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Nobel Prize in Literature
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125Indexed prize entries
119Award years
Award entries
125 prize entries from the database, sorted by award year (newest first).
Anne Carson2026 ยท Literature ยท CanadaLรกszlรณ Krasznahorkai2025 ยท Literature ยท HungaryHan Kang2024 ยท Literature ยท South KoreaJon Fosse2023 ยท Literature ยท NorwayAnnie Ernaux2022 ยท Literature ยท FranceAbdulrazak Gurnah2021 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainLouise Glรผck2020 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaPeter Handke2019 ยท Literature ยท AustriaOlga Tokarczuk2018 ยท Literature ยท PolandKazuo Ishiguro2017 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainBob Dylan2016 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaSvetlana Alexievich2015 ยท Literature ยท BelarusPatrick Modiano2014 ยท Literature ยท FranceAlice Munro2013 ยท Literature ยท CanadaMo Yan2012 ยท Literature ยท ChinaTomas Transtrรถmer2011 ยท Literature ยท SwedenMario Vargas Llosa2010 ยท Literature ยท PeruHerta Mรผller2009 ยท Literature ยท GermanyJean Marie Gustave Le Clรฉzio2008 ยท Literature ยท FranceDoris Lessing2007 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainOrhan Pamuk2006 ยท Literature ยท TurkeyHarold Pinter2005 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainElfriede Jelinek2004 ยท Literature ยท AustriaJ. M. Coetzee2003 ยท Literature ยท South AfricaImre Kertรฉsz2002 ยท Literature ยท HungaryV. S. Naipaul2001 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainGao Xingjian2000 ยท Literature ยท FranceGunter Grass1999 ยท Literature ยท GermanyJosรฉ Saramago1998 ยท Literature ยท PortugalDario Fo1997 ยท Literature ยท ItalyWisลawa Szymborska1996 ยท Literature ยท PolandSeamus Heaney1995 ยท Literature ยท IrelandKenzaburล ลe1994 ยท Literature ยท JapanToni Morrison1993 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaDerek Walcott1992 ยท Literature ยท Saint LuciaNadine Gordimer1991 ยท Literature ยท South AfricaOctavio Paz1990 ยท Literature ยท MexicoCamilo Josรฉ Cela1989 ยท Literature ยท SpainNaguib Mahfouz1988 ยท Literature ยท EgyptJoseph Brodsky1987 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaWole Soyinka1986 ยท Literature ยท NigeriaClaude Simon1985 ยท Literature ยท FranceJaroslav Seifert1984 ยท Literature ยท CzechoslovakiaWilliam Golding1983 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainGabriel Garcia Marquez1982 ยท Literature ยท ColombiaElias Canetti1981 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainCzeslaw Milosz1980 ยท Literature ยท PolandOdysseus Elytis1979 ยท Literature ยท GreeceIsaac Bashevis Singer1978 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaVicente Aleixandre1977 ยท Literature ยท SpainSaul Bellow1976 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaEugenio Montale1975 ยท Literature ยท ItalyHarry Edmund Martinson1974 ยท Literature ยท SwedenEyvind Johnson1974 ยท Literature ยท SwedenPatrick White1973 ยท Literature ยท AustraliaHeinrich Theodor Boll1972 ยท Literature ยท GermanyPablo Neruda1971 ยท Literature ยท ChileAlexander Solzhenitsyn1970 ยท Literature ยท RussiaSamuel Beckett1969 ยท Literature ยท IrelandYasunari Kawabata1968 ยท Literature ยท JapanMiguel Angel Asturias1967 ยท Literature ยท GuatemalaNelly Leonie Sachs1966 ยท Literature ยท SwedenShmuel Josef Agnon1966 ยท Literature ยท IsraelMikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov1965 ยท Literature ยท RussiaJean Paul Sartre1964 ยท Literature ยท FranceGiorgos Seferis1963 ยท Literature ยท GreeceJohn Ernst Steinbeck1962 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaIvo Andric1961 ยท Literature ยท YugoslaviaSaint John Perse1960 ยท Literature ยท FranceSalvatore Quasimodo1959 ยท Literature ยท ItalyBoris Leonidovich Pasternak1958 ยท Literature ยท RussiaAlbert Camus1957 ยท Literature ยท FranceJuan Ramon Jimenez1956 ยท Literature ยท SpainHalldor Kiljan Laxness1955 ยท Literature ยท IcelandErnest Hemingway1954 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill1953 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainFrancois Mauriac1952 ยท Literature ยท FrancePar Fabian Lagerkvist1951 ยท Literature ยท SwedenBertrand Russell1950 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainWilliam Faulkner1949 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaThomas Stearns Eliot1948 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainAndre Gide1947 ยท Literature ยท FranceHermann Hesse1946 ยท Literature ยท SwitzerlandGabriela Mistral1945 ยท Literature ยท ChileJohannes Vilhelm Jensen1944 ยท Literature ยท DenmarkFrans Eemil Sillanpaa1939 ยท Literature ยท FinlandPearl Buck1938 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaRoger Martin du Gard1937 ยท Literature ยท FranceEugene ONeill1936 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaLuigi Pirandello1934 ยท Literature ยท ItalyIvan Bunin1933 ยท Literature ยท RussiaJohn Galsworthy1932 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainErik Axel Karlfeldt1931 ยท Literature ยท SwedenSinclair Lewis1930 ยท Literature ยท United States of AmericaThomas Mann1929 ยท Literature ยท GermanySigrid Undset1928 ยท Literature ยท NorwayHenri Bergson1927 ยท Literature ยท FranceGrazia Deledda1926 ยท Literature ยท ItalyGeorge Bernard Shaw1925 ยท Literature ยท IrelandWladyslaw Reymont1924 ยท Literature ยท PolandWilliam Butler Yeats1923 ยท Literature ยท IrelandJacinto Benavente1922 ยท Literature ยท SpainAnatole France1921 ยท Literature ยท FranceKnut Hamsun1920 ยท Literature ยท NorwayCarl Spitteler1919 ยท Literature ยท SwitzerlandHenrik Pontoppidan1917 ยท Literature ยท DenmarkHenrik Pontoppian1917 ยท Literature ยท DenmarkKarl Gjellerup1917 ยท Literature ยท DenmarkVerner von Heidenstam1916 ยท Literature ยท SwedenRomain Rolland1915 ยท Literature ยท FranceRabindranath Tagore1913 ยท Literature ยท IndiaGerhart Hauptmann1912 ยท Literature ยท GermanyMaurice Maeterlinck1911 ยท Literature ยท BelgiumPaul Heyse1910 ยท Literature ยท GermanySelma Lagerlof1909 ยท Literature ยท SwedenRudolf Eucken1908 ยท Literature ยท GermanyRudyard Kipling1907 ยท Literature ยท Great BritainGiosue Carducci1906 ยท Literature ยท ItalyHenryk Sienkiewicz1905 ยท Literature ยท PolandFrederic Mistral1904 ยท Literature ยท FranceJose Echegaray1904 ยท Literature ยท SpainBjornstjerne Bjรธrnson1903 ยท Literature ยท NorwayBjornstjerne Bjornson1903 ยท Literature ยท NorwayTheodor Mommsen1902 ยท Literature ยท GermanySully Prudhomme1901 ยท Literature ยท France
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