List of Nobel laureates in Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature
✨1901 - Sully Prudhomme
(Born - 1839; Died - 1907)
✓A French poet and essayist
✨1902 - Theodor Mommsen
(Born - 1817; Died - 1903)
✓A German historian, journalist, archaeologist, classical scholar, jurist and politician.
✨1903 - Bjornstjerne Bjornson
(Born - 1832; Died - 1910)
✓A Norwegian writer
✨✨1904 - Jose Echegaray
(19 April 1832 – 14 September 1916)
✓A Spanish dramatist, civil engineer, mathematician and statesman.
✨✨1904 - Frederic Mistral
(8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914)
✓An Occitan (France) writer and lexicographer
✨1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz
(5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916)
✓A Polish epic writer.
✨1906 - Giosue Carducci
(27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907)
✓An Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher.
✨1907 - Rudyard Kipling
(30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)
✓An English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer.
✨1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken
(5 January 1846 – 14 September 1926)
✓A German philosopher.
✨1909 - Selma Lagerlof
(20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940)
✓A Swedish writer.
✨1910 - Paul von Heyse
(15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914)
✓A German writer and translator.
✨1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck
(29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949)
✓A Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French.
✨1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann
(15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946)
✓A German dramatist and novelist.
✨1913 - Rabindranath Tagore
(7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)
✓A Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.
✓Tagore became the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
✨1914 - Not Awarded
✨1915 - Romain Rolland
(29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944)
✓A French dramatist, novelist, essayist and art historian.
✨1916 - Verner von Heidenstam
(6 July 1859 – 20 May 1940)
✓A Swedish poet, novelist.
✨✨1917 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup
(2 June 1857 – 11 October 1919)
✓A Danish poet and novelist.
✨✨1917 - Henrik Pontoppidan
(24 July 1857 – 21 August 1943)
✓A Danish realist writer.
✨1918 - Not Awarded
✨1919 - Carl Spitteler
(24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924)
✓A Swiss poet
✨1920 - Knut Hamsun
(4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952)
✓A Norwegian writer
✨1921 - Anatole France
(16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924)
✓A French poet, journalist, and novelist.
✨1922 - Jacinto Benavente
(12 August 1866 – 14 July 1954)
✓A Spanish dramatist.
✨1923 - William Butler Yeats
(13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939)
✓An Irish poet, dramatist and writer.
✨1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont
(7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925)
✓A Polish novelist.
✨1925 - George Bernard Shaw
(26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)
✓An Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
✨1926 - Grazia Deledda
(27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936)
✓An Italian writer
✨1927 - Henri Bergson
(18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941)
✓A French philosopher.
✨1928 - Sigrid Undset
(20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949)
✓A Danish-born Norwegian novelist.
✨1929 - Thomas Mann
(6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955)
✓A German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist.
✨1930 - Sinclair Lewis
(February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951)
✓An American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
✨1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt
(20 July 1864 – 8 April 1931)
✓A Swedish poet.
✨1932 - John Galsworthy
(14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933)
✓An English novelist and playwright.
✨1933 - Ivan Bunin
(1870 – 8 November 1953)
✓The first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
✨1934 - Luigi Pirandello
(28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936)
✓An Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer.
✨1935 - Not Awarded
✨1936 - Eugene O'Neill
(October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953)
✓An American playwright.
✨1937 - Roger Martin du Gard
(23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958)
✓A French novelist.
✨1938 - Pearl Buck
(June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973)
✓An American writer and novelist.
✨1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpaa
(16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964)
✓A Finnish writer.
✨1940 - Not Awarded
✨1941 - Not Awarded
✨1942 - Not Awarded
✨1943 - Not Awarded
✨1944 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
(20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950)
✓A Danish author.
✨1945 - Gabriela Mistral
(7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957)
✓A Chilean poet-diplomat, educator.
✨1946 - Hermann Hesse
(2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962)
✓A German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter.
✨1947 - Andre Gide
(22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951)
✓A French author
✨1948 - Thomas Stearns Eliot
(26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965)
✓An English poet, essayist and playwright.
✨1949 - William Faulkner
(September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962)
✓An American writer.
✨1950 - Bertrand Russell
(18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970)
✓A British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual.
✨1951 - Par Lagerkvist
(23 May 1891 – 11 July 1974)
✓A Swedish author
✨1952 - Francois Mauriac
(11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970)
✓A French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist.
✨1953 - Winston Churchill
(30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965)
✓A British statesman, military officer, and writer.
✨1954 - Ernest Hemingway
(July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)
✓An American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.
✨1955 - Halldor Laxness
(23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998)
✓An Icelandic writer
✨1956 - Juan Ramon Jimenez
(23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958)
✓A Spanish poet, a prolific writer.
