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==Laureates==
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Picture
!Laureate
!Country
!Language(s)
!Age <br>awarded
!Citation
!Genre(s)
|- id="1901"
|[[:en:1901 Nobel Prize in Literature|1901]] 
|[[File:Sully-Prudhomme (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Sully Prudhomme]]''' <br> (1839–1907)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{FRA}}
|[[French language|French]]
|62
|"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"<ref name="Literature1901">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1901/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1901|publisher=[[Nobel Foundation]]|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034055/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1901/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, essay
|-
|[[:en:1902 Nobel Prize in Literature|1902]]
|[[File:Theodor Mommsen 2 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Theodor Mommsen]]''' <br> (1817–1903)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|German Empire|name=Germany}}
|[[German language|German]]
|85
|"the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work ''[[History of Rome (Mommsen)|A History of Rome]]''"<ref name="Literature1902">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1902/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1902|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192600/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1902/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|history, law
|-
|[[:en:1903 Nobel Prize in Literature|1903]]
|[[File:Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]]''' <br> (1832–1910)
|data-sort-value="Norway" |{{flag|Norway|name=Norway}}
|[[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]
|71
|"as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit"<ref name="Literature1903">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1903/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1903|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192607/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1903/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, novel, drama
|-
|rowspan="2" |[[:en:1904 Nobel Prize in Literature|1904]]
|[[File:Portrait frederic mistral (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Frédéric Mistral]]''' <br> (1830–1914)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|[[Provençal dialect|Provençal]]
|74
|"in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a [[Provençal dialect|Provençal]] philologist"<ref name="Literature1904">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1904/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1904|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192610/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1904/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, [[philology]]
|-
|[[File:José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (cropped2).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[José Echegaray]]''' <br> (1832–1916)
|data-sort-value="Spain" |{{flag|Restoration (Spain)|name=Spain}}
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|72
|"in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama"<ref name="Literature1904"/>
|drama
|-
|[[:en:1905 Nobel Prize in Literature|1905]]
|[[File:Henryk Sienkiewicz 1905.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Henryk Sienkiewicz]]''' <br> (1846–1916)
|data-sort-value="Russian Empire" |{{POL-1815|#}}<br>({{RUS-1883|#}})
|[[Polish language|Polish]]
|59
|"because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer"<ref name="Literature1905">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1905/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1905|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192616/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1905/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel
|-
|[[:en:1906 Nobel Prize in Literature|1906]]
|[[File:Giosuè Carducci2 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Giosuè Carducci]]''' <br> (1835–1907)
|data-sort-value="Italy" |{{ITA-1861|Köngreich Italien}}
|[[Italian language|Italian]]
|71
|"not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces"<ref name="Literature1906">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1906/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1906|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192621/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1906/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|-
|[[:en:1907 Nobel Prize in Literature|1907]]
|[[File:Rudyard Kipling (portrait).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Rudyard Kipling]]''' <br> (1865–1936)
|data-sort-value="United Kingdom" |{{flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
|[[English language|English]]
|41
|"in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration that characterize the creations of this world-famous author"<ref name="Literature1907">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1907/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1907|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212750/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1907/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, poetry
|-
|[[:en:1908 Nobel Prize in Literature|1908]]
|[[File:Eucken-im-Alter.png|75px]]
|'''[[Rudolf Christoph Eucken]]''' <br> (1846–1926)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|German Empire|name=Germany}}
|[[German language|German]]
|62
|"in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life"<ref name="Literature1908">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1908/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1908|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192631/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1908/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|philosophy
|-
|[[:en:1909 Nobel Prize in Literature|1909]]
|[[File:Selma Lagerlöf (cropped2).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Selma Lagerlöf]]''' <br> (1858–1940)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|[[Swedish language|Swedish]]
|51
|"in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings"<ref name="Literature1909">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1909/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1909|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212755/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1909/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story
|- id="1910"
|[[:en:1910 Nobel Prize in Literature|1910]]
|[[File:Paul Heyse 1910.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Paul Heyse|Paul von Heyse]]''' <br> (1830–1914)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|German Empire|name=Germany}}
|[[German language|German]]
|80
|"as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories"<ref name="Literature1910">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1910/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1910|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192641/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1910/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, drama, novel, short story
|-
|[[:en:1911 Nobel Prize in Literature|1911]]
|[[File:Maurice de Maeterlinck (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Maurice Maeterlinck]]''' <br> (1862–1949)
|data-sort-value="Belgium" |{{flag|Belgium}}
|[[French language|French]]
|49
|"in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations"<ref name="Literature1911">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1911/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1911|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034105/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1911/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|drama, poetry, essay
|-
|[[:en:1912 Nobel Prize in Literature|1912]]
|[[File:Gerhart Hauptmann nobel.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Gerhart Hauptmann]]''' <br> (1862–1946)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|German Empire|name=Germany}}
|[[German language|German]]
|50
|"primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art"<ref name="Literature1912">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1912/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1912|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192651/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1912/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|drama, novel
|-
|[[:en:1913 Nobel Prize in Literature|1913]]
|[[File:Tagore3.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Rabindranath Tagore]]''' <br> (1861–1941)
|data-sort-value= "India" |{{flag|British India}}<br>({{flag|British Empire}})
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]] and [[English language|English]]
|52
|"because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West"<ref name="Literature1913">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1913/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1913|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015210804/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1913/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-15|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, novel, drama, short story, essay, translation
|-
|[[:en:1914 Nobel Prize in Literature|1914]]
|colspan=7 align=center |''Not awarded''
|-
|[[:en:1915 Nobel Prize in Literature|1915]]
|[[File:Romain Rolland 1915.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Romain Rolland]]''' <br> (1866–1944)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|[[French language|French]]
|49
