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Nobel Prize for Literature
Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award.

Winners, 1901-2006
   

2007 Doris Lessing United Kingdom
2006 Orhan Pamuk Turkey
2005 Harold Pinter England
2004 Elfriede Jelinek Austria
2003 John Maxwell Coetzee South Africa
2002 Imre Kertész Hungary
2001 V. S. Naipaul British writer, born in Trinidad

2000

Gao Xingjian

China

1999

Günter Grass

Germany

1998

José Saramago

Portugal

1997

Dario Fo

Italy

1996

Wislawa Szymborska

Poland

1995

Seamus Heaney

Ireland

1994

Kenzaburo Oe

Japan

1993

Toni Morrison

U.S.A.

1992

Derek Walcott

St. Lucia

1991

Nadine Gordimer

South Africa

1990

Octavio Paz

Mexico

1989

Dr. Camilo José Cela

Spain

1988

Naguib Mahfouz

Egypt

1987

Joseph Brodsky

U.S.A.

1986

Wole Soyinka

Nigeria

1985

Claude Simon

France

1984

Jaroslav Seifert

Czechoslovakia

1983

William Golding

United Kingdom

1982

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombia

1981

Elias Canetti

United Kingdom

1980

Czeslaw Milosz

Poland/U.S.A.

1979

Odysseus Elytis

Greece

1978

Isaac Bashevis Singer

U.S.A.

1977

Vicente Aleixandre

Spain

1976

Saul Bellow

U.S.A.

1975

Eugenio Montale

Italy

1974

Eyvind Johnson

Sweden

 

Harry Martinson

Sweden

1973

Patrick White

Australia

1972

Heinrich Böll

Germany

1971

Pablo Neruda

Chile

1970

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

U.S.S.R.

1969

Samuel Beckett

Ireland

1968

Yasunari Kawabata

Japan

1967

Miguel A. Asturias

Guatemala

1966

Shmuel Y. Agnon

Israel (shared)

Nelly Sachs

Germany (shared)

1965

Mikhail Sholokhov

U.S.S.R.

1964

Jean-Paul Sartre

France (declined)

1963

Giorgos Seferis

Greece

1962

John Steinbeck

U.S.A.

1961

Ivo Andric

Yugoslavia

1960

Saint-John Perse

France

1959

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italy

1958

Boris Pasternak

U.S.S.R.

1957

Albert Camus

France

1956

Juan Ramon Jiménez

Spain

1955

Halldór Kiljan Laxness

Iceland

1954

Ernest Hemingway

U.S.A.

1953

Winston Churchill

United Kingdom

1952

François Mauriac

France

1951

Pär Lagerkvist

Sweden

1950

Bertrand Russell

United Kingdom

1949

William Faulkner

U.S.A.

1948

T.S. Eliot

United Kingdom

1947

André Gide

France

1946

Hermann Hesse

Switzerland

1945

Gabriela Mistral

Chile

1944

Johannes V. Jensen

Denmark

1943

No Award

The prize money was allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1942

No Award

The prize money was allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1941

No Award

The prize money was allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1940

No Award

The prize money was allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1939

F.E. Sillanpää

Finland

1938

Pearl S. Buck

U.S.A.

1937

Roger Martin du Gard

France

1936

Eugene O'Neill

U.S.A.

1935

No Award

The prize money was allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1934

Luigi Pirandello

Italy

1933

Ivan Bunin

U.S.S.R.

1932

John Galsworthy

United Kingdom

1931

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Sweden

1930

Sinclair Lewis

U.S.A.

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

No Award

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

1917

Karl Gjellerup

Denmark (shared)

 

Henrik Pontoppidan

Denmark (shared)

1916

Verner von Heidenstam

Sweden

1915

Romain Rolland

France

1914

No Award

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 von Heyse

Germany

1909

Selma Lagerlöf

Sweden

1908

Rudolf Eucken

Germany

1907

Rudyard Kipling

United Kingdom

1906

Giosuae Carducci

Italy

1905

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Poland

1904

José Echegaray

Spain (shared)

 

Frédéric Mistral

France (shared)

1903

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Norway

1902

Theodor Mommsen

Germany

1901

René François Armand

France

 

 
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