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List of Nobel laureates in Literature

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List of Nobel laureates in Literature
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[[Mats Malm]], the current permanent secretary of the [[Swedish Academy]], announcing the [[2022 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature () is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. As dictated by Nobel's will, the award is administered by the Nobel Foundation and awarded by the Swedish Academy. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years. In 1901, the first laureate Sully Prudhomme received 150,782 SEK, which is equivalent to 8,823,637.78 SEK in January 2018. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.

As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individuals. 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of Nobel laureates.

Laureates

YearPictureLaureateCountryLanguage(s)CitationGenre(s)Sully Prudhomme
(1839–1907)Theodor Mommsen
(1817–1903)Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
(1832–1910)Frédéric Mistral
(1830–1914)José Echegaray
(1832–1916)Henryk Sienkiewicz
(1846–1916)Giosuè Carducci
(1835–1907)Rudyard Kipling
(1865–1936)Rudolf Christoph Eucken
(1846–1926)Selma Lagerlöf
(1858–1940)Paul von Heyse
(1830–1914)Maurice Maeterlinck
(1862–1949)Gerhart Hauptmann
(1862–1946)Rabindranath Tagore
(1861–1941)Romain Rolland
(1866–1944)Verner von Heidenstam
(1859–1940)Karl Adolph Gjellerup
(1857–1919)Henrik Pontoppidan
(1857–1943)Carl Spitteler
(1845–1924)Knut Hamsun
(1859–1952)Anatole France
(1844–1924)Jacinto Benavente
(1866–1954)William Butler Yeats
(1865–1939)Władysław Reymont
(1867–1925)George Bernard Shaw
(1856–1950)Grazia Deledda
(1871–1936)Henri Bergson
(1859–1941)Sigrid Undset
(1882–1949)Thomas Mann
(1875–1955)Sinclair Lewis
(1885–1951)Erik Axel Karlfeldt
(1864–1931)John Galsworthy
(1867–1933)Ivan Bunin
(1870–1953)Luigi Pirandello
(1867–1936)Eugene O'Neill
(1888–1953)Roger Martin du Gard
(1881–1958)Pearl Buck
(1892–1973)Frans Eemil Sillanpää
(1888–1964)Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
(1873–1950)Gabriela Mistral
(1889–1957)Hermann Hesse
(1877–1962)André Gide
(1869–1951)Thomas Stearns Eliot
(1888–1965)William Faulkner
(1897–1962)Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970)Pär Lagerkvist
(1891–1974)François Mauriac
(1885–1970)Winston Churchill
(1874–1965)Ernest Hemingway
(1899–1961)Halldór Laxness
(1902–1998)Juan Ramón Jiménez
(1881–1958)Albert Camus
(1913–1960)Boris Pasternak
(1890–1960)Salvatore Quasimodo
(1901–1968)Saint-John Perse
(1887–1975)Ivo Andrić
(1892–1975)John Steinbeck
(1902–1968)Giorgos Seferis
(1900–1971)Jean-Paul Sartre
(1905–1980)Mikhail Sholokhov
(1905–1984)Shmuel Yosef Agnon
(1888–1970)Nelly Sachs
(1891–1970)Miguel Ángel Asturias
(1899–1974)Yasunari Kawabata
(1899–1972)Samuel Beckett
(1906–1989)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(1918–2008)Pablo Neruda
(1904–1973)Heinrich Böll
(1917–1985)Patrick White
(1912–1990)Eyvind Johnson
(1900–1976)Harry Martinson
(1904–1978)Eugenio Montale
(1896–1981)Saul Bellow
(1915–2005)Vicente Aleixandre
(1898–1984)Isaac Bashevis Singer
(1902–1991)Odysseas Elytis
(1911–1996)Czesław Miłosz
(1911–2004)Elias Canetti
(1905–1994)Gabriel García Márquez
(1927–2014)William Golding
(1911–1993)Jaroslav Seifert
(1901–1986)Claude Simon
(1913–2005)Wole Soyinka
(b. 1934)Joseph Brodsky
(1940–1996)Naguib Mahfouz
(1911–2006)Camilo José Cela
(1916–2002)Octavio Paz
(1914–1998)Nadine Gordimer
(1923–2014)Derek Walcott
(1930–2017)Toni Morrison
(1931–2019)Kenzaburō Ōe
(1935–2023)Seamus Heaney
(1939–2013)Wisława Szymborska
(1923–2012)Dario Fo
(1926–2016)José Saramago
(1922–2010)Günter Grass
(1927–2015)Gao Xingjian
(b. 1940)Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
(1932–2018)Imre Kertész
(1929–2016)John Maxwell Coetzee
(b. 1940)Elfriede Jelinek
(b. 1946)Harold Pinter
(1930–2008)Orhan Pamuk
(b. 1952)Doris Lessing
(1919–2013)Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
(b. 1940)Herta Müller
(b. 1953)Mario Vargas Llosa
(1936–2025)Tomas Tranströmer
(1931–2015)Mo Yan
(b. 1955)Alice Munro
(1931–2024)Patrick Modiano
(b. 1945)Svetlana Alexievich
(b. 1948)Bob Dylan
(b. 1941)Kazuo Ishiguro
(b. 1954)Olga Tokarczuk
(b. 1962)Peter Handke
(b. 1942)Louise Glück
(1943–2023)Abdulrazak Gurnah
(b. 1948)Annie Ernaux
(b. 1940)Jon Fosse
(b. 1959)Han Kang
(b. 1970)László Krasznahorkai
(b. 1954)
1901[[File:Sully-Prudhomme (cropped).jpg75px]]French Third RepublicFrenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1901/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1901publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034055/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1901/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}poetry, essay
1902[[File:Theodor Mommsen 2 (cropped).jpg75px]]German EmpireGerman"the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work A History of Rome"history, law
1903[[File:Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (cropped).jpg75px]]NorwayNorwegianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1903/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1903publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192607/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1903/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry, novel, drama
1904[[File:Portrait frederic mistral (cropped).jpg75px]]French Third RepublicProvençal"in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist"poetry, philology
[[File:José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (cropped2).jpg75px]]Restoration (Spain)Spanish"in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama"drama
1905[[File:Henryk Sienkiewicz 1905.jpg75px]]PolandPolishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1905/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1905publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192616/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1905/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel
1906[[File:Giosuè Carducci2 (cropped).jpg75px]]Kingdom of ItalyItalianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1906/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1906publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192621/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1906/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry
1907[[File:Rudyard Kipling (portrait).jpg75px]]United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1907/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1907publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212750/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1907/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-17url-status=live}}novel, short story, poetry
1908[[File:Eucken-im-Alter.png75px]]German EmpireGermanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1908/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1908publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192631/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1908/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}philosophy
1909[[File:Selma Lagerlöf (cropped2).jpg75px]]SwedenSwedishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1909/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1909publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212755/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1909/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-17url-status=live}}novel, short story
