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Nobel Prize in Literature
92 laureates · 1901–2024
Total Laureates
92
First Awarded
1901
Latest Award
2024
Year
Laureate
Country
Motivation
2024
Han Kang
South Korea
South Korea
—
2021
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Tanzania
Tanzania
—
2018
Olga Tokarczuk
Poland
Poland
—
2017
Kazuo Ishiguro
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
2016
Bob Dylan
United States
United States
—
2015
Svetlana Alexievich
Belarus
Belarus
—
2013
Alice Munro
Canada
Canada
—
2012
Mo Yan
China
China
—
2011
Tomas Tranströmer
Sweden
Sweden
—
2010
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Peru
—
2009
Herta Müller
Germany
Germany
—
2007
Doris Lessing
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
2006
Orhan Pamuk
Turkey
Turkey
—
2005
Harold Pinter
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
2004
Elfriede Jelinek
Austria
Austria
—
2003
J. M. Coetzee
South Africa
South Africa
—
2002
Imre Kertész
Hungary
Hungary
—
2001
V. S. Naipaul
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
2000
Gao Xingjian
China
China
—
1999
Günter Grass
Germany
Germany
—
1998
José Saramago
Portugal
Portugal
—
1997
Dario Fo
Italy
Italy
—
1996
Wisława Szymborska
Poland
Poland
—
1995
Seamus Heaney
Ireland
Ireland
—
1994
Kenzaburō Ōe
Japan
Japan
—
1993
Toni Morrison
United States
United States
—
1991
Nadine Gordimer
South Africa
South Africa
—
1990
Octavio Paz
Mexico
Mexico
—
1989
Camilo José Cela
Spain
Spain
—
1988
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt
Egypt
—
1986
Wole Soyinka
Nigeria
Nigeria
—
1983
William Golding
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
1982
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia
Colombia
—
1981
Elias Canetti
Bulgaria
Bulgaria
—
1980
Czesław Miłosz
Poland
Poland
—
1979
Odysseas Elytis
Greece
Greece
—
1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Poland
Poland
—
1977
Vicente Aleixandre
Spain
Spain
—
1975
Eugenio Montale
Italy
Italy
—
1974
Eyvind Johnson
Sweden
Sweden
—
1974
Harry Martinson
Sweden
Sweden
—
1973
Patrick White
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
1972
Heinrich Böll
Germany
Germany
—
1971
Pablo Neruda
Chile
Chile
—
1970
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russia
Russia
—
1969
Samuel Beckett
Ireland
Ireland
—
1968
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan
Japan
—
1967
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemala
Guatemala
—
1966
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Ukraine
Ukraine
—
1966
Nelly Sachs
Sweden
Sweden
—
1964
Jean-Paul Sartre
France
France
—
1963
Giorgos Seferis
Greece
Greece
—
1962
John Steinbeck
United States
United States
—
1959
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italy
Italy
—
1957
Albert Camus
France
France
—
1956
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Spain
Spain
—
1955
Halldór Laxness
Iceland
Iceland
—
1954
Ernest Hemingway
United States
United States
—
1953
Winston Churchill
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
1952
François Mauriac
France
France
—
1951
Pär Lagerkvist
Sweden
Sweden
—
1950
Bertrand Russell
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
1949
William Faulkner
United States
United States
—
1948
T. S. Eliot
United States
United States
—
1947
André Gide
France
France
—
1946
Hermann Hesse
Germany
Germany
—
1945
Gabriela Mistral
Chile
Chile
—
1944
Johannes V. Jensen
Denmark
Denmark
—
1939
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Finland
Finland
—
1933
Ivan Bunin
France
France
—
1932
John Galsworthy
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Sweden
Sweden
—
1929
Thomas Mann
Germany
Germany
—
1928
Sigrid Undset
Norway
Norway
—
1927
Henri Bergson
France
France
—
1925
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
Ireland
—
1922
Jacinto Benavente
Spain
Spain
—
1921
Anatole France
France
France
—
1920
Knut Hamsun
Norway
Norway
—
1919
Carl Spitteler
Switzerland
Switzerland
—
1917
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Denmark
Denmark
—
1917
Henrik Pontoppidan
Denmark
Denmark
—
1916
Verner von Heidenstam
Sweden
Sweden
—
1915
Romain Rolland
France
France
—
1911
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgium
Belgium
—
1909
Selma Lagerlöf
Sweden
Sweden
—
1907
Rudyard Kipling
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Poland
Poland
—
1904
José Echegaray
Spain
Spain
—
1904
Frédéric Mistral
France
France
—
1903
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Norway
Norway
—
1901
Sully Prudhomme
France
France
—