Nobel Prize in Literature: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)
List of Nobel Prize laureates in Literature from 1901 to the present day.
1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s
1900s
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme | France |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen | Germany |
| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Norway |
| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral | France |
| José Echegaray y Eizaguirre | Spain | |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Poland |
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci | Italy |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | United Kingdom |
| 1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | Germany |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden |
1910s
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse | Germany |
| 1911 | Count Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | Germany |
| 1913 | Sir Rabindranath Tagore | India |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland | France |
| 1916 | Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam | Sweden |
| 1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup | Denmark |
| Henrik Pontoppidan | Denmark | |
| 1919 | Carl Spitteler | Switzerland |
1920s
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | Norway |
| 1921 | Anatole France | France |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | Spain |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats | Ireland |
| 1924 | Władysław Reymont | Poland |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italy |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson | France |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norway |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann | Germany |
1930s
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | United States |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Sweden |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy | United Kingdom |
| 1933 | Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin | Russia |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Italy |
| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill | United States |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | France |
| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck | United States |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Finland |
1940s
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | Denmark |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chile |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse | Germany |
| 1947 | André Gide | France |
| 1948 | T. S. Eliot | United States |
| 1949 | William Faulkner | United States |
1950s
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | United Kingdom |
| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | Sweden |
| 1952 | François Mauriac | France |
| 1953 | Sir Winston Churchill | United Kingdom |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | United States |
| 1955 | Halldór Laxness | Iceland |
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Spain |
| 1957 | Albert Camus | France |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak | Russia |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Italy |
1960s
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | France |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric | Yugoslavia |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck | United States |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis | Greece |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize) | France |
| 1965 | Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov | Russia |
| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Israel |
| Nelly Sachs | Germany | |
| 1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias | Guatemala |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japan |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | Ireland |
1970s
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn | Russia |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | Chile |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | Germany |
| 1973 | Patrick White | Australia |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson | Sweden |
| Harry Martinson | Sweden | |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | Italy |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | Canada/United States |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Spain |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | United States |
| 1979 | Odysseas Elytis | Greece |
1980s
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Czesław Miłosz | Poland/United States |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | United Kingdom |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | Colombia |
| 1983 | William Golding | United Kingdom |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | Czechoslovakia |
| 1985 | Claude Simon | France |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | Russia-United States |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Egypt |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | Spain |
1990s
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Octavio Paz | Mexico |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | St. Lucia |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | United States |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japan |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | Ireland |
| 1996 | Wisława Szymborska | Poland |
| 1997 | Dario Fo | Italy |
| 1998 | José Saramago | Portugal |
| 1999 | Günter Grass | Germany |
2000s
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | China |
| 2001 | Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul | Trinidad and Tobago |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész | Hungary |
| 2003 | John Maxwell Coetzee | South Africa |
Note: The women who have received the Nobel Prize for Literature are Selma Lagerlöf, Grazia Deledda,
Sigrid Undset, Pearl S. Buck, Gabriela Mistral, Nelly Sachs, Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, and Wisława
Szymborska. The other recipients are men.
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