppidan - Denmark. |
1916 |
Awarded to: Carl Gustaf Verner Von Heidenstam - Sweden. |
1915 |
Awarded to: Romain Rolland - France. |
1914 |
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. |
1913 |
Awarded to: Rabindranath Tagore - India. |
1912 |
Awarded to: Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann - Germany. |
1911 |
Awarded to: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck - Belgium. |
1910 |
Awarded to: Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse - Germany. |
1909 |
Awarded to: Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf - Sweden. |
1908 |
Awarded to: Rudolf Christoph Eucken - Germany. |
1907 |
Awarded to: Rudyard Kipling - Great Britain (born in Bombay, British India). |
1906 |
Awarded to: Giosuè Carducci - Italy. |
1905 |
Awarded to: Henryk Sienkiewicz - Poland. |
1904 |
Divided equally between: Frédéric Mistral - France. and José Echegaray y Eizaguirre - Spain. |
1903 |
Awarded to: Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson - Norway. |
1902 |
Awarded to: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen - Germany. |
1901 |
Awarded to: Sully Prudhomme - (pen name of René François Armand Prudhomme) - France. |