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Here are the nobel prize winners in Literature from 1901 to present.
1901 - Sully Prudhomme (1837-1907) French writer won the first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901 | ![]() |
1902 - Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903)German/Nordic writer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902. | ![]() |
1903 - Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (1832-1910) | ![]() |
1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) | ![]() |
1906 Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907) | ![]() |
1907 - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) | ![]() |
1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846-1926) | ![]() |
1909 - Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) | ![]() |
1910 - Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse (1830-1914) | ![]() |
1911 - Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck (1862-1949) | ![]() |
1912 - Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (1862-1946) | ![]() |
1913 - Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) | ![]() |
1914 - The prize money was allocated to funds. |
1915 - Romain Rolland (1866-1944) | ![]() |
1916 - Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (1859-1940) | ![]() |
1917 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857-1919) | ![]() |
Henrik Pontoppidan (1857-1943) | ![]() |
1918 - The prize money was allocated to funds. |
1919 - Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (1845-1924) | ![]() |
1920 - Knut Pedersen Hamsun (1859-1952) | ![]() |
1921 - Anatole France (1844-1924) | ![]() |
1922 - Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954) | ![]() |
1923 - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) | ![]() |
1924 - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (1868-1925) | ![]() |
1925 - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) | ![]() |
1926 - Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) | ![]() |
1927 - Henri Bergson (1859-1941) | ![]() |
1928 - Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) | ![]() |
1929 - Thomas Mann (1875-1955) | ![]() |
1930 - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) | ![]() |
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931) | ![]() |
1932 - John Galsworthy (1867-1933) | ![]() |
1933 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953) | ![]() |
1934 - Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) | ![]() |
1935 - The prize money was allocated to funds. |
1936 - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) | ![]() |
1937 - Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958) | ![]() |
1938 - Pearl Buck (1892-1973) | ![]() |
1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888-1964) | ![]() |
1940 - The prize money was allocated to funds. |
1941 - The prize money was allocated to funds. |
1942 - The prize money was allocated to funds. |
1943 - The prize money was allocated to funds. |
1944 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873-1950) | ![]() |
1945 - Gabriela Mistral (1830-1914) | ![]() |
1946 - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) | ![]() |
1947 - André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951) | ![]() |
1948 - Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) | ![]() |
1949 - William Faulkner (1897-1962) | ![]() |
1950 - Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) | ![]() |
1951 - Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1891-1974) | ![]() |
1952 - François Mauriac (1885-1970) | ![]() |
1953 - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) | ![]() |
1954 - Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) | ![]() |
1955 - Halldór Kiljan Laxness (1902-1998) | ![]() |
1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958) | ![]() |
1957 - Albert Camus (1913-1960) | ![]() |
1958 - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960) | ![]() |
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) | ![]() |
1960 - Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) French writer received the 1960 Nobel in Literature. |
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1961 - Ivo Andric (1892-1975) | ![]() |
1962 - John Steinbeck (1902-1968) | ![]() |
1963 - Giorgos Seferis (1900-1971) | ![]() |
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) French writer received the 1964 Nobel in Literature. |
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1965 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984) | ![]() |
1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) | ![]() |
1968 - Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) | ![]() |
1969 - Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) | ![]() |
1970 - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (1918) | ![]() |
1971 - Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) | ![]() |
1972 - Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) | ![]() |
1973 - Patrick White (1912-1990) | ![]() |
1975 - Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) | ![]() |
1976 - Saul Bellow (1915-2005) | ![]() |
1977 - Vicente Aleixandre (1898-1984) | ![]() |
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) | ![]() |
1979 - Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996) | ![]() |
1980 - Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) | ![]() |
1981 - Elias Canetti (1908-1994) | ![]() |
1982 - Gabriel García Márquez (1928) | ![]() |
1983 - William Golding (1911-1993) | ![]() |
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986) | ![]() |
1985 - Claude Simon (1913-2005) | ![]() |
1986 - Wole Soyinka (1934) | ![]() |
1987 - Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) | ![]() |
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz (1911) | ![]() |
1989 - Camilo José Cela (1916-2002) | ![]() |
1990 - Octavio Paz (1914-1998) | ![]() |
1991 - Nadine Gordimer (1923) | ![]() |
1992 - Derek Walcott (1930) | ![]() |
1993 - Toni Morrison (1931) |
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1994 - Kenzaburo Oe (1935) | ![]() |
1995 - Seamus Heaney (1939) | ![]() |
1996 - Wislawa Szymborska (1923) | ![]() |
1997 - Dario Fo (1926) | ![]() |
1998 - José Saramago (1922) | ![]() |
1999 - Günter Grass (1927) | ![]() |
2000 - Gao Xingjian (1940) | ![]() |
2001 - V.S. Naipaul (1932) | ![]() |
2002 - Imre Kertész (1929) | ![]() |
2003 - J.M. Coetzee (1940) | ![]() |
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek (1946) | ![]() |
2005 - Harold Pinter (1930) | ![]() |
2006 - Orhan Pamuk (1952) | ![]() |
2007 ?Doris Lessing (1919) British author won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. | ![]() |
2008 ? Jean Marie Gustave LE Clezio (1940) French writer received the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature. | ![]() |
2009 ? Herta Muller (1953) Romanian\German novelist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. | ![]() |