| The Nobel Prize for Literature The
Swedish Academy is responsible for choosing the Nobel
Laureates in Literature.
The medal represents a young man sitting under a
laurel tree who, enchanted, listens to and writes down
the song of the Muse. The inscription reads Inventas
vitam juvat excolouisse per artes, which translates
to "Inventions enhance life which is beautified
through art. The medal was designed by Erik Lindberg.
1901-1910 | 1911-1920
| 1921-1930 | 1931-1940
| 1941-1950 | 1951-1960
| 1961-1970 | 1971-1980
| 1981-1990 | 1991-2000
| 2001-2010 | 2011-
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1901 Sully
Prudhomme
1902 Theodor Mommsen
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904 Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906 Giosuè Carducci
1907 Rudyard Kipling
1908 Rudolf Eucken
1909 Selma Legerlöf
1910 Paul Heyse
1911 Maurice
Maeterlinck
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
1913 Rabindranath Tagore
1914 no award given
1915 Romain Rolland
1916 Verner von Heidenstam
1919 Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1918 no award given
1919 Carl Spitteler
1920 Knut Hamsun
1921 Anatole
France
1922 Jacinto Benavente
1923 William Butler Yeats
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
1925 George Bernard Shaw
1926 Grazia Deledda
1927 Henri Bergson
1928 Sigrid Undset
1929 Thomas Mann
1930 Sinclair Lewis
1931 Erik Axel
Karlfeldt
1932 John Galsworthy
1933 Ivan Bunin
1934 Luigi Pirandello
1935 no award given
1936 Eugene O'Neill
1937 Roger Martin du Gard
1938 Pearl Buck
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1940 no award given
1941 no award
given
1942 no award given
1943 no award given
1944 Johannes V. Jensen
1945 Gabriela Mistral
1946 Hermann Hesse
1947 André Gide
1948 T.S. Eliot
1949 William Faulkner
1950 Bertrand Russell
1951 Pär
Lagerkvist
1952 François Mauriac
1953 Winston Churchill
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1955 Halldór Laxness
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957 Albert Camus
1958 Boris Pasternak
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1960 Saint-John Perse
1961 Ivo Andric
1962 John Steinbeck
1963 Giorgos Seferis
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov
1966 Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias
1968 Yasunari Kawabata
1969 Samuel Beckett
1970 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1971 Pablo Neruda
1972 Heinrich Böll
1973 Patrick White
1974 Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
1975 Eugenio Montale
1976 Saul Bellow
1977 Vicente Aleixandre
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979 Odysseus Elytis
1980 Czeslaw Milosz
1981 Elias Canetti
1982 Gabriel García Márquez
1983 William Golding
1984 Jaroslav Seifert
1985 Claude Simon
1986 Wole Soyinka
1987 Joseph Brodsky
1988 Naguib Mahfouz
1989 Camilo José Cela
1990 Octavio Paz
1991 Nadine
Gordimer
1992 Derek Walcott
1993 Toni Morrison
1994 Kenzaburo Oe
1995 Seamus Heaney
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1997 Dario Fo
1998 José Saramago
1999 Günter Grass
2000 Gao Xingjian
2001 V.S. Naipaul
2002 Imre Kertész
2003 J.M. Coetzee
2004 Elfriede Jelinek
2005 Harold Pinter
2006 Orhan Pamuk
2007 Doris Lessing
2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2009 Herta Müller
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa
2011 Tomas
Tranströmer
2012 Mo Yan
2013 Alice Munro
2014 Patrick Modiano
2015 Svetlana Alexievich
2016 Bob Dylan
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro
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