Winners of the Nobel Prize for literature:

(Note that no award was given in the years 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943.)

2011 – Tranströmer, Tomas (Swedish)

2010 – Vargas Llosa, Mario (Peruvian)

2009 – Müller, Herta (Romanian)

2008 – Le Clézio, Jean Marie Gustave (French)

2007 – Lessing, Doris (British)

2006 – Pamuk, Orhan (Turkish)

2005 – Pinter, Harold (British)

2004 – Jelinek, Elfriede (Austrian)

2003 – Coetzee, J.M. (South African)

2002 – Kertész, Imre (Hungarian)

2001 – V.S. Naipaul (British/Indian)

2000 – Gao Xingjian (Chinese)

1999 – Grass, Gunter (German)

1998 – Saramago, Jose (Portuguese)

1997 – Fo, Dario (Italian)

1996 – Szymborska, Wislawa (Polish)

1995 – Heaney, Seamus (Irish)

1994 – Oe, Kenzaburo (Japanese)

1993 – Morrison, Toni (American)

1992 – Walcott, Derek (Saint Lucian)

1991 – Gordimer, Nadine (South African)

1990 – Paz, Octavio (Mexican)

1989 – Cela, Camilo Jose (Spanish)

1988 – Mahfouz, Naguib (Egyptian)

1987 – Brodsky, Joseph (Russian-American)

1986 – Soyinka, Wole (Nigerian)

1985 – Simone, Claude (French)

1984 – Siefert, Jaroslav (Czech)

1983 – Golding, William (British)

1982 – Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (Colombian-Mexican)

1981 – Canetti, Elias (Bulgarian-British)

1980 – Milosz, Czeslaw (Polish-American)

1979 – Elytis, Odysseus (Greek)

1978 – Singer, Isaac Bashevis (American)

1977 – Aleixandre, Vicente (Spanish)

1976 – Bellow, Saul (American)

1975 – Montale, Eugenio (Italian)

1974 – Johnson, Eyvind and Martinson, Harry Edmund (both Swedish)

1973 – White, Patrick (Australian)

1972 – Boll, Heinrich (German)

1971 – Neruda, Pablo (Chilean)

1970 – Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (Russian)

1969 – Beckett, Samuel (Irish)

1968 – Kawabata, Yasunari (Japanese)

1967 – Asturias, Miguel Angel (Guatemalan)

1966 – Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (Israeli) and Sachs, Nelly (Swedish)

1965 – Sholokhov, Mikhail (Russian)

1964 – Sartre, Jean Paul (French – declined award)

1963 – Seferis, Giorgos (Greek)

1962 – Steinbeck, John (American)

1961 – Andric, Ivo (Yugoslavian)

1960 – Saint-John Perse (French)

1959 – Quasimodo, Salvatore (Italian)

1958 – Pasternak, Boris (Russian – declined award)

1957 – Camus, Albert (French)

1956 – Jimenez, Juan Ramon (Spanish)

1955 – Laxness, Halldor (Icelandic)

1954 – Hemingway, Ernest (American)

1953 – Churchill, Sir Winston (British)

1952 – Mauriac, Francois (French)

1951 – Lagerkvist, Par (Swedish)

1950 – Russell, Bertrand (British)

1949 – Faulkner, William (American)

1948 – Eliot, T.S. (British)

1947 – Gide, Andre (French)

1946 – Hesse, Hermann (German-Swiss)

1945 – Mistral, Gabriela (Chilean)

1944 – Jensen, Johannes (Danish)

1939 – Sillanpaa, Frans (Finnish)

1938 – Martin Du Gard, Roger (French)

1936 – O’Neill, Eugene (American)

1934 – Pirandello, Luigi (Italian)

1933 – Bunin, Ivan (Russian)

1932 – Galsworthy, John (British)

1931 – Karlfeldt, Erik (Swedish)

1930 – Lewis, Sinclair (American)

1929 – Undset, Sigrid (Norwegian)

1927 – Bergson, Henri (French)

1926 – Deledda, Grazia (Italian)

1925 – Shaw, George Bernard (Irish)

1924 – Reymont, Wladyslaw (Polish)

1923 – Yeats, William Butler (Irish)

1922 – Benavente, Jacinto (Spanish)

1921 – France, Anatole (French)

1920 – Hamsun, Knut (Norwegian)

1919 – Spitteler, Karlt (Swiss)

1917 – Gjellerup, Karl and Pontoppidan, Henrik (both Danish)

1916 – von Heidenstam, Verner (Swedish)

1915 – Rolland, Romain (French)

1913 – Tagore, Rabindranath (Indian)

1912 – Hauptmann, Gerhart (German)

1911 – Maeterlinck, Maurice (Belgian)

1910 – Heyse, Paul (German)

1909 – Lagerlof, Selma (Swedish)

1908 – Eucken, Rudolf (German)

1907 – Kipling, Rudyard (British)

1906 – Carducci, Giosue (Italian)

1905 – Sienkiewicz, Henryk (Polish)

1904 – Mistral, Frederic (French) and Echegaray, Jose (Spanish)

1903 – Bjornson, Bjornsterne (Norwegian)

1902 – Mommsen, Theodor (German)

1901 – Prudhomme, Sully (French)

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