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The Nobel Prize in Literature
1901-Present:
The most prestigious award given in the field of Literature is awarded each year to individuals, regardless of nationality,
whose complete body of work has made a valuable contribution to the "good of humanity."
1900s
| 1901 | Rene F. A. Sully Prudhomme | (France) | | | |
| 1902 | Theodore Mommsen | (Germany) | | |
| 1903 | Bjornsterne Bjornson | (Norway) | |
| 1904 | Frederic Mistral
Jose Echegaray | (France)
(Spain) | |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | (Poland) | |
| 1906 | Giosue Carducci | (Italy) | |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | (Great Britain) | |
| 1908 | Rudolf C. Eucken | (Germany) | |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | (Sweden) | |
1910s
| 1910 | Paul J. L. Heyse | (Germany) | |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | (Belgium) | |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | (Germany) | |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | (India) | |
| 1914 | No Prize Awarded | | |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland | (France) | |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | (Sweden) | |
| 1917 | Karl A. Gjellerup
Henrik Pontoppidan | (Denmark)
(Denmark) | |
| 1918 | No Prize Awarded | | |
| 1919 | Carl F. G. Spitteler | (Switzerland) | |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | (Norway) | |
| 1921 | Anatole France | (France) | |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | (Spain) | |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats | (Ireland) | |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw S. Reymont | (Poland) | |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | (Ireland - Great Britain) | |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | (Italy) | |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson | (France) | |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | (Norway) | |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann | (Germany) | |
1930s
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | (United States) | |
| 1931 | Erik A. Karlfeldt | (Sweden) | |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy | (Great Britain) | |
| 1933 | Ivan A. Bunin | (Soviet Union) | |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | (Italy) | |
| 1935 | No Prize Awarded | | |
| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill | (United States) | |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | (France) | |
| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck | (United States) | |
| 1939 | Frans E. Sillanpää | (Finland) | |
| 1940 | No Prize Awarded | | |
| 1941 | No Prize Awarded | | |
| 1942 | No Prize Awarded | | |
| 1943 | No Prize Awarded | | |
| 1944 | Johannes V. Jensen | (Denmark) | |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | (Chile) | |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse | (Germany-Switzerland) | |
| 1947 | André Gide | (France) | |
| 1948 | T. S. Eliot | (Great Britain) | |
| 1949 | William Faulkner | (United States) | |
1950s
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | (Great Britain) | |
| 1951 | Pär F. Lagerkvist | (Sweden) | |
| 1952 | Francois Mauriac | (France) | |
| 1953 | Sir Winston Churchill | (Great Britain) | |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | (United States) | |
| 1955 | Halldor K. Laxness | (Iceland) | |
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | (Spain) | |
| 1957 | Albert Camus | (France) | |
| 1958 | Boris L. Pasternak (declined) | (Soviet Union) | |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | (Italy) | |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | (France) | |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric | (Yugoslavia) | |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck | (United States) | |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis | (Greece) | |
| 1964 | Jean Paul Sartre (declined) | (France) | |
| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | (Soviet Union) | |
| 1966 | Samuel Joseph Agnon
Nelly Sachs | (Israel)
(Sweden) | |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias | (Guatemala) | |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | (Japan) | |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | (Ireland) | |
1970s
| 1970 | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn | (Soviet Union) | |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | (Chile) | |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | (Germany) | |
| 1973 | Patrick White | (Australia) | |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson
Harry Edmund Martinson | (Sweden)
(Sweden) | |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | (Italy) | |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | (United States) | |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | (Spain) | |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | (United States) | |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis | (Greece) | |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz | (Poland-United States) | |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | Bulgaria - (Great Britain) | |
| 1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | (Columbia - Mexico) | |
| 1983 | William Golding | (Great Britain) | |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Siefert | (Czechoslovakia) | |
| 1985 | Claude Simon | (France) | |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | (Nigeria) | |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | (Soviet Union-United States) | |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | (Egypt) | |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | (Spain) | |
1990s
| 1990 | Octavio Paz | (Mexico) | |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | (South Africa) | |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | (West Indies) | |
| 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) | |
2000s
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | (France) | |
| 2001 | V.S. Naipaul | (Great Britain) | |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész | (Hungary ) | |
| 2003 | J.M. Coetzee | (South Africa) | |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | (Austria) | |
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