Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates
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The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. As dictated by Nobel's will, the award is administered by the Nobel Foundation and awarded by the Swedish Academy. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years. In 1901, the first laureate Sully Prudhomme received 150,782 SEK, which is equivalent to 8,823,637.78 SEK in January 2018. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.
As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individuals. 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of Nobel laureates.
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There have been four instances in which the award was given to two people (1904, 1917, 1966, 1974) and seven years in which the Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded (1914, 1918, 1935, 1940–1943).
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Authors
# | Name | Gender | Type | Date of birth | Date of death |
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1902 | Theodor Mommsen | Male | Person | 1817-11-30 | 1903-11-01 |
1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Male | Person | 1846-05-05 | 1916-11-15 |
1906 | Giosuè Carducci | Male | Person | 1835-07-27 | 1907-02-16 |
1907 | Rudyard Kipling | Male | Person | 1865-12-30 | 1936-01-18 |
1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Female | Person | 1858-11-20 | 1940-03-16 |
1910 | Paul Heyse (German , writer, poet and translator) | Male | Person | 1830-03-15 | 1914-04-02 |
1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Male | Person | 1862-08-29 | 1949-05-06 |
1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann (German dramatist and novelist) | Male | Person | 1862-11-15 | 1946-06-06 |
1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | Male | Person | 1861-05-07 | 1941-08-07 |
1915 | Romain Rolland (French writer, art historian and music critic) | Male | Person | 1866-01-29 | 1944-12-30 |
1917 | Karl Gjellerup | Male | Person | 1857-06-02 | 1919-10-11 |
1919 | Carl Spitteler | Male | Person | 1845-04-24 | 1924-12-29 |
1920 | Knut Hamsun | Male | Person | 1859-08-04 | 1952-02-19 |
1921 | Anatole France | Male | Person | 1844-04-16 | 1924-10-12 |
1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Male | Person | 1856-07-26 | 1950-11-02 |
1926 | Grazia Deledda | Female | Person | 1871-09-27 | 1936-08-15 |
1928 | Sigrid Undset (Norwegian-Danish writer) | Female | Person | 1882-05-20 | 1949-06-10 |
1929 | Thomas Mann | Male | Person | 1875-06-06 | 1955-08-12 |
1930 | Sinclair Lewis | Male | Person | 1885-02-07 | 1951-01-10 |
1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Male | Person | 1864-07-20 | 1931-04-08 |
1932 | John Galsworthy | Male | Person | 1867-08-14 | 1933-01-31 |
1936 | Eugene O'Neill | Male | Person | 1888-10-16 | 1953-11-27 |
1938 | Pearl S. Buck | Female | Person | 1892-06-26 | 1973-03-06 |
1939 | Frans Emil Sillanpää | Male | Person | 1888-09-16 | 1964-06-03 |
1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Female | Person | 1889-04-07 | 1957-01-10 |
1946 | Hermann Hesse | Male | Person | 1877-07-02 | 1962-08-09 |
1947 | André Gide | Male | Person | 1869-11-22 | 1951-02-19 |
1948 | T. S. Eliot | Male | Person | 1888-09-26 | 1965-01-04 |
1949 | William Faulkner | Male | Person | 1897-09-25 | 1962-07-06 |
1950 | Bertrand Russell | Male | Person | 1872-05-18 | 1970-02-02 |
1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | Male | Person | 1891-05-23 | 1974-07-11 |
1952 | François Mauriac | Male | Person | 1885-10-11 | 1970-09-01 |
1953 | Winston Churchill (British statesman, soldier and writer) | Male | Person | 1874-11-30 | 1965-01-24 |
1954 | Ernest Hemingway | Male | Person | 1899-07-21 | 1961-07-02 |
1955 | Halldór Laxness | Male | Person | 1902-04-23 | 1998-02-08 |
1957 | Albert Camus | Male | Person | 1913-11-07 | 1960-01-04 |
1958 | Борис Леонидович Пастернак | Male | Person | 1890-02-10 | 1960-05-30 |
1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Male | Person | 1901-08-20 | 1968-06-14 |
1960 | Saint‐John Perse | Male | Person | 1887-05-31 | 1975-09-20 |
