The Literary World
Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Awarded annually since 1901 to an author, chosen by the Swedish Academy, who has ''produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency.''
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Albert Camus (born 1913, died 1960)
French novelist and essayist.
- 1957 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (born 1918)
Russian novelist.
- 1970 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Andre Gide (born 1869, died 1951)
French novelist.
- 1947 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Bjornsterne Bjornson (born 1832, died 1910)
Norwegian playwright and poet.
- 1903 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Boris Pasternak (born 1890, died 1960)
Russian novelist and poet.
- 1958 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Camilo José Cela (born 1916)
Spanish novelist.
- 1989 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Carl F. G. Spitteler (born 1845, died 1924)
Swiss poet.
- 1919 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Claude Simon (born 1913)
French novelist.
- 1985 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Czeslaw Milosz (born 1911)
Polish poet and essayist.
- 1980 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Elias Canetti (born 1905, died 1994)
Bulgarian novelist.
- 1981 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Erik A. Karlfeldt (born 1864, died 1931)
Swedish poet.
- 1931 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Eugene O'Neill (born 1888, died 1953)
American playwright.
- 1936 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Eugenio Montale (born 1896, died 1981)
Italian poet.
- 1975 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Eyvind Johnson (born 1900, died 1976)
Swedish novelist and short-story writer.
- 1974 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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François Mauriac (born 1885, died 1970)
French novelist and critic.
- 1952 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Frans E. Sillanpaa (born 1888, died 1964)
Finnish novelist and short-story writer.
- 1939 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Frederic Mistral (born 1830, died 1914)
French poet.
- 1904 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez (born 1928)
Colombian novelist and short-story writer associated with ''magical realism.''
- 1982 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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George Bernard Shaw (born 1856, died 1950)
British playwright.
- 1925 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Gerhart Hauptmann (born 1862, died 1946)
German playwright and poet.
- 1912 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Giorgos Seferis (born 1900, died 1971)
Greek poet.
- 1963 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Giosue Carducci (born 1835, died 1907)
Italian poet and critic.
- 1906 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Halldor K. Laxness (born 1902)
Icelandic novelist.
- 1955 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Harry Edmund Martinson (born 1905, died 1978)
Swedish poet.
- 1974 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Heinrich Böll (born 1917, died 1985)
German novelist.
- 1972 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Henri Bergson (born 1859, died 1941)
French philosopher.
- 1927 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Henrik Pontoppidan (born 1857, died 1943)
Danish novelist.
- 1917 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Henryk Sienkiewicz (born 1846, died 1916)
Polish novelist.
- 1905 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Hermann Hesse (born 1877, died 1962)
Swiss novelist.
- 1946 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (born 1904, died 1991)
American Yiddish novelist and short-story writer of Polish origin.
- 1978 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Ivan Bunin (born 1870, died 1953)
Russian novelist and short-story writer.
- 1933 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Ivo Andric (born 1892, died 1975)
Yugoslavian novelist.
- 1961 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Jacinto Benavente (born 1866, died 1954)
Spanish playwright.
- 1922 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Jaroslav Seifert (born 1901, died 1986)
Czech poet.
- 1984 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Johannes V. Jensen (born 1873, died 1950)
Danish poet and novelist.
- 1944 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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John Steinbeck (born 1902, died 1968)
American novelist.
- 1962 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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John Galsworthy (born 1867, died 1933)
English novelist.
- 1932 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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José Echegaray (born 1832, died 1916)
Spanish playwright.
- 1904 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Joseph Brodsky (born 1940, died 1996)
Russian poet who emigrated to the U.S.
- 1987 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Juan Ramón Jiménez (born 1881, died 1958)
Spanish poet.
- 1956 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Karl A. Gjellerup (born 1857, died 1919)
Danish novelist.
- 1917 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Knut Hamsun (born 1859, died 1952)
Norwegian novelist.
- 1920 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Luigi Pirandello (born 1867, died 1936)
Italian playwright and novelist.
- 1934 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Miguel Angel Asturias (born 1899, died 1974)
Guatemalan novelist.
- 1967 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Mikhail Sholokhov (born 1905, died 1984)
Russian novelist.
- 1965 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Naguib Mahfouz (born 1911)
Egyptian novelist and screenwriter.
- 1988 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Octavio Paz (born 1914, died 1998)
Mexican poet and critic.
- 1990 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Odysseus Elytis (born 1911, died 1996)
Greek poet.
- 1979 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Par F. Lagerkvist (born 1891, died 1974)
Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet.
