Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded for an author’s entire body of work, not for a specific book. Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
| Year | Author | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Annie Ernaux | France |
| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | Tanzania |
| 2020 | Louise Glück | United States |
| 2019 | Peter Handke | Austria |
| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | Poland |
| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | United Kingdom |
| 2016 | Bob Dylan | United States |
| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus |
| 2014 | Patrick Modiano | France |
| 2013 | Alice Munro | Canada |
| 2012 | Mo Yan | China |
| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer | Sweden |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peru |
| 2009 | Herta Müller | Romania/Germany |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | France |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing | United Kingdom |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter | United Kingdom |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria |
| 2003 | J. M. Coetzee | South Africa |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész | Hungary |
| 2001 | V. S. Naipaul | Trinidad and Tobago/UK |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | France/China |
| 1999 | Günter Grass | Germany |
| 1998 | José Saramago | Portugal |
| 1997 | Dario Fo | Italy |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | Poland |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | Ireland |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japan |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | United States |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | Saint Lucia |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz | Mexico |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | Spain |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Egypt |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | United States |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria |
| 1985 | Claude Simon | France |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | Czechoslovakia |
| 1983 | William Golding | United Kingdom |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | Colombia |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | UK/Austria/Switzerland |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz | Poland/United States |
| 1979 | Odysseas Elytis | Greece |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | United States |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Spain |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | United States |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | Italy |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson | Sweden |
| 1974 | Harry Martinson | Sweden |
| 1973 | Patrick White | Australia |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | West Germany |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | Chile |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Soviet Union |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | Ireland |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japan |
| 1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias | Guatemala |
| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Israel |
| 1966 | Nelly Sachs | Sweden |
| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | Soviet Union |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre | France |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis | Greece |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck | United States |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric | Yugoslavia |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | France |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Italy |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak | Soviet Union |
| 1957 | Albert Camus | France |
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Spain |
| 1955 | Halldór Laxness | Iceland |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | United States |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill | United Kingdom |
| 1952 | François Mauriac | France |
| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | Sweden |
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | United Kingdom |
| 1949 | William Faulkner | United States |
| 1948 | T. S. Eliot | United Kingdom |
| 1947 | André Gide | France |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse | Switzerland |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chile |
| 1944 | Johannes V. Jensen | Denmark |
| 1943 | No award | |
| 1942 | No award | |
| 1941 | No award | |
| 1940 | No award | |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Finland |
| 1938 | Pearl Buck | United States |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | France |
| 1936 | Eugene O’Neill | United States |
| 1935 | No award | |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Italy |
| 1933 | Ivan Bunin | France |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy | United Kingdom |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Sweden |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | United States |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann | Germany |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norway |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson | France |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italy |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw Reymont | Poland |
| 1923 | W. B. Yeats | Ireland |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | Spain |
| 1921 | Anatole France | France |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | Norway |
| 1919 | Carl Spitteler | Switzerland |
| 1918 | No award | |
| 1917 | Karl Gjellerup | Denmark |
| 1917 | Henrik Pontoppidan | Denmark |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Sweden |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland | France |
| 1914 | No award | |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | India |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | Germany |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium |
| 1910 | Paul Heyse | Germany |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden |
| 1908 | Rudolf Eucken | Germany |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | United Kingdom |
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci | Italy |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Poland |
| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral | France |
| 1904 | José Echegaray | Spain |
| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Norway |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen | Germany |
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme | France |