1910[[File:Paul Heyse 1910.jpg75px]]German EmpireGermanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1910/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1910publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192641/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1910/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry, drama, novel, short story
1911[[File:Maurice de Maeterlinck (cropped).jpg75px]]BelgiumFrenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1911/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1911publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034105/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1911/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}drama, poetry, essay
1912[[File:Gerhart Hauptmann nobel.jpg75px]]German EmpireGermanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1912/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1912publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192651/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1912/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}drama, novel
1913[[File:Tagore3.jpg75px]]British RajBengali and Englishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1913/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1913publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015210804/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1913/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-15url-status=live}}poetry, novel, drama, short story, essay, translation
1914Not awarded
1915[[File:Romain Rolland 1915.jpg75px]]French Third RepublicFrenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1915/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1915publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192703/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1915/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel
1916[[File:Verner von Heidenstam in the 1890s.jpg75px]]SwedenSwedishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1916/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1916publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192708/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1916/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry, novel
1917[[File:Karl Gjellerup.jpg75px]]DenmarkDanish and Germanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1917/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1917publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034110/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1917/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}poetry
[[File:Henrik Pontoppidan 1917.jpg75px]]DenmarkDanish"for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark"novel
1918Not awarded
1919[[File:Carl Spitteler 1919.jpg75px]]SwitzerlandGermanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1919/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1919publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192718/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1919/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry
1920[[File:Hamsun bldsa HA0341.jpg75px]]NorwayNorwegianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1920/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1920publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192723/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1920/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel
1921[[File:Anatole France 1921 (cropped).jpg75px]]French Third RepublicFrenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1921/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1921publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192728/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1921/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel, poetry
1922[[File:Jacinto Benavente y Martinez.jpg75px]]Restoration (Spain)Spanishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1922/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1922publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192734/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1922/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}drama
1923[[File:Yeats1923.jpg75px]]Irish Free StateEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1923publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180918/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-19url-status=live}}poetry
1924[[File:Wladyslaw Reymont 1924.jpg75px]]PolandPolishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1924/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1924publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015210202/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1924/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-15url-status=live}}novel
1925[[File:George Bernard Shaw 1934-12-06.jpg75px]]United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Irish Free State
Englishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1925publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212806/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-17url-status=live}}drama, essay
1926[[File:Grazia Deledda 1926.jpg75px]]Kingdom of ItalyItalianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1926/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1926publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192754/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1926/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry, novel
1927[[File:Bergson-Nobel-photo.jpg75px]]French Third RepublicFrenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1927/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1927publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192759/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1927/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}philosophy
1928[[File:Sigrid Undset 1928.jpg75px]]Norway
DenmarkNorwegianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1928/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1928publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192805/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1928/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel
1929[[File:Thomas Mann 1929.jpg75px]]Weimar RepublicGermanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1929/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1929publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034121/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1929/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, short story, essay
1930[[File:Sinclair Lewis 1930.jpg75px]]United StatesEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1930publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212811/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-17url-status=live}}novel, short story, drama
1931[[File:Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1931.jpg75px]]SwedenSwedishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1931/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1931publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192815/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1931/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry
