Nobel Prize in Literature

Winners

2024		Han Kang ★★☆
2023		Jon Fosse ★★
2022		Annie Ernaux ★★
2021		Abdulrazak Gurnah ★★☆☆
2020		Louise Glück ★★
2019		Peter Handke ★★
2018		Olga Tokarczuk ★★☆☆
2017		Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
2016		Bob Dylan ★★
2015		Svetlana Alexievich ★★
2014		Patrick Modiano ★★
2013		Alice Munro ★★☆
2012		Mo Yan ★★
2011		Tomas Tranströmer ★★★★
2010		Mario Vargas Llosa ★★
2009		Herta Müller ★★★
2008		Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio ★★
2007		Doris Lessing ★★☆☆☆
2006		Orhan Pamuk ★★★☆
2005		Harold Pinter ★★
2004		Elfriede Jelinek ★★
2003		J. M. Coetzee ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆
2002		Imre Kertész ★★
2001		V. S. Naipaul ★★★☆☆☆
2000		Gao Xingjian ★★
1999		Günter Grass ★★
1998		José Saramago ★★★★☆
1997		Dario Fo ★★
1996		Wisława Szymborska ★★
1995		Seamus Heaney ★★
1994		Kenzaburō Ōe ★★
1993		Toni Morrison ★★★☆☆☆☆
1992		Derek Walcott ★★
1991		Nadine Gordimer ★★★☆☆
1990		Octavio Paz ★★★★
1989		Camilo José Cela ★★
1988		Naguib Mahfouz ★★
1987		Joseph Brodsky ★★
1986		Wole Soyinka ★★
1985		Claude Simon ★★
1984		Jaroslav Seifert ★★
1983		William Golding ★★★
1982		Gabriel García Márquez ★★★★
1981		Elias Canetti ★★
1980		Czesław Miłosz ★★★★
1979		Odysseas Elytis ★★
1978		Isaac Bashevis Singer ★★☆☆☆☆
1977		Vicente Aleixandre ★★
1976		Saul Bellow ★★★★★☆☆☆
1975		Eugenio Montale ★★
1974		Eyvind Johnson ★★
1973		Patrick White ★★☆
1972		Heinrich Böll ★★
1971		Pablo Neruda ★★
1970		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ★★
1969		Samuel Beckett ★★
1968		Yasunari Kawabata ★★
1967		Miguel Ángel Asturias ★★
1966		Shmuel Yosef Agnon ★★
1965		Mikhail Sholokhov ★★
1964		Jean-Paul Sartre ★★
1963		Giorgos Seferis ★★
1962		John Steinbeck ★★☆☆
1961		Ivo Andrić ★★
1960		Saint-John Perse ★★
1959		Salvatore Quasimodo ★★
1958		Boris Pasternak ★★
1957		Albert Camus ★★
1956		Juan Ramón Jiménez ★★
1955		Halldór Laxness ★★
1954		Ernest Hemingway ★★☆
1953		Winston Churchill ★★
1952		François Mauriac ★★
1951		Pär Lagerkvist ★★
1950		Bertrand Russell ★★
1949		William Faulkner ★★★★☆☆
1948		Thomas Stearns Eliot ★★
1947		André Gide ★★
1946		Hermann Hesse ★★
1945		Gabriela Mistral ★★
1944		Johannes Vilhelm Jensen ★★
1939		Frans Eemil Sillanpää ★★
1938		Pearl Buck ★★
1937		Roger Martin du Gard ★★
1936		Eugene O'Neill ★★
1934		Luigi Pirandello ★★
1933		Ivan Bunin ★★
1932		John Galsworthy ★★
1931		Erik Axel Karlfeldt ★★
1930		Sinclair Lewis ★★
1929		Thomas Mann ★★☆
1928		Sigrid Undset ★★
1927		Henri Bergson ★★
1926		Grazia Deledda ★★
1925		George Bernard Shaw ★★
1924		Władysław Reymont ★★
1923		William Butler Yeats ★★
1922		Jacinto Benavente ★★
1921		Anatole France ★★
1920		Knut Hamsun ★★
1919		Carl Spitteler ★★
1917		Karl Adolph Gjellerup ★★
1916		Verner von Heidenstam ★★
1915		Romain Rolland ★★
1913		Rabindranath Tagore ★★
1912		Gerhart Hauptmann ★★
1911		Maurice Maeterlinck ★★
1910		Paul von Heyse ★★
1909		Selma Lagerlöf ★★
1908		Rudolf Christoph Eucken ★★
1907		Rudyard Kipling ★★
1906		Giosuè Carducci ★★
1905		Henryk Sienkiewicz ★★
1904		Frédéric Mistral ★★
1903		Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson ★★
1902		Theodor Mommsen ★★
1901		Sully Prudhomme ★★