✨1957 - Albert Camus
(7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960)
✓A French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist and political activist.
✨1958 - Boris Pasternak
(1890 – 30 May 1960)
✓A Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.
✨1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo
(20 August 1901 – 14 June 1968)
✓An Italian poet and translator.
✨1960 - Saint-John Perse
(31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975)
✓A French poet, writer and diplomat.
✨1961 - Ivo Andrić
(9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975)
✓A Yugoslavia novelist, poet and short story writer
✨1962 - John Steinbeck
(February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)
✓An American writer.
✨1963 - Giorgos Seferis
(1900 – September 20, 1971)
✓A Greek poet and diplomat.
✨1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre
(21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980)
✓A French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.
✨1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov
(1905 – 21 February 1984)
✓A Russian novelist
✨✨1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
(August 8, 1887 – February 17, 1970)
✓An Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer.
✨✨1966 - Nelly Sachs
(10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970)
✓A German–Swedish poet and playwright.
✨1967 - Miguel Ángel Asturias
(19 October 1899 – 9 June 1974)
✓A Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist.
✨1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
(11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972)
✓A Japanese novelist, and short story writer known for spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works.
✓The first Japanese author to receive Nobel Prize in Literature.
✨1969 - Samuel Beckett
(13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989)
✓An Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.
✨1970 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)
✓A Russian author.
✨1971 - Pablo Neruda
(12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973)
✓A Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. He is famous for his surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems.
✨1972 - Heinrich Böll
(21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985)
✓A German writer.
✨1973 - Patrick White
(28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990)
✓An Australian novelist and playwright.
✨✨1974 - Eyvind Johnson
(29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976)
✓A Swedish novelist and short story writer.
✨✨1974 - Harry Martinson
(6 May 1904 – 11 February 1978)
✓A Swedish writer, poet and former sailor.
✨1975 - Eugenio Montale
(12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981)
✓An Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator.
✨1976 - Saul Bellow
(June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005)
✓An American writer.
✨1977 - Vicente Aleixandre
(26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984)
✓A Spanish poet.
✨1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
(1904 – July 24, 1991)
✓A Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator.
✨1979 - Odysseas Elytis
(2 November 1911 – 18 March 1996)
✓A Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator.
✨1980 - Czeslaw Milosz
(30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004)
✓A Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat.
✨1981 - Elias Canetti
(25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994)
✓A German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic Jewish family.
✨1982 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014)
✓A Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist.
✨1983 - William Golding
(19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993)
✓A British novelist, playwright, and poet.
✨1984 - Jaroslav Seifert
(23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986)
✓A Czech writer, poet and journalist.
✨1985 - Claude Simon
(10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005)
✓A French novelist
✨1986 - Wole Soyinka
(born 13 July 1934)
✓A Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language.
✨1987 - Joseph Brodsky
(24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996)
✓A Russian and American poet and essayist.
✨1988 - Naguib Mahfouz
(11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006)
✓An Egyptian writer.
✨1989 - Camilo Jose Cela
(11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002)
✓A Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist.
✨1990 - Octavio Paz
(March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998)
✓A Mexican poet and diplomat.
✨1991 - Nadine Gordimer
(20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014)
✓A South African writer and political activist.
✨1992 - Derek Walcott
(23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017)
✓A Saint Lucian poet and playwright.
✨1993 - Toni Morrison
(February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019)
✓An American novelist and editor.
✨1994 - Kenzaburo Oe
(31 January 1935 – 3 March 2023)
✓A Japanese writer.
✨1995 - Seamus Heaney
(13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013)
✓An Irish poet, playwright and translator.
✨1996 - Wislawa Szymborska
(2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012)
✓A Polish poet, essayist, translator.
✨1997 - Dario Fo
(24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016)
✓An Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner.
✨1998 - Jose Saramago
(16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010)
✓A Portuguese writer.
✨1999 - Gunter Grass
(16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015)
✓A German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor.
✨2000 - Gao Xingjian
(born January 4, 1940)
✓A Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator.
✨2001 - V. S. Naipaul
(17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018)
✓A Trinidadian born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English.
✨2002 - Imre Kertesz
(9 November 1929 – 31 March 2016)
✓A Hungarian writer.
✨2003 - John Maxwell Coetzee
(born 9 February 1940)
✓A South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator.
✨2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
(born 20 October 1946)
✓An Austrian playwright and novelist.
✨2005 - Harold Pinter
(10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008)
✓A British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.
✨2006 - Orhan Pamuk
(born 7 June 1952)
✓A Turkish novelist, screenwriter.
✨2007 - Doris Lessing
(22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013)
✓A British novelist.