1932[[File:John Galsworthy 2.jpg75px]]United KingdomEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1932/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1932publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192820/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1932/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel
1933[[File:Ivan Bunin 1933.jpg75px]]Stateless
(born in Russian Empire)Russianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1933/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1933publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034126/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1933/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}short story, poetry, novel
1934[[File:Luigi Pirandello 1932.jpg75px]]ItalyItalianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1934/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1934publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192830/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1934/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}drama, novel, short story
1935Not awarded
1936[[File:Eugene O'Neill 1936.jpg75px]]United StatesEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1936publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192835/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}drama
1937[[File:Roger Martin du Gard 1937.jpg75px]]French Third RepublicFrench"for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel cycle Les Thibault"novel
1938[[File:Pearl Buck (Nobel).jpg75px]]United StatesEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1938/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1938publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218195128/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1938/index.htmlarchive-date=2009-02-18url-status=live}}novel, biography
1939[[File:FransEemilSillanpää.jpg75px]]FinlandFinnishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1939/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1939publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192855/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1939/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel
1940Not awarded
1941
1942
1943
1944[[File:Johannes Vilhelm Jensen 1944.jpg75px]]DenmarkDanishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1944/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1944publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034136/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1944/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, short story
1945[[File:Gabriela Mistral 1945.jpg75px]]ChileSpanishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1945/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1945publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083747/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1945/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}poetry
1946[[File:Hermann Hesse 1946.jpg75px]]Allied-occupied Germany
SwitzerlandGermanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1946/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1946publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020010617/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1946/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-20url-status=live}}novel, poetry
1947[[File:André Gide.jpg75px]]French Fourth RepublicFrenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1947/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1947publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192906/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1947/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel, essay, drama, memoir
1948[[File:TS Eliot.jpg75px]]United Kingdom
(born in the United States)Englishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1948publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034141/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}poetry, essay, drama
1949[[File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner (greyscale and cropped).jpg75px]]United StatesEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1949publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180928/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-19url-status=live}}novel, short story
1950[[File:Bertrand Russell 1954.jpg75px]]United KingdomEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1950publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192911/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}philosophy, essay
1951[[File:Lagerkvist.jpg75px]]SwedenSwedishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1951/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1951publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192916/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1951/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry, novel, short story, drama
1952[[File:François Mauriac 1952.jpg75px]]French Fourth RepublicFrenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1952publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192921/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel, short story
1953[[File:Winston Churchill cph.3a49758.jpg75px]]United KingdomEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1953/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1953publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034151/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1953/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}history, essay, memoir
1954[[File:ErnestHemingway (cropped).jpg75px]]United StatesEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1954publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212823/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-17url-status=live}}novel, short story, screenplay
1955[[File:Halldór Kiljan Laxness 1955.jpg75px]]IcelandIcelandicurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1955/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1955publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192937/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1955/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel, short story, drama, poetry
1956[[File:JRJimenez.JPG75px]]Francoist SpainSpanishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1956/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1956publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008110601/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1956/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-08url-status=live}}poetry, novel
1957[[File:Camus Harcourt 1945.jpg75px]]French Fourth Republic
(born in French Algeria)Frenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1957/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1957publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034206/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1957/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, short story, drama, philosophy, essay
1958[[File:Boris Pasternak 1969.jpg75px]]Soviet UnionRussianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1958/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1958publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034212/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1958/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, poetry, translation
1959[[File:Salvatore Quasimodo 1959.jpg75px]]ItalyItalianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1959/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1959publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192954/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1959/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry
1960[[File:Saint-John Perse 1960.jpg75px]]France
(born in Guadeloupe)Frenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1960publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192959/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry
1961[[File:S. Kragujevic, Ivo Andric, 1961.jpg75px]]Yugoslavia
(born in Austria-Hungary)Serbo-Croatianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1961publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034217/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, short story
1962[[File:John Steinbeck 1939 (cropped).jpg75px]]United StatesEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1962publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034222/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, short story, screenplay
1963[[File:Giorgos Seferis 1963.jpg75px]]Greece
(born in the Ottoman Empire)Greekurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1963/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1963publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008110606/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1963/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-08url-status=live}}poetry, essay, memoir
1964[[File:Jean Paul Sartre 1965.jpg75px]]FranceFrenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1964/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1964publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020010622/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1964/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-20url-status=live}}philosophy, novel, drama, essay, short story, screenplay
1965[[File:Mikhail Sholokhov 1960.jpg75px]]Soviet UnionRussian"for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people"novel
1966[[File:פורטרט ש"י עגנון (cropped2).jpg75px]]Israel
(born in Austria-Hungary)Hebrewurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1966/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1966publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034242/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1966/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, short story
[[File:Nelly Sachs 1966.jpg75px]]West Germany
Sweden
German"for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength"poetry, drama
1967[[File:Miguel Angel Asturias.jpg75px]]GuatemalaSpanishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1967/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1967publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193025/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1967/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel, poetry
1968[[File:Yasunari Kawabata 1968 cropped.jpg75px]]JapanJapaneseurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1968publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034247/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, short story
1969[[File:Samuel Beckett, Pic, 1 (cropped).jpg75px]]Irish Free StateFrench and Englishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1969/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1969publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193035/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1969/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel, drama, poetry
1970[[File:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1974crop.jpg75px]]Soviet UnionRussianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1970publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083757/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, essay, short story
1971[[File:Pablo Neruda 1963.jpg75px]]ChileSpanishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1971publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193045/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry
1972[[File:Heinrich Böll (1983).jpg75px]]West GermanyGermanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1972/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1972publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193051/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1972/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel, short story
1973[[File:Patrick White 1973.jpg75px]]Australia
(born in the United Kingdom)Englishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1973/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1973publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193056/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1973/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel, short story, drama
1974[[File:Eyvind.JPG75px]]SwedenSwedishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1974/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1974publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193101/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1974/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel
[[File:Harry Martinson 001.tiff75px]]SwedenSwedish"for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos"poetry, novel, drama
1975[[File:Eugenio montale 2.jpg75px]]ItalyItalianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1975/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1975publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193106/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1975/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry
1976[[File:Saul Bellow (Herzog portrait) (cropped).jpg75px]]United States
CanadaEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1976publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180933/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-19url-status=live}}novel, short story
1977[[File:Vicentealeixandre.jpg75px]]SpainSpanishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1977/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1977publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193116/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1977/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry
1978[[File:Dan Hadani collection (990044399930205171) (cropped).jpg75px]]Poland
United StatesYiddishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1978/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1978publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222201316/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1978/index.htmlarchive-date=2011-02-22url-status=live}}novel, short story, memoir
1979[[File:Odysseas Elytis 1974 (cropped).jpg75px]]GreeceGreekurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1979/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1979publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008110611/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1979/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-08url-status=live}}poetry, essay
1980[[File:Czeslaw Milosz 3 ap (cropped).tif75px]]
Poland
Polishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1980/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1980publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193126/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1980/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry, novel, essay
1981[[File:Elias Canetti 2 (cropped).jpg75px]]United Kingdom
BulgariaGermanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1981/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1981publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180943/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1981/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-19url-status=live}}novel, drama, memoirs, essay
1982[[File:Gabriel García Márquez 02 (cropped).jpg75px]]ColombiaSpanishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1982publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212833/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-17url-status=live}}novel, short story, screenplay
1983[[File:William Golding 1983 (cropped).jpg75px]]United KingdomEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1983/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1983publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034307/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1983/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, poetry, drama
1984[[File:Jaroslav Seifert 1981 foto Hana Hamplová (cropped).jpg75px]]Czechoslovakia
(born in Austria-Hungary)Czechurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1984/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1984publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193137/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1984/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}poetry
1985[[File:Claude Simon 1967 (cropped).jpg75px]]France
(born in French Madagascar)Frenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1985/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1985publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212838/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1985/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-17url-status=live}}novel, essay
1986[[File:CDH - Comissão de Direitos Humanos e Legislação Participativa (20225202233) (cropped).jpg75px]]NigeriaEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1986/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1986publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193147/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1986/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}drama, novel, poetry, screenplay
1987[[File:Иосиф Бродский (cropped).jpg75px]]United States
Soviet UnionRussian and Englishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1987publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180958/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-19url-status=live}}poetry, essay
1988[[File:Nagib Mahfouz.jpg75px]]EgyptArabicurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1988/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1988publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193157/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1988/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel, short story
1989[[File:Gaspar Sánchez Salas y Camilo José Cela (cropped).jpg75px]]SpainSpanishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1989/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1989publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193202/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1989/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}novel, short story, essay, poetry
1990[[File:Octavio Paz 1984 (colorized) (cropped).jpg75px]]MexicoSpanishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1990/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1990publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181003/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1990/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-19url-status=live}}poetry, essay
1991[[File:Nadine Gordimer 01 (cropped).JPG75px]]South AfricaEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1991publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034328/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, short story, essay, drama
1992[[File:Derek Walcott.jpg75px]]Saint LuciaEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1992publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212843/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-17url-status=live}}poetry, drama
1993[[File:Toni Morrison (cropped).jpg75px]]United StatesEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1993publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025733/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/index.htmlarchive-date=2009-03-21url-status=live}}novel, essay
1994[[File:Oe kenzaburo japaninstitut koeln 041108 (cropped).jpg75px]]JapanJapaneseurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1994/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1994publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181013/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1994/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-19url-status=live}}novel, short story, essay
1995[[File:Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, brightened (cropped 02).jpg75px]]IrelandEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1995publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181018/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-19url-status=live}}poetry, drama, translation, essay
1996[[File:Szymborska 2011 (cropped).jpg75px]]PolandPolishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1996/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1996publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181428/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1996/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-19url-status=live}}poetry, essay, translation
1997[[File:Dario Fo-(Credit-ph--Paul-de-Grauve).jpg75px]]ItalyItalianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1997/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1997publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193239/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1997/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-11url-status=live}}drama, song lyrics
1998[[File:Jo-Sa (cropped).jpg75px]]PortugalPortugueseurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1998publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019023430/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-19url-status=live}}novel, drama, poetry
1999[[File:Günter Grass auf dem Blauen Sofa (cropped2).jpg75px]]Germany
(born in Free City of Danzig)Germanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 1999publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212914/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-17url-status=live}}novel, drama, poetry, essay
2000[[File:Gao Xingjian (2012, cropped).jpg75px]]France
ROCChinaChinese and Frenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2000/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 2000publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212919/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2000/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-17url-status=live}}novel, drama, essay
2001[[File:VS Naipaul 2016 Dhaka (cropped).jpg75px]]United Kingdom
Trinidad and TobagoEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2001/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 2001publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201013651/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2001/index.htmlarchive-date=2016-02-01url-status=live}}novel, essay
