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NOBEL PRIZE in Literature

2007: Doris Lessing, United Kingdom

2006: Orhan Pamuk, Turkey

2005: Harold Pinter, United Kingdom.

2004: Elfriede Jelinek, Austria.

2003: John Maxwell Coetzee, South Africa.

2002: Imre Kertesz, of Hungary.

2001: V. S. Naipul, Great Britain, Works,  Language: English

2000: Gao Xingjian China, Drama and Prose (1940-)  Works in Translation. Chinese. 

1999: Gunter Grass Germany, Fiction (1927-)  The Works of Gunter Grass.  German.

1998: Jose Saramago Portugal, Fiction (1922-)  The Works of Saramago.  Portuguese.

1997: Dario Fo Italy, Drama (1926-)  The Works of Dario Fo. Italian.

1996: Wislawa Szymborska Poland, Poetry (1923- ) Polish.

1995: Seamus Heaney Northern Ireland, Poetry (1939- ) English.

1994: Kenzaburo Oe Japan, Fiction (1935-)  Japanese.

1993: Toni Morrison (pseudonym of Chloe Wofford) United States, Fiction (1931-) Works of Toni Morrison. English.

1992: Derek Walcott St Lucia, Poetry and Drama (1930-) Works by Derek Walcott. English.

1991: Nadine Gordimer South Africa, Fiction (1923-) The Works of Gordimer. English.

1990: Octavio Paz Mexico, Poetry and Criticism (1914-1998) Spanish.

1989: Camilo Jose Cela Spain, Fiction (1916-2002) Spanish Cela is best known for his works The Family of Pascual Duarte | Paperback and The Hive | Paperback

1988: Naguib Mahfouz Egypt, Fiction (1911-) Arabic.

1987: Joseph Brodsky USSR-USA, Poetry (1940-1996) Russian

1986: Wole Soyinka Nigeria, Fiction and Drama (1934-) English. Works of Wole Soyinka.

1985: Claude Simon France, Fiction (1913-) French.

1984: Jaroslav Seifert Czechoslovakia, Poetry (1901-1986) Czechoslovakian. Works of Seifert.

1983: William Golding Britain, Fiction (1911-1993) English. List of Works.

1982: Gabriel García Márquez Colombia, Fiction (1928-) Spanish

1981: Elias Canetti Bulgaria-Austria-Britain, Fiction and Essays (1905-1994) German.

1980: Czeslaw Milosz Poland-United States, Poetry (1911-) Polish.

1979: Odysseus Elytis (Odysseus Alepoudhelis) Greece, Poetry (1911-1996) Greek.

1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer Poland-United States, Fiction (1904-1991) Yiddish.

1977: Vicente Aleixandre Spain, Poetry (1898-1984) Spanish.

1976: Saul Bellow USA, Fiction (1915-)  English.

1975: Eugenio Montale Italy, Poetry (1896-1981) Italian.

1974: (shared) Eyvind Johnson Sweden, Fiction (1900-1976) Swedish Works of Eyvind Johnson  and   Harry Edmund Martinson Sweden, Fiction and Poetry (1904-1978) Swedish  Writings of Harry Martinson

1973: Patrick White Australia, Fiction (1912-1990)  English.

1972: Heinrich Böll Germany, Fiction (1917-1985) German.

1971: Pablo Neruda (Ricardo Reyes y Basoalto) Chile, Poetry (1904-1973) Spanish.

1970: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn USSR, Fiction (1918-) Russian.

1969: Samuel Beckett Ireland-France, Fiction and Drama (1906-1989) English.

1968: Yasunari Kawabata Japan, Fiction (1899-1972) Japanese.

1967: Miguel Angel Asturias Guatemala, Fiction (1899-1974) Spanish.

1966: Samuel Joseph Agnon (Shmuel Czaczkes) Israel, Fiction (1888-1970) Hebrew.
Nelly Sachs Germany-Sweden, Poetry (1891-1970) German.

1965: Mikhail Sholokhov USSR, Fiction (1905-1984) Russian.

1964: Jean-Paul Sartre France, (1905-1980) French - The only honoree to turn down the prize voluntarily.  Sartre refused the Nobel Prize for literature on the grounds that such honors could interfere with a writer's responsibilities to his readers.

1963: Giorgios Seferis (pseudonym Giorgos Seferiadis) Greece, Poetry (1900-1971) Greek.

1962: John Steinbeck United States, Fiction (1902-1968)  English.

1961: Ivo Andric Yugoslavia, Fiction (1892-1975) Serbo-Croatian.

1960: St-John Perse (Alexis St. Léger) France, Poetry (1887-1975) French.

