List of "The Nobel Prize in Literature" Winners

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy.

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-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

2007 – Doris Lessing

2006 – Orhan Pamuk

2005 – Harold Pinter

2004 – Elfriede Jelinek

2003 – John M. Coetzee

2002 – Imre Kertész

2001 – Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

2000 – Gao Xingjian

1999 – Günter Grass

1998 – José Saramago

1997 – Dario Fo

1996 – Wislawa 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 – Czeslaw Milosz

1979 – Odysseus Elytis

1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer

1977 – Vicente Aleixandre

1976 – Saul Bellow

1975 – Eugenio Montale

1974 – Eyvind Johnson

1974 – Harry Martinson

1973 – Patrick White

1972 – Heinrich Böll

1971 – Pablo Neruda

1970 – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

1969 – Samuel Beckett

1968 – Yasunari Kawabata

1967 – Miguel Angel Asturias

1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon

1966 – Nelly Sachs

1965 – Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre

1963 – Giorgos Seferis

1962 – John Steinbeck

1961 – Ivo Andric

1960 – Saint-John Perse

1959 – Salvatore Quasimodo

1958 – Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

1957 – Albert Camus

1956 – Juan Ramón Jiménez

1955 – Halldór Kiljan Laxness

1954 – Ernest Miller Hemingway

1953 – Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

1952 – François Mauriac

1951 – Pär Fabian Lagerkvist

1950 – Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell

1949 – William Faulkner

1948 – Thomas Stearns Eliot

1947 – André Paul Guillaume Gide

1946 – Hermann Hesse

1945 – Gabriela Mistral

1944 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

1943 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1942 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1941 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1940 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1939 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää

1938 – Pearl Buck

1937 – Roger Martin du Gard

1936 – Eugene Gladstone O’Neill

1935 – No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1934 – Luigi Pirandello

1933 – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

1932 – John Galsworthy

1931 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt

1930 – Sinclair Lewis

1929 – Thomas Mann

1928 – Sigrid Undset

1927 – Henri Bergson

1926 – Grazia Deledda

1925 – George Bernard Shaw

1924 – Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

1923 – William Butler Yeats