All Nobel Prize for Literature Winners (PDF)

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

YEARNAMECOUNTRYLITERARY AREA
1901Sully PrudhommeFrancepoet
1902Theodor MommsenGermanyhistorian
1903Bjørnstjerne Martinius BjørnsonNorwaynovelist, poet, dramatist
1904José Echegaray y EizaguirreSpaindramatist
Frédéric MistralFrancepoet
1905Henryk SienkiewiczPolandnovelist
1906Giosuè CarducciItalypoet
1907Rudyard KiplingU.K.poet, novelist
1908Rudolf Christoph EuckenGermanyphilosopher
1909Selma LagerlöfSwedennovelist
1910Paul Johann Ludwig von HeyseGermanypoet, novelist, dramatist
1911Maurice MaeterlinckBelgiumdramatist
1912Gerhart HauptmannGermanydramatist
1913Rabindranath TagoreIndiapoet
1915Romain RollandFrancenovelist
1916Verner von HeidenstamSwedenpoet
1917Karl GjellerupDenmarknovelist
Henrik PontoppidanDenmarknovelist
1918Erik Axel Karlfeldt (declined)Swedenpoet
1919Carl SpittelerSwitzerlandpoet, novelist
1920Knut HamsunNorwaynovelist
1921Anatole FranceFrancenovelist
1922Jacinto Benavente y MartínezSpaindramatist
1923William Butler YeatsIrelandpoet
1924Władysław Stanisław ReymontPolandnovelist
1925George Bernard ShawIrelanddramatist
1926Grazia DeleddaItalynovelist
1927Henri BergsonFrancephilosopher
1928Sigrid UndsetNorwaynovelist
1929Thomas MannGermanynovelist
1930Sinclair LewisU.S.novelist
1931Erik Axel Karlfeldt (posthumous award)Swedenpoet
1932John GalsworthyU.K.novelist
1933Ivan Alekseyevich BuninU.S.S.R.poet, novelist
1934Luigi PirandelloItalydramatist
1936Eugene O’NeillU.S.dramatist
1937Roger Martin du GardFrancenovelist
1938Pearl BuckU.S.novelist
1939Frans Eemil SillanpääFinlandnovelist
1944Johannes V. JensenDenmarknovelist
1945Gabriela MistralChilepoet
1946Hermann HesseSwitzerlandnovelist
1947André GideFrancenovelist, essayist
1948T.S. EliotU.K.poet, critic
1949William FaulknerU.S.novelist
1950Bertrand RussellU.K.philosopher
1951Pär LagerkvistSwedennovelist
1952François MauriacFrancepoet, novelist, dramatist
1953Sir Winston ChurchillU.K.historian, orator
1954Ernest HemingwayU.S.novelist
1955Halldór LaxnessIcelandnovelist
1956Juan Ramón JiménezSpainpoet
1957Albert CamusFrancenovelist, dramatist
1958Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (declined)U.S.S.R.novelist, poet
1959Salvatore QuasimodoItalypoet
1960Saint-John PerseFrancepoet
1961Ivo AndricYugoslavianovelist
1962John SteinbeckU.S.novelist
1963George SeferisGreecepoet
1964Jean-Paul Sartre (declined)Francephilosopher, dramatist
1965Mikhail Aleksandrovich SholokhovU.S.S.R.novelist
1966S.Y. AgnonIsraelnovelist
Nelly SachsSwedenpoet
1967Miguel Ángel AsturiasGuatemalanovelist
1968Kawabata YasunariJapannovelist
1969Samuel BeckettIrelandnovelist, dramatist
1970Aleksandr Isayevich SolzhenitsynU.S.S.R.novelist
1971Pablo NerudaChilepoet
1972Heinrich BöllWest Germanynovelist
1973Patrick WhiteAustralianovelist
1974Eyvind JohnsonSwedennovelist
Harry MartinsonSwedennovelist, poet
1975Eugenio MontaleItalypoet
1976Saul BellowU.S.novelist
1977Vicente AleixandreSpainpoet
1978Isaac Bashevis SingerU.S.novelist
1979Odysseus ElytisGreecepoet
1980Czesław MiłoszU.S.poet
1981Elias CanettiBulgarianovelist, essayist
1982Gabriel García MárquezColombianovelist, journalist, social critic
1983Sir William GoldingU.K.novelist
1984Jaroslav SeifertCzechoslovakiapoet
1985Claude SimonFrancenovelist
1986Wole SoyinkaNigeriadramatist, poet
1987Joseph BrodskyU.S.poet, essayist
1988Naguib MahfouzEgyptnovelist
1989Camilo José CelaSpainnovelist
1990Octavio PazMexicopoet, essayist
1991Nadine GordimerSouth Africanovelist
1992Derek WalcottSaint Luciapoet
1993Toni MorrisonU.S.novelist
1994Oe KenzaburoJapannovelist
1995Seamus HeaneyIrelandpoet
1996Wisława SzymborskaPolandpoet
1997Dario FoItalydramatist, actor
1998José SaramagoPortugalnovelist
1999Günter GrassGermanynovelist
2000Gao XingjianFrancenovelist, dramatist
2001Sir V.S. NaipaulTrinidadnovelist
2002Imre KertészHungarynovelist
2003J.M. CoetzeeSouth Africanovelist
2004Elfriede JelinekAustrianovelist, dramatist
2005Harold PinterU.K.dramatist
2006Orhan PamukTurkeynovelist
2007Doris LessingU.K.novelist
2008Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClézioFrancenovelist, essayist
2009Herta MüllerGermanynovelist
2010Mario Vargas LlosaPerunovelist, dramatist
2011Tomas TranströmerSwedenpoet
2012Mo YanChinanovelist, short-story writer
2013Alice MunroCanadashort-story writer
2014Patrick ModianoFrancenovelist
2015Svetlana AlexievichBelarusjournalist, prose writer
2016Bob DylanU.S.singer, songwriter
2017Kazuo IshiguroU.K.novelist
2018**Olga TokarczukPolandnovelist, poet, essayist
2019Peter HandkeAustrianovelist, poet, essayist, playwright
2020Louise GlückU.S.poet
2021Abdulrazak GurnahTanzanianovelist
2022Annie ErnauxFrancenovelist, essayist

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