✨2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
(13 April 1940)
✓A French and Mauritian writer and professor.
✨2009 - Herta Muller
(born 17 August 1953)
✓A Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist.
✨2010 - Mario Vargas Llosa
(born 28 March 1936)
✓A Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician.
✨2011 - Tomas Tranströmer
(15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015)
✓A Swedish poet, psychologist and translator.
✨2012 - Mo Yan
(born 5 March 1955)
✓A Chinese novelist and short story writer.
✨2013 - Alice Munro
(10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024)
✓A Canadian short story writer
✨2014 - Patrick Modiano
(born 30 July 1945)
✓A French novelist
✨2015 - Svetlana Alexievich
(born 31 May 1948)
✓A Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian.
✨2016 - Bob Dylan
(born May 24, 1941)
✓An American singer-songwriter.
✨2017 - Kazuo Ishiguro
(born 8 November 1954)
✓A Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer.
✨2018 - Olga Tokarczuk
(born 29 January 1962)
✓A Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual.
✨2019 - Peter Handke
(born 6 December 1942)
✓An Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter.
✨2020 - Louise Gluck
(April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023)
✓An American poet and essayist.
✨2021 - Abdulrazak Gurnah
(born 20 December 1948)
✓A Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic.
✨2022 - Annie Ernaux
(born 1 September 1940)
✓A French writer
✨2023 - Jon Fosse
(born 29 September 1959)
✓A Norwegian author, translator, and playwright.
✨2024 - Han Kang
(born 27 November 1970)
✓A South Korean writer.
✓She became the first South Korean writer and the first female Asian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Some interesting facts about the Nobel Prize in Literature:
1. Established by Alfred Nobel:
The Nobel Prize was established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. He is the inventor of dynamite and also wrote poetry and drama. He wanted the prize to be awarded to authors who produced outstanding work in literature, but they were first awarded in 1901, after his death.
2. Who Awards the Nobel Prize in Literature?
The Nobel Prize in Literature is given every year by the Swedish Academy to writers who have made exceptional contributions to literature.
3. First Award:
The first Nobel Prize in Literature was given in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme, a French poet.
4. International Focus:
The prize is awarded to authors from all over the world, not just one country. Many winners write in languages other than English. As of 2024, France, with 16 Nobel Laureates in Literature, holds the record for the highest number of laureates in that category.
5. Oldest Winner:
Doris Lessing, a British writer, won the prize in 2007 at the age of 88.
6. Youngest Winner:
Rudyard Kipling, best known for The Jungle Book, won in 1907 at the age of 41, making him the youngest recipient.
7. Diverse Genres:
Writers of novels, plays, poetry, essays, and even songs (like Bob Dylan in 2016) have won the prize.
8. Controversial Choices:
Some winners, like Bob Dylan or Winston Churchill, were surprising to many because they were not primarily known as traditional "authors."
9. Missed Chances:
Some famous authors, like Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, never won the Nobel Prize, even though they are now regarded as literary giants.
10. Women Writers:
As of 2024, only 18 women have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The first female winner was Selma Lagerlöf in 1909. The most recent female laureate is Han Kang, who won in 2024.
11. Years When the Nobel Prize in Literature Was Not Awarded:
1914 & 1918: Not awarded during World War I.
1935: No prize was awarded; no specific reason was given.
1940-1943: Not awarded during World War II.
12. Alfred Nobel's Broad Definition:
Alfred Nobel didn't specify what type of literature the prize should be for. He simply said it should go to the person who produced "the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency." This has allowed for a wide range of genres and styles to be considered.
13. Rejections:
Some winners declined the award. Boris Pasternak, a Russian author who wrote Doctor Zhivago, was forced to reject the prize in 1958 due to pressure from the Soviet government.
Jean-Paul Sartre refused the prize because he did not want to be "institutionalized" and believed it would limit his freedom as a writer. He also involved in politics and felt that accepting the prize would legitimize the bourgeois establishment he opposed.
14. Languages of Winners:
There is no specific language requirement or eligibility criteria; authors from any language can be considered for the prize. As of 2024, The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to authors writing in over 26 different languages. Most winners have written in English, French, German, and Spanish, but there are also laureates from languages like Arabic, Bengali, Japanese, and more.
15. First Non-European Winner:
Rabindranath Tagore from India became the first non-European winner in 1913. His poetry and writings brought Indian literature to the global stage.
16. Prize Money:
The prize comes with a large monetary award. As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature winner receives about 11 million Swedish kronor (SEK).
17. Secrecy:
The nomination process is kept secret for 50 years. After this period, the names of the nominees and the discussions surrounding their candidacy are revealed to the public. The nomination process begins in September each year.