1959: Salvatore Quasimodo Italy, Poetry (1901-1968) Italian.

1958: Boris Pasternak USSR, Poetry and Fiction (1890-1960) Russian - Pasternak was forced by the Soviet Government to refuse The Nobel for Literature Award.

1957: Albert Camus France, Fiction and Criticism (1913-1960) French.

1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez Spain, Poetry (1881-1958) Spanish.

1955: Halidór Kiljian Laxness Iceland, Fiction (1902-1998) Icelandic.

1954: Ernest Miller Hemingway United States, Fiction (1899-1961)  English.

1953: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Britain, History (1874-1965)  English Churchill in His Own Voice.

1952: Francois Mauriac France, Fiction (1885-1970) French.

1951: Pär Lagerkvist Sweden, Fiction and Drama (1891-1974).
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1950: Bertrand Russell Great Britain, Philosophy (1899-1961) English.

1949: William Faulkner United States, Fiction (1897-1962) | English. Two time winner of both the National Book Award and The Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

1948: T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot) United States-Britain, Poetry (1888-1965)  English.

1947: André Gide France, Fiction (1869-1951) French.

1946: Herman Hesse Germany-Switzerland, Fiction (1877-1962) German.

1945: Gabriela Mistral Chile, Poetry (1889-1957) French.

1944: Johannes V. Jensen Denmark, Fiction (1873-1950) Danish.

1943 -1940 No Nobel Award

1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää Finland, Fiction (1888-1964) Finnish.

1938: Pearl S. Buck United States, Fiction (1892-1973)  English.

1937: Robert Martin du Gard France, Fiction (1881-1958) French.

1936: Eugene Gladstone O’Neill United States, Drama (1888-1953)  English.

1935: No Award

1934: Luigi Pirandello Italy, Drama and Fiction (1867-1936) Italian.

1933: Ivan G. Bunin Russia, Fiction (1870-1953) Russian.

1932: John Galsworthy Britain, Fiction and Drama (1867-1933)  English.

1931: Erik A. Karlfeldt Sweden, Poetry (1864-1931) Swedish.

1930: Sinclair Lewis United States, Fiction (1885-1951)  English.

1929: Thomas Mann Germany, Fiction (1875-1955) German.

1928: Sigrid Undset Norway, Fiction (1882-1949) Norwegian.

1927: Henri Bergson France, Philosophy (1859-1941) French.

1926: Grazia Deledda (pseudonym of Grazia Madesani) Italy, Fiction (1871-1936) Italian.

1925: George Bernard Shaw Ireland-Britain, Drama (1856-1950)  English.

1924: Wladyslaw Reymount Poland, Fiction (1867-1925) Polish.

1923: William Butler Yeats Ireland, Poetry (1865-1939)  English.

1922: Jacinto Benavente y Martinez Spain, Drama (1866-1954) Spanish.

1921: Anatole France (a k a Jacques Anatole Thibault) France, Fiction (1844-1924) French.

1920: Knut Hamsun Norway, Fiction (1859-1952) Norwegian.

1919: Carl F. G. Spitteler Switzerland, Poetry (1845-1924) German.

1918: No Award

1917: Karl Gjellerup Denmark, Poetry (1857-1919) Danish and  Henrik Pontoppidan Denmark, Fiction (1857-1943) Danish.

1916: Carl Verner von Heidenstam Sweden, Poetry and Fiction (1859-1940) Swedish.

1915: Romain Rolland France, Fiction (1866-1944) French.

1914: No Award

1913: Rabindranath Tagore India, Poetry (1861-1941) Bengali.

1912: Gerhart Hauptmann Germany, Drama (1862-1946) German.

1911: Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck Belgium, Poetry and Drama (1862-1949) French.

1910: Paul J. L. Heyse Germany, Poetry Drama and Fiction (1830-1914) German.

1909: Selma Lagerlöf Sweden, Fiction (1858-1940) Swedish.

1908: Rudolf Eucken Germany, Philosophy (1846-1926) German.

1907: Rudyard Kipling Britain, Poetry and Fiction (1865-1936)  English.

1906: Giusuè Carducci Italy, Poetry (1835-1907) Italian.

1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland, Fiction (1846-1916) Polish.

1904: Frédéric Mistral France, Poetry (1830-1914) Spanish  and  José Echegary y Eizaguirre Spain, Drama (1832-1916) Spanish.

1903: Björnstjerne Björnson Norway, Poetry (1832-1910) Norwegian.

1902: C. M. Theodor Mommsen Germany, history (1817-1903) German.

1901: Sully Prudhomme (a.k.a. René F. A. Sully-Prudhomme, RENÉ FRANÇOIS ARMAND) France, Poetry (1839-1907) French.