|"as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings"<ref name="Literature1915">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1915/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1915|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192703/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1915/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel
|-
|[[:en:1916 Nobel Prize in Literature|1916]]
|[[File:Verner von Heidenstam in the 1890s.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Verner von Heidenstam]]''' <br> (1859–1940)
|data-sort-value="Sweden" |{{flag|Sweden}}
|[[Swedish language|Swedish]]
|56
|"in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature"<ref name="Literature1916">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1916/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1916|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192708/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1916/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, novel
|-
|rowspan="2" |[[:en:1917 Nobel Prize in Literature|1917]]
|[[File:Karl Gjellerup.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Karl Adolph Gjellerup]]''' <br> (1857–1919)
|data-sort-value="Denmark" |{{flag|Denmark}}
|[[Danish language|Danish]] and [[German language|German]]
|60
|"for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals"<ref name="Literature1917">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1917/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1917|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034110/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1917/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|-
|[[File:Henrik Pontoppidan 1917.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Henrik Pontoppidan]]''' <br> (1857–1943)
|data-sort-value="Denmark" |{{flag|Denmark}}
|[[Danish language|Danish]]
|60
|"for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark"<ref name="Literature1917"/>
|novel
|-
|[[:en:1918 Nobel Prize in Literature|1918]]
|colspan=7 align=center |''Not awarded''
|-
|[[:en:1919 Nobel Prize in Literature|1919]]
|[[File:Carl Spitteler 1919.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Carl Spitteler]]''' <br> (1845–1924)
|data-sort-value="Switzerland" |{{flag|Switzerland}}
|[[German language|German]]
|74
|"in special appreciation of his epic, ''Olympian Spring''"<ref name="Literature1919">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1919/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1919|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192718/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1919/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|- id="1920"
|[[:en:1920 Nobel Prize in Literature|1920]]
|[[File:Hamsun bldsa HA0341.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Knut Hamsun]]''' <br> (1859–1952)
|data-sort-value="Norway" |{{flag|Norway}}
|[[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]
|61
|"for his monumental work, ''[[Growth of the Soil]]''"<ref name="Literature1920">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1920/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1920|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192723/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1920/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel
|-
|1921
|[[File:Anatole France 1921 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Anatole France]]''' <br> (1844–1924)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|[[French language|French]]
|77
|"in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament"<ref name="Literature1921">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1921/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1921|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192728/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1921/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, poetry
|-
|1922
|[[File:Jacinto Benavente y Martinez.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Jacinto Benavente]]''' <br> (1866–1954)
|data-sort-value="Spain" |{{flag|Restoration (Spain)|name=Spain}}
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|56
|"for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama"<ref name="Literature1922">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1922/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1922|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192734/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1922/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|drama
|-
|1923
|[[File:Yeats1923.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[W. B. Yeats|William Butler Yeats]]''' <br> (1865–1939)
|data-sort-value="Ireland" |{{flag|Irish Free State|name=Ireland}}
|[[English language|English]]
|58
|"for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation"<ref name="Literature1923">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1923|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180918/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|-
|1924
|[[File:Wladyslaw Reymont 1924.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Władysław Reymont]]''' <br> (1867–1925)
|data-sort-value="Poland" |{{flag|Poland|1919}}
|[[Polish language|Polish]]
|57
|"for his great national epic, ''[[The Peasants]]''"<ref name="Literature1924">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1924/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1924|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015210202/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1924/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-15|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel
|-
|1925
|[[File:George Bernard Shaw 1934-12-06.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[George Bernard Shaw]]''' <br> (1856–1950)
|data-sort-value="Ireland" |{{flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}} <br/>  {{flag|Irish Free State|name=Ireland}}<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Bernard-Shaw|title=George Bernard Shaw {{!}} Irish dramatist and critic|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2018-02-18|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310044246/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Bernard-Shaw|archive-date=2018-03-10|url-status=live}}</ref><br/>
|[[English language|English]]
|69
|"for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty"<ref name="Literature1925">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1925|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212806/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
|drama, essay
|-
|1926
|[[File:Grazia Deledda 1926.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Grazia Deledda]]''' <br> (1871–1936)
|data-sort-value="Italy" |{{flag|Kingdom of Italy|name=Italy}}
|[[Italian language|Italian]]
|55
|"for her idealistically inspired writings, which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general"<ref name="Literature1926">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1926/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1926|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192754/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1926/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, novel
|-
|[[:en:1927 Nobel Prize in Literature|1927]]
|[[File:Bergson-Nobel-photo.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Henri Bergson]]''' <br> (1859–1941)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|[[French language|French]]
|68
|"in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented"<ref name="Literature1927">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1927/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1927|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192759/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1927/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|philosophy
|-
|[[:en:1928 Nobel Prize in Literature|1928]]
|[[File:Sigrid Undset 1928.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Sigrid Undset]]''' <br> (1882–1949)
|data-sort-value="Norway" |{{flag|Norway}}<br>{{flag|Denmark}}
|[[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]
|46
|"principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages"<ref name="Literature1928">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1928/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1928|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192805/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1928/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel
|-
|[[:en:1929 Nobel Prize in Literature|1929]]
|[[File:Thomas Mann 1929.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Thomas Mann]]''' <br> (1875–1955)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|Weimar Republic|name=Germany}}
|[[German language|German]]
|54
|"principally for his great novel, ''[[Buddenbrooks]]'', which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature"<ref name="Literature1929">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1929/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1929|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034121/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1929/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, essay
|- id="1930"
|[[:en:1930 Nobel Prize in Literature|1930]]
|[[File:Sinclair Lewis 1930.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Sinclair Lewis]]''' <br> (1885–1951)
|data-sort-value="United States" |{{flag|United States|1912}}
|[[English language|English]]
|45
|"for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters"<ref name="Literature1930">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1930|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212811/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, drama
|-
|[[:en:1931 Nobel Prize in Literature|1931]]
|[[File:Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1931.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]]''' <br> (1864–1931)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|[[Swedish language|Swedish]]
