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Nobel Prize in Literature Winners

All Nobel Prize in Literature laureates with year and country.

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Country↕
Sully Prudhomme1,901France
Theodor Mommsen1,902Duchy of Schleswig
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson1,903Norway
Frédéric Mistral1,904France
José Echegaray1,904Spain
Henryk Sienkiewicz1,905Poland
Giosuè Carducci1,906Kingdom of Italy
Rudyard Kipling1,907United Kingdom
Rudolf Christoph Eucken1,908Kingdom of Prussia
Selma Lagerlöf1,909Sweden
Paul Heyse1,910Kingdom of Prussia
Maurice Maeterlinck1,911Belgium
Gerhart Hauptmann1,912Kingdom of Prussia
Rabindranath Tagore1,913British Raj
Romain Rolland1,915France
Verner von Heidenstam1,916Sweden
Karl Adolph Gjellerup1,917Kingdom of Denmark
Henrik Pontoppidan1,917Kingdom of Denmark
Carl Spitteler1,919Switzerland
Knut Hamsun1,920Norway
Anatole France1,921France
Jacinto Benavente1,922Spain
William Butler Yeats1,923Irish Free State
Władysław Reymont1,924Russian Empire
George Bernard Shaw1,925Ireland
Grazia Deledda1,926Kingdom of Italy
Henri Bergson1,927France
Sigrid Undset1,928Norway
Thomas Mann1,929United States
Sinclair Lewis1,930United States
Erik Axel Karlfeldt1,931Sweden
John Galsworthy1,932United Kingdom
Ivan Bunin1,933France
Luigi Pirandello1,934Kingdom of Italy
Eugene O'Neill1,936United States
Roger Martin du Gard1,937France
Pearl S. Buck1,938United States
Frans Eemil Sillanpää1,939Finland
Johannes V. Jensen1,944Kingdom of Denmark
Gabriela Mistral1,945Chile
Hermann Hesse1,946Switzerland
André Gide1,947France
T. S. Eliot1,948United States
William Faulkner1,949United States
Bertrand Russell1,950United Kingdom
Pär Lagerkvist1,951Sweden
François Mauriac1,952France
Winston Churchill1,953United Kingdom
Ernest Hemingway1,954United States
Halldór Laxness1,955Iceland
Juan Ramón Jiménez1,956Spain
Albert Camus1,957France
Boris Pasternak1,958Soviet Union
Salvatore Quasimodo1,959Italy
Saint-John Perse1,960France
Ivo Andrić1,961Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
John Steinbeck1,962United States
Giorgos Seferis1,963Greece
Jean-Paul Sartre1,964France
Mikhail Sholokhov1,965Soviet Union
Shmuel Yosef Agnon1,966Hungary
Nelly Sachs1,966Sweden
Miguel Ángel Asturias1,967Guatemala
Yasunari Kawabata1,968Japan
Samuel Beckett1,969Ireland
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1,970Russia
Pablo Neruda1,971Chile
Heinrich Böll1,972Germany
Patrick White1,973Australia
Eyvind Johnson1,974Sweden
Harry Martinson1,974Sweden
Eugenio Montale1,975Italy
Saul Bellow1,976United States
Vicente Aleixandre1,977Spain
Isaac Bashevis Singer1,978United States
Odysseas Elytis1,979Greece
Czesław Miłosz1,980United States
Elias Canetti1,981United Kingdom
Gabriel García Márquez1,982Colombia
William Golding1,983United Kingdom
Jaroslav Seifert1,984Czechoslovakia
Claude Simon1,985France
Wole Soyinka1,986Nigeria
Joseph Brodsky1,987United States
Naguib Mahfouz1,988Sultanate of Egypt
Camilo José Cela1,989Spain
Octavio Paz1,990Mexico
Nadine Gordimer1,991South Africa
Derek Walcott1,992Saint Lucia
Toni Morrison1,993United States
Kenzaburō Ōe1,994Japan
Seamus Heaney1,995Ireland
Wisława Szymborska1,996Poland
Dario Fo1,997Italy
José Saramago1,998Portugal
Günter Grass1,999Germany
Gao Xingjian2,000France
V. S. Naipaul2,001United Kingdom
Imre Kertész2,002Hungary
J. M. Coetzee2,003South Africa
Elfriede Jelinek2,004Austria
Harold Pinter2,005United Kingdom
Orhan Pamuk2,006Turkey
Doris Lessing2,007United Kingdom
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio2,008France
Herta Müller2,009Germany
Mario Vargas Llosa2,010Spain
Tomas Tranströmer2,011Sweden
Mo Yan2,012People's Republic of China
Alice Munro2,013Canada
Patrick Modiano2,014France
Svetlana Alexievich2,015Belarus
Bob Dylan2,016United States
Kazuo Ishiguro2,017Japan
Olga Tokarczuk2,018Poland
Louise Glück2,020United States
Abdulrazak Gurnah2,021United Kingdom
Annie Ernaux2,022France
Jon Fosse2,023Norway
Han Kang2,024South Korea
László Krasznahorkai2,025Hungary
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