Nobel Prize in Literature

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The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency". The "work" in this case generally refers to an author's work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes cited in the awards. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year.

List of Nobel Prize laureates in Literature from 1901 to the present day.

Year	Name	Country
1901	Sully Prudhomme	France
1902	Theodor Mommsen	Germany
1903	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Norway
1904	Frédéric Mistral	France
1904	José Echegaray y Eizaguirre	Spain
1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz	Poland
1906	Giosuè Carducci	Italy
1907	Rudyard Kipling	United Kingdom
1908	Rudolf Christoph Eucken	Germany
1909	Selma Lagerlöf	Sweden
1910	Paul Heyse	Germany
1911	Count Maurice Maeterlinck	Belgium
1912	Gerhart Hauptmann	Germany
1913	Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর)	India
1915	Romain Rolland	France
1916	Verner von Heidenstam	Sweden
1917	Karl Adolph Gjellerup	Denmark
1917	Henrik Pontoppidan	Denmark
1919	Carl Spitteler	Switzerland
1920	Knut Hamsun	Norway
1921	Anatole France	France
1922	Jacinto Benavente	Spain
1923	William Butler Yeats	Ireland
1924	Władysław Reymont	Poland
1925	George Bernard Shaw	Ireland
1926	Grazia Deledda	Italy
1927	Henri Bergson	France
1928	Sigrid Undset	Norway
1929	Thomas Mann	Germany
1930	Sinclair Lewis	United States
1931	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	Sweden
1932	John Galsworthy	United Kingdom
1933	Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin	Russia
1934	Luigi Pirandello	Italy
1936	Eugene O'Neill	United States
1937	Roger Martin du Gard	France
1938	Pearl S. Buck	United States
1939	Frans Eemil Sillanpää	Finland
1944	Johannes Vilhelm Jensen	Denmark
1945	Gabriela Mistral	Chile
1946	Hermann Hesse	Switzerland
1947	André Gide	France
1948	T. S. Eliot	United States/United Kingdom
1949	William Faulkner	United States
1950	Bertrand Russell	United Kingdom
1951	Pär Lagerkvist	Sweden
1952	François Mauriac	France
1953	Sir Winston Churchill	United Kingdom
1954	Ernest Hemingway	United States
1955	Halldór Laxness	Iceland
1956	Juan Ramón Jiménez	Spain
1957	Albert Camus	France
1958	Boris Pasternak (had to decline the prize)	Russia
1959	Salvatore Quasimodo	Italy
1960	Perse Saint-John	France
1961	Ivo Andric	Yugoslavia
1962	John Steinbeck	United States
1963	Giorgos Seferis	Greece
1964	Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize)	France
1965	Michail Sholokhov	Russia
1966	Shmuel Yosef Agnon	Israel
1966	Nelly Sachs	Germany
1967	Miguel Ángel Asturias	Guatemala
1968	Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成)	Japan
1969	Samuel Beckett	Ireland
1970	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	Russia
1971	Pablo Neruda	Chile
1972	Heinrich Böll	Germany (West)
1973	Patrick White	Australia
1974	Eyvind Johnson	Sweden
1974	Harry Martinson	Sweden
1975	Eugenio Montale	Italy
1976	Saul Bellow	Canada/United States
1977	Vicente Aleixandre	Spain
1978	Isaac Bashevis Singer	United States
1979	Odysseas Elytis	Greece
1980	Czesław Miłosz	Poland/United States
1981	Elias Canetti	United Kingdom
1982	Gabriel García Márquez	Colombia
1983	William Golding	United Kingdom
1984	Jaroslav Seifert	Czechoslovakia
1985	Claude Simon	France
1986	Wole Soyinka	Nigeria
1987	Joseph Brodsky	Russia/United States
1988	Naguib Mahfouz	Egypt
1989	Camilo José Cela	Spain
1990	Octavio Paz	Mexico
1991	Nadine Gordimer	South Africa
1992	Derek Walcott	St. Lucia
1993	Toni Morrison	United States
1994	Kenzaburo Oe (大江健三郎)	Japan
1995	Seamus Heaney	Ireland
1996	Wisława Szymborska	Poland
1997	Dario Fo	Italy
1998	José Saramago	Portugal
1999	Günter Grass	Germany
2000	Gao Xingjian (高行健)	France
2001	Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul	United Kingdom
2002	Imre Kertész	Hungary
2003	John Maxwell Coetzee	South Africa
2004	Elfriede Jelinek	Austria