Nobel Prize for Literature
Selected by the Swedish Academy, for the Nobel
Foundation
The Swedish Academy, Box 5232
Sturegata 14, S-10245, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2004 Elfriede Jelinek, Austria
- 2003 John M. Coetzee, South Africa
- 2002 Imre Kertész, Hungary
- 2001 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, United Kingdom
- 2000 Gao Xingjian, France
- 1999 Günter Grass, Germany
- 1998 José Saramago, Portugal
- 1997 Dario Fo, Italy
- 1996 Wislawa Szymborska, Poland
- 1995 Seamus Heaney, Ireland
- 1994 Kenzaburo Oe, Japan
- 1993 Toni Morrison, U.S.A.
- 1992 Derek Walcott, Trinidad
- 1991 Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
- 1990 Octavio Paz, Mexico
- 1989 Dr. Camilo Jose Cela, Spain
- 1988 Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
- 1987 Joseph Brodsky, U.S.S.R.
- 1986 Wole Soyinka, Nigeria
- 1985 Claude Simon, France
- 1984 Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslavakia
- 1983 William Golding, United Kingdom
- 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia
- 1981 Elias Canetti, United Kingdom
- 1980 Czeslaw Milosz, Poland/U.S.A.
- 1979 Odysseus Elytis, Greece
- 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer, U.S.A
- 1977 Vicente Aleixandre, Spain
- 1976 Saul Bellow, U.S.A.
- 1975 Eugenio Montale, Italy
- 1974 Eyvind Johnson, Sweden
- 1973 Patrick White, Australia
- 1972 Heinrich Boll, Federal Republic of Germany
- 1971 Pablo Neruda, Chile
- 1970 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, U.S.S.R.
- 1969 Samuel Beckett, Ireland
- 1968 Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
- 1967 Miguel A. Asturias, Guatemala
- 1966 Shmuel Y. Agnon, Israel
- 1966 Nelly Sachs, Germany
- 1965 Mikhail Sholokhov, U.S.S.R.
- 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre, France (declined)
- 1963 Giorgos Seferis, Greece
- 1962 John Steinbeck, U.S.A.
- 1961 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia
- 1960 Saint-John Perse, France
- 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy
- 1958 Boris Pasternak, U.S.S.R.
- 1957 Albert Camus, France
- 1956 J.R. Jimenez, Spain
- 1955 Halldor Laxness, Iceland
- 1954 Ernest Hemingway, U.S.A.
- 1953 Winston Churchill, United Kingdom
- 1952 Francois Mauriac, France
- 1951 Par Lagerkvist, Sweden
- 1950 Bertrand Russell, United Kingdom
- 1949 William Faulkner, U.S.A.
- 1948 T.S. Eliot, United Kingdom
- 1947 Andre Gide, France
- 1946 Hermann Hesse, Switzerland
- 1945 Gabriela Mistral, Chile
- 1944 Johannes V. Jensen, Denmark
- 1943 No Award
- 1942 No Award
- 1941 No Award
- 1940 No Award
- 1939 F.E. Sillanpaa, Finland
- 1938 Pearl S. Buck, U.S.A.
- 1937 Roger Martin du Gard, France
- 1936 Eugene O’Neill, U.S.A.
- 1935 No Award
- 1934 Luigi Pirandello, Italy
- 1933 Ivan Bunin, Stateless
- 1932 John Galsworthy, United Kingdom
- 1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sweden
- 1930 Sinclair Lewis, U.S.A.
- 1929 Thomas Mann, Germany
- 1928 Sigrid Undset, Norway
- 1927 Henri Bergson, France
- 1926 Grazia Deledda, Italy
- 1925 George Bernard Shaw, United Kingdom
- 1924 Wladyslaw Reymont, Poland
- 1923 William Butler Yeats, Ireland
- 1922 Jacinto Benavente, Spain
- 1921 Anatole France, France
- 1920 Knut Hamsun, Norway
- 1919 Carl Spitteler, Switzerland
- 1918 No Award
- 1917 Karl Gjellerup, Denmark
- 1917 Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark
- 1916 Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden
- 1915 Romain Rolland, France
- 1914 No Award
- 1913 Rabindranath Tagore, India
- 1912 Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany
- 1911 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium
- 1910 Paul Heyse, Germany
- 1909 Selma Lagerlof, Sweden
- 1908 Rudoll Eucken, Germany
- 1907 Rudyard Kipling, United Kingdom
- 1906 Giouse Carducci, Italy
- 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland
- 1904 Jose Echegaray, Spain
- 1904 Frederic Mistral, France
- 1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norway
- 1902 Theodor Mommsen, Germany
- 1901 Sully Prudhomme, France
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