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Nobel Prize winners by category (literature) year name country* literary area

*Nationality given is the citizenship of the recipient at the time the award was made. Prizes may be withheld or not awarded in years when no worthy recipient can be found or when the world situation (e.g., World Wars I and II) prevents the gathering of information needed to reach a decision.

**Prize awarded in 2019.

1901 Sully Prudhomme France poet

1902 Theodor Mommsen Germany historian

1903 Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson Norway novelist, poet, dramatist

1904 José Echegaray y Eizaguirre Spain dramatist

Frédéric Mistral France poet

1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland novelist

1906 Giosuè Carducci Italy poet

1907 Rudyard Kipling U.K. poet, novelist

1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken Germany philosopher

1909 Selma Lagerlöf Sweden novelist

1910 Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse Germany poet, novelist, dramatist

1911 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgium dramatist

1912 Gerhart Hauptmann Germany dramatist

1913 Rabindranath Tagore India poet

1915 Romain Rolland France novelist

1916 Verner von Heidenstam Sweden poet

1917 Karl Gjellerup Denmark novelist

Henrik Pontoppidan Denmark novelist

1918 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (declined) Sweden poet

1919 Carl Spitteler Switzerland poet, novelist

1920 Knut Hamsun Norway novelist

1921 Anatole France France novelist

1922 Jacinto Benavente y Martínez Spain dramatist

1923 William Butler Yeats Ireland poet

1924 Władysław Stanisław Reymont Poland novelist

1925 George Bernard Shaw Ireland dramatist

1926 Grazia Deledda Italy novelist

1927 Henri Bergson France philosopher

1928 Sigrid Undset Norway novelist

1929 Thomas Mann Germany novelist

1930 Sinclair Lewis U.S. novelist

1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (posthumous award) Sweden poet

1932 John Galsworthy U.K. novelist

1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin U.S.S.R. poet, novelist

1934 Luigi Pirandello Italy dramatist

1936 Eugene O'Neill U.S. dramatist

1937 Roger Martin du Gard France novelist

1938 Pearl Buck U.S. novelist

1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää Finland novelist

1944 Johannes V. Jensen Denmark novelist

1945 Gabriela Mistral Chile poet

1946 Hermann Hesse Switzerland novelist

1947 André Gide France novelist, essayist

1948 T.S. Eliot U.K. poet, critic

1949 William Faulkner U.S. novelist

1950 Bertrand Russell U.K. philosopher

1951 Pär Lagerkvist Sweden novelist

1952 François Mauriac France poet, novelist, dramatist

1953 Sir Winston Churchill U.K. historian, orator

1954 Ernest Hemingway U.S. novelist

1955 Halldór Laxness Iceland novelist

1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez Spain poet

1957 Albert Camus France novelist, dramatist

1958 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (declined) U.S.S.R. novelist, poet

1959 Salvatore Quasimodo Italy poet

1960 Saint-John Perse France poet

1961 Ivo Andric Yugoslavia novelist

1962 John Steinbeck U.S. novelist

1963 George Seferis Greece poet

1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (declined) France philosopher, dramatist

1965 Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov U.S.S.R. novelist

1966 S.Y. Agnon Israel novelist

Nelly Sachs Sweden poet

1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias Guatemala novelist

1968 Kawabata Yasunari Japan novelist

1969 Samuel Beckett Ireland novelist, dramatist

1970 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn U.S.S.R. novelist

1971 Pablo Neruda Chile poet

1972 Heinrich Böll West Germany novelist

1973 Patrick White Australia novelist

1974 Eyvind Johnson Sweden novelist

Harry Martinson Sweden novelist, poet

1975 Eugenio Montale Italy poet

1976 Saul Bellow U.S. novelist

1977 Vicente Aleixandre Spain poet

1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer U.S. novelist

1979 Odysseus Elytis Greece poet

1980 Czesław Miłosz U.S. poet

1981 Elias Canetti Bulgaria novelist, essayist

1982 Gabriel García Márquez Colombia novelist, journalist, social critic

1983 Sir William Golding U.K. novelist

1984 Jaroslav Seifert Czechoslovakia poet

1985 Claude Simon France novelist

1986 Wole Soyinka Nigeria dramatist, poet

1987 Joseph Brodsky U.S. poet, essayist

1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypt novelist

1989 Camilo José Cela Spain novelist

1990 Octavio Paz Mexico poet, essayist

1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa novelist

1992 Derek Walcott Saint Lucia poet

1993 Toni Morrison U.S. novelist

1994 Oe Kenzaburo Japan novelist

1995 Seamus Heaney Ireland poet

1996 Wisława Szymborska Poland poet

1997 Dario Fo Italy dramatist, actor

1998 José Saramago Portugal novelist

1999 Günter Grass Germany novelist

2000 Gao Xingjian France novelist, dramatist

2001 Sir V.S. Naipaul Trinidad novelist

2002 Imre Kertész Hungary novelist

2003 J.M. Coetzee South Africa novelist

2004 Elfriede Jelinek Austria novelist, dramatist

2005 Harold Pinter U.K. dramatist

2006 Orhan Pamuk Turkey novelist

2007 Doris Lessing U.K. novelist

2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio France novelist, essayist

2009 Herta Müller Germany novelist

2010 Mario Vargas Llosa Peru novelist, dramatist

2011 Tomas Tranströmer Sweden poet

2012 Mo Yan China novelist, short-story writer

2013 Alice Munro Canada short-story writer

2014 Patrick Modiano France novelist

2015 Svetlana Alexievich Belarus journalist, prose writer

2016 Bob Dylan U.S. singer, songwriter

2017 Kazuo Ishiguro U.K. novelist

2018** Olga Tokarczuk Poland novelist, poet, essayist

2019 Peter Handke Austria novelist, poet, essayist, playwright

2020 Louise Glück U.S. poet

2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah Tanz. novelist