1961 | Ivo Andrić | Male | Person | 1892-10-09 | 1975-03-13 |
1962 | John Steinbeck | Male | Person | 1902-02-27 | 1968-12-20 |
1964 | Jean‐Paul Sartre | Male | Person | 1905-06-21 | 1980-04-15 |
1965 | Михаил Александрович Шолохов | Male | Person | 1905-05-24 | 1984-02-21 |
1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew writer) | Male | Person | 1888-07-17 | 1970-02-17 |
1966 | Nelly Sachs | Female | Person | 1891-12-10 | 1970-05-12 |
1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias | Male | Person | 1899-10-19 | 1974-06-09 |
1969 | Samuel Beckett | Male | Person | 1906-04-13 | 1989-12-22 |
1970 | Александр Исаевич Солженицын | Male | Person | 1918-12-11 | 2008-08-03 |
1971 | Pablo Neruda | Male | Person | 1904-07-12 | 1973-09-23 |
1972 | Heinrich Böll | Male | Person | 1917-12-21 | 1985-07-16 |
1973 | Patrick White (Australian writer) | Male | Person | 1912-05-28 | 1990-09-30 |
1974 | Harry Martinson (Swedish writer and poet) | Male | Person | 1904-05-06 | 1978-02-11 |
1974 | Eyvind Johnson (Swedish novelist and short story writer) | Male | Person | 1900-07-29 | 1976-08-25 |
1975 | Eugenio Montale | Male | Person | 1896-10-12 | 1981-09-12 |
1976 | Saul Bellow (Canadian-American writer) | Male | Person | 1915-06-10 | 2005-04-05 |
1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer (Polish-American writer) | Male | Person | 1902-11-21 | 1991-07-24 |
1980 | Czesław Miłosz | Male | Person | 1911-06-30 | 2004-08-14 |
1981 | Elias Canetti | Male | Person | 1905-07-25 | 1994-08-14 |
1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | Male | Person | 1927-03-06 | 2014-04-17 |
1983 | William Golding | Male | Person | 1911-09-19 | 1993-06-19 |
1985 | Claude Simon (French novelist) | Male | Person | 1913-10-10 | 2005-07-06 |
1986 | Wole Soyinka | Male | Person | 1934-07-13 | ? |
1987 | Joseph Brodsky | Male | Person | 1940-05-24 | 1996-01-28 |
1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Male | Person | 1911-12-11 | 2006-08-30 |
1989 | Camilo José Cela (Spanish writer) | Male | Person | 1916-05-11 | 2002-01-17 |
1991 | Nadine Gordimer | Female | Person | 1923-11-20 | 2014-07-13 |
1992 | Derek Walcott | Male | Person | 1930-01-23 | 2017-03-17 |
1993 | Toni Morrison | Female | Person | 1931-02-18 | 2019-08-05 |
1995 | Seamus Heaney | Male | Person | 1939-04-13 | 2013-08-30 |
1997 | Dario Fo (Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist) | Male | Person | 1926-03-24 | 2016-10-13 |
1998 | José Saramago (Portuguese writer) | Male | Person | 1922-11-16 | 2010-06-10 |
1999 | Günter Grass | Male | Person | 1927-10-16 | 2015-04-15 |
2001 | V. S. Naipaul | Male | Person | 1932-08-17 | 2018-08-11 |
2002 | Imre Kertész (Hungarian writer) | Male | Person | 1929-11-09 | 2016-03-31 |
2003 | J. M. Coetzee | Male | Person | 1940-02-09 | ? |
2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Female | Person | 1946-10-20 | ? |
2005 | Harold Pinter | Male | Person | 1930-10-10 | 2008-12-24 |
2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Male | Person | 1952-06-07 | ? |
2007 | Doris Lessing | Female | Person | 1919-10-22 | 2013-11-17 |
2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | Male | Person | 1940-04-13 | ? |
2009 | Herta Müller (German writer) | Female | Person | 1953-08-17 | ? |
2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Male | Person | 1936-03-28 | ? |
2012 | Mo Yan (Chinese writer) | Male | Person | 1955-02-17 | ? |
2013 | Alice Munro (Canadian writer) | Female | Person | 1931-07-10 | ? |
2014 | Patrick Modiano | Male | Person | 1945-07-30 | ? |
2015 | Светлана Алексиевич | Female | Person | 1948-05-31 | ? |
2016 | Bob Dylan | Male | Person | 1941-05-24 | ? |
2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Male | Person | 1954-11-08 | ? |
2019 | Peter Handke | Male | Person | 1942-12-06 | ? |
2020 | Louise Glück | Female | Person | 1943-04-22 | ? |
2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | Male | Person | 1948-12-20 | ? |
2022 | Annie Ernaux | Female | Person | 1940-09-01 | ? |
2023 | Jon Fosse (Norwegian writer) | Male | Person | 1959-09-29 | ? |
2024 | 한강 (South Korean writer) | Female | Person | 1970-11-27 | ? |
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