Winners of the Nobel Literature Prize
2006=Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
2005=Harold Pinter (United Kingdom)
2004=Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2003=John M. Coetzee (South Africa)
2002=Imre Kertész (Hungary)
2001=V. S. Naipaul
2000=Gao Xingjian (China)
1999=Günter Grass (Germany)
1998=José Saramago (Portugal)
1997=Dario Fo (Italy)
1996=Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1995=Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
1994=Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
1993=Toni Morrison (U.S.)
1992=Derek Walcott (Trinidad)
1991=Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1990=Octavio Paz (Mexico)
1989=Camilo José Cela (Spain)
1988=Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
1987=Joseph Brodsky (U.S.)
1986=Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
1985=Claude Simon (France)
1984=Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia)
1983=William Golding (U.K.)
1982=Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
1981=Elias Canetti (Bulgaria)
1980=Czeslaw Milosz (U.S.)
1979=Odysseus Elytis (Greece)
1978=Isaac Bashevis Singer (U.S.)
1977=Vicente Aleixandre (Spain)
1976=Saul Bellow (U.S.)
1975=Eugenio Montale (Italy)
1974=Eyvind Johnson & Harry Martinson (both Sweden)
1973=Patrick White (Australia)
1972=Heinrich Böll (Germany)
1971=Pablo Neruda (Chile)
1970=Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (U.S.S.R.)
1969=Samuel Beckett (Ireland)
1968=Yasunari Kawabata (Japan)
1967=Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala)
1966=Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel) & Nelly Sachs (Sweden)
1965=Mikhail Sholokhov (U.S.S.R.)
1964=Jean-Paul Sartre (France) (declined)
1963=Giorgios Seferis (Seferiades) (Greece)
1962=John Steinbeck (U.S.)
1961=Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia)
1960=St. John Perse (Alexis St.-Léger Léger) (France)
1959=Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy)
1958=Boris Pasternak (U.S.S.R.) (declined)
1957=Albert Camus (France)
1956=Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain)
1955=Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
1954=Ernest Hemingway (U.S.)
1953=Sir Winston Churchill (U.K.)
1952=François Mauriac (France)
1951=Pär Lagerkvist (Sweden)
1950=Bertrand Russell (U.K.)
1949=William Faulkner (U.S.)
1948=Thomas Stearns Eliot (U.K.)
1947=André Gide (France)
1946=Hermann Hesse (Switzerland)
1945=Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
1944=Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark)
1943=None.
1942=None.
1941=None.
1940=None.
1939=Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finland)
1938=Pearl S. Buck (U.S.)
1937=Roger Martin du Gard (France)
1936=Eugene O'Neill (U.S.)
1935=None.
1934=Luigi Pirandello (Italy)
1933=Ivan G. Bunin (Russia)
1932=John Galsworthy (U.K.)
1931=Erik A. Karlfeldt (Sweden)
1930=Sinclair Lewis (U.S.)
1929=Thomas Mann (Germany)
1928=Sigrid Undset (Norway)
1927=Henri Bergson (France)
1926=Grazia Deledda (Italy)
1925=George Bernard Shaw (Ireland)
1924=Wladyslaw Reymont (Poland)
1923=William B. Yeats (Ireland)
1922=Jacinto Benavente (Spain)
1921=Anatole France (France)
1920=Knut Hamsun (Norway)
1919=Carl Spitteler (Switzerland)
1918=None.
1917=Karl Gjellerup (Denmark) & Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark)
1916=Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden)
1915=Romain Rolland (France)
1914=None.
1913=Rabindranath Tagore (India)
1912=Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany)
1911=Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)
1910=Paul von Heyse (Germany)
1909=Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden)
1908=Rudolf Eucken (Germany)
1907=Rudyard Kipling (U.K.)
1906=Giosuč Carducci (Italy)
1905=Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland)
1904=Frédéric Mistral (France) & José Echegaray (Spain)
1903=Björnstjerne Björnson (Norway)
1902=Theodor Mommsen (Germany)
1901=René F. A. Sully Prudhomme (France)