| Prize |
Year |
Winner1 |
Winner2 |
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1901 |
Sully Prudhomme |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1902 |
Theodor Mommsen |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1903 |
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1904 |
Frédéric Mistral |
José Echegaray |
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1905 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1906 |
Giosuè Carducci |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1907 |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1908 |
Rudolf Eucken |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1909 |
Selma Lagerlöf |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1910 |
Paul Heyse |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1911 |
Maurice Maeterlinck |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1912 |
Gerhart Hauptmann |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1913 |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1914 |
n/a |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1915 |
Romain Rolland |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1916 |
Verner von Heidenstam |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1917 |
Karl Gjellerup |
Henrik Pontoppidan |
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1918 |
n/a |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1919 |
Carl Spitteler |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1920 |
Knut Hamsun |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1921 |
Anatole France |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1922 |
Jacinto Benavente |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1923 |
William Butler Yeats |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1924 |
Wladyslaw Reymont |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1925 |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1926 |
Grazia Deledda |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1927 |
Henri Bergson |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1928 |
Sigrid Undset |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1929 |
Thomas Mann |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1930 |
Sinclair Lewis |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1931 |
Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1932 |
John Galsworthy |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1933 |
Ivan Bunin |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1934 |
Luigi Pirandello |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1935 |
n/a |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1936 |
Eugene O'Neill |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1937 |
Roger Martin du Gard |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1938 |
Pearl Buck |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1939 |
Frans Eemil Sillanpää |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1940 |
n/a |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1941 |
n/a |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1942 |
n/a |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1943 |
n/a |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1944 |
Johannes V. Jensen |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1945 |
Gabriela Mistral |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1946 |
Hermann Hesse |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1947 |
André Gide |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1948 |
T.S. Eliot |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1949 |
William Faulkner |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1950 |
Bertrand Russell |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1951 |
Pär Lagerkvist |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1952 |
François Mauriac |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1953 |
Winston Churchill |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1954 |
Ernest Hemingway |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1955 |
Halldór Laxness |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1956 |
Juan Ramón Jiménez |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1957 |
Albert Camus |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1958 |
Boris Pasternak |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1959 |
Salvatore Quasimodo |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1960 |
Saint-John Perse |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1961 |
Ivo Andric |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1962 |
John Steinbeck |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1963 |
Giorgos Seferis |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1964 |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1965 |
Mikhail Sholokhov |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1966 |
Samuel Agnon |
Nelly Sachs |
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1967 |
Miguel Angel Asturias |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1968 |
Yasunari Kawabata |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1969 |
Samuel Beckett |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1970 |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1971 |
Pablo Neruda |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1972 |
Heinrich Böll |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1973 |
Patrick White |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1974 |
Eyvind Johnson |
Harry Martinson |
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1975 |
Eugenio Montale |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1976 |
Saul Bellow |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1977 |
Vicente Aleixandre |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1978 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1979 |
Odysseus Elytis |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1980 |
Czeslaw Milosz |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1981 |
Elias Canetti |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1982 |
Gabriel García Márquez |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1983 |
William Golding |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1984 |
Jaroslav Seifert |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1985 |
Claude Simon |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1986 |
Wole Soyinka |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1987 |
Joseph Brodsky |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1988 |
Naguib Mahfouz |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1989 |
Camilo José Cela |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1990 |
Octavio Paz |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1991 |
Nadine Gordimer |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1992 |
Derek Walcott |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1993 |
Toni Morrison |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1994 |
Kenzaburo Oe |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1995 |
Seamus Heaney |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1996 |
Wislawa Szymborska |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1997 |
Dario Fo |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1998 |
José Saramago |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
1999 |
Günter Grass |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
2000 |
Gao Xingjian |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
2001 |
V.S. Naipaul |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
2002 |
Imre Kertész |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
2003 |
J.M. Coetzee |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
2004 |
Elfriede Jelinek |
|
| The Nobel Prize in Literature |
2005 |
Harold Pinter |
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