Nobel Prize in Literature

Winners

2026		Anne Carson ★★
2025		László Krasznahorkai ★★
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		J. M. G. 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 ★★☆☆
1974		Harry Martinson ★★
1973		Patrick White ★★☆
1972		Heinrich Böll ★★
1971		Pablo Neruda ★★☆☆
1970		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ★★
1969		Samuel Beckett ★★
1968		Yasunari Kawabata ★★
1967		Miguel Ángel Asturias ★★
1966		Nelly Sachs ★★
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		T. S. Eliot ★★
1947		André Gide ★★
1946		Hermann Hesse ★★
1945		Gabriela Mistral ★★
1944		Johannes Vilhelm Jensen ★★
1939		Frans Eemil Sillanpää ★★
1938		Pearl S. 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		W. B. Yeats ★★
1922		Jacinto Benavente ★★
1921		Anatole France ★★
1920		Knut Hamsun ★★
1919		Carl Spitteler ★★
1917		Karl Adolph Gjellerup ★★
1917		Henrik Pontoppidan ★★
1916		Verner von Heidenstam ★★
1915		Romain Rolland ★★
1913		Rabindranath Tagore ★★
1912		Gerhart Hauptmann ★★
1911		Maurice Maeterlinck ★★
1910		Paul Heyse ★★
1909		Selma Lagerlöf ★★
1908		Rudolf Christoph Eucken ★★
1907		Rudyard Kipling ★★
1906		Giosuè Carducci ★★
1905		Henryk Sienkiewicz ★★
1904		José Echegaray ★★
1904		Frédéric Mistral ★★
1903		Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson ★★
1902		Theodor Mommsen ★★
1901		Sully Prudhomme ★★