The Nobel Prize in Literature, laureate by laureate

123 laureates

The Laureates

Every writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature since the first prize in 1901.

2020s

  1. 2026Anne CarsonCanadian · English
  2. 2025László KrasznahorkaiHungarian
  3. 2024Han KangSouth Korean · Korean
  4. 2023Jon FosseNorwegian · Norwegian (Nynorsk)
  5. 2022Annie ErnauxFrench
  6. 2021Abdulrazak GurnahTanzanian-British · English
  7. 2020Louise GlückAmerican · English

2010s

  1. 2019Peter HandkeAustrian · German
  2. 2018Olga TokarczukPolish
  3. 2017Kazuo IshiguroBritish · English
  4. 2016Bob DylanAmerican · English
  5. 2015Svetlana AlexievichBelarusian · Russian
  6. 2014Patrick ModianoFrench
  7. 2013Alice MunroCanadian · English
  8. 2012Mo YanChinese
  9. 2011Tomas TranströmerSwedish
  10. 2010Mario Vargas LlosaPeruvian · Spanish

2000s

  1. 2009Herta MüllerRomanian-German · German
  2. 2008J. M. G. Le ClézioFrench and Mauritian · French
  3. 2007Doris LessingBritish · English
  4. 2006Orhan PamukTurkish
  5. 2005Harold PinterBritish · English
  6. 2004Elfriede JelinekAustrian · German
  7. 2003J. M. CoetzeeSouth African and Australian · English
  8. 2002Imre KertészHungarian
  9. 2001V. S. NaipaulBritish (Trinidad-born) · English
  10. 2000Gao XingjianFrench (Chinese-born) · Chinese

1990s

  1. 1999Günter GrassGerman
  2. 1998José SaramagoPortuguese
  3. 1997Dario FoItalian
  4. 1996Wisława SzymborskaPolish
  5. 1995Seamus HeaneyIrish · English
  6. 1994Kenzaburō ŌeJapanese
  7. 1993Toni MorrisonAmerican · English
  8. 1992Derek WalcottSaint Lucian · English
  9. 1991Nadine GordimerSouth African · English
  10. 1990Octavio PazMexican · Spanish

1980s

  1. 1989Camilo José CelaSpanish
  2. 1988Naguib MahfouzEgyptian · Arabic
  3. 1987Joseph BrodskyRussian-American · Russian, English
  4. 1986Wole SoyinkaNigerian · English
  5. 1985Claude SimonFrench
  6. 1984Jaroslav SeifertCzech
  7. 1983William GoldingBritish · English
  8. 1982Gabriel García MárquezColombian · Spanish
  9. 1981Elias CanettiBulgarian-born British · German
  10. 1980Czesław MiłoszPolish-American · Polish

1970s

  1. 1979Odysseas ElytisGreek
  2. 1978Isaac Bashevis SingerPolish-born American · Yiddish
  3. 1977Vicente AleixandreSpanish
  4. 1976Saul BellowAmerican · English
  5. 1975Eugenio MontaleItalian
  6. 1974Eyvind JohnsonSwedishHarry MartinsonSwedish
  7. 1973Patrick WhiteAustralian · English
  8. 1972Heinrich BöllGerman
  9. 1971Pablo NerudaChilean · Spanish
  10. 1970Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRussian

1960s

  1. 1969Samuel BeckettIrish · English, French
  2. 1968Yasunari KawabataJapanese
  3. 1967Miguel Ángel AsturiasGuatemalan · Spanish
  4. 1966Shmuel Yosef AgnonIsraeli · HebrewNelly SachsGerman-born Swedish · German
  5. 1965Mikhail SholokhovRussian
  6. 1964Jean-Paul SartreFrench
  7. 1963Giorgos SeferisGreek
  8. 1962John SteinbeckAmerican · English
  9. 1961Ivo AndrićYugoslav · Serbo-Croatian
  10. 1960Saint-John PerseFrench

1950s

  1. 1959Salvatore QuasimodoItalian
  2. 1958Boris PasternakRussian
  3. 1957Albert CamusFrench
  4. 1956Juan Ramón JiménezSpanish
  5. 1955Halldór LaxnessIcelandic
  6. 1954Ernest HemingwayAmerican · English
  7. 1953Winston ChurchillBritish · English
  8. 1952François MauriacFrench
  9. 1951Pär LagerkvistSwedish
  10. 1950Bertrand RussellBritish · English

1940s

  1. 1949William FaulknerAmerican · English
  2. 1948T. S. EliotAmerican-born British · English
  3. 1947André GideFrench
  4. 1946Hermann HesseGerman-born Swiss · German
  5. 1945Gabriela MistralChilean · Spanish
  6. 1944Johannes V. JensenDanish
  7. 1940–1943Not awarded

1930s

  1. 1939Frans Eemil SillanpääFinnish
  2. 1938Pearl S. BuckAmerican · English
  3. 1937Roger Martin du GardFrench
  4. 1936Eugene O'NeillAmerican · English
  5. 1935Not awarded
  6. 1934Luigi PirandelloItalian · Italian, Sicilian
  7. 1933Ivan BuninRussian
  8. 1932John GalsworthyBritish · English
  9. 1931Erik Axel KarlfeldtSwedish
  10. 1930Sinclair LewisAmerican · English

1920s

  1. 1929Thomas MannGerman
  2. 1928Sigrid UndsetNorwegian
  3. 1927Henri BergsonFrench
  4. 1926Grazia DeleddaItalian
  5. 1925George Bernard ShawIrish · English
  6. 1924Władysław ReymontPolish
  7. 1923W. B. YeatsIrish · English
  8. 1922Jacinto BenaventeSpanish
  9. 1921Anatole FranceFrench
  10. 1920Knut HamsunNorwegian

1910s

  1. 1919Carl SpittelerSwiss · German
  2. 1918Not awarded
  3. 1917Karl GjellerupDanish · Danish, GermanHenrik PontoppidanDanish
  4. 1916Verner von HeidenstamSwedish
  5. 1915Romain RollandFrench
  6. 1914Not awarded
  7. 1913Rabindranath TagoreIndian · Bengali, English
  8. 1912Gerhart HauptmannGerman
  9. 1911Maurice MaeterlinckBelgian · French
  10. 1910Paul HeyseGerman

1900s

  1. 1909Selma LagerlöfSwedish
  2. 1908Rudolf EuckenGerman
  3. 1907Rudyard KiplingBritish · English
  4. 1906Giosuè CarducciItalian
  5. 1905Henryk SienkiewiczPolish
  6. 1904José EchegaraySpanishFrédéric MistralFrench · Provençal (Occitan), French
  7. 1903Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonNorwegian
  8. 1902Theodor MommsenGerman
  9. 1901Sully PrudhommeFrench