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Nobel Prize in Literature

92 laureates · 1901–2024

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