The Alfred B. Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-2004: Literature

2004 Elfriede Jelinek, Austria 1977
2003 J.M. Coetzee, S. Afr. 1976
2002 Imre Kertész, Hung. 1975
2001 Sir V.S. Naipaul, UK 1974
2000 Gao Xingjian, China-Fr.
1999 Günter Grass, Ger. 1973
1998 Jose Saramago, Por. 1972
1997 Dario Fo, It. 1971
1996 Wislawa Szymborska, Pol. 1970
1995 Seamus Heaney, Ire. 1969
1994 Kenzaburo Oe, Jpn. 1968
1993 Toni Morrison, U.S. 1967
1992 Derek Walcott, W. Ind. 1966
1991 Nadine Gordimer, S. Afr.
1990 Oclavio Paz, Max. 1965
1969 Camilo José Cela, Spain 1964
1988 Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt 1963
1987 Joseph Brodsky, USSR-U.S. 1962
1986 Wole Soyinka, Nigeria 1961
1985 Claude Simon, Fr. 1960
1984 Jaroslav Siefert, Czech. 1959
1983 William Gilding, UK 1958
1982 Gabriei Garcia Márquez, Colombia-Max. 1957
1981 Ellas Canetti, Butg,-UK 1956
1980 Czeslaw Milosz, Pol.-U.S. 1955
1979 Odysseus Elytis, Greece 1954
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer, U.S. 1953
1977 Vicente Aleixandre, Spain
1976 Saul Bellow, U.S.
1975 Eugenio Montale, It.
1974 Eyvind Johnson, Harry Edmund Martinson, Swed.
1973 Patrick While, Austral.
1972 Heinrich Böll. Ger.
1971 Pablo Neruda, Chile
1970 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, USSR
1969 Samuel Beckentt, Ire.
1968 Yasunari Kawabata, Jpn.
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias, Guat.
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isr.; Nelly Sachs, Swed.
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre, Fr. (declined)
1963 Giorgos Seferis, Greece
1962 John Steinbeck. U.S.
1961 Ivo Andric, Yugo.
1960 Saint-John Perse, Fr.
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo, It.
1958 Boris L. Pasternak, USSR (declined)
1957 Albert Camus, Fr.
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spain
1955 Halldór K. Laxness, Ice.
1954 Ernest Hemingway, U.S.
1953 Sir Winston Churchill, UK
1952 François Mauriac, Fr.
1951 Pär F. Lagerkvlst, Swed.
1950 Bertrand Russell, UK
1949 William Faulkner, U.S.
1948 T.S. Eliot, UK
1947 André Gide, Fr.
1946 Hermann Hesse, Ger.-Switz.
1945 Gabriela Mistral, Chile
1944 Johannes V. Jensen, Den.
1939 Frans E. Sillanpää, Fin.
1938 Peart S. Buck, U.S.
1937 Roger Martin du Gard, Fr.
1936 Eugene O'Neill, U.S.
1934 Luigi Pirandello, It.
1933 Ivan A. Bunin, USSR
1932 John Galsworthy, UK
1931 Erik A. Karlfeldt, Swed.
1930 Sinclair Lewis, U.S.
1929 Thomas Mann, Ger.
1928 Sigrid Undset, Nor.
1927 Henri Bergson, Fr.
1926 Grazia Deledda, It.
1925 George Bernard Shaw, Ire.-UK
1924 Wladyslaw S. Reymont, Pol.
1923 William Buller Yeats, Ire.
1922 Jacinto Benavente, Spain
1921 Anatole France, Fr.
1920 Knut Hamsun, Nor.
1919 Carl F. G. Spitteler, Switz.
1917 Karl A. Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan, Den.
1916 Verner von Heidenstam, Swed.
1915 Romain Rolland, Fr.
1913 Rabindranath Tagore, India
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann, Ger.
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg.
1910 Paul J. L. Heyse, Ger.
1909 Selma Lageriöf Swed.
1908 Rudolf C. Eucken, Ger.
1907 Rudyard Kipling, UK
1906 Giosué Carducci, It.
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Pol.
1904 Fréderic Mistral, Fr.; José Echegaray
y Eizaguirre, Spain
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Nor.
1902 Theodor Mommsen, Ger.
1901 Rene F. A. Sully Prudhomme, Fr.