Heres a list of all the Nobel Prizes for Literature since 1901. Im betting that there are many, many names here youve never heard of. NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 1901 Rene F. A. Sully Prudhomme France poetry 1902 Theodore Mommsen Germany Historical writing, “A History of Rome” 1903 Bjornsterne Bjornson Norway poetry 1904 Frederic Mistral, poetry and significant work as a Provençal philologist, France, AND Jose Echegaray, drama Spain 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland History and historical fiction 1906 Giosue Carducci Italy poetry and literary history & lit crit 1907 Rudyard Kipling Great Britain fiction & poetry 1908 Rudolf C. Eucken Germany interpreter of Aristotle, and author of works in ethics and religion 1909 Selma Lagerlöf Sweden Novels, short stories 1910 Paul J. L. Heyse Germany lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories 1911 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgium many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works 1912 Gerhart Hauptmann Germany Drama 1913 Rabindranath Tagore India POETRY 1914 Not awarded! 1915 Romain Rolland France biographies, history – prose 1916 Verner von Heidenstam Sweden Poetry & Novels 1917 Karl A. Gjellerup, Denmark -- Poetry Henrik Pontoppidan Denmark – Novels & short stories 1918 Not awarded! 1919 Carl F. G. Spitteler Switzerland Epic poetry, “Olympian Spring” 1920 Knut Hamsun Norway Novel (?) Growth of the Soil 1921 Anatole France France Novels, poetry, journalism 1922 Jacinto Benavente Spain Spanish drama 1923 William Butler Yeats Ireland Poetry 1924 Wladyslaw S. Reymont Poland Prose Epic, “The Peasants” 1925 George Bernard Shaw Ireland - Great Britain 1926 Grazia Deledda Italy Novels 1927 Henri Bergson France Philosophy 1928 Sigrid Undset Norway Fiction, re women in middle ages 1929 Thomas Mann Germany great novel, Buddenbrooks 1930 Sinclair Lewis United States 1931 Erik A. Karlfeldt Sweden Poetry 1932 John Galsworthy Great Britain The Forsyte Saga 1933 Ivan A. Bunin Soviet Union Novels, short stories 1934 Luigi Pirandello Italy Drama, prose 1935 Not awarded! 1936 Eugene ONeill United States Drama 1937 Roger Martin du Gard France novel-cycle Les Thibault 1938 Pearl S. Buck United States Fiction 1939 Frans E. Sillanpää Finland Fiction about Finnish peasants 1940 Not awarded! 1941 Not awarded! 1942 Not awarded! 1943 Not awarded! 1944 Johannes V. Jensen Denmark Fiction 1945 Gabriela Mistral Chile Poetry 1946 Hermann Hesse Germany – Switzerland 1947 André Gide France 1948 T. S. Eliot Great Britain 1949 William Faulkner United States 1950 Bertrand Russell Great Britain 1951 Pär F. Lagerkvist Sweden poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, short story writer 1952 Francois Mauriac France Novels 1953 Sir Winston Churchill Great Britain History & oratory 1954 Ernest Hemingway United States 1955 Halldor K. Laxness Iceland (The only Icelandic laureate) poetry, newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories, and novels 1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez Spain Poetry 1957 Albert Camus France Fiction 1958 Boris L. Pasternak (declined) Soviet Union 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo Italy Poetry 1960 Saint-John Perse France Poetry 1961 Ivo Andric Yugoslavia Novels, short stories 1962 John Steinbeck United States 1963 Giorgos Seferis Greece Poetry & prose 1964 Jean Paul Sartre (declined) France 1965 Mikhail Sholokhov Soviet Union epic of the Don 1966 Samuel Joseph Agnon , Israel Fiction Nelly Sachs Sweden Poetry & Plays 1967 Miguel Angel Asturias Guatemala poet, novelist, playwright and journalist 1968 Yasunari Kawabata Japan Novels, short stories 1969 Samuel Beckett Ireland 1970 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Soviet Union 1971 Pablo Neruda Chile 1972 Heinrich Böll Germany Novels, short stories, essays 1973 Patrick White Australia one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century 1974 Eyvind Johnson Sweden Harry Edmund Martinson Poetry Sweden The choice for Johnson and Martinson in 1974 was controversial as both were on the Nobel panel and had partaken in endorsing themselves as laureates. 1975 Eugenio Montale Italy Poetry 1976 Saul Bellow United States 1977 Vicente Aleixandre Spain Poetry 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer United States 1979 Odysseus Elytis Greek Poetry 1980 Czeslaw Milosz Poland - United States Poetry 1981 Elias Canetti Bulgaria - Great Britain novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Columbia – Mexico novels and short stories 1983 William Golding Great Britain Fiction 1984 Jaroslav Siefert Czechoslovakia Poetry 1985 Claude Simon France Fiction 1986 Wole Soyinka Nigeria Playwright & poet 1987 Joseph Brodsky Soviet Union - United States Poetry 1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypt Novels, short stories, plays 1989 Camilo José Cela Spain novelist, short story writer and essayist 1990 Octavio Paz Mexico Poetry 1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa fiction 1992 Derek Walcott West Indies poetry 1993 Toni Morrison United States fiction 1994 Kenzaburo Oe Japan Fiction 1995 Seamus Heaney Ireland poetry 1996 Wislawa Szymborska Poland poetry 1997 Dario Fo Italy Playwright 1998 José Saramago Portugal Novelist 1999 Günter Grass Germany novelist, poet, playwright 2000 Gao Xingjian France novelist, playwright, and critic 2001 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul United Kingdom fiction and nonfiction, 2002 Imre Kertész Hungary Novels 2003 J. M. Coetzee South Africa Novels 2004 Elfriede Jelinek Austria Novels & plays 2005 Harold Pinter United Kingdom Plays 2006 Orhan Pamuk Turkey Novels 2007 Doris Lessing United Kingdom Novels 2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio France short stories, novels, essays, 2009 Herta Müller Germany (Romanian) novelist, poet, essayist 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa Peru Novels, essays 2011 Tomas Tranströmer Sweden Poetry 2012 Mo Yan China Novels, Short stories; novel Red Sorghum Clan 2013 Alice Munro Canada Short stories
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