Among the Nobel Prize for Literature winners are Wole Soyinka of Nigeria, Theodor Mommsen of Germany, Sully Prudhomme of France, Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway and William Golding all of the US, T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling and Winston Churchill of the UK, Rabindranath Tagore of India, Gabriela Mistral of Chile and Nadine Gordimer of South Africa.
Do you want to have the complete list of the Nobel Prize for Literature winners right from the first edition of the prize awards in 1901 up to the current year? Then you need not look any farther. Because this post will give you all the names of the Nobel Prize of Literature winners.
Who is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
The youngest among the Nobel Prize for Literature winners is Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1907.
Incidentally, Rudyard Kipling (1835-1936) was the first English Language author to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Nobel Literature Prize Winners
See below the up-to-date list of Nobel Prize for Literature winners.
2021 – Abdulrazak Gurnah – Tanzania – Novelist
YEAR | NAME | COUNTRY | LITERARY AREA |
1901 | Sully Prudhomme | France | poet |
1902 | Theodor Mommsen | Germany | historian |
1903 | Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson | Norway | novelist, poet, dramatist |
1904 | José Echegaray y Eizaguirre | Spain | dramatist |
Frédéric Mistral | France | poet | |
1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Poland | novelist |
1906 | Giosuè Carducci | Italy | poet |
1907 | Rudyard Kipling | U.K. | poet, novelist |
1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | Germany | philosopher |
1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden | novelist |
1910 | Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse | Germany | poet, novelist, dramatist |
1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium | dramatist |
1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | Germany | dramatist |
1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | India | poet |
1915 | Romain Rolland | France | novelist |
1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Sweden | poet |
1917 | Karl Gjellerup | Denmark | novelist |
Henrik Pontoppidan | Denmark | novelist | |
1918 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt (declined) | Sweden | poet |
1919 | Carl Spitteler | Switzerland | poet, novelist |
1920 | Knut Hamsun | Norway | novelist |
1921 | Anatole France | France | novelist |
1922 | Jacinto Benavente y Martínez | Spain | dramatist |
1923 | William Butler Yeats | Ireland | poet |
1924 | Władysław Stanisław Reymont | Poland | novelist |
1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland | dramatist |
1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italy | novelist |
1927 | Henri Bergson | France | philosopher |
1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norway | novelist |
1929 | Thomas Mann | Germany | novelist |
1930 | Sinclair Lewis | U.S. | novelist |
1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt (posthumous award) | Sweden | poet |
1932 | John Galsworthy | U.K. | novelist |
1933 | Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin | U.S.S.R. | poet, novelist |
1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Italy | dramatist |
1936 | Eugene O’Neill | U.S. | dramatist |
1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | France | novelist |
1938 | Pearl Buck | U.S. | novelist |
1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Finland | novelist |
1944 | Johannes V. Jensen | Denmark | novelist |
1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chile | poet |
1946 | Hermann Hesse | Switzerland | novelist |
1947 | André Gide | France | novelist, essayist |
1948 | T.S. Eliot | U.K. | poet, critic |
1949 | William Faulkner | U.S. | novelist |
1950 | Bertrand Russell | U.K. | philosopher |
1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | Sweden | novelist |
1952 | François Mauriac | France | poet, novelist, dramatist |
1953 | Sir Winston Churchill | U.K. | historian, orator |
1954 | Ernest Hemingway | U.S. | novelist |
1955 | Halldór Laxness | Iceland | novelist |
1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Spain | poet |
1957 | Albert Camus | France | novelist, dramatist |
1958 | Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (declined) | U.S.S.R. | novelist, poet |
1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Italy | poet |
1960 | Saint-John Perse | France | poet |
1961 | Ivo Andric | Yugoslavia | novelist |
1962 | John Steinbeck | U.S. | novelist |
1963 | George Seferis | Greece | poet |
1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre (declined) | France | philosopher, dramatist |
1965 | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov | U.S.S.R. | novelist |
1966 | S.Y. Agnon | Israel | novelist |
Nelly Sachs | Sweden | poet | |
1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias | Guatemala | novelist |
1968 | Kawabata Yasunari | Japan | novelist |
1969 | Samuel Beckett | Ireland | novelist, dramatist |
1970 | Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn | U.S.S.R. | novelist |
1971 | Pablo Neruda | Chile | poet |
1972 | Heinrich Böll | West Germany | novelist |
1973 | Patrick White | Australia | novelist |
1974 | Eyvind Johnson | Sweden | novelist |
Harry Martinson | Sweden | novelist, poet | |
1975 | Eugenio Montale | Italy | poet |
1976 | Saul Bellow | U.S. | novelist |
1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Spain | poet |
1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | U.S. | novelist |
1979 | Odysseus Elytis | Greece | poet |
1980 | Czesław Miłosz | U.S. | poet |
1981 | Elias Canetti | Bulgaria | novelist, essayist |
1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | Colombia | novelist, journalist, social critic |
1983 | Sir William Golding | U.K. | novelist |
1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | Czechoslovakia | poet |
1985 | Claude Simon | France | novelist |
1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria | dramatist, poet |
1987 | Joseph Brodsky | U.S. | poet, essayist |
1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Egypt | novelist |
1989 | Camilo José Cela | Spain | novelist |
1990 | Octavio Paz | Mexico | poet, essayist |
1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa | novelist |
1992 | Derek Walcott | Saint Lucia | poet |
1993 | Toni Morrison | U.S. | novelist |
1994 | Oe Kenzaburo | Japan | novelist |
1995 | Seamus Heaney | Ireland | poet |
1996 | Wisława Szymborska | Poland | poet |
1997 | Dario Fo | Italy | dramatist, actor |
1998 | José Saramago | Portugal | novelist |
1999 | Günter Grass | Germany | novelist |
2000 | Gao Xingjian | France | novelist, dramatist |
2001 | Sir V.S. Naipaul | Trinidad | novelist |
2002 | Imre Kertész | Hungary | novelist |
2003 | J.M. Coetzee | South Africa | novelist |
2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria | novelist, dramatist |
2005 | Harold Pinter | U.K. | dramatist |
2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey | novelist |
2007 | Doris Lessing | U.K. | novelist |
2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | France | novelist, essayist |
2009 | Herta Müller | Germany | novelist |
2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peru | novelist, dramatist |
2011 | Tomas Tranströmer | Sweden | poet |
2012 | Mo Yan | China | novelist, short-story writer |
2013 | Alice Munro | Canada | short-story writer |
2014 | Patrick Modiano | France | novelist |
2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus | journalist, prose writer |
2016 | Bob Dylan | U.S. | singer, songwriter |
2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | U.K. | novelist |
2018** | Olga Tokarczuk | Poland | novelist, poet, essayist |
2019 | Peter Handke | Austria | novelist, poet, essayist, playwright |
2020 | Louise Glück | U.S. | poet |
2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | Tanzania | novelist |
2022 | Annie Ernaux | France | novelist, essayist |
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