|67
|"The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt"<ref name="Literature1931">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1931/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1931|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192815/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1931/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|-
|[[:en:1932 Nobel Prize in Literature|1932]]
|[[File:John Galsworthy 2.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[John Galsworthy]]''' <br> (1867–1933)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|[[English language|English]]
|65
|"for his distinguished art of narration, which takes its highest form in ''[[The Forsyte Saga]]''"<ref name="Literature1932">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1932/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1932|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192820/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1932/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel
|-
|1933
|[[File:Ivan Bunin 1933.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Ivan Bunin]]''' <br> (1870–1953)
||Stateless<br>(born in [[Russian Empire]])
|[[Russian language|Russian]]
|63
|"for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing"<ref name="Literature1933">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1933/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1933|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034126/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1933/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|short story, poetry, novel
|-
|1934
|[[File:Luigi Pirandello 1932.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Luigi Pirandello]]''' <br> (1867–1936)
|data-sort-value="Italy" |{{flag|Italy|1861}}
|[[Italian language|Italian]]
|67
|"for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"<ref name="Literature1934">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1934/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1934|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192830/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1934/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|drama, novel, short story
|-
|[[:en:1935 Nobel Prize in Literature|1935]]
|colspan=7 align=center |''Not awarded''
|-
|[[:en:1936 Nobel Prize in Literature|1936]]
|[[File:Eugene O'Neill 1936.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Eugene O'Neill]]''' <br> (1888–1953)
|{{flag|United States|1912}}
|[[English language|English]]
|48
|"for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy"<ref name="Literature1936">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1936|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192835/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|drama
|-
|[[:en:1937 Nobel Prize in Literature|1937]]
|[[File:Roger Martin du Gard 1937.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Roger Martin du Gard]]''' <br> (1881–1958)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|[[French language|French]]
|56
|"for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel cycle ''[[The Thibaults|Les Thibault]]''"<ref name="Literature1937">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1937/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1937|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034131/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1937/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel
|-
|[[:en:1938 Nobel Prize in Literature|1938]]
|[[File:Pearl Buck (Nobel).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Pearl S. Buck|Pearl Buck]]''' (1892–1973)
|{{flag|United States|1912}}
|[[English language|English]]
|46
|"for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"<ref name="Literature1938">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1938/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1938|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218195128/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1938/index.html|archive-date=2009-02-18|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, biography
|-
|[[:en:1939 Nobel Prize in Literature|1939]]
|[[File:FransEemilSillanpää.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Frans Eemil Sillanpää]]''' <br> (1888–1964)
|{{flag|Finland}}
|[[Finnish language|Finnish]]
|51
|"for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature"<ref name="Literature1939">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1939/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1939|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192855/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1939/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel
|- id="1940"
|[[:en:1940 Nobel Prize in Literature|1940]]
|colspan=7 align=center |''Not awarded''
|-
|[[:en:1941 Nobel Prize in Literature|1941]]
|colspan=7 align=center |''Not awarded''
|-
|[[:en:1942 Nobel Prize in Literature|1942]]
|colspan=7 align=center |''Not awarded''
|-
|[[:en:1943 Nobel Prize in Literature|1943]]
|colspan=7 align=center |''Not awarded''
|-
|[[:en:1944 Nobel Prize in Literature|1944]]
|[[File:Johannes Vilhelm Jensen 1944.jpg|75px]]
|style="white-space:nowrap;" |'''[[Johannes Vilhelm Jensen]]''' <br> (1873–1950)
|{{flag|Denmark}}
|[[Danish language|Danish]]
|71
|"for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style"<ref name="Literature1944">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1944/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1944|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034136/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1944/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story
|-
|[[:en:1945 Nobel Prize in Literature|1945]]
|[[File:Gabriela Mistral 1945.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Gabriela Mistral]]''' <br> (1889–1957)
|data-sort-value="Chile" |{{flag|Chile}}
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|56
|"for her lyric poetry, which inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world"<ref name="Literature1945">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1945/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1945|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083747/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1945/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|-
|[[:en:1946 Nobel Prize in Literature|1946]]
|[[File:Hermann Hesse 1946.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Hermann Hesse]]''' <br> (1877–1962)
|data-sort-value="Switzerland" |{{flag|Germany}}<br />{{flag|Switzerland}}
|[[German language|German]]
|69
|"for his inspired writings, which while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"<ref name="Literature1946">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1946/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1946|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020010617/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1946/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-20|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, poetry
|-
|[[:en:1947 Nobel Prize in Literature|1947]]
|[[File:André Gide.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[André Gide]]''' <br> (1869–1951)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Fourth Republic|name=France}}
|[[French language|French]]
|78
|"for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight"<ref name="Literature1947">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1947/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1947|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192906/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1947/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, essay, drama, memoir
|-
|[[:en:1948 Nobel Prize in Literature|1948]]
|[[File:TS Eliot.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[T. S. Eliot|Thomas Stearns Eliot]]''' <br> (1888–1965)
|data-sort-value="United Kingdom" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}<br>(born in the [[United States]])
|[[English language|English]]
|60
|"for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"<ref name="Literature1948">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1948|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034141/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, essay, drama
|-
|[[:en:1949 Nobel Prize in Literature|1949]]
|[[File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner (greyscale and cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[William Faulkner]]''' <br> (1897–1962)
|{{flag|United States|1912}}
|[[English language|English]]
|52
|"for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"<ref name="Literature1949">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1949|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180928/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story
|- id="1950"
|[[:en:1950 Nobel Prize in Literature|1950]]
|[[File:Bertrand Russell 1949.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Bertrand Russell]]''' <br> (1872–1970)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|[[English language|English]]
|78
|"in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought"<ref name="Literature1950">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1950|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192911/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|philosophy, essay
|-
|[[:en:1951 Nobel Prize in Literature|1951]]
|[[File:Lagerkvist.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Pär Lagerkvist]]''' <br> (1891–1974)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|[[Swedish language|Swedish]]
|60
|"for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind"<ref name="Literature1951">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1951/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1951|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192916/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1951/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, novel, short story, drama
