The Nobel Prize in Literature

Year Author Summaries Book Rating
2004 Elfriede Jelinek The Piano Teacher 1star
2003 J.M. Coetzee Disgrace | Boyhood | Youth 5stars
2002 Imre Kertész Fateless 4stars
2001 V.S. Naipaul The Enigma of Arrival 5stars
2000 Gao Xingjian Soul Mountain 3stars
1999 Günter Grass The Tin Drum 4stars
1998 José Saramago Blindness 4stars
1997 Dario Fo Accidental Death of an An... 5stars
1996 Wislawa Szymborska  
1995 Seamus Heaney    
1994 Kenzaburo Oe    
1993 Toni Morrison    
1992 Derek Walcott    
1991 Nadine Gordimer    
1990 Octavio Paz    
1989 Camilo José Cela    
1988 Naguib Mahfouz    
1987 Joseph Brodsky    
1986 Wole Soyinka    
1985 Claude Simon    
1984 Jaroslav Seifert    
1983 William Golding    
1982 Gabriel García Márquez    
1981 Elias Canetti    
1980 Czeslaw Milosz    
1979 Odysseus Elytis    
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer    
1977 Vicente Aleixandre    
1976 Saul Bellow    
1975 Eugenio Montale    
1974 Eyvind Johnson
Harry Martinson
   
1973 Patrick White    
1972 Heinrich Böll    
1971 Pablo Neruda    
1970 Alexander Solzhenitsyn    
1969 Samuel Beckett    
1968 Yasunari Kawabata    
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias    
1966 Samuel Agnon
Nelly Sachs
   
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov    
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre    
1963 Giorgos Seferis    
1962 John Steinbeck    
1961 Ivo Andric    
1960 Saint-John Perse    
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo    
1958 Boris Pasternak    
1957 Albert Camus    
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez    
1955 Halldór Laxness    
1954 Ernest Hemingway    
1953 Winston Churchill    
1952 François Mauriac    
1951 Pär Lagerkvist    
1950 Bertrand Russell    
1949 William Faulkner    
1948 T.S. Eliot    
1947 André Gide    
1946 Hermann Hesse    
1945 Gabriela Mistral    
1944 Johannes V. Jensen    
1943 -    
1942 -    
1941 -    
1940 -    
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää    
1938 Pearl Buck    
1937 Roger Martin du Gard    
1936 Eugene O'Neill    
1935 -    
1934 Luigi Pirandello    
1933 Ivan Bunin    
1932 John Galsworthy    
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt    
1930 Sinclair Lewis    
1929 Thomas Mann    
1928 Sigrid Undset    
1927 Henri Bergson    
1926 Grazia Deledda    
1925 George Bernard Shaw    
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont    
1923 William Butler Yeats    
1922 Jacinto Benavente    
1921 Anatole France    
1920 Knut Hamsun    
1919 Carl Spitteler    
1918 -    
1917 Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan    
1916 Verner von Heidenstam    
1915 Romain Rolland    
1914 -    
1913 Rabindranath Tagore    
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann    
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck    
1910 Paul Heyse    
1909 Selma Lagerlöf    
1908 Rudolf Eucken    
1907 Rudyard Kipling    
1906 Giosuè Carducci    
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz    
1904 Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray    
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson    
1902 Theodor Mommsen    
1901 Sully Prudhomme    

 

 

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