NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

• 2004 Elfriede Jelinek Austria
• 2003 J. M. Coetze South Africa
• 2002 Imre Kertész Hungary
• 2001 V S Naipaul Great Britain
• 2000 Gao Xingjian China
• 1999 Gunter Grass Germany
• 1998 Jose 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 Trinidad
• 1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa
• 1990 Octavio Paz Mexico
• 1989 Dr. Camilo Jose Cela Spain
• 1988 Najib Mahfuz Egypt
• 1987 Joseph Brodsky U.S.S.R.
• 1986 Wole Soyinka Nigeria
• 1985 Claude Simon France
• 1984 Jaroslav Seifert Czechoslavakia
• 1983 William Golding United Kingdom
• 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
• 1973 Patrick White Australia
• 1972 Heinrich Boll Federal Republic of 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
• 1966 Nelly Sachs Germany
• 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 J.R. Jimenez Spain
• 1955 Halldor Laxness Iceland
• 1954 Ernest Hemingway U.S.A.
• 1953 Winston Churchill United Kingdom
• 1952 Francois Mauriac France
• 1951 Par Lagerkvist Sweden
• 1950 Bertrand Russell United Kingdom
• 1949 William Faulkner U.S.A.
• 1948 T.S. Eliot United Kingdom
• 1947 Andre Gide France
• 1946 Hermann Hesse Switzerland
• 1945 Gabriela Mistral Chile
• 1944 Johannes V. Jensen Denmark
• 1943 No Award
• 1942 No Award
• 1941 No Award
• 1940 No Award
• 1939 F.E. Sillanpaa Finland
• 1938 Pearl S. Buck U.S.A.
• 1937 Roger Martin du Gard France
• 1936 Eugene O’Neill U.S.A.
• 1935 No Award
• 1934 Luigi Pirandello Italy
• 1933 Ivan Bunin Stateless
• 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
• 1917 Karl Gjellerup Denmark
• 1917 Henrik Pontoppidan Denmark
• 1916 Verner von Heidenstam Sweden
• 1915 Romain Rolland France
• 1914 No Award
• 1913 Rabindranath Tagore India
• 1912 Gerhart Hauptmann Germany
• 1911 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgium
• 1910 Paul Heyse Germany
• 1909 Selma Lagerlof Sweden
• 1908 Rudoll Eucken Germany
• 1907 Rudyard Kipling United Kingdom
• 1906 Giouse Carducci Italy
• 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland
• 1904 Jose Echegaray Spain
• 1904 Frederic Mistral France
• 1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson Norway
• 1902 Theodor Mommsen Germany
• 1901 Sully Prudhomme France