NOBLE PRIZE WINNERS IN LITERATURE

1901-Rene F.A. Sully Prudhomme, Fr.
1902-Theodor Mommsen, Ger.
1903-Bjornsterne Bjornson, Nor.
1904-Frederic Mistral, Fr.; Jose Echegaray, Span.
1905-Henryk Slenkiewicz, Pol.
1906-Giosue Carducci, It.
1907-Udyard Kipling, Br.
1908-Rudolf C. Eucken, Ger.
1909-Selma Lagerlof, Swed.
1910-Paul J.L. Heyse, Ger.
1911-Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg.
1912-Gerhart Hauptmann, Ger.
1913-Rabindranath Tagore, Indian
1915-Romain Rolland, Fr.
1916-Verner von Heidenstam, Swed.
1917-Karl A. Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan, Dan.
1919-Carl. F.G. Spitteler, Swiss
1920-Knut Hamsun, Nor.
1921-Anatole France, Fr.
1922-Jacinto Benavente, Span.
1923-William Butler Yeats, Ir.
1924-Wladyslaw S. Reymont, Pol.
1925-George Bernard Shaw, Ir.-Br.
1926-Grazia Deledda, It.
1927-Henri Bergson, Fr.
1928-Sigrid Undset, Nor.
1929-Thomas Mann, Ger.
1930-Sinclair Lewis, U.S.
1932-John Galsworthy, Br.
1933-Ivan A. Bunin, USSR
1934-Luigi Pirandello, It.
1936-Eugene O'Neill, U.S.
1937-Roger Martin du Gard, Fr.
1938-Pearl S. Buck, U.S.
1939-Frans E. Sillanpaa, Fin.
1944-Johannes V. Jensen, Dan.
1945-Gabriela Mistral, Chil.
1946-Hermann Hesse, Ger.-Swiss
1947-Andre Gide, Fr.
1948-T.S. Eliot, Br.
1949-William Faulkner, U.S.
1950-Bertrand Russell, Br.
1951-Par F. Lagerkvist, Swed.
1952-Francois Mauriac, Fr.
1953-Sir Winston Churchill, Br.
1954-Ernest Hemingway, U.S.
1955-Halldor K. Laxness, Ice.
1956-Jaun Ramon Jimenez, Span
1957-Albert Camus, Fr.
1958-Boris L. Pasternak, USSR (declined)
1959-Salvatore Quasimodo, It.
1960-Saint-John Perse, Fr.
1961-Ivo Andric, Yugo.
1962-John Steinbeck, U.S.
1963-Giorgos Seferis, Gk.
1964-Jean Paul Sartre, Fr. (declined)
1965-Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR
1966-Samuel Joseph Agnon, Isr.; Nelly Sachs. Swed.
1967-Miguel Angel Asturias, Guat.
1968-Yasunari Kawabata, Jpn.
1969-Samuel Beckett, Ir.
1970-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, USSR
1971-Pablo Neruda, Chil
1972-Heinrich Boll, Ger.
1973-Patrik White, Austral.
1974-Eyvind Johnson, Harry Edmund Martinson, Swed.
1975-Eugenio Montale, It
1976-Saul Bellow, U.S.
1977-Vincente Aleixandre, Span.
1978-Isaac Bashevis Singer, U.S.
1979-Odysseus Elytis, Gk.
1980-Czeslaw Milosz, Pol.-U.S.
1981-Elias Canetti, Bulg.-Br.
1982-Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian-Mex.
1983-William Golding, Br.
1984-Jaroslav Siefert, Czech.
1985-Claude Simon, Fr.
1986-Wole Soyinka, Nig.
1987-Joseph Brodsky, USSR-U.S.
1988-Naguib Mahfouz, Egy.
1989-Camilo Jose Cela, Span.
1990-Octavio Paz, Mex.
1991-Nadine Gordimer, S. Africa.
1992-Derek Walcott, W. Ind.
1993-Toni Morrison, U.S.
1994-Kenzaburo Oe, Jpn.
1995-Seamus Heaney, Ir.
1996-Wislawa Szymborska, Pol.
1997-Dario Fo, It.
1998-Jose Saramago, Por.
1999-Gunter Grass, Ger.
2000-Gao Xingjian, Chin.
2001-Sir V.S. Naipaul, Br.
2002-Imre Kertesz, Hug.
2003-John Maxwell Coetzee, S.Afr.