The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 102 times to 106 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2009. Click on each name to see the Nobel Laureate's page.
Jump down to: | 1980 | 1960 | 1940 | 1920 | 1901 | 2009 - Herta Müller 2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio 2007 - Doris Lessing 2006 - Orhan Pamuk 2005 - Harold Pinter 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek 2003 - J. M. Coetzee 2002 - Imre Kertész 2001 - V. S. Naipaul 2000 - Gao Xingjian 1999 - Günter Grass 1998 - José Saramago 1997 - Dario Fo 1996 - Wislawa Szymborska 1995 - Seamus Heaney 1994 - Kenzaburo Oe 1993 - Toni Morrison 1992 - Derek Walcott 1991 - Nadine Gordimer 1990 - Octavio Paz 1989 - Camilo José Cela 1988 - Naguib Mahfouz 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1986 - Wole Soyinka 1985 - Claude Simon 1984 - Jaroslav Seifert 1983 - William Golding 1982 - Gabriel García Márquez 1981 - Elias Canetti 1980 - Czeslaw Milosz 1979 - Odysseus Elytis 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1977 - Vicente Aleixandre 1976 - Saul Bellow 1975 - Eugenio Montale 1974 - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson 1973 - Patrick White 1972 - Heinrich Böll 1971 - Pablo Neruda 1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn 1969 - Samuel Beckett 1968 - Yasunari Kawabata 1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias 1966 - Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs 1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre 1963 - Giorgos Seferis 1962 - John Steinbeck 1961 - Ivo Andric 1960 - Saint-John Perse 1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1957 - Albert Camus 1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez 1955 - Halldór Laxness 1954 - Ernest Hemingway 1953 - Winston Churchill 1952 - François Mauriac 1951 - Pär Lagerkvist 1950 - Bertrand Russell 1949 - William Faulkner 1948 - T.S. Eliot 1947 - André Gide 1946 - Hermann Hesse 1945 - Gabriela Mistral 1944 - Johannes V. Jensen 1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1938 - Pearl Buck 1937 - Roger Martin du Gard 1936 - Eugene O'Neill 1935 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1934 - Luigi Pirandello 1933 - Ivan Bunin 1932 - John Galsworthy 1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1930 - Sinclair Lewis 1929 - Thomas Mann 1928 - Sigrid Undset 1927 - Henri Bergson 1926 - Grazia Deledda 1925 - George Bernard Shaw 1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont 1923 - William Butler Yeats 1922 - Jacinto Benavente 1921 - Anatole France 1920 - Knut Hamsun 1919 - Carl Spitteler 1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 1917 - Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan 1916 - Verner von Heidenstam 1915 - Romain Rolland 1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 1913 - Rabindranath Tagore 1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann 1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck 1910 - Paul Heyse 1909 - Selma Lagerlöf 1908 - Rudolf Eucken 1907 - Rudyard Kipling 1906 - Giosuè Carducci 1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz 1904 - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray 1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1902 - Theodor Mommsen 1901 - Sully Prudhomme
