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Note: Few women have received the Nobel Prize for Literature: Selma Lagerlöf, Grazia Deledda, Sigrid Undset, Pearl S. Buck, Gabriela Mistral, Nelly Sachs[?], Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, Wislawa Szymborska.
List of winners of the Nobel Prize in literature.
- 1901 : Sully Prudhomme
- 1902 : Theodor Mommsen
- 1903 : Bjřrnstjerne Martinus Bjřrnson
- 1904 : Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
- 1905 : Henryk Sienkiewicz
- 1906 : Giosue Carducci
- 1907 : Rudyard Kipling
- 1908 : Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- 1909 : Selma Lagerlöf
- 1910 : Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
- 1911 : Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
- 1912 : Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
- 1913 : Rabindranath Tagore
- 1915 : Romain Rolland
- 1916 : Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
- 1917 : Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan[?]
- 1919 : Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
- 1920 : Knut Hamsun
- 1921 : Anatole France
- 1922 : Jacinto Benavente[?]
- 1923 : William Butler Yeats
- 1924 : Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
- 1925 : George Bernard Shaw
- 1926 : Grazia Deledda
- 1927 : Henri Bergson
- 1928 : Sigrid Undset
- 1929 : Thomas Mann
- 1930 : Sinclair Lewis
- 1931 : Erik Axel Karlfeldt
- 1932 : John Galsworthy
- 1933 : Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
- 1934 : Luigi Pirandello
- 1936 : Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- 1937 : Roger Martin du Gard[?]
- 1938 : Pearl S. Buck
- 1939 : Frans Eemil Sillanpää
- 1944 : Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
- 1945 : Gabriela Mistral
- 1946 : Hermann Hesse
- 1947 : André Paul Guillaume Gide
- 1948 : Thomas Stearns Eliot
- 1949 : William Faulkner
- 1950 : Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
- 1951 : Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
- 1952 : François Mauriac
- 1953 : Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
- 1954 : Ernest Miller Hemingway
- 1955 : Halldór Kiljan Laxness
- 1956 : Juan Ramón Jiménez[?]
- 1957 : Albert Camus
- 1958 : Boris Pasternak
- 1959 : Salvatore Quasimodo
- 1960 : Saint-John Perse[?]
- 1961 : Ivo Andric
- 1962 : John Steinbeck
- 1963 : Giorgos Seferis
- 1964 : Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize)
- 1965 : Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
- 1966 : Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs[?]
- 1967 : Miguel Angel Asturias[?]
- 1968 : Yasunari Kawabata[?]
- 1969 : Samuel Beckett
- 1970 : Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
- 1971 : Pablo Neruda
- 1972 : Heinrich Böll
- 1973 : Patrick White
- 1974 : Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
- 1975 : Eugenio Montale[?]
- 1976 : Saul Bellow
- 1977 : Vicente Aleixandre
- 1978 : Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1979 : Odysseas Elytis
- 1980 : Czeslaw Milosz
- 1981 : Elias Canetti
- 1982 : Gabriel García Márquez
- 1983 : William Golding
- 1984 : Jaroslav Seifert
- 1985 : Claude Simon[?]
- 1986 : Wole Soyinka
- 1987 : Joseph Brodsky[?]
- 1988 : Naguib Mahfouz
- 1989 : Camilo José Cela[?]
- 1990 : Octavio Paz
- 1991 : Nadine Gordimer
- 1992 : Derek Walcott
- 1993 : Toni Morrison
- 1994 : Kenzaburo Oe
- 1995 : Seamus Heaney
- 1996 : Wislawa Szymborska
- 1997 : Dario Fo
- 1998 : José Saramago
- 1999 : Günter Grass
- 2000 : Gao Xingjian
- 2001 : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- 2002 : Imre Kertész
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