2002[[File:Imre Kertész (cropped).JPG75px]]HungaryHungarianurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2002/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 2002publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083802/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2002/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel
2003[[File:J.M. Coetzee (cropped).JPG75px]]South AfricaEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 2003publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019023435/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-19url-status=live}}novel, essay, translation
2004[[File:Elfriede jelinek 2004 small (cropped).jpg75px]]AustriaGermanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2004/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 2004publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083807/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2004/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-21url-status=live}}novel, drama
2005[[File:Pinterfoto (cropped).jpg75px]]United KingdomEnglishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 2005publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017213042/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-17url-status=live}}drama, screenplay, poetry
2006[[File:Orhan Pamuk in Rustaveli Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2014 (cropped).jpg75px]]TurkeyTurkishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 2006publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016023713/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-16url-status=live}}novel, screenplay, autobiography, essay
2007[[File:Dorisa Lesinga (cropped).JPG75px]]United Kingdom
(born in Iran)Englishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 2007publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2008-10-17archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016025537/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/index.htmlarchive-date=2008-10-16url-status=live}}novel, short story, memoir/ autobiography, drama, poetry, essay
2008[[File:Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (cropped).jpg75px]]France
MauritiusFrenchurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 2008publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=14 October 2008archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012000137/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/index.htmlarchive-date=12 October 2008url-status=live}}novel, short story, essay, translation
2009[[File:Herta Müller Literaturfest München 2016 (cropped).jpg75px]]Germany
RomaniaGermanurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2009/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 2009publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=8 October 2009archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091011034823/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2009/index.htmlarchive-date=11 October 2009url-status=live}}novel, short story, poetry, essay
2010[[File:Mario Vargas Llosa (cropped2).jpg75px]]Peru
SpainSpanishurl=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/index.htmltitle=Nobel Prize in Literature 2010publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=7 October 2010archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009204641/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/index.htmlarchive-date=9 October 2010url-status=live}}novel, short story, essay, drama, memoir
2011[[File:Transtroemer (cropped).jpg75px]]SwedenSwedishurl=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2011/title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2011publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=6 October 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007061342/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2011/archive-date=7 October 2011url-status=live}}poetry, translation
2012[[File:MoYan Hamburg 2008 (cropped).jpg75px]]ChinaChineseurl=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2012/title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2012publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=11 October 2012archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010224321/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2012/archive-date=10 October 2012url-status=live}}novel, short story
2013[[File:Alice Munro 2006 (cropped1).jpg75px]]CanadaEnglishurl=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2013publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=27 January 2013archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010174644/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/archive-date=10 October 2013url-status=live}}short story
2014[[File:Patrick Modiano 6 dec 2014 - 19 (cropped).jpg75px]]FranceFrench"for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the Occupation"novel, screenplay
2015[[File:Світлана Алексієвич (Київ, 2016) 08 (cropped2).JPG75px]]Belarus
(born in Soviet Ukraine)Russianurl=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2015publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=8 October 2015archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921083825/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/archive-date=21 September 2015url-status=live}}history, essay
2016[[File:Bob Dylan - Azkena Rock Festival 2010 1 (cropped2).jpg75px]]United StatesEnglish"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"poetry, song lyrics
2017[[File:Kazuo Ishiguro in 2017 13 (cropped).jpg75px]]United Kingdom (born in Japan)Englishurl=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2017/press.htmltitle=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 – Press Releasepublisher=Nobel Prizeaccess-date=5 October 2017archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005120134/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2017/press.htmlarchive-date=5 October 2017url-status=live }}novel, screenplay, short story
2018[[File:Olga Tokarczuk-9730 (cropped).jpg75px]]PolandPolishurl=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2018/title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2018publisher=Nobel Foundationaccess-date=2019-10-10archive-date=2020-06-01archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601144832/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2018/summary/url-status=live}}novel, short story, poetry, essay, screenplay
2019[[File:Peter-handke (cropped3).jpg75px]]AustriaGerman"for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience"novel, short story, drama, essay, translation, screenplay
2020[[File:Louise Glück circa 1977 (cropped2).jpg75px]]United StatesEnglish"for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal"poetry, essay
2021[[File:Abdulrazak Gurnah 2022 (cropped2).jpg75px]]Tanzania
United Kingdom
(born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar)English"for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents"novel, short story, essay
2022[[File:Annie Ernaux al Salone del Libro (cropped2).jpg75px]]FranceFrench"for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory"memoir, novel
2023[[File:Writer Jon Fosse (cropped1).jpg75px]]NorwayNorwegian
"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable"drama, novel, poetry, essay
2024[[File:Han Kang in 2017 (cropped).png75px]]South KoreaKorean"for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life"novel, poetry
2025[[File:Krasznahorkai,-Lázlo (cropped).jpg75px]]HungaryHungarian"for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art"novel, short story, essay, screenplay

