Nobel Prize for Literature

2006
Orhan Pamuk
Turkey

2005
Harold Pinter
United Kingdom

2004
Elfriede Jelinek
Austria

2003
J.M. Coetzee
South Africa

2002
Imre Kertesz
Hungary

2001
V.S. Naipaul
United Kingdom

2000
Gao Xingjian
France

1999
Gunter Grass
Federal Republic of Germany

1998
Jose Saramago
Portugal

1997
Dario Fo
Italy

1996
Wislawa Szymborska
Poland

1995
Seamus Heaney
Ireland

1994
Kenzaburo Oe
Japan

1993
Toni Morrison
United States

1992
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucia

1991
Nadine Gordimer
South Africa

1990
Octavio Paz
Mexico

1989
Camilo Jose Cela
Spain

1988
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt

1987
Joseph Brodsky
United States

1986
Wole Soyinka
Nigeria

1985
Claude Simon
France

1984
Jaroslav Seifert
Czechoslovakia

1983
William Golding
United Kingdom

1982
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colombia

1981
Elias Canetti
United Kingdom

1980
Czeslaw Milosz
Poland and the United States

1979
Odysseus Elytis
Greece

1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer
United States

1977
Vicente Aleixandre
Spain

1976
Saul Bellow
United States

1975
Eugenio Montale
Italy

1974
Eyvind Johnson
Sweden
Harry Martinson
Sweden

1973
Patrick White
Australia

1972
Heinrich Boll
Federal Republic of Germany

1971
Pablo Neruda
Chile

1970
Alexandr Solzenhitsyn
USSR

1969
Samuel Beckett
Ireland

1968
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan

1967
Miguel Angel Asturias
Guatemala

1966
Shmuel Agnon
Israel
Nellly Sachs
Sweden

1965
Mikhail Sholokhov
USSR

1964
Jean-Paul Sartre
France

1963
Giorgos Seferis
Greece

1962
John Steinbeck
United States

1961
Ivo Andric
Yugoslavia

1960
Saint-John Perse
France

1959
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italy

1958
Boris Pasternak
USSR

1957
Albert Camus
France

1956
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Spain

1955
Halidor Laxness
Iceland

1954
Ernest Hemingway
United States

1953
Winston Churchill
United Kingdom

1952
Francois Mauriac
France

1951
Par Lagerkvist
Sweden

1950
Bertrand Russell
United Kingdom

1949
William Faulkner
United States

1948
T.S. Eliot
United Kingdom

1947
Andre Gide
France

1946
Herman Hesse
Switzerland

1945
Gabriela Mistral
Chile

1944
Johannes V. Jensen
Denmark

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 Sillanpaa
Finland

1938
Pearl Buck
United States

1937
Roger Martin du Gard
France

1936
Eugene O'Neill
United States

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
Italy

1933
Ivan Bunin
Stateless Domicile in France

1932
John Galsworthy
United Kingdom

1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Sweden

1930
Sinclair Lewis
United States

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
(The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section)

1917
Karl Gjellerup
Denmark
Henrik Pontoppidan
Denmark

1916
Verner von Heidenstam
Sweden

1915
Romain Rolland
France

1914
(The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section)

1913
Rabindranath Tagore
India

1912
Gerhart Hauptmann
Germany

1911
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgium

1910
Paul Heyse
Germany

1909
Selma Lagerlof
Sweden

1908
Rudolf Eucken
Germany

1907
Rudyard Kipling
United Kingdom

1906
Giosue Carducci
Italy

1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Poland

1904
Frederic Mistral
France
Jose Echegaray
Spain

1903
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Norway

1902
Theodor Mommsen
Germany

1901
Sully Prudhomme
France

Note: Places given refer to the time of the award.