|-
|[[:en:1952 Nobel Prize in Literature|1952]]
|[[File:François Mauriac 1952.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[François Mauriac]]''' <br> (1885–1970)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Fourth Republic|name=France}}
|[[French language|French]]
|67
|"for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life"<ref name="Literature1952">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1952|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192921/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story
|-
|[[:en:1953 Nobel Prize in Literature|1953]]
|[[File:Winston Churchill cph.3a49758.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Winston Churchill]]''' <br> (1874–1965)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|[[English language|English]]
|79
|"for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"<ref name="Literature1953">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1953/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1953|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034151/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1953/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|history, essay, [[memoir]]
|-
|[[:en:1954 Nobel Prize in Literature|1954]]
|[[File:Ernest Hemingway 1950 crop.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Ernest Hemingway]]''' <br> (1899–1961)
|{{flag|United States|1912}}
|[[English language|English]]
|55
|"for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'', and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"<ref name="Literature1954">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1954|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212823/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, screenplay
|-
|[[:en:1955 Nobel Prize in Literature|1955]]
|[[File:Halldór Kiljan Laxness 1955.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Halldór Laxness]]''' <br> (1902–1998)
|{{flag|Iceland}}
|[[Icelandic language|Icelandic]]
|53
|"for his vivid epic power, which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland"<ref name="Literature1955">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1955/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1955|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192937/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1955/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, drama, poetry
|-
|[[:en:1956 Nobel Prize in Literature|1956]]
|[[File:JRJimenez.JPG|75px]]
|'''[[Juan Ramón Jiménez]]''' <br> (1881–1958)
|{{flag|Francoist Spain|name=Spain}}
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|75
|"for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity"<ref name="Literature1956">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1956/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1956|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008110601/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1956/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-08|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, novel
|-
|[[:en:1957 Nobel Prize in Literature|1957]]
|[[File:Camus Harcourt 1945.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Albert Camus]]''' <br> (1913–1960)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Fourth Republic|name=France}}<br>(born in [[Algeria]])
|[[French language|French]]
|44
|"for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"<ref name="Literature1957">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1957/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1957|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034206/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1957/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, drama, philosophy, essay
|-
|1958
|[[File:Boris Pasternak 1969.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Boris Pasternak]]''' <br> (1890–1960)
|{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|[[Russian language|Russian]]
|70
|"for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition"<ref name="Literature1958">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1958/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1958|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034212/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1958/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, poetry, translation
|-
|1959
|[[File:Salvatore Quasimodo 1959.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Salvatore Quasimodo]]''' <br> (1901–1968)
|{{flag|Italy}}
|[[Italian language|Italian]]
|58
|"for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"<ref name="Literature1959">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1959/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1959|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192954/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1959/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|- id="1960"
|1960
|[[File:Saint-John Perse 1960.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Saint-John Perse]]''' <br> (1887–1975)
|{{flag|France}}<br>(born in [[Guadeloupe]])
|[[French language|French]]
|73
|"for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry, which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"<ref name="Literature1960">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1960|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192959/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|-
|[[:en:1961 Nobel Prize in Literature|1961]]
|[[File:S. Kragujevic, Ivo Andric, 1961.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Ivo Andrić]]''' <br> (1892–1975)
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}}<br>(born in [[Austria-Hungary]])
|[[Serbo-Croatian]]
|69
|"for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country"<ref name="Literature1961">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1961|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034217/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story
|-
|[[:en:1962 Nobel Prize in Literature|1962]]
|[[File:John Steinbeck 1939 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[John Steinbeck]]''' <br> (1902–1968)
|{{flag|United States}}
|[[English language|English]]
|60
|"for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"<ref name="Literature1962">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1962|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034222/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, screenplay
|-
|[[:en:1963 Nobel Prize in Literature|1963]]
|[[File:Giorgos Seferis 1963.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Giorgos Seferis]]''' <br> (1900–1971)
|data-sort-value="Greece" |{{flag|Greece|name= Greece}}<br>(born in the [[Ottoman Empire]])
|[[Greek language|Greek]]
|63
|"for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture"<ref name="Literature1963">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1963/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1963|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008110606/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1963/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-08|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, essay, memoir
|-
|[[:en:1964 Nobel Prize in Literature|1964]]
|[[File:Jean Paul Sartre 1965.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Jean-Paul Sartre]]''' <br> (1905–1980)
|{{flag|France}}
|[[French language|French]]
|59
|"for his work, which rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age"<ref name="Literature1964">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1964/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1964|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020010622/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1964/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-20|url-status=live}}</ref>
|philosophy, novel, drama, essay, short story, screenplay
|-
|[[:en:1965 Nobel Prize in Literature|1965]]
|[[File:Mikhail Sholokhov 1960.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Mikhail Sholokhov]]''' <br> (1905–1984)
|{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|[[Russian language|Russian]]
|60
|"for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his [[And Quiet Flows the Don|epic of the Don]], he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people"<ref name="Literature1965">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1965/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1965|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034237/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1965/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel
|-
|rowspan="2" |[[:en:1966 Nobel Prize in Literature|1966]]
|[[File:Agnon.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]]''' <br> (1888–1970)
|{{flag|Israel}}<br>(born in [[Austria-Hungary]])
|[[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]
|79
|"for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people"<ref name="Literature1966">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1966/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1966|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034242/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1966/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story
|-
|[[File:Nelly Sachs 1966.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Nelly Sachs]]''' <br> (1891–1970)
|data-sort-value="Sweden" |{{flag|Germany}}<br />{{flag|Sweden}}<br>
|[[German language|German]]
|75
|"for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength"<ref name="Literature1966"/>
|poetry, drama
|-
|[[:en:1967 Nobel Prize in Literature|1967]]
