Nobel Laureates from 1901 to 2015
Year | Laureate | Country |
1901 | Sully Prudhomme | France |
1902 | Theodor Mommsen | Germany |
1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Norway |
1904 | Frédéric Mistral | France |
José Echegaray | Spain | |
1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Poland |
1906 | Giosuè Carducci | Italy |
1907 | Rudyard Kipling | United Kingdom |
1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | Germany |
1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden |
1910 | Paul von Heyse | Germany |
1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium |
1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | Germany |
1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | India |
1914 | Not Awarded | |
1915 | Romain Rolland | France |
1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Sweden |
1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup | Denmark |
Henrik Pontoppidan | Denmark | |
1918 | Not Awarded | |
1919 | Carl Spitteler | Switzerland |
1920 | Knut Hamsun | Norway |
1921 | Anatole France | France |
1922 | Jacinto Benavente | Spain |
1923 | William Butler Yeats | Ireland |
1924 | Władysław Reymont | Poland |
1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland |
1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italy |
1927 | Henri Bergson | France |
1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norway |
1929 | Thomas Mann | Germany |
1930 | Sinclair Lewis | United States |
1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Sweden |
1932 | John Galsworthy | United Kingdom |
1933 | Ivan Bunin | Russia |
1934 | Luigi Priandello | Italy |
1935 | Not Awarded | |
1936 | Eugene O'Neill | United States |
1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | France |
1938 | Pearl S. Buck | United States |
1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Finland |
1940 | Not Awarded | |
1941 | Not Awarded | |
1942 | Not Awarded | |
1943 | Not Awarded | |
1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | Denmark |
1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chile |
1946 | Herman Hesse | Switzerland |
1947 | Andre Gide | France |
1948 | T.S. Eliot | United Kingdom |
1949 | William Faulkner | United States |
1950 | Bertrand Russell | United Kingdom |
1951 | Par Lagerkvist | Sweden |
1952 | François Mauriac | France |
1953 | Sir Winston Churchill | United Kingdom |
1954 | Ernest Hemingway | United States |
1955 | Halldór Laxness | Iceland |
1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Puerto Rico |
1957 | Albert Camus | France |
1958 | Boris Pasternak | Soviet Union |
1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Italy |
1960 | Saint John Perse | France |
1961 | Ivo Andrić | Yugoslavia |
1962 | John Steinbeck | United States |
1963 | Giorgos Seferis | Greece |
1964 | Jean Paul Sartre | France |
1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | Soviet Union |
Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Israel | |
1966 | Nelly Sachs | Sweden |
1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias | Guatemala |
1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japan |
1969 | Samuel Beckett | Ireland |
1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Soviet Union |
1971 | Pablo Neruda | Chile |
1972 | Heinrich Boll | Germany |
1973 | Patrick White | Australia |
Eyvind Johnson | Sweden | |
1974 | Harry Martinson | Sweden |
1975 | Eugenio Montale | Italy |
1976 | Saul Bellow | United States |
1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Spain |
1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | United States |
1979 | Odysseas Elytis | Greece |
1980 | Czeslaw Milosz | Poland |
1981 | Elias Canetti | United Kingdom |
1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Colombia |
1983 | William Golding | United Kingdom |
1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | Czechoslovakia |
1985 | Claude Simon | France |
1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria |
1987 | Joseph Brodsky | United States |
1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Egypt |
1989 | Camila Jose Cela | Spain |
1990 | Octavio Paz | Mexico |
1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa |
1992 | Derek Walcott | Saint Lucia |
1993 | Toni Morrison | United States |
1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japan |
1995 | Seamus Heaney | Ireland |
1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | Poland |
1997 | Dario Fo | Italy |
1998 | Jose Saramago | Portugal |
1999 | Gunter Grass | Germany |
2000 | Gao Xingjian | France |
2001 | Sir V.S. Naipaul | United Kingdom |
2002 | Imre Kertesz | Hungary |
2003 | J.M. Coetzee | South Africa |
2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria |
2005 | Harold Pinter | United Kingdom |
2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey |
2007 | Doris Lessing | United Kingdom |
2008 | J.M.G.Le Clezio | France, Mauritius |
2009 | Herta Muller | Germany |
2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peru, Spain |
2011 | Tomas Transtromer | Sweden |
2012 | Mo Yan | China |
2013 | Alice Munro | Canada |
2014 | Patrick Modiano | France |
2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus |
2016 | Bob Dylan | Spain |
2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Japan |