Nobel Prize in Literature winners

1901 - 2018

Year	Name		Gender	Citizenship	Second Citizenship	Born	Remarks
2018	The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature has been postponed.
2017	Kazuo	Ishiguro	Male	United Kingdom		1954
2016	Bob	Dylan	Male	United States		1941
2015	Svetlana	Alexievich	Female	Ukraine		1948
2014	Patrick	Modiano	Male	France		1945
2013	Alice	Munro	Female	Canada		1931
2012	Mo	Yan	Male	China		1955
2011	Tomas	Tranströmer	Male	Sweden		1931
2010	Mario	Vargas Llosa	Male	Peru		1936
2009	Herta	Müller	Female	Germany		1953
2008	Jean-Marie Gustave	Le Clézio	Male	France	Mauritius	1940
2007	Doris	Lessing	Female	United Kingdom		1919
2006	Orhan	Pamuk	Male	Turkey		1952
2005	Harold	Pinter	Male	United Kingdom		1930
2004	Elfriede	Jelinek	Female	Austria		1946
2003	J.M.	Coetzee	Male	South Africa		1940
2002	Imre	Kertész	Male	Hungary		1929
2001	V.S.	Naipaul	Male	United Kingdom		1932
2000	Gao	Xingjian	Male	France		1940
1999	Günter	Grass	Male	Germany		1927
1998	José	Saramago	Male	Portugal		1922
1997	Dario	Fo	Male	Italy		1926
1996	Wislawa	Szymborska	Female	Poland		1923
1995	Seamus	Heaney	Male	Ireland		1939
1994	Kenzaburo	Oe	Male	Japan		1935
1993	Toni	Morrison	Female	United States		1931
1992	Derek	Walcott	Male	Saint Lucia		1930
1991	Nadine	Gordimer	Female	South Africa		1923
1990	Octavio	Paz	Male	Mexico		1914
1989	Camilo José	Cela	Male	Spain		1916
1988	Naguib	Mahfouz	Male	Egypt		1911
1987	Joseph	Brodsky	Male	United States		1940
1986	Wole	Soyinka	Male	Nigeria		1934
1985	Claude	Simon	Male	France		1913
1984	Jaroslav	Seifert	Male	Czechoslovakia		1901
1983	William	Golding	Male	United Kingdom		1911
1982	Gabriel García	Márquez	Male	Colombia		1928
1981	Elias	Canetti	Male	United Kingdom		1905
1980	Czeslaw	Milosz	Male	Poland	United States	1911
1979	Odysseus	Elytis	Male	Greece		1911
1978	Isaac Bashevis	Singer	Male	United States		1904
1977	Vicente	Aleixandre	Male	Spain		1898
1976	Saul	Bellow	Male	United States		1915
1975	Eugenio	Montale	Male	Italy		1896
1974	Eyvind	Johnson	Male	Sweden		1900
1974	Harry	Martinson	Male	Sweden		1904
1973	Patrick	White	Male	Australia		1912
1972	Heinrich	Böll	Male	Germany		1917
1971	Pablo	Neruda	Male	Chile		1904
1970	Alexandr	Solzhenitsyn	Male	Soviet Union		1918
1969	Samuel	Beckett	Male	Ireland		1906
1968	Yasunari	Kawabata	Male	Japan		1899
1967	Miguel Angel	Asturias	Male	Guatemala		1899
1966	Samuel	Agnon	Male	Israel		1888
1966	Nelly	Sachs	Female	Sweden		1891
1965	Mikhail	Sholokhov	Male	Soviet Union		1905
1964	Jean-Paul	Sartre	Male	France		1905	Declined the prize
1963	Giorgos	Seferis	Male	Greece		1900
1962	John	Steinbeck	Male	United States		1902
1961	Ivo	Andric	Male	Yugoslavia		1892
1960	Saint-John	Perse	Male	France		1887
1959	Salvatore	Quasimodo	Male	Italy		1901
1958	Boris	Pasternak	Male	Soviet Union		1890	Forced to decline
1957	Albert	Camus	Male	France		1913
1956	Juan Ramón	Jiménez	Male	Spain		1881
1955	Halldór	Laxness	Male	Iceland		1902
1954	Ernest	Hemingway	Male	United States		1899
1953	Winston	Churchill	Male	United Kingdom		1874
1952	François	Mauriac	Male	France		1885
1951	Pär	Lagerkvist	Male	Sweden		1891
1950	Bertrand	Russell	Male	United Kingdom		1872
1949	William	Faulkner	Male	United States		1897
1948	T.S.	Eliot	Male	United Kingdom		1888
1947	André	Gide	Male	France		1869
1946	Hermann	Hesse	Male	Switzerland		1877
1945	Gabriela	Mistral	Female	Chile		1889
1944	Johannes V.	Jensen	Male	Denmark		1873
1939	Frans Eemil	Sillanpää	Male	Finland		1888
1938	Pearl	Buck	Female	United States		1892
1937	Roger	Martin du Gard	Male	France		1881
1936	Eugene	O'Neill	Male	United States		1888
1934	Luigi	Pirandello	Male	Italy		1867
1933	Ivan	Bunin	Male	stateless		1870
1932	John	Galsworthy	Male	United Kingdom		1867
1931	Erik Axel	Karlfeldt	Male	Sweden		1864
1930	Sinclair	Lewis	Male	United States		1885
1929	Thomas	Mann	Male	Germany		1875
1928	Sigrid	Undset	Female	Norway		1882
1927	Henri	Bergson	Male	France		1859
1926	Grazia	Deledda	Female	Italy		1871
1925	George Bernard	Shaw	Male	United Kingdom		1856
1924	Wladyslaw	Reymont	Male	Poland		1867
1923	William Butler	Yeats	Male	Ireland		1865
1922	Jacinto	Benavente	Male	Spain		1866
1921	Anatole	France	Male	France		1844
1920	Knut	Hamsun	Male	Norway		1859
1919	Carl	Spitteler	Male	Switzerland		1845
1917	Karl	Gjellerup	Male	Denmark		1857
1917	Henrik	Pontoppidan	Male	Denmark		1857
1916	Verner	von Heidenstam	Male	Sweden		1859
1915	Romain	Rolland	Male	France		1866
1913	Rabindranath	Tagore	Male	India		1861
1912	Gerhart	Hauptmann	Male	Germany		1862
1911	Maurice	Maeterlinck	Male	Belgium		1862
1910	Paul	Heyse	Male	Germany		1830
1909	Selma	Lagerlöf	Female	Sweden		1858
1908	Rudolf	Eucken	Male	Germany		1846
1907	Rudyard	Kipling	Male	United Kingdom		1865
1906	Giosuè	Carducci	Male	Italy		1835
1905	Henryk	Sienkiewicz	Male	Poland		1846
1904	José	Echegaray	Male	Spain		1832
1904	Frédéric	Mistral	Male	France		1830
1903	Bjørnstjerne	Bjørnson	Male	Norway		1832
1902	Theodor	Mommsen	Male	Germany		1817
1901	Sully	Prudhomme	Male	France		1839

1901  Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907)

Given: "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect."

List of works 
Some poems translated

Links

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