|[[File:Miguel Angel Asturias.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Miguel Ángel Asturias]]''' <br> (1899–1974)
|{{flag|Guatemala}}
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|68
|"for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America"<ref name="Literature1967">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1967/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1967|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193025/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1967/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, poetry
|-
|[[:en:1968 Nobel Prize in Literature|1968]]
|[[File:Yasunari Kawabata 1968 cropped.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Yasunari Kawabata]]''' <br> (1899–1972)
|{{flag|Japan|1947}}
|[[Japanese language|Japanese]]
|69
|"for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"<ref name="Literature1968">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1968|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034247/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story
|-
|[[:en:1969 Nobel Prize in Literature|1969]]
|[[File:Samuel Beckett, Pic, 1 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Samuel Beckett]]''' <br> (1906–1989)
|data-sort-value="Ireland" |{{flag|Irish Free State|name=Ireland}}
|[[French language|French]] and [[English language|English]]
|63
|"for his writing, which – in new forms for the novel and drama – in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation"<ref name="Literature1969">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1969/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1969|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193035/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1969/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, drama, poetry
|- id="1970"
|[[:en:1970 Nobel Prize in Literature|1970]]
|[[File:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1974crop.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]''' <br> (1918–2008)
|{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|[[Russian language|Russian]]
|52
|"for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"<ref name="Literature1970">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1970|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083757/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, essay, short story
|-
|[[:en:1971 Nobel Prize in Literature|1971]]
|[[File:Pablo Neruda 1963.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Pablo Neruda]]''' <br> (1904–1973)
|data-sort-value="Chile" |{{flag|Chile}}
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|67
|"for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams"<ref name="Literature1971">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1971|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193045/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|-
|[[:en:1972 Nobel Prize in Literature|1972]]
|[[File:Heinrich Böll (1983).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Heinrich Böll]]''' <br> (1917–1985)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|West Germany}}
|[[German language|German]]
|55
|"for his writing, which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature"<ref name="Literature1972">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1972/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1972|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193051/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1972/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story
|-
|[[:en:1973 Nobel Prize in Literature|1973]]
|[[File:Patrick White 1973.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Patrick White]]''' <br> (1912–1990)
|{{flag|Australia}}<br>(born in the [[United Kingdom]])
|[[English language|English]]
|61
|"for an epic and psychological narrative art, which has introduced a new continent into literature"<ref name="Literature1973">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1973/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1973|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193056/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1973/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, drama
|-
|rowspan="2" |[[:en:1974 Nobel Prize in Literature|1974]]
|[[File:Eyvind.JPG|75px]]
|'''[[Eyvind Johnson]]''' <br> (1900–1976)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|[[Swedish language|Swedish]]
|74
|"for a narrative art, farseeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom"<ref name="Literature1974">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1974/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1974|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193101/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1974/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel
|-
|[[File:Harry Martinson 001.tiff|75px]]
|'''[[Harry Martinson]]''' <br> (1904–1978)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|[[Swedish language|Swedish]]
|70
|"for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos"<ref name="Literature1974"/>
|poetry, novel, drama
|-
|[[:en:1975 Nobel Prize in Literature|1975]]
|[[File:Eugenio montale 2.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Eugenio Montale]]''' <br> (1896–1981)
|{{flag|Italy}}
|[[Italian language|Italian]]
|79
|"for his distinctive poetry, which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions"<ref name="Literature1975">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1975/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1975|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193106/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1975/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|-
|[[:en:1976 Nobel Prize in Literature|1976]]
|[[File:Saul Bellow (Herzog portrait).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Saul Bellow]]''' <br> (1915–2005)
|data-sort-value="United States" |{{flag|United States}}<br>(born in [[Canada]])
|[[English language|English]]
|61
|"for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work"<ref name="Literature1976">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1976|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180933/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story
|-
|[[:en:1977 Nobel Prize in Literature|1977]]
|[[File:Vicentealeixandre.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Vicente Aleixandre]]''' <br> (1898–1984)
|{{flag|Spain|1977}}
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|79
|"for a creative poetic writing, which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars"<ref name="Literature1977">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1977/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1977|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193116/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1977/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|-
|[[:en:1978 Nobel Prize in Literature|1978]]
|[[File:Dan Hadani collection (990044399930205171) (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Isaac Bashevis Singer]]''' <br> (1902–1991)
|data-sort-value="United States" |{{flag|United States}}<br>{{flag|Poland|1928}}
|[[Yiddish language|Yiddish]]
|76
|"for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life"<ref name="Literature1978">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1978/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1978|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222201316/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1978/index.html|archive-date=2011-02-22|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, memoir
|-
|[[:en:1979 Nobel Prize in Literature|1979]]
|[[File:Odysseas Elytis 1974 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Odysseas Elytis]]''' <br> (1911–1996)
|{{flag|Greece}}
|[[Greek language|Greek]]
|68
|"for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness"<ref name="Literature1979">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1979/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1979|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008110611/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1979/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-08|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, essay
|- id="1980"
|[[:en:1980 Nobel Prize in Literature|1980]]
|[[File:Czeslaw Milosz 3 ap (cropped).tif|75px]]
|'''[[Czesław Miłosz]]''' <br> (1911–2004)
|<br />{{flag|Poland}}<br>(born in [[Russian Empire]])
|[[Polish language|Polish]]
|69
|"who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"<ref name="Literature1980">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1980/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1980|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193126/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1980/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, essay
|-
|[[:en:1981 Nobel Prize in Literature|1981]]
|[[File:Elias Canetti 2 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Elias Canetti]]''' <br> (1905–1994)
|style="white-space:nowrap;" data-sort-value="United Kingdom" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}<br>{{flag|Bulgaria}}
|[[German language|German]]
|76
|"for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"<ref name="Literature1981">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1981/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1981|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180943/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1981/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|style="white-space:nowrap;" |novel, drama, memoirs, essay
|-
|[[:en:1982 Nobel Prize in Literature|1982]]
|[[File:Gabriel García Márquez 02 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Gabriel García Márquez]]''' <br> (1927–2014)
|{{flag|Colombia}}
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|55
