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Nobel Prize in Literature laureates with notable works
Year Laureate (Country) Notable Work
2024 Han Kang (South Korea) The Vegetarian
2023 Jon Fosse (Norway) A Shining Darkness
2022 Annie Ernaux (France) Simple Passion
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania) Paradise
2020 Louise Glück (USA) The Wild Iris
2019 Peter Handke (Austria) A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
2018 Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) Flights
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro (UK) The Remains of the Day
2016 Bob Dylan (USA) Blowin’ in the Wind (song)
2015 Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) War's Unwomanly Face
2014 Patrick Modiano (France) Missing Person
2013 Alice Munro (Canada) Dear Life
2012 Mo Yan (China) Red Sorghum
2011 Tomas Tranströmer (Sweden) Windows and Stones
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) The Time of the Hero
2009 Herta Müller (Germany) The Hunger Angel
2008 J.M.G. Le Clézio (France) The Desert
2007 Doris Lessing (UK) The Golden Notebook
2006 Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) My Name Is Red
2005 Harold Pinter (UK) The Birthday Party
2004 Elfriede Jelinek (Austria) The Piano Teacher
2003 J.M. Coetzee (South Africa) Disgrace
2002 Imre Kertész (Hungary) Fatelessness
2001 V.S. Naipaul (UK) A Bend in the River
2000 Gao Xingjian (France/China) Soul Mountain
1999 Günter Grass (Germany) The Tin Drum
1998 José Saramago (Portugal) Blindness
1997 Dario Fo (Italy) Accidental Death of an Anarchist
1996 Wisława Szymborska (Poland) View with a Grain of Sand
1995 Seamus Heaney (Ireland) Death of a Naturalist
1994 Kenzaburō Ōe (Japan) A Personal Matter
1993 Toni Morrison (USA) Beloved
1992 Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia) Omeros
1991 Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) Burger’s Daughter
1990 Octavio Paz (Mexico) The Labyrinth of Solitude
1989 Camilo José Cela (Spain) The Family of Pascual Duarte
1988 Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) The Cairo Trilogy
1987 Joseph Brodsky (USA/Russia) A Part of Speech
1986 Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) Death and the King’s Horseman
1985 Claude Simon (France) The Flanders Road
1984 Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia) The Plague Column
1983 William Golding (UK) Lord of the Flies
1982 Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) One Hundred Years of Solitude
1981 Elias Canetti (Bulgaria/UK) Crowds and Power
1980 Czesław Miłosz (Poland) The Captive Mind
1979 Odysseas Elytis (Greece) The Monogram
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (USA/Poland) Gimpel the Fool
1977 Vicente Aleixandre (Spain) Destruction or Love
1976 Saul Bellow (USA) Herzog
1975 Eugenio Montale (Italy) The Occasions
1974 Eyvind Johnson (Sweden) Return to Ithaca
1974 Harry Martinson (Sweden) Aniara
1973 Patrick White (Australia) Voss
1972 Heinrich Böll (Germany) The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
1971 Pablo Neruda (Chile) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (USSR) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
1969 Samuel Beckett (Ireland) Waiting for Godot
1968 Yasunari Kawabata (Japan) Snow Country
1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala) El Señor Presidente
1966 Nelly Sachs (Germany/Sweden) O the Chimneys
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel) A Simple Story
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov (USSR) And Quiet Flows the Don
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (France) Being and Nothingness (declined)
1963 Giorgos Seferis (Greece) Mythistorema
1962 John Steinbeck (USA) The Grapes of Wrath
1961 Ivo Andrić (Yugoslavia) The Bridge on the Drina
1960 Saint-John Perse (France) Anabase
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy) Day After Day
1958 Boris Pasternak (USSR) Doctor Zhivago (declined)
1957 Albert Camus (France) The Stranger
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain) Platero and I
1955 Halldór Laxness (Iceland) Independent People
1954 Ernest Hemingway (USA) The Old Man and the Sea
1953 Winston Churchill (UK) The Second World War
1952 François Mauriac (France) Thérèse Desqueyroux
1951 Pär Lagerkvist (Sweden) Barabbas
1950 Bertrand Russell (UK) A History of Western Philosophy
1949 William Faulkner (USA) The Sound and the Fury
1948 T.S. Eliot (UK) The Waste Land
1947 André Gide (France) The Immoralist
1946 Hermann Hesse (Germany/Switzerland) Siddhartha
1945 Gabriela Mistral (Chile) Desolación
1944 Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark) The Long Journey
1943 Not Awarded -
1942 Not Awarded -
1941 Not Awarded -
1940 Not Awarded -
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finland) Meek Heritage
1938 Pearl S. Buck (USA) The Good Earth
1937 Roger Martin du Gard (France) The Thibaults
1936 Eugene O'Neill (USA) Long Day's Journey into Night
1935 Not Awarded -
1934 Luigi Pirandello (Italy) Six Characters in Search of an Author
1933 Ivan Bunin (USSR) The Village
1932 John Galsworthy (UK) The Forsyte Saga
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden) Fridolins visor
1930 Sinclair Lewis (USA) Main Street
1929 Thomas Mann (Germany) The Magic Mountain
1928 Sigrid Undset (Norway) Kristin Lavransdatter
1927 Henri Bergson (France) Creative Evolution
1926 Grazia Deledda (Italy) Cosima
1925 George Bernard Shaw (Ireland) Pygmalion
1924 Władysław Reymont (Poland) The Peasants
1923 William Butler Yeats (Ireland) The Tower
1922 Jacinto Benavente (Spain) The Bonds of Interest
1921 Anatole France (France) The Gods Will Have Blood
1920 Knut Hamsun (Norway) Hunger
1919 Carl Spitteler (Switzerland) Olympian Spring
1918 Not Awarded -
1917 Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark) Lucky Per
1917 Karl Gjellerup (Denmark) The Pilgrim Kamanita
1916 Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden) The Charles Men
1915 Romain Rolland (France) Jean-Christophe
1914 Not Awarded -
1913 Rabindranath Tagore (India) Gitanjali
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany) The Weavers
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium) Pelléas and Mélisande
1910 Paul Heyse (Germany) The Children of the World

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