Nobel Prize in Literature
All Nobel Prize in Literature laureates since 1901.
- Laureates
- 122
- since 1901
- Prizes awarded
- 118
- including 4 shared
- Not awarded
- 7
- most recently in 1943
List of laureates
122 laureates, from 1901 to 2025
| Year | Laureates |
|---|---|
| 2020s | |
| 2025 | László Krasznahorkai |
| 2024 | Han Kang |
| 2023 | Jon Fosse |
| 2022 | Annie Ernaux |
| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah |
| 2020 | Louise Glück |
| 2010s | |
| 2019 | Peter Handke |
| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk |
| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 2016 | Bob Dylan |
| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich |
| 2014 | Patrick Modiano |
| 2013 | Alice Munro |
| 2012 | Mo Yan |
| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| 2000s | |
| 2009 | Herta Müller |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek |
| 2003 | John Maxwell Coetzee |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész |
| 2001 | Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian |
| 1990s | |
| 1999 | Günter Grass |
| 1998 | José Saramago |
| 1997 | Dario Fo |
| 1996 | Wisława Szymborska |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz |
| 1980s | |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka |
| 1985 | Claude Simon |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert |
| 1983 | William Gerald Golding |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti |
| 1980 | Czesław Miłosz |
| 1970s | |
| 1979 | Odysseas Elytis |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale |
| 1974 | Eyvind JohnsonHarry Martinson |
| 1973 | Patrick Victor Martindale White |
| 1972 | Heinrich Theodor Böll |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
| 1960s | |
| 1969 | Samuel Barclay Beckett |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias |
| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef AgnonNelly Sachs |
| 1965 | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse |
| 1950s | |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo |
| 1958 | Boris Leonidovich Pasternak |
| 1957 | Albert Camus |
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez |
| 1955 | Halldór Kiljan Laxness |
| 1954 | Ernest Miller Hemingway |
| 1953 | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
| 1952 | François Mauriac |
| 1951 | Pär Fabian Lagerkvist |
| 1950 | Bertrand Arthur William Russell |
| 1940s | |
| 1949 | William Cuthbert Faulkner |
| 1948 | Thomas Stearns Eliot |
| 1947 | André Paul Guillaume Gide |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral |
| 1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen |
| 1943 | Not awarded |
| 1942 | Not awarded |
| 1941 | Not awarded |
| 1940 | Not awarded |
| 1930s | |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää |
| 1938 | Pearl Sydenstricker Buck |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard |
| 1936 | Eugene Gladstone O'Neill |
| 1935 | Not awarded |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello |
| 1933 | Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis |
| 1920s | |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw |
| 1924 | Władysław Stanisław Reymont |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente |
| 1921 | Anatole France |
| 1920 | Knut Pedersen Hamsun |
| 1910s | |
| 1919 | Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler |
| 1918 | Not awarded |
| 1917 | Karl Adolph GjellerupHenrik Pontoppidan |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland |
| 1914 | Not awarded |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1912 | Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann |
| 1911 | Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck |
| 1910 | Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse |
| 1900s | |
| 1909 | Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf |
| 1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling |
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| 1904 | Frédéric MistralJosé Echegaray |
| 1903 | Björnstjerne Björnson |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen |
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme |