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Nobel Prize for Literature :: 107 Laureates :: How Many Have You Read?
Since 1901 there have been 107 authors awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among other lists of things I hope to accomplish in my lifetime, reading something be every Nobel Literature Laureate is something I am working on. Check out this list and count how many of these authors you’ve read something by:
- 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa
- 2009 Herta Müller
- 2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
- 2007 Doris Lessing
- 2006 Orhan Pamuk
- 2005 Harold Pinter
- 2004 Elfriede Jelinek
- 2003 John M. Coetzee
- 2002 Imre Kertész
- 2001 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- 2000 Gao Xingjian
- 1999 Günter Grass
- 1998 José Saramago
- 1997 Dario Fo
- 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 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
- 1969 Samuel Beckett
- 1968 Yasunari Kawabata
- 1967 Miguel Angel Asturias
- 1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
- 1965 Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
- 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
- 1963 Giorgos Seferis
- 1962 John Steinbeck
- 1961 Ivo Andric
- 1960 Saint-John Perse
- 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
- 1958 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
- 1957 Albert Camus
- 1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez
- 1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness
- 1954 Ernest Miller Hemingway
- 1953 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
- 1952 François Mauriac
- 1951 Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
- 1950 Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
- 1949 William Faulkner
- 1948 Thomas Stearns Eliot
- 1947 André Paul Guillaume Gide
- 1946 Hermann Hesse
- 1945 Gabriela Mistral
- 1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
- 1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
- 1938 Pearl Buck
- 1937 Roger Martin du Gard
- 1936 Eugene Gladstone O’Neill
- 1934 Luigi Pirandello
- 1933 Ivan Alekseyevich 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 Stanislaw Reymont
- 1923 William Butler Yeats
- 1922 Jacinto Benavente
- 1921 Anatole France
- 1920 Knut Pedersen Hamsun
- 1919 Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
- 1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
- 1916 Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
- 1915 Romain Rolland
- 1913 Rabindranath Tagore
- 1912 Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
- 1911 Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
- 1910 Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
- 1909 Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
- 1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- 1907 Rudyard Kipling
- 1906 Giosuè Carducci
- 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
- 1904 Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
- 1903 Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
- 1902 Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
- 1901 Sully Prudhomme
*Note No Nobel Prize was not awarded the following years: 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940-43. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
