Nobel Prize in Literature

2025

László Krasznahorkai.

2024

Han Kang.

2023

Jon Fosse.

2022

Annie Ernaux.

2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah.

2020

Louise Glück.

2019

Peter Handke.

2018

Olga Tokarczuk.

2017

Kazuo Ishiguro.

2016

Bob Dylan.

2015

Svetlana Alexievich.

2014

Patrick Modiano.

2013

Alice Munro.

2012

Mo Yan.

2011

Tomas Tranströmer.

2010

Mario Vargas Llosa.

2009

Herta Müller.

2008

Jean

2007

Doris Lessing.

2006

Orhan Pamuk.

2005

Harold Pinter.

2004

Elfriede Jelinek.

2003

J. M. Coetzee.

2002

Imre Kertész.

2001

V. S. Naipaul.

2000

Gao Xingjian.

1999

Günter Grass.

1998

José Saramago.

1997

Dario Fo.

1996

Wisława Szymborska.

1995

Seamus Heaney.

1994

Kenzaburo Oe.

1993

Toni Morrison.

1992

Derek Walcott.

1991

Nadine Gordimer.

1990

Octavio Paz.

1989

Camilo José Cela.

1988

Naguib Mahfouz.

1987

Joseph Brodsky.

1986

Wole Soyinka.

1985

Claude Simon.

1984

Jaroslav Seifert.

1983

William Golding.

1982

Gabriel García Márquez.

1981

Elias Canetti.

1980

Czesław Miłosz.

1979

Odysseus Elytis.

1978

Isaac Bashevis Singer.

1977

Vicente Aleixandre.

1976

Saul Bellow.

1975

Eugenio Montale.

1974

Eyvind Johnson AND Harry Martinson.

1973

Patrick White.

1972

Heinrich Böll.

1971

Pablo Neruda.

1970

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

1969

Samuel Beckett.

1968

Yasunari Kawabata.

1967

Miguel Angel Asturias.

1966

Shmuel Agnon and Nelly Sachs.

1965

Mikhail Shol

1964

Jean

1963

Giorgos Seferis.

1962

John Steinbeck.

1961

Ivo Andrić.

1960

Saint

1959

Salvatore Quasimodo.

1958

Boris Pasternak.

1957

Albert Camus.

1956

Juan Ramón Jiménez.

1955

Halldór Laxness.

1954

Ernest Hemingway.

1953

Winston Churchill.

1952

François Mauriac.

1951

Pär Lagerkvist.

1950

Bertrand Russell.

1949

William Faulkner.

1948

T.S. Eliot.

1947

André Gide.

1946

Hermann Hesse.

1945

Gabriela Mistral.

1944

Johannes V. Jensen.

1943

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1942

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1941

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1940

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1939

Frans Eemil Sillanpää.

1938

Pearl Buck.

1937

Roger Martin du Gard.

1936

Eugene O'Neill.

1935

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1934

Luigi Pirandello.

1933

Ivan Bunin.

1932

John Galsworthy.

1931

Erik Axel Karlfeldt.

1930

Sinclair Lewis.

1929

Thomas Mann.

1928

Sigrid Undset.

1927

Henri Bergson.

1926

Grazia Deledda.