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"I, Alfred Nobel, hereby declare ... shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows. ..."

"... One part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency;..."

Alfred Nobel, Paris, November 27, 1985.


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Chronological Listing of Nobel Laureates in Literature

  • 1901 Rene-Francois-Armand Prudhomme (1839 - 1907) (Pseudonym Sully Prudhomme)

  • 1902 Christain Mathias Theodore Mommsen (1817 - 1903)

  • 1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832 - 1910)

  • 1904 Frederich Mistral (1830 - 1914)

  • 1904 Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832 - 1916)

  • 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846 - 1916

  • 1906 Giosue Carducci (1835 - 1907)

  • 1907 Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

  • 1908 Rudolph Christoph Eucken (1846 - 1926)

  • 1909 Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlof (1858 - 1940)

  • 1910 Ludwig Paul von Heyse (1830 - 1914)

  • 1911 Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)

  • 1912 Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (1862 - 1946)

  • 1913 Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)

  • 1914 NOT AWARDED
  • 1915 Romain Rolland (1866 - 1944)

  • 1916 Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (1859 - 1940)

  • 1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857 - 1919)

  • 1917 Henrik Pontoppidan (1857 - 1943)

  • 1918 NOT AWARDED
  • 1919 Carl Spitteler (1845 - 1924)

  • 1920 Knut Hamsun (1859 - 1952)

  • 1921 Jacques-Anatole-Francois Thibault (1844 -1924)

  • 1922 Jacinto y Martinez Benavente (1866 - 1954)

  • 1923 William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

  • 1924 Wiadysiaw Stanislaw Reymont (1867 - 1925)

  • 1925 George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

  • 1926 Grazia Deledda (1875 - 1936)

  • 1927 Henri Louis Bergson (1859 - 1941)

  • 1928 Sigrid Undset (1882 - 1949)

  • 1929 Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)

  • 1930 Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)

  • 1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864 - 1931)

  • 1932 John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)

  • 1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953)

  • 1934 Luigi Pirandello (1867 - 1936)

  • 1935 NOT AWARDED
  • 1936 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888 - 1953)

  • 1937 Roger Martin du Gard (1881 - 1958)

  • 1938 Pearl Sydenstricker Buck ( 1892 - 1973)

  • 1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpaa (1888 - 1964)

  • 1940 NOT AWARDED
  • 1941 NOT AWARDED
  • 1942 NOT AWARDED
  • 1943 NOT AWARDED
  • 1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873 - 1950)

  • 1945 Gabriela Mistral (1889 - 1957)

  • 1946 Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

  • 1947 Andre Paul-Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951)

  • 1948 Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965)

  • 1949 William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

  • 1950 Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970)

  • 1951 Par Fabian Lagerkvist (1891 - 1974)

  • 1952 Francois Mauriac (1885 - 1970)

  • 1953 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965)

  • 1954 Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961)

  • 1955 Halldor Laxness (1902 - 1998)

  • 1956 NOT AWARDED
  • 1957 Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

  • 1958 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890 - 1960)

  • 1959 Slavatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968)

  • 1960 Saint-John Perse (1887 - 1975)

  • 1961 Ivo Andric (1892 - 1975)

  • 1962 John Ernest Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)

  • 1963 George Stylianou Seferiades (1900 - 1971)

  • 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

  • 1965 Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905 - 1984)

  • 1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888 - 1970)

  • 1966 Nelly Leonie Sachs (1891 - 1970)

  • 1967 Miguel Angel Asturias (1899 - 1974)

  • 1968 Yasunari Kawabata (1899 - 1972)

  • 1969 Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989)

  • 1970 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )

  • 1971 Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)

  • 1972 Heinrich Theodor Boll (1917 - 1985)

  • 1973 Patrick Victor Martindale White (1912 - 1990)

  • 1974 Eyvind Johnson (1900 - 1976)

  • 1974 Harry Edmund Martinson (1904 - 1978)

  • 1975 Eugenio Montale (1896 - 1981)

  • 1976 Saul Bellow (1915 - )

  • 1977 Vincente Aleixandre (1898 - 1984)

  • 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)

  • 1979 Odysseus Elytis (1911 - 1996)

  • 1980 Czeslow Milosz (1911 - )

  • 1981 Elias Canetti (1905 - 1994)

  • 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928 - )

  • 1983 William Gerald Golding (1911 - 1993)

  • 1984 Jaroslav Seifert (1901 - 1986)

  • 1985 Claude Eugene Henri Simon (1913 - )

  • 1986 Wole Soyinka (1934 - )

  • 1987 Joseph Brodsky (1940 - 1996)

  • 1988 Naguib Mahfouz (1911 - )

  • 1989 Camilo Jose Cela (1916 - )

  • 1990 Octavio Paz (1914 - 1998)

  • 1991 Nadine Gordimer (1923 - )

  • 1992 Derek Alton Walcott (1930 -)

  • 1993 Toni Morrison (1931 - )

  • 1994 Kenzaburo Oe (1935 - )

  • 1995 Seamus Heaney (1939 - )

  • 1996 Wislawa Szymborska (1923 - )

  • 1997 Dario Fo (1926 - )

  • 1998 Jose Saramago (1922 - )

  • 1999 Gunter Grass (1927 - )

  • 2000 Gao Xingjian (1940 - )

  • 2001 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932 - )

  • 2002 Imre Kertész (1929 - )

  • 2003 John Maxwell Coetzee (1940 - )
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