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Nobel Prize for Literature Winner List (1901-2022)

Nobel Prize for Literature

The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind in the field of literature. The award is one of the six categories divided by the will of the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

Nobel Prize 2022 Winners list: Complete List of Noble Prize Winners Names of 2022

The first Nobel prize in literature was awarded to Sully Prudhomme in the literature area of Poetry in 1901. The Nobel prize 2022 was awarded to Annie Ernaux from France who is a novelist and memoirist

Noble Prize in Literature 2022

List of Nobel Prize for Literature winners

Year	Laureates	Achievements
1901	Sully Prudhomme	poet
1902	Theodor Mommsen	historian
1903	Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson	novelist, poet, dramatist
1904	José Echegaray y Eizaguirre	dramatist
1904	Frédéric Mistral	poet
1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz	novelist
1906	Giosuè Carducci	poet
1907	Rudyard Kipling	poet, novelist
1908	Rudolf Christoph Eucken	philosopher
1909	Selma Lagerlöf	novelist
1910	Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse	poet, novelist, dramatist
1911	Maurice Maeterlinck	dramatist
1912	Gerhart Hauptmann	dramatist
1913	Rabindranath Tagore	poet
1915	Romain Rolland	novelist
1916	Verner von Heidenstam	poet
1917	Karl Gjellerup	novelist
1917	Henrik Pontoppidan	novelist
1918	Erik Axel Karlfeldt (declined)	poet
1919	Carl Spitteler	poet, novelist
1920	Knut Hamsun	novelist
1921	Anatole France	novelist
1922	Jacinto Benavente y Martínez	dramatist
1923	William Butler Yeats	poet
1924	Władysław Stanisław Reymont	novelist
1925	George Bernard Shaw	dramatist
1926	Grazia Deledda	novelist
1927	Henri Bergson	philosopher
1928	Sigrid Undset	novelist
1929	Thomas Mann	novelist
1930	Sinclair Lewis	novelist
1931	Erik Axel Karlfeldt (posthumous award)	poet
1932	John Galsworthy	novelist
1933	Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin	poet, novelist
1934	Luigi Pirandello	dramatist
1936	Eugene O’Neill	dramatist
1937	Roger Martin du Gard	novelist
1938	Pearl Buck	novelist
1939	Frans Eemil Sillanpää	novelist
1944	Johannes V. Jensen	novelist
1945	Gabriela Mistral	poet
1946	Hermann Hesse	novelist
1947	André Gide	novelist, essayist poet, critic
1948	T.S. Eliot	novelist, essayist poet, critic
1949	William Faulkner	novelist
1950	Bertrand Russell	philosopher
1951	Pär Lagerkvist	novelist
1952	François Mauriac	poet, novelist, dramatist
1953	Sir Winston Churchill	historian, orator
1954	Ernest Hemingway	novelist
1955	Halldór Laxness	novelist
1956	Juan Ramón Jiménez	poet
1957	Albert Camus	novelist, dramatist
1958	Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (declined)	novelist, poet
1959	Salvatore Quasimodo	poet
1960	Saint-John Perse	poet
1961	Ivo Andric	novelist
1962	John Steinbeck	novelist
1963	George Seferis	poet
1964	Jean-Paul Sartre (declined)	philosopher, dramatist
1965	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov	novelist
1966	S.Y. Agnon	novelist
	Nelly Sachs	poet
1967	Miguel Ángel Asturias	novelist
1968	Kawabata Yasunari	novelist
1969	Samuel Beckett	novelist, dramatist
1970	Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn	novelist
1971	Pablo Neruda	poet
1972	Heinrich Böll	novelist
1973	Patrick White	novelist
1974	Eyvind Johnson	novelist
1975	Harry Martinson	novelist, poet
1976	Eugenio Montale	poet
1976	Saul Bellow	novelist
1977	Vicente Aleixandre	poet
1978	Isaac Bashevis Singer	novelist
1979	Odysseus Elytis	poet
1980	Czesław Miłosz	poet
1981	Elias Canetti	novelist, essayist
1982	Gabriel García Márquez	novelist, journalist, social critic
1983	Sir William Golding	novelist
1984	Jaroslav Seifert	poet
1985	Claude Simon	novelist
1986	Wole Soyinka	dramatist, poet
1987	Joseph Brodsky	poet, essayist
1988	Naguib Mahfouz	novelist
1989	Camilo José Cela	novelist
1990	Octavio Paz	poet, essayist
1991	Nadine Gordimer	novelist
1992	Derek Walcott	poet
1993	Toni Morrison	novelist
1994	Oe Kenzaburo	novelist
1995	Seamus Heaney	poet
1996	Wisława Szymborska	poet
1997	Dario Fo	dramatist, actor
1998	José Saramago	novelist
1999	Günter Grass	novelist
2000	Gao Xingjian	novelist, dramatist
2001	Sir V.S. Naipaul	novelist
2002	Imre Kertész	novelist
2003	J.M. Coetzee	novelist
2004	Elfriede Jelinek	novelist, dramatist
2005	Harold Pinter	dramatist
2006	Orhan Pamuk	novelist
2007	Doris Lessing	novelist
2008	Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio	novelist, essayist
2009	Herta Müller	novelist
2010	Mario Vargas Llosa	novelist, dramatist
2011	Tomas Tranströmer	poet
2012	Mo Yan	novelist, short-story writer
2013	Alice Munro	short-story writer
2014	Patrick Modiano	novelist
2015	Svetlana Alexievich	journalist, prose writer
2016	Bob Dylan	singer, songwriter
2017	Kazuo Ishiguro	novelist
2018	Olga Tokarczuk	novelist, poet, essayist
2019	Peter Handke	novelist, poet, essayist, playwright
2020	Louise Glück	poet
2021	Abdulrazak Gurnah	novelist
2022	Annie Ernaux	novelist, memoirist