|"for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts"<ref name="Literature1982">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1982|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212833/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, screenplay
|-
|[[:en:1983 Nobel Prize in Literature|1983]]
|[[File:William Golding 1983 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[William Golding]]''' <br> (1911–1993)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|[[English language|English]]
|72
|"for his novels, which with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today"<ref name="Literature1983">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1983/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1983|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034307/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1983/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, poetry, drama
|-
|[[:en:1984 Nobel Prize in Literature|1984]]
|[[File:Jaroslav Seifert 1981 foto Hana Hamplová (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Jaroslav Seifert]]''' <br> (1901–1986)
|{{flag|Czechoslovakia}}<br>(born in [[Austria-Hungary]])
|[[Czech language|Czech]]
|83
|"for his poetry, which endowed with freshness, and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man"<ref name="Literature1984">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1984/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1984|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193137/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1984/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry
|-
|[[:en:1985 Nobel Prize in Literature|1985]]
|[[File:Claude Simon 1967 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Claude Simon]]''' <br> (1913–2005)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|France}}<br>(born in [[French Madagascar]])
|[[French language|French]]
|72
|"who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition"<ref name="Literature1985">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1985/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1985|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212838/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1985/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, essay
|-
|[[:en:1986 Nobel Prize in Literature|1986]]
|[[File:CDH - Comissão de Direitos Humanos e Legislação Participativa (20225202233) (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Wole Soyinka]]''' <br> (b. 1934)
|{{flag|Nigeria}}
|[[English language|English]]
|52
|"who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence"<ref name="Literature1986">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1986/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1986|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193147/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1986/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|drama, novel, poetry, screenplay
|-
|[[:en:1987 Nobel Prize in Literature|1987]]
|[[File:Иосиф Бродский (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Joseph Brodsky]]''' <br> (1940–1996)
|data-sort-value="United States" |{{flag|United States}}<br>{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|[[Russian language|Russian]] and [[English language|English]]
|47
|"for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"<ref name="Literature1987">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1987|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180958/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, essay
|-
|[[:en:1988 Nobel Prize in Literature|1988]]
|[[File:Nagib Mahfouz.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Naguib Mahfouz]]''' <br> (1911–2006)
|{{flag|Egypt}}
|[[Modern Standard Arabic|Arabic]]
|77
|"who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind"<ref name="Literature1988">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1988/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1988|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193157/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1988/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story
|-
|[[:en:1989 Nobel Prize in Literature|1989]]
|[[File:Gaspar Sánchez Salas y Camilo José Cela (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Camilo José Cela]]''' <br> (1916–2002)
|{{flag|Spain}}
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|73
|"for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability"<ref name="Literature1989">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1989/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1989|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193202/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1989/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, essay, poetry
|- id="1990"
|[[:en:1990 Nobel Prize in Literature|1990]]
|[[File:Octavio Paz 1984 (colorized) (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Octavio Paz]]''' <br> (1914–1998)
|{{flag|Mexico}}
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|76
|"for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity"<ref name="Literature1990">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1990/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1990|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181003/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1990/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, essay
|-
|[[:en:1991 Nobel Prize in Literature|1991]]
|[[File:Nadine Gordimer 01 (cropped).JPG|75px]]
|'''[[Nadine Gordimer]]''' <br> (1923–2014)
|{{flag|South Africa|1928}}
|[[English language|English]]
|68
|"who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity"<ref name="Literature1991">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1991|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034328/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, essay, drama
|-
|[[:en:1992 Nobel Prize in Literature|1992]]
|[[File:Derek Walcott.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Derek Walcott]]''' <br> (1930–2017)
|{{flag|Saint Lucia|1979}}
|[[English language|English]]
|62
|"for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment"<ref name="Literature1992">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1992|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212843/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, drama
|-
|[[:en:1993 Nobel Prize in Literature|1993]]
|[[File:Toni Morrison (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Toni Morrison]]''' <br> (1931–2019)
|{{flag|United States}}
|[[English language|English]]
|62
|"who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"<ref name="Literature1993">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1993|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025733/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/index.html|archive-date=2009-03-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, essay
|-
|[[:en:1994 Nobel Prize in Literature|1994]]
|[[File:Oe kenzaburo japaninstitut koeln 041108 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Kenzaburō Ōe]]''' <br>  (1935–2023)
|{{flag|Japan|1947}}
|[[Japanese language|Japanese]]
|59
|"who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today"<ref name="Literature1994">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1994/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1994|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181013/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1994/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, essay
|-
|[[:en:1995 Nobel Prize in Literature|1995]]
|[[File:Seamus Heaney (cropped2).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Seamus Heaney]]''' <br> (1939–2013)
|data-sort-value="Ireland" |{{flag|Ireland}}
|[[English language|English]]
|56
|"for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past"<ref name="Literature1995">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1995|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181018/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, drama, translation, essay
|-
|[[:en:1996 Nobel Prize in Literature|1996]]
|[[File:Szymborska 2011 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Wisława Szymborska]]''' <br> (1923–2012)
|{{flag|Poland}}
|[[Polish language|Polish]]
|73
|"for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"<ref name="Literature1996">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1996/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1996|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181428/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1996/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, essay, translation
|-
|[[:en:1997 Nobel Prize in Literature|1997]]
|[[File:Dario Fo-(Credit-ph--Paul-de-Grauve).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Dario Fo]]''' <br> (1926–2016)
|{{flag|Italy}}
|[[Italian language|Italian]]
|71
|"who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden"<ref name="Literature1997">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1997/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1997|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193239/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1997/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
|drama, song lyrics
|-
|[[:en:1998 Nobel Prize in Literature|1998]]
|[[File:Jo-Sa (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[José Saramago]]''' <br> (1922–2010)
|{{flag|Portugal}}
|[[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]
|76
|"who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality"<ref name="Literature1998">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1998|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019023430/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, drama, poetry
|-
|[[:en:1999 Nobel Prize in Literature|1999]]
