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Nobel Prize Winners

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)
Norwegian writer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903.

1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)
Polish writer received the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1906 Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907)
Italian writer awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in literature.

1907 - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
British writer received the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846-1926)
German writer received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1909 - Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940)
Swedish writer received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1910 - Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse (1830-1914)
German writer received the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1911 - Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
Belgian writer received the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1912 - Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (1862-1946)
German writer received the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1913 - Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Indian writer received Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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1914 - The prize money was allocated to funds.

1915 - Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
French writer won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1916 - Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (1859-1940)
Swedish writer received the 1916 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1917 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857-1919)
Danish writer received the 1917 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Henrik Pontoppidan (1857-1943)
Danish writer received the 1917 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1918 - The prize money was allocated to funds.

1919 - Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (1845-1924)
Swiss writer received the 1919 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1920 - Knut Pedersen Hamsun (1859-1952)
Norwegian writer received the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1921 - Anatole France (1844-1924)
French writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.

1922 - Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954)
Spanish writer received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1923 - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Irish writer received the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1924 - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (1868-1925)
Polish writer received the 1924 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1925 - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
British/Irish writer received the 1925 Nobel Prize.

1926 - Grazia Deledda (1871-1936)
Italian writer received the 1926 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1927 - Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
French writer received the 1927 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1928 - Sigrid Undset (1882-1949)
Norwegian writer received the 1928 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1929 - Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
German writer received the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1930 - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
American writer received the 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931)
Swedish writer received the 1931 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1932 - John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
British writer received the 1932 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1933 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Russian writer received the 1933 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1934 - Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
Italian writer received the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1935 - The prize money was allocated to funds.

1936 - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953)
American writer received the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1937 - Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958)
French writer received the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1938 - Pearl Buck (1892-1973)
American writer received the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888-1964)
Finnish writer received the 1939 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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)
Danish writer received the 1944 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1945 - Gabriela Mistral (1830-1914)
Chilean writer received the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1946 - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
German/Swiss writer received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1947 - André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951)
French writer received the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1948 - Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
British/American writer received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1949 - William Faulkner (1897-1962)
American writer received the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1950 - Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970)
British writer received the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1951 - Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1891-1974)
Swedish writer received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1952 - François Mauriac (1885-1970)
French writer received the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1953 - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)
British writer received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1954 - Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961)
American writer received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1955 - Halldór Kiljan Laxness (1902-1998)
Icelandic writer received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958)
Spanish writer received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1957 - Albert Camus (1913-1960)
French writer received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1958 - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960)
Russian writer received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)
Italian author received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1960 - Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) French writer received the 1960 Nobel in Literature.

1961 - Ivo Andric (1892-1975)
Bosnian writer received the 1961 Nobel in Literature.

1962 - John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
American writer received the 1962 Nobel in Literature.

1963 - Giorgos Seferis (1900-1971)
Greek writer received the 1963 Nobel in Literature.

1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) French writer received the 1964 Nobel in Literature.

1965 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984)
Russian writer received the 1965 Nobel in Literature.

1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974)
Guatamalan writer received the 1967 Nobel in Literature.

1968 - Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972)
Japanese writer received the 1968 Nobel in Literature.

1969 - Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Irish writer received the 1969 Nobel in Literature.

1970 - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (1918)
Russian writer received the 1970 Nobel in Literature.

1971 - Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Chilean writer received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1972 - Heinrich Böll (1917-1985)
German writer received the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1973 - Patrick White (1912-1990)
Australian writer received the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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1975 - Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
Italian writer received the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1976 - Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
American writer received the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1977 - Vicente Aleixandre (1898-1984)
Spanish writer received the 1977 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
Polish/American writer received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1979 - Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996)
Greek writer received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature. .

1980 - Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)
Polish/American writer received the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1981 - Elias Canetti (1908-1994)
Bulgarian/British writer received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1982 - Gabriel García Márquez (1928)
Colombian writer received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1983 - William Golding (1911-1993)
British writer received the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1984 - Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986)
Czech writer received the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1985 - Claude Simon (1913-2005)
French writer received the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1986 - Wole Soyinka (1934)
Nigerian writer received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1987 - Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
Russian/American writer received the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1988 - Naguib Mahfouz (1911)
Egyptian writer received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1989 - Camilo José Cela (1916-2002)
Spanish writer received the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1990 - Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
Mexican writer received the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1991 - Nadine Gordimer (1923)
South African writer received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1992 - Derek Walcott (1930)
Saint Lucian writer received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.

 

1993 - Toni Morrison (1931)
American writer received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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1994 - Kenzaburo Oe (1935)
Japanese writer received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1995 - Seamus Heaney (1939)
Irish writer received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1996 - Wislawa Szymborska (1923)
Polish writer received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1997 - Dario Fo (1926)
Italian writer received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1998 - José Saramago (1922)
Portuguese writer received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. .

1999 - Günter Grass (1927)
German writer received the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

2000 - Gao Xingjian (1940)
Chinese/French writer received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature.

2001 - V.S. Naipaul (1932)
British writer received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature.

2002 - Imre Kertész (1929)
Hungarian writer received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature.

2003 - J.M. Coetzee (1940)
South African writer received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

2004 - Elfriede Jelinek (1946)
Austrian writer received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature.

2005 - Harold Pinter (1930)
British writer received the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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2006 - Orhan Pamuk (1952)
Turkish writer received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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2007 ?Doris Lessing (1919)

British author won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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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.