Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature
happy new year my friend.Following is a complete list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature
2008
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Le Clézio, French Writer, Wins Nobel in Literature
2007
Doris Lessing
Nobel to Lessing, Incisive Voice of Women’s Fate
Times Topics: Doris Lessing
2006
Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Featured Author: Orhan Pamuk
2005
Harold Pinter
Pinter Wins Nobel for Dramas of Ominous Power Struggles
Harold Pinter Excerpts
2004
Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian Writer of Sex, Violence and Politics Wins Nobel
Excerpts From Novels
2003
J. M. Coetzee
Coetzee, Writer of Apartheid as Bleak Mirror, Wins Nobel
Chronicling Life Perched on a Volcano's Edge as Change Erupts
Featured Author: J. M. Coetzee
2002
Imre Kertész
Hungarian Novelist Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Excerpts From Novels by Imre Kertesz
2001
V. S. Naipaul
Nobel in Literature Goes to Naipaul, an Explorer of Exile
A Nobel for Mr. Naipaul
2000
Gao Xingjian
A Chinese-Born Writer Is Winner of the Nobel
Sudden Fame on a Quest for Freedom
1999
Günter Grass
Günter Grass Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Polemical Prize
Featured Author: Günter Grass
1998
José Saramago
Nobel in Literature Goes to José Saramago
A Writer With an Ear for the Melody of Peasant Speech
1997
Dario Fo
Italy's Barbed Political Jester, Dario Fo, Wins Nobel Prize
Using Puns and Pratfalls to Lob Satirical Grenades
1996
Wislawa Szymborska
Polish Poet, Observer of Daily Life, Wins Nobel
1995
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney, Poet, Wins the Nobel Prize
An Irishman Reflecting on Mankind's Strivings
Featured Author: Seamus Heaney
1994
Kenzaburo Oe
Nobel in Literature Goes to Kenzaburo Oe of Japan
1993
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison Is '93 Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature
Lifting the Memory of Slavery Into the Realm of Myth
1992
Derek Walcott
Walcott, Poet of Caribbean, Is Awarded the Nobel Prize
1991
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer Is Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature
A Chronicler of a Land of Strangers
1990
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz, Mexican Poet, Wins Nobel Prize
Laureate Assessed by Man Who Knows Him Best
1989
Camilo José Cela
Camilo Jose Cela Wins Nobel Prize; Spaniard Broke Taboos in the 40's
Spanish Think of Cela as a TV Iconoclast Rather Than a Writer
1988
Naguib Mahfouz
Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded To an Arabic Writer for First Time
From 'Balzac of Egypt,' Energy and Nuance
1987
Joseph Brodsky
Exiled Soviet Poet Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Brodsky's Nobel: What the Applause Was About
1986
Wole Soyinka
Soyinka, Nigerian Dramatist, Wins Nobel Literature Prize
Writer Says Colleagues Share Spirit of Award
1985
Claude Simon
Claude Simon of France Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Panel's Pick Keeps Cognoscenti Guessing
1984
Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert, Czech Poet, Wins Nobel Literature Prize
Little-Known in U.S., Nobel Poet Praised Here
1983
William Golding
Briton Wins the Nobel Literature Prize
Author Whose Works Defy Normal Labeling
1982
Gabriel García Márquez
García Márquez of Colombia Wins Nobel Literature Prize
Storyteller With Bent for Revolution: Gabriel García Márquez
1981
Elias Canetti
Writer of Central Europe Wins Nobel Prize
Cosmopolitan in Tradition of Goethe
1980
Czeslaw Milosz
Polish Poet in U.S. Get Nobel in Literature
Poet, Exile, Laureate
1979
Odysseus Elytis
Elytis, Greek Lyric Poet, Is Given the Nobel Award for Literature PDF document
A Lyric, Poetic Greek Voice That Has a Special Texture PDF document
1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Nobel Prize to I. B. Singer
Text of the Nobel Lecture by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Featured Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977
Vicente Aleixandre
Nobel Prize Is Awarded to Little-Known Spanish Poet PDF document
Modern Poets Owe Much to Work of Aleixandre and His Colleagues PDF document
1976
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow Chosen as Nobel Laureate; Award Brings U.S. a Sweep of Honors PDF document
Novelist Deals With Jews in America; Bellow's Theme: Jewish Romance With America PDF document
Featured Author: Saul Bellow
1975
Eugenio Montale
Montale, a Poet, Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature PDF document
Eugenio Montale: Ascending; The Guest Word PDF document
1974
Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
Two Swedish Writers Get the Nobel Prize Author Favors Choice PDF document
1973
Patrick White
Nobel for U.S. Economist; Australian Writer Chosen; Economist and Writer Get Nobel Prizes PDF document