|[[File:Günter Grass auf dem Blauen Sofa (cropped2).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Günter Grass]]''' <br> (1927–2015)
|{{nowrap|{{flag|Germany}}}}<br>(born in [[Free City of Danzig]])
|[[German language|German]]
|72
|"whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history"<ref name="Literature1999">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1999|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212914/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, drama, poetry, essay
|- id="2000"
|[[:en:2000 Nobel Prize in Literature|2000]]
|[[File:Gao Xingjian (2012, cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Gao Xingjian]]''' <br> (b. 1940)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|France}}<br>{{flagicon|ROC}}{{flag|China}}
|[[Chinese language|Chinese]]
|60
|"for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama"<ref name="Literature2000">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2000/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2000|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212919/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2000/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, drama, essay
|-
|[[:en:2001 Nobel Prize in Literature|2001]]
|[[File:VS Naipaul 2016 Dhaka (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[V. S. Naipaul|Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul]]''' <br> (1932–2018)
|data-sort-value="United Kingdom" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}<br>{{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}
|[[English language|English]] 
|69
|"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"<ref name="Literature2001">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2001/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2001|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201013651/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2001/index.html|archive-date=2016-02-01|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, essay
|-
|[[:en:2002 Nobel Prize in Literature|2002]]
|[[File:Imre Kertész (cropped).JPG|75px]]
|'''[[Imre Kertész]]''' <br> (1929–2016)
|{{flag|Hungary}}
|[[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]
|73
|"for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"<ref name="Literature2002">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2002/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2002|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083802/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2002/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel
|-
|[[:en:2003 Nobel Prize in Literature|2003]]
|[[File:J.M. Coetzee (cropped).JPG|75px]]
|'''[[J. M. Coetzee|John Maxwell Coetzee]]''' <br> (b. 1940)
|<br>{{flag|South Africa}}
|[[English language|English]]
|63
|"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"<ref name="Literature2003">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2003|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019023435/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, essay, translation
|-
|[[:en:2004 Nobel Prize in Literature|2004]]
|[[File:Elfriede jelinek 2004 small (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Elfriede Jelinek]]''' <br> (b. 1946)
|{{flag|Austria}}
|[[German language|German]]
|58
|"for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power"<ref name="Literature2004">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2004/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2004|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083807/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2004/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, drama
|-
|[[:en:2005 Nobel Prize in Literature|2005]]
|[[File:Pinterfoto (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Harold Pinter]]''' <br> (1930–2008)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|[[English language|English]]
|75
|"who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"<ref name="Literature2005">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2005|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017213042/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>
|drama, screenplay, poetry
|-
|[[:en:2006 Nobel Prize in Literature|2006]]
|[[File:Orhan Pamuk in Rustaveli Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2014 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Orhan Pamuk]]''' <br> (b. 1952)
|{{flag|Turkey}} 
|[[Turkish language|Turkish]]
|54
|"who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"<ref name="Literature2006">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2006|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016023713/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-16|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, screenplay, autobiography, essay
|-
|[[:en:2007 Nobel Prize in Literature|2007]]
|[[File:Dorisa Lesinga (cropped).JPG|75px]]
|'''[[Doris Lessing]]''' <br> (1919–2013)
|data-sort-value="United Kingdom" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}<br>(born in [[Qajar dynasty|Iran]])
|[[English language|English]]
|88
|"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"<ref name="Literature2007">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2007|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016025537/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-16|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, memoir/autobiography, drama, poetry, essay
|-
|[[:en:2008 Nobel Prize in Literature|2008]]
|[[File:Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[J. M. G. Le Clézio|Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio]]''' <br> (b. 1940)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|France}}<br>{{Flag|Mauritius}}
|[[French language|French]]
|68
|"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"<ref name="Literature2008">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2008|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=14 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012000137/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/index.html|archive-date=12 October 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, essay, translation
|-
|[[:en:2009 Nobel Prize in Literature|2009]]
|[[File:Herta Müller Literaturfest München 2016 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Herta Müller]]''' <br> (b. 1953)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|Germany}}<br>{{flag|Romania}}
|[[German language|German]]
|56
|"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"<ref name="Literature2009">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2009/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2009|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=8 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091011034823/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2009/index.html|archive-date=11 October 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, poetry, essay
|- id="2010"
|[[:en:2010 Nobel Prize in Literature|2010]]
|[[File:Mario Vargas Llosa (cropped2).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Mario Vargas Llosa]]''' <br> (b. 1936)
|{{flag|Peru}}<br>{{flag|Spain}}
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|74
|"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"<ref name="Literature2010">{{cite web|language=en|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2010|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=7 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009204641/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/index.html|archive-date=9 October 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story, essay, drama, memoir
|-
|[[:en:2011 Nobel Prize in Literature|2011]]
|[[File:Transtroemer (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Tomas Tranströmer]]''' <br> (1931–2015)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|[[Swedish language|Swedish]]
|80
|"because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality"<ref name="Literature2011">{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2011/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2011|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=6 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007061342/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2011/|archive-date=7 October 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
|poetry, translation
|-
|[[:en:2012 Nobel Prize in Literature|2012]]
|[[File:MoYan Hamburg 2008 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Mo Yan]]''' <br> (b. 1955)
|{{flag|China}}
|[[Chinese language|Chinese]]
|57
|"who with [[hallucinatory realism]] merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"<ref name="Literature2012">{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2012/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2012|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=11 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010224321/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2012/|archive-date=10 October 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, short story
|-
|[[:en:2013 Nobel Prize in Literature|2013]]
|[[File:Alice_Munro.jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Alice Munro]]''' <br> (b. 1931)
|{{flag|Canada}}
|[[English language|English]]
|82
|"master of the contemporary short story"<ref name="Literature2013">{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2013|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=27 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010174644/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/|archive-date=10 October 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>
|short story
|-
|[[:en:2014 Nobel Prize in Literature|2014]]
|[[File:Patrick Modiano 6 dec 2014 - 19 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Patrick Modiano]]''' <br> (b. 1945)
