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All Nobel Prize winners in Literature since 1901. Authors available in the RetiBooks library are shown as links.

1900s

1901 René-François Prudhomme (France)
1902 Theodor Mommsen (Germany)
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Norway)
1904 Frédéric Mistral (France)
1904 José Echegaray (Spain)
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland)
1906 Giosuè Carducci (Italy)
1907 Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom)
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken (Germany)
1909 Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden)

1910s

1910 Paul von Heyse (Germany)
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany)
1913 Rabindranath Tagore (India)
1915 Romain Rolland (France)
1916 Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden)
1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Denmark)
1917 Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark)
1919 Carl Spitteler (Switzerland)

1920s

1920 Knut Hamsun (Norway)
1921 Anatole France (France)
1922 Jacinto Benavente (Spain)
1923 William Butler Yeats (Ireland)
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont (Poland)
1925 George Bernard Shaw (United Kingdom)
1926 Grazia Deledda (Italy)
1927 Henri Bergson (France)
1928 Sigrid Undset (Norway)
1929 Thomas Mann (Germany)

1930s

1930 Sinclair Lewis (United States)
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden)
1932 John Galsworthy (United Kingdom)
1933 Ivan Bunin (Stateless)
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)

1940s

1944 Johannes V Jensen (Denmark)
1945 Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
1946 Hermann Hesse (Germany)
1947 André Gide (France)
1948 T.S. Eliot (United Kingdom)
1949 William Faulkner (United States)

1950s

1950 Bertrand Russell (United Kingdom)
1951 Pär Lagerkvist (Sweden)
1952 François Mauriac (France)
1953 Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)
1954 Ernest Hemingway (United States)
1955 Halldór Laxness (Iceland)
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain)
1957 Albert Camus (France)
1958 Boris Pasternak (Soviet Union (declined))
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy)

1960s

1960 Saint-John Perse (France)
1961 Ivo Andrić (Yugoslavia)
1962 John Steinbeck (United States)
1963 Giorgos Seferis (Greece)
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (France (declined))
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov (Soviet Union)
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel)
1966 Nelly Sachs (Sweden)
1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala)
1968 Yasunari Kawabata (Japan)
1969 Samuel Beckett (Ireland)

1970s

1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Soviet Union)
1971 Pablo Neruda (Chile)
1972 Heinrich Böll (Germany)
1973 Patrick White (Australia)
1974 Eyvind Johnson (Sweden)
1974 Harry Martinson (Sweden)
1975 Eugenio Montale (Italy)
1976 Saul Bellow (United States)
1977 Vicente Aleixandre (Spain)
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (United States)
1979 Odysseas Elytis (Greece)

1980s

1980 Czeslaw Milosz (Poland)
1981 Elias Canetti (United Kingdom)
1982 Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
1983 William Golding (United Kingdom)
1984 Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia)
1985 Claude Simon (France)
1986 Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
1987 Joseph Brodsky (United States)
1988 Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
1989 Camilo José Cela (Spain)

1990s

1990 Octavio Paz (Mexico)
1991 Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1992 Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia)
1993 Toni Morrison (United States)
1994 Kenzaburō Ōe (Japan)
1995 Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
1996 Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1997 Dario Fo (Italy)
1998 José Saramago (Portugal)
1999 Günter Grass (Germany)

2000s

2000 Gao Xingjian (France)
2001 V.S. Naipaul (United Kingdom)
2002 Imre Kertész (Hungary)
2003 J. M. Coetzee (South Africa)
2004 Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2005 Harold Pinter (United Kingdom)
2006 Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
2007 Doris Lessing (United Kingdom)
2008 J.M.G. Le Clézio (France)
2009 Herta Müller (Germany)

2010s

2010 Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
2011 Tomas Tranströmer (Sweden)
2012 Mo Yan (China)
2013 Alice Munro (Canada)
2014 Patrick Modiano (France)
2015 Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)
2016 Bob Dylan (United States)
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro (United Kingdom)
2018 Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)
2019 Peter Handke (Austria)

2020s

2020 Louise Glück (United States)
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah (United Kingdom)
2022 Annie Ernaux (France)
2023 Jon Fosse (Norway)
2024 Han Kang (South Korea)
2025 László Krasznahorkai (Hungary)




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