Novels Full of Life; White Reflects Love-Hate Feeling for Australia Typical of Country's Artists Late, Recognition Joined the R.A.F. PDF document
1972
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Boll, 54, a West German Novelist, Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature PDF document
A National Writer; Heinrich Theodor Boll PDF document
1971
Pablo Neruda
Neruda, Chilean Poet-Politician, Wins Nobel Prize in Literature PDF document
A Latin Walt Whitman; Neruda Poetry, Too, Found to Reject Dominance of an Impoverished Europe PDF document
1970
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Unpublished at Home; Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn PDF document
Soviet Writers Union Criticizes Nobel Prize Given Solzhenitsyn PDF document
Solzhenitsyn's Vision of Man's Adaptability PDF document
Featured Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1969
Samuel Beckett
Beckett Wins Nobel for Literature Playwright-Novelist Acclaimed for Lifting Man From Despair PDF document
Beckett Accepts Nobel; Refuses to Attend Rite PDF document
A Poet Who Has Seen Hell; Of Samuel Beckett PDF document
1968
Yasunari Kawabata
Nobel for Literature Won by a Japanese PDF document
In Literary Mainstream; Yasunari Kawabata PDF document
1967
Miguel Angel Asturias
Guatemalan Author of Anti-U.S. Works Wins Nobel Prize PDF document
Writer and Diplomat; Miguel Angel Asturias PDF document
1966
Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
2 Jewish Writers Win Nobel Prize; $60,000 Literature Award to Be Shared by Shmuel Agnon and Nelly Sachs PDF document
Appraisals of Agnon and Sachs; Each Nobel Winner Has a Unique Mode of Expression PDF document
1965
Mikhail Sholokhov
Nobel Prize Is Won by Soviet Novelist PDF document
Sholokhov Proud of Role as 'Soviet' Nobel Winner PDF document
1964
Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre Awarded Nobel Prize, but Rejects It; Existentialist Thinks His Writings Would Be Compromised $53,000 Will Revert to Fund, Swedish Academy Says PDF document
1963
Giorgos Seferis
Nobel Prize Won by a Greek Poet; Tribute Is Paid to Lyricism of Giorgos Seferiades PDF document
1962
John Steinbeck
Steinbeck Wins Nobel Prize For His 'Realistic' Writing; He Is the Sixth American to Receive Literature Award Since 1900 PDF document
Evaluating an Author's Vision of the Thirties PDF document
1961
Ivo Andric
Yugoslav Author Wins Nobel Prize; Dr. Ivo Andric Honored for 'Epic Force' of His Work PDF document
His Story Is Yugoslavia; Ivo Andric PDF document
1960
Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse, French Poet, Wins Nobel Prize for Literature PDF document
1959
Salvatore Quasimodo
Nobel Award Was Disclosed Day Early by Laureate, Salvatore Quasimodo PDF document
Quasimodo Literary Appreciation of a Prize Winner; Quasimodo: Prize Winner PDF document
1958
Boris Pasternak
Nobel Prize Goes to Pasternak; Russian's 'Zhivago' Still Unpublished in Soviet Union PDF document
Writers in Soviet Expel Pasternak; Nobel Prize Winner Scored as Pawn in Cold War PDF document
Author Tells Swedes He Cannot Accept Nobel Literature Award PDF document
1957
Albert Camus
Nobel Prize-Winner Camus: A Man Committed Yet Aloof PDF document
Albert Camus Wins Nobel Letters Prize PDF document
1956
Juan Ramón Jiménez
A Spanish Writer Gets Nobel Prize; Jimenez, 74, Lives in Exile in Puerto Rico--Noted for Lyrical Poetry Odes to His Donkey Wife's Illness Saddens Him PDF document
1955
Halldór Laxness
Icelandic Novelist Wins Nobel Prize PDF document
1954
Ernest Hemingway
54 Nobel Prizes Awarded by King; Hemingway, Unable to Attend in Stockholm, Asserts That Writing Is a Lonely Life PDF document
Audio: Ernest Hemingway: The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and a Talk About His Work
Featured Author: Ernest Hemingway
1953
Winston Churchill
Churchill Wins Nobel Prize, Puts Kipling and Shaw Higher PDF document
Nobel Victors Served Peace Cause by Promoting Human Brotherhood PDF document
1952
François Mauriac
Nobel Prize Is Given to Novelist Mauriac PDF document
The Nobel Prize Winner PDF document
1951
Pär Lagerkvist
4 Nuclear Scientists, 2 American, and Author Receive Nobel Prizes PDF document
The Nobel Prize Winner PDF document
1950
Bertrand Russell
Faulkner Gets Nobel Prize; Bertrand Russell Is Honored PDF document
1949
William Faulkner
Faulkner Gets Nobel Prize; Bertrand Russell Is Honored PDF document
1948
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot Receives 1948 Nobel Award; Poet Gets Prize in Literature PDF document
1947
André Gide
Gide Gets Nobel Literature Prize PDF document
1946
Hermann Hesse
Winners of 1946 Nobel Prizes Awarded by Swedish Academy PDF document
Nobel Prize Winner PDF document
1945
Gabriela Mistral
Winners of 1945 Nobel Prizes PDF document
The 1945 Winner of the Nobel Award, Gabriela Mistral PDF document
1944
Johannes V. Jensen
The Story of a Nobel Prize Winner PDF document
1943
No prize awarded.