|{{flag|France}}
|[[French language|French]]
|69
|"for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|the Occupation]]"<ref name="Literature2014">{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2014/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2014|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=24 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231022447/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2014/|archive-date=31 December 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
|novel, screenplay
|-
|[[:en:2015 Nobel Prize in Literature|2015]]
|[[File:Світлана Алексієвич (Київ, 2016) 08 (cropped2).JPG|75px]]
|'''[[Svetlana Alexievich]]''' <br> (b. 1948)
|{{flag|Belarus}}<br> (born in the [[Soviet Union]])
|[[Russian language|Russian]]
|67
|"for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time"<ref name="Literature2015">{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2015|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=8 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921083825/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/|archive-date=21 September 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
|history, essay
|-
|[[:en:2016 Nobel Prize in Literature|2016]]
|[[File:Bob Dylan - Azkena Rock Festival 2010 1 (cropped2).jpg|75px]] 
|'''[[Bob Dylan]]''' <br> (b. 1941)
|{{flag|United States}}
|[[English language|English]]

|75
|"for having created new poetic expressions within the great [[American folk music|American song tradition]]"<ref name="Literature2016">{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/press.pdf|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2016|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=13 October 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170920010410/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/press.pdf|archive-date=2017-09-20|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|poetry, song lyrics
|-
|[[:en:2017 Nobel Prize in Literature|2017]]
|[[File:Kazuo Ishiguro in 2017 13 (cropped).jpg|75px]] 
|'''[[Kazuo Ishiguro]]''' <br> (b. 1954)
|{{nowrap|{{flag|United Kingdom}}}} (born in [[Japan]])
|[[English language|English]]
|63
|"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"<ref name="Literature2017">{{Cite web|language=en |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2017/press.html |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 – Press Release |publisher=Nobel Prize |access-date=5 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005120134/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2017/press.html |archive-date=5 October 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|novel, screenplay, short story
|-
|[[:en:2018 Nobel Prize in Literature|2018]] 
|[[File:Olga Tokarczuk-9730 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Olga Tokarczuk]]''' <br> (b. 1962)
|{{flag|Poland}}
|[[Polish language|Polish]]
|56
|"for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life"<ref name="Literature2018">{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2018/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2018|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2019-10-10}}</ref>
|novel, short story, poetry, essay, screenplay
|-
|[[:en:2019 Nobel Prize in Literature|2019]]
|[[File:Peter-handke (cropped3).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Peter Handke]]''' <br> (b. 1942)
|{{flag|Austria}}
|[[German language|German]]
|77
|"for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience"<ref>{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2019/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-10}}</ref>
|novel, short story, drama, essay, translation, screenplay
|- id="2020"
|[[:en:2020 Nobel Prize in Literature|2020]]
|[[File:Louise Glück circa 1977 (cropped2).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Louise Glück]]''' <br> (b. 1943)
|{{flag|United States}}
|[[English language|English]]
|77
|"for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal"<ref>{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=8 October 2020}}</ref>
|poetry, essay
|-
|[[:en:2021 Nobel Prize in Literature|2021]]
|[[File:Abdulrazak Gurnah 2022 (cropped2).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Abdulrazak Gurnah]]''' <br> (b. 1948)
||{{flag|Tanzania}}<br>{{flag|United Kingdom}}<br>(born in the [[Sultanate of Zanzibar]])
|[[English language|English]]
|72
|"for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of [[History of colonialism|colonialism]] and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents"<ref>{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=7 October 2021}}</ref>
|novel, short story, essay
|-
|[[:en:2022 Nobel Prize in Literature|2022]]
|[[File:Annie Ernaux al Salone del Libro (cropped2).jpg|75px]]
|'''[[Annie Ernaux]]''' <br> (b. 1940)
||{{flag|France}}
|[[French language|French]]
|82
|"for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory"<ref>{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2022/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=6 October 2022}}</ref>
|autobiography, novel
|}

== Einzelnachweise ==
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== 1900er Jahre ==

{| class="wikitable sortable toptextcells" style="max-width:1000px;"
|- class="hintergrundfarbe8"
! width="1%"| Jahr
! width="22%"| Person
! width="18%"| Land<ref name="Land">Land nach der Angabe auf nobelprize.org. Das Land kann von der Nationalität des Laureaten abweichen.</ref>
! Begründung für die Preisvergabe
! width="1%"| Bild
|-
|1901
|data-sort-value="PRU"|[[Sully Prudhomme]]<br />(1839–1907)<br />&nbsp;<br />[[Nobelpreis für Literatur 1901|''Nominierungen'']]
|data-sort-value="FRA-pru"|{{FRA-1871}}
|„als Anerkennung seiner ausgezeichneten, auch noch in späteren Jahren an den Tag gelegten Verdienste als Schriftsteller und besonders seiner Dichtungen, die hohen Idealismus, künstlerische Vollendung und eine seltene Vereinigung von Herz und Geist bezeugen“
|[[Datei:Sully-Prudhomme.jpg|100px|Sully Prudhomme]]
|-
|1902
|data-sort-value="MOM"|[[Theodor Mommsen]]<br />(1817–1903)
|data-sort-value="DEU-mom"|{{DEU-1871}}<br />(geb. in [[Garding]], [[Herzogtum Schleswig]],<br />{{DNK}})
|„dem gegenwärtig größten lebenden Meister der historischen Darstellungskunst, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seines monumentalen Werkes ‚[[Römische Geschichte (Theodor Mommsen)|Römische Geschichte]]‘“
|[[Datei:Theodor Mommsen 1902.jpg|100px|Theodor Mommsen]]
|-
|1903
|data-sort-value="BJO"|[[Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]]<br />(1832–1910)
|data-sort-value="NOR-bjo"|{{NOR}}
|„als ein Beweis der Anerkennung für seine edle, großartige und vielseitige Wirksamkeit als Dichter, die immer durch einmalige Frische der Eingebung und durch eine seltene Seelenreinheit ausgezeichnet war“
|[[Datei:Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson.jpg|100px|Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]]
|-
|rowspan="2" | 1904
|data-sort-value="MIS"|[[Frédéric Mistral]]<br />(1830–1914)
|data-sort-value="FRA-mis"|{{FRA-1871}}
|„mit Bezug auf die frische Ursprünglichkeit, das Geistreiche und Künstlerische in seiner Dichtung, die Natur und Volksleben seiner Heimat getreu widerspiegelt, sowie auf seine bedeutungsvolle Wirksamkeit als provenzalischer Philologe“
|[[Datei:Portrait frederic mistral.jpg|100px|Frédéric Mistral]]
|-
|data-sort-value="ECH"|[[José Echegaray]]<br />(1832–1916)
|data-sort-value="SPA-ech"|{{ESP-1875}}
|„mit Bezug auf seine umfassende und geistreiche Verfasserschaft, die auf selbständige und originelle Weise die großen Traditionen des spanischen Schauspiels wiederbelebt hat“
|[[Datei:José Echegaray y Eizaguirre.jpg|100px|José Echgaray]]
|-
|1905
|data-sort-value="SIE"|[[Henryk Sienkiewicz]]<br />(1846–1916)
|data-sort-value="POL-sie"|{{POL-1815|#}} „Polen“<ref name="Land" /> (damals historische Landschaft, als „[[Weichselland]]“ Provinz von<br />{{RUS-1883}})
|„auf Grund seiner großartigen Verdienste als epischer Schriftsteller“
|[[Datei:Henryk Sienkiewicz 1905.jpg|100px|Henryk Sienkienwicz]]
|-
|1906
|data-sort-value="CAR"|[[Giosuè Carducci]]<br />(1835–1907)
|data-sort-value="ITA-car"|{{ITA-1861|Sortierung=ITA-1861}}<br />(geb. in [[Pietrasanta|Valdicastello]], [[Großherzogtum Toskana]], heute<br />{{ITA}})
|„nicht nur in Anerkennung seiner reichen Gelehrsamkeit und seiner kritischen Forschungen, sondern vor allem als eine Huldigung für die plastische Energie, die Frische des Stils und die lyrische Kraft, die seine poetischen Meisterwerke auszeichnen“
|[[Datei:Giosuè Carducci 1906.jpg|100px|Giosuè Carducci]]
|-
|1907
|data-sort-value="KIP"|[[Rudyard Kipling]]<br />(1865–1936)
|data-sort-value="GBR-kip"|{{GBR-1801|Sortierung=GBR-1801}}<br />(geb. in [[Mumbai|Bombay]],<br />[[Datei:British Raj Red Ensign.svg|20px]] [[Britisch-Indien]])
|„in Anerkennung der Beobachtungsgabe, der ursprünglichen Einbildungskraft sowie der männlichen Stärke in Auffassung und Schilderungskunst, die die Schöpfungen dieses weltberühmten Schriftstellers auszeichnen“
|[[Datei:Rudyard Kipling.jpg|100px|Rudyard Kipling]]
|-
|1908
|data-sort-value="EUC"|[[Rudolf Eucken]]<br />(1846–1926)
|data-sort-value="DEU-euc"|{{DEU-1871|Sortierung=DEU-1871}}<br />(geb. in [[Aurich]],<br />[[Datei:Flag of Hanover 1837-1866.svg|20px]] [[Königreich Hannover]], [[Deutscher Bund]])
|„auf Grund des ernsten Suchens nach Wahrheit, der durchdringenden Gedankenkraft und des Weitblicks, der Wärme und Kraft der Darstellung, womit er in zahlreichen Arbeiten eine ideale Weltanschauung vertreten und entwickelt hat“
|[[Datei:Rudolf Eucken 1908.jpg|100px|Rudolf Eucken]]
|-
|1909
|data-sort-value="LAG"|[[Selma Lagerlöf]]<br />(1858–1940)
|data-sort-value="SWE-lag"|{{SWE|Sortierung=SWE}}
|„auf Grund des edlen Idealismus, des Phantasiereichtums und der seelenvollen Darstellung, die ihre Dichtung prägen“
|[[Datei:Selma Lagerlöf.jpg|100px|Selma Lagerlöf]]
|}

== Einzelnachweise ==
<references />