Nobel laureates by country

The 122 Nobel laureates in literature from 1901 to 2025 came from the following countries:

CountryNumber
France16
United Kingdom13
United States12
Germany9
Sweden8
Poland6
Spain6
Italy6
Russia/USSR5
Ireland4
Norway4
Denmark3
Austria2
Canada2
Chile2
Greece2
Hungary2
Japan2
South Africa2
Switzerland2
China2
Australia1
Belarus1
Belgium1
Bulgaria1
Colombia1
Czechoslovakia1
Egypt1
Finland1
Guatemala1
Iceland1
India1
Israel1
Mauritius1
Mexico1
Nigeria1
Peru1
Portugal1
Romania1
Saint Lucia2
South Korea1
Tanzania1
Turkey1
Yugoslavia1

Nobel laureates by language

The 122 Nobel laureates in literature from 1901 to 2025 wrote in the following languages:

LanguageNumber
English29 (32)
French16
German14 (15)
Spanish11
Swedish7
Italian6
Russian6
Polish5
Norwegian4
Danish3
Chinese2
Greek2
Hungarian2
Japanese2
Arabic1
Bengali1
Czech1
Finnish1
Hebrew1
Icelandic1
Korean1
Provençal (Occitan)1
Portuguese1
Serbo-Croatian1
Turkish1
Yiddish1

Nobel laureates by gender

The 122 Nobel laureates in literature from 1901 to 2025 were from the following genders:

DecadeMaleFemaleTotal10418
1900–190991
1910–191990
1920–192982
1930–193981
1940–194951
1950–1959100
1960–1969101
1970–1979110
1980–1989100
1990–199973
2000–200973
2010–201973
2020–202533

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