1942
No prize awarded.
1941
No prize awarded.
1940
No prize awarded.
1939
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Nobel Prize Given to Finnish Writer PDF document
1938
Pearl Buck
Pearl Buck Wins Nobel Literature Prize; Third American to Get the Swedish Award PDF document
1937
Roger Martin du Gard
1936
Eugene O'Neill
Gustav Presents Nobel Prizes to 3; Awards to O'Neill, Saavedra Lamas and Von Ossietzky Bestowed in Absentia PDF document
1935
No prize awarded.
1934
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello Wins Nobel Prize; Italian Playwright's General Contribution to Literature Is Basis of Award PDF document
Wit and Wisdom in Pirandello; Italy's Winner of the Nobel Prize for 1934 Considered as Novelist, Playwright and Philosopher Luigi Pirandello PDF document
1933
Ivan Bunin
Nobel Prize Goes to Bunin, Russian; Short-Story Writer and Poet, Exile in France, Is First of His Nation to Get Award PDF document
Ivan Bunin, Nobel Prize Winner; The Art and Personality of the Russian Emigre to Whom This Year's Award for Literature Has Been Given PDF document
1932
John Galsworthy
Four Nobel Prizes Presented by King; but John Galsworthy, Author, Is Unable to Go to Sweden Because of Illness PDF document
1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Nobel Prize Awarded to Dead Swedish Poet; The Honor for Literature Goes to Karlfeldt PDF document
1930
Sinclair Lewis
Nobel Prize Goes to Sinclair Lewis PDF document
Sinclair Lewis Hits Old School Writers, Champions the New; In Speech Accepting Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Author Denounces Academicism PDF document
1929
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature PDF document
1928
Sigrid Undset
Mme. Sigrid Undset Wins Nobel Prize; She Is Third Norwegian Author to Receive Coveted Honor for Literature PDF document
1927
Henri Bergson
1926
Grazia Deledda
1925
George Bernard Shaw
1924
Wladyslaw Reymont
1923
William Butler Yeats
Nobel Prize Awarded to William B. Yeats; Free State Senator Has Long Been Distinguished as an Irish Poet and Playwright PDF document
1922
Jacinto Benavente
Nobel Prize for Einstein; Benavente, Spanish Dramatist, Gets Literary Section Award PDF document
1921
Anatole France
Anatole France, Nobel Prize Winner PDF document
1920
Knut Hamsun
Nobel Prize to Hamsun PDF document
1919
Carl Spitteler
1918
No prize awarded.
1917
Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
Danes Get Nobel Prize PDF document
1916
Verner von Heidenstam
1915
Romain Rolland
1914
No prize awarded.
1913
Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore: The Winner of the Nobel Prize Compared to Walt Whitman PDF document
1912
Gerhart Hauptmann
Nobel Prize to Hauptmann PDF document
1911
Maurice Maeterlinck
Awarded to Maeterlinck PDF document
1910
Paul Heyse
1909
Selma Lagerlöf
1908
Rudolf Eucken
1907
Rudyard Kipling
Nobel Prize for Kipling PDF document
1906
Giosuè Carducci
Nobel Prize for Carducci PDF document
1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904
Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1903
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
The Nobel Prizes PDF document
1902
Theodor Mommsen
1901
Sully Prudhomme
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