| Nobel Prize Winners in Literature |
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Nobel prize for Literature 2009 - Herta Muller (Germany) |
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Nobel prize for Literature 2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio |
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Nobel prize for Literature 2007 - Doris Lessing |
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Nobel prize for Literature 2006 - Orhan Pamuk |
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Nobel prize for Literature 2005 - Harold Pinter |
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Nobel prize for Literature 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek |
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Nobel prize for Literature 2003 - J. M. Coetzee |
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Nobel prize for Literature 2002 - Imre Kertész |
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Nobel prize for Literature 2001 - V. S. Naipaul |
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Nobel prize for Literature 2000 - Gao Xingjian |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1999 - Günter Grass |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1998 - José Saramago |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1997 - Dario Fo |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1996 - Wislawa Szymborska |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1995 - Seamus Heaney |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1994 - Kenzaburo Oe |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1993 - Toni Morrison |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1992 - Derek Walcott |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1991 - Nadine Gordimer |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1990 - Octavio Paz |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1989 - Camilo José Cela |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1988 - Naguib Mahfouz |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1987 - Joseph Brodsky |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1986 - Wole Soyinka |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1985 - Claude Simon |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1984 - Jaroslav Seifert |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1983 - William Golding |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1982 - Gabriel García Márquez |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1981 - Elias Canetti |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1980 - Czeslaw Milosz |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1979 - Odysseus Elytis |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1977 - Vicente Aleixandre |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1976 - Saul Bellow |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1975 - Eugenio Montale |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1974 - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1973 - Patrick White |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1972 - Heinrich Böll |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1971 - Pablo Neruda |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1969 - Samuel Beckett |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1968 - Yasunari Kawabata |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1966 - Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1963 - Giorgos Seferis |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1962 - John Steinbeck |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1961 - Ivo Andric |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1960 - Saint-John Perse |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1958 - Boris Pasternak |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1957 - Albert Camus |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1955 - Halldór Laxness |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1954 - Ernest Hemingway |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1953 - Winston Churchill |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1952 - François Mauriac |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1951 - Pär Lagerkvist |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1950 - Bertrand Russell |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1949 - William Faulkner |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1948 - T.S. Eliot |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1947 - André Gide |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1946 - Hermann Hesse |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1945 - Gabriela Mistral |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1944 - Johannes V. Jensen |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1938 - Pearl Buck |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1937 - Roger Martin du Gard |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1936 - Eugene O'Neill |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1935 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1934 - Luigi Pirandello |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1933 - Ivan Bunin |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1932 - John Galsworthy |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1930 - Sinclair Lewis |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1929 - Thomas Mann |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1928 - Sigrid Undset |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1927 - Henri Bergson |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1926 - Grazia Deledda |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1925 - George Bernard Shaw |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1923 - William Butler Yeats |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1922 - Jacinto Benavente |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1921 - Anatole France |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1920 - Knut Hamsun |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1919 - Carl Spitteler |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1917 - Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1916 - Verner von Heidenstam |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1915 - Romain Rolland |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1913 - Rabindranath Tagore |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1910 - Paul Heyse |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1909 - Selma Lagerlöf |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1908 - Rudolf Eucken |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1907 - Rudyard Kipling |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1906 - Giosuè Carducci |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1904 - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1902 - Theodor Mommsen |
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Nobel prize for Literature 1901 - Sully Prudhomme |