18. Total Recipients:
As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individuals, including 18 women and 103 men.
Here, I provide the list again to focus only on the names of Nobel Laureates and the years they received the Nobel Prize in Literature.👇👇👇
✨1901 - Sully Prudhomme
✨1902 - Theodor Mommsen
✨1903 - Bjornstjerne Bjornson
✨✨1904 -Jose Echegaray
✨✨1904 - Frederic Mistral
✨1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz
✨1906 - Giosue Carducci
✨1907 - Rudyard Kipling
✨1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken
✨1909 - Selma Lagerlof
✨1910 - Paul von Heyse
✨1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck
✨1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann
✨1913 - Rabindranath Tagore
✨1914 - Not Awarded
✨1915 - Romain Rolland
✨1916 - Verner von Heidenstam
✨✨1917 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup
✨✨1917 - Henrik Pontoppidan
✨1918 - Not Awarded
✨1919 - Carl Spitteler
✨1920 - Knut Hamsun
✨1921 - Anatole France
✨1922 - Jacinto Benavente
✨1923 - William Butler Yeats
✨1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont
✨1925 - George Bernard Shaw
✨1926 - Grazia Deledda
✨1927 - Henri Bergson
✨1928 - Sigrid Undset
✨1929 - Thomas Mann
✨1930 - Sinclair Lewis
✨1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt
✨1932 - John Galsworthy
✨1933 - Ivan Bunin
✨1934 - Luigi Pirandello
✨1935 - Not Awarded
✨1936 - Eugene O'Neill
✨1937 - Roger Martin du Gard
✨1938 - Pearl Buck
✨1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpaa
✨1940 - Not Awarded
✨1941 - Not Awarded
✨1942 - Not Awarded
✨1943 - Not Awarded
✨1944 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
✨1945 - Gabriela Mistral
✨1946 - Hermann Hesse
✨1947 - Andre Gide
✨1948 - Thomas Stearns Eliot
✨1949 - William Faulkner
✨1950 - Bertrand Russell
✨1951 - Par Lagerkvist
✨1952 - Francois Mauriac
✨1953 - Winston Churchill
✨1954 - Ernest Hemingway
✨1955 - Halldor Laxness
✨1956 - Juan Ramon Jimenez
✨1957 - Albert Camus
✨1958 - Boris Pasternak
✨1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo
✨1960 - Saint-John Perse
✨1961 - Ivo Andrić
✨1962 - John Steinbeck
✨1963 - Giorgos Seferis
✨1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre
✨1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov
✨✨1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
✨✨1966 - Nelly Sachs
✨1967 - Miguel Ángel Asturias
✨1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
✨1969 - Samuel Beckett
✨1970 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
✨1971 - Pablo Neruda
✨1972 - Heinrich Böll
✨1973 - Patrick White
✨✨1974 - Eyvind Johnson
✨✨1974 - Harry Martinson
✨1975 - Eugenio Montale
✨1976 - Saul Bellow
✨1977 - Vicente Aleixandre
✨1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
✨1979 - Odysseas Elytis
✨1980 - Czeslaw Milosz
✨1981 - Elias Canetti
✨1982 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
✨1983 - William Golding
✨1984 - Jaroslav Seifert
✨1985 - Claude Simon
✨1986 - Wole Soyinka
✨1987 - Joseph Brodsky
✨1988 - Naguib Mahfouz
✨1989 - Camilo Jose Cela
✨1990 - Octavio Paz
✨1991 - Nadine Gordimer
✨1992 - Derek Walcott
✨1993 - Toni Morrison
✨1994 - Kenzaburo Oe
✨1995 - Seamus Heaney
✨1996 - Wislawa Szymborska
✨1997 - Dario Fo
✨1998 - Jose Saramago
✨1999 - Gunter Grass
✨2000 - Gao Xingjian
✨2001 - V. S. Naipaul
✨2002 - Imre Kertesz
✨2003 - John Maxwell Coetzee
✨2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
✨2005 - Harold Pinter
✨2006 - Orhan Pamuk
✨2007 - Doris Lessing
✨2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
✨2009 - Herta Muller
✨2010 - Mario Vargas Llosa
✨2011 - Tomas Tranströmer
✨2012 - Mo Yan
✨2013 - Alice Munro
✨2014 - Patrick Modiano
✨2015 - Svetlana Alexievich
✨2016 - Bob Dylan
✨2017 - Kazuo Ishiguro
✨2018 - Olga Tokarczuk
✨2019 - Peter Handke
✨2020 - Louise Gluck
✨2021 - Abdulrazak Gurnah
✨2022 - Annie Ernaux
✨2023 - Jon Fosse
✨2024 - Han Kang
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