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Nobel Prize in Literature

List of winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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 1901   Sully Prudhomme (France)
1902 Theodor Mommsen (Germany)
1903 Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (Norway)
1904 Frédéric Mistral (France)
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Spain)
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland)
1906 Giosuè Carducci (Italy)
1907 Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom)
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken (Germany)
1909 Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden)
1910 Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse (Germany)
1911 Count Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)
1912 Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (Germany)
1913 Sir Rabindranath Tagore (India)
1915 Romain Rolland (France)
1916 Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden)
1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Denmark)
Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark)
1919 Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (Switzerland)
1920 Knut Hamsun (Norway)
1921 Anatole France (France)
1922 Jacinto Benavente (Spain)
1923 William Butler Yeats (Ireland)
1924 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (Poland)
1925 George Bernard Shaw (Ireland)
1926 Grazia Deledda (Italy)
1927 Henri Bergson (France)
1928 Sigrid Undset (Norway)
1929 Thomas Mann (Germany)
1930 Sinclair Lewis (United States)
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden)
1932 John Galsworthy (United Kingdom)
1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Russia)
1934 Luigi Pirandello (Italy)
1936 Eugene O'Neill (United States)
1937 Roger Martin du Gard (France)
1938 Pearl S. Buck (United States)
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finland)
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Denmark)
1945 Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
1946 Hermann Hesse (Germany)
1947 André Gide (France)
1948 T. S. Eliot (United States)
1949 William Faulkner (United States)
1950 Bertrand Russell (United Kingdom)
1951 Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (Sweden)
1952 François Mauriac (France)
1953 Sir Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)
1954 Ernest Hemingway (United States)
1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain)
1957 Albert Camus (France)
1958 Boris Pasternak (Russia)
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy)
1960 Saint-John Perse (France)
1961 Ivo Andric
1962 John Steinbeck (United States)
1963 Giorgos Seferis (Greece)
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (France) (declined the prize)
1965 Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russia)
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Nelly Sachs
1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala)
1968 Yasunari Kawabata (Japan)
1969 Samuel Beckett (Ireland)
1970 Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (Russia)
1971 Pablo Neruda (Chile)
1972 Heinrich Böll (Germany)
1973 Patrick White (Australia)
1974 Eyvind Johnson (Sweden)
Harry Martinson (Sweden)
1975 Eugenio Montale (Italy)
1976 Saul Bellow
1977 Vicente Aleixandre (Spain)
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979 Odysseas Elytis (Greece)
1980 Czeslaw Milosz (Poland)
1981 Elias Canetti
1982 Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
1983 William Golding (United Kingdom)
1984 Jaroslav Seifert
1985 Claude Simon
1986 Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
1987 Joseph Brodsky (Russia-United States)
1988 Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
1989 Camilo José Cela (Spain)
1990 Octavio Paz (Mexico)
1991 Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1992 Derek Walcott (St. Lucia)
1993 Toni Morrison (United States)
1994 Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
1995 Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
1996 Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1997 Dario Fo (Italy)
1998 José Saramago (Portugal)
1999 Günter Grass (Germany)
2000 Gao Xingjian (China)
2001 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (Trinidad and Tobago)  
2002 Imre Kertész (Hungary)
2003 John Maxwell Coetzee (South Africa)


Note: The women who have received the Nobel Prize for Literature are Selma Lagerlöf, Grazia Deledda, Sigrid Undset, Pearl S. Buck, Gabriela Mistral, Nelly Sachs, Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, and Wislawa Szymborska. The other recipients are men.

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