- 1951 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Patrick White (born 1912, died 1990)
Australian novelist.
- 1973 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Paul J. L. Heyse (born 1830, died 1914)
German novelist.
- 1910 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Rabindranath Tagore (born 1861, died 1941)
Bengali poet, essayist and novelist.
- 1913 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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René F.A. Sully-Prudhomme (born 1839, died 1907)
French poet.
- 1901 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Roger Martin du Gard (born 1881, died 1958)
French novelist.
- 1937 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Romain Rolland (born 1866, died 1944)
French novelist.
- 1915 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Rudolf C. Eucken (born 1846, died 1926)
German ethical philosopher.
- 1908 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Saint-John Perse (born 1887, died 1975)
French poet. Pseudonym of diplomat Alexis Saint-Leger Leger.
- 1960 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Salvatore Quasimodo (born 1901, died 1968)
Italian poet.
- 1959 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Samuel Joseph Agnon (born 1888, died 1970)
Israeli novelist. Original name: Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes.
- 1966 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Sinclair Lewis (born 1885, died 1951)
American novelist.
- 1930 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Theodor Mommsen (born 1817, died 1903)
German classical scholar and historian.
- 1902 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Thomas Mann (born 1875, died 1955)
German novelist.
- 1929 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Verner von Heidenstam (born 1859, died 1940)
Swedish poet.
- 1916 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Vicente Aleixandre (born 1898, died 1984)
Spanish poet.
- 1977 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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William Faulkner (born 1897, died 1962)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1949 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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William Golding (born 1911, died 1993)
English novelist.
- 1983 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (born 1874, died 1965)
British statesman, author and historian. Led the United Kingdom through much of World War II.
- 1953 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Wladyslaw S. Reymont (born 1867, died 1925)
Polish novelist.
- 1924 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Wole Soyinka (born 1934)
Nigerian playwright.
- 1986 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Yasunari Kawabata (born 1899, died 1972)
Japanese novelist.
- 1968 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Rudyard Kipling (born 1865, died 1936)
English novelist and short-story writer known for his tales of India.
- 1907 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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William Butler Yeats (born 1865, died 1939)
Irish poet and playwright.
- 1923 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Thomas Stearns ''T.S.'' Eliot (born 1888, died 1965)
American poet and critic.
- 1948 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Derek Walcott (born 1930)
Caribbean poet.
- 1992 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Seamus Heaney (born 1939)
Irish poet.
- 1995 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Samuel Beckett (born 1906, died 1989)
Irish playwright, novelist, and poet who wrote in French.
- 1969 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Anatole France (born 1844, died 1924)
French novelist. Original name: Jacques Anatole François Thibault.
- 1921 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Bertrand Russell (born 1872, died 1970)
English philosopher, mathematician and reformer.
- 1950 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Jean-Paul Sartre (born 1905, died 1980)
French novelist, playwright, and existential philosopher.
- 1964 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Saul Bellow (born 1915)
American novelist.
- 1976 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Pablo Neruda (born 1904, died 1973)
Chilean poet. Original name: Neftali Ricardo Reyes.
- 1971 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Ernest Hemingway (born 1899, died 1961)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1954 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Maurice Maeterlinck (born 1862, died 1949)
Belgian poet and playwright.
- 1911 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Kenzaburo Oe (born 1935)
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- 1994 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Dario Fo (born 1926)
Italian playwright.
- 1997 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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José Saramago (born 1922)
Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Portuguese writer with working class background and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature: ''''who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality.''''
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Günter Grass (born 1927)
German sculptor, artist and writer
- 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature winner
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Gao Xingjian (born 1940)
Chinese novelist and dramatist
- 2000 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Awarded annually since 1901 to an author, chosen by the Swedish Academy, who has ''produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency.''
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Gabriela Mistral (born 1889, died 1957)
Pen-name of Chilean poet Lucila Godoy de Alcayaga.
- 1945 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Grazia Deledda (born 1875, died 1936)
Italian novelist.
- 1926 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
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Nelly Sachs (born 1891, died 1970)
German poet and playwright.
- 1966 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Pearl S. Buck (born 1892, died 1973)
American novelist.
- 1938 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Selma Lagerlöf (born 1858, died 1940)
Swedish novelist.
- 1909 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Sigrid Undset (born 1882, died 1949)
Norwegian novelist.
- 1928 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Toni Morrison (born 1931)
American novelist.
- 1993 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Nadine Gordimer (born 1923)
South African novelist.
- 1991 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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Wislawa Szymborska (born 1923)
Polish poet.
- 1996 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
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