Just like other fields, many writers have won Nobel Prize in literature. Here is the list of Nobel prize winners in literature from the beginning (of this prize) until now:
Nobel Prize in Literature from 1901 to 2019:
1901: Sully Prudhomme from France
1902: Theodor Mommsen from German
1903: Bjornstjerne Bjornson from Norway
1904: Frederic Mistral from France, Jose Echegaray from Spain ( two person got the prize)
1905: Henryk sienkiewicz from Poland
1906: Giosue Carducci from Italy
1907: Rudyard Kipling from United Kingdom
1908: Rudolf Christoph Eucken from Germany
1909: Selma Lagerlof from Sweden
1910: Paul von Heyse from Germany
1911: Maurice Maeterlinck from Belgium
1912: Gerhart Hauptmann from Germany
1913: Rabindranath from India
1915: Romain Rolland from France
1916: Verner Von Heidenstam from Sweden
1917: Karl Adolph Gjellerup , Henrik Pontoppidan (two persons got the prize) both were from Denmark
1919: Carl Spitteler from Switzerland
1920: Knut Hamsun from Norway
1921: Anatole France from France
1922: Jacinto Benavente from Spain
1923: William Butler Yeats from Ireland
1924: Wladyslaw Reymont from Poland
1925: George Bernard Shaw from Ireland
1926: Grazia Deledda from Italy
1927: Henri Bergson from France
1928: Sigrid Undset from Norway
1929: Thomas Mann from Germany
1930: Sinclair Lewis from United States
1931: Erik Axel Karlfeldt from Sweden
1932: John Galsworthy from United Kingdom
1933: Ivan Bunin from Russia France
1934: Luigi Pirandello from Italy
1936: Eugene O’Neill from United States
1937: Roger Martin du Gard from France
1938: Pearl S. Buck from United States
1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpaa from Finland
1944: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen from Denmark
1945: Gabriela Mistral from Chile
1946: Hermann Hesse from Switzerland
1947: Andre Gide from France
1948: T.S Eliot from United Kingdom
1949: William Faulkner from United States
1950: Bertrand Russell from United Kingdom
1951: Par Lagerkvist from Sweden
1952: Francois Mauriac from France
1953: Winston Churchill from United Kingdom
1954: Ernest Hemingway United States
1955: Halldor Laxness Iceland
1956: Juan Ramon Jimenez from Spain
1957: Albert Camus from France
1958: Boris Pasternak from Soviet Union
1959: Salvatore Quasimodo from Italy
1960: Saint-John Perse from France
1961: Ivo Andric from Yugoslavia
1962: John Steinbeck from United States
1963: Giorgos Seferis Giorges Seferis
1964: Jean Paul Sartre from France
1965: Mikhail Sholokhov from Soviet Union
1966: Shmuel Yosef Agnon from Israel, Nelly Sachs from Sweden ( two persons got the prize)
1967: Miguel Angel Asturias from Guatemala
1968: Kawabata Yasunari from Japan
1969: Samuel Beckett from Ireland
1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from Soviet Union
1971: Pablo Neruda from Chile
1972: Heinrich Boll from West Germany
1973: Patrick White from Australia
1974: Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson (both were from Sweden)
1975: Eugenio Montale from Italy
1976: Saul Bellow from United States
1977: Vicente Aleixandre from Spain
1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer from United States
1979: Odysseas Elytis from Greece
1980: Czesiaw Mllosz from Poland United States
1981: Ellas Canetti from United Kingdom
1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez from Colombia
1983: William Golding United Kingdom
1984: Jaroslav Seifert from Czechosio Vakia
1985: Claude Simon from France
1986: Wole Soyinka from Nigeria
1987: Joseph Brodsky from United States
1988: Naguib Mahfouz from Egypt
1989: Camilo Jose Cela from Spain
1990: Octavio Paz from Mexico
1991: Nadine Gordimer from South Africa
1992: Derek Walcott from Saint Lucia
1993: Toni Morrison from United States
1994: Oe Kenzaburo from Japan
1995: Seamus Heaney from Ireland
1996: Wislawa Szymborska from Poland
1997: Dario Fo from Italy
1998: Jose Saramago from Portugal
1999: Gunter Grass from Germany
2000: Gao Xingjian from France
2001: V.S Naipaul from United Kingdom
2002: Imre Kertesz from Hungary
2003: J.M Coetzee from South Africa
2004: Elfriede Jelinek from Austria
2005: Harold Pinter from United Kingdom
2006: Orhan Pamuk from Turkey
2007: Doris Lessing from United Kingdom
2008: J.M.G.Le Clezio from France Mauritius
2009: Herta Muller from Germany
2010: Mario Vargas Llosa from Peru Spain
2011: Tomas Transtromer from Sweden
2012: Mo Yan from China
2013: Alice Munro from Canada
2014: Patrick Modiano from France
2015: Svetlana Alexievich from Ukraine
2016: Bob Dylan (notable as he was awarded for the reason that he created great poetic expressions in music) from United States
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro from Japan
2018: Olga Tokarczuk from Poland
2019: Peter Handke from Austria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
Some Important things to remember regarding Nobel Prize in Literature:
Here are some important facts that you need to know about the Nobel Prize in literature.
- In 1914 , 1918, 1935 and from the year 1940 – 1943 no nobel prize was awarded in literature.
- It means from 1901 to until now, there are total seven years when no nobel prize awarded to any writer in literature.
- In the year of 1917, 1966 and 1974 two laureates were awarded at the same time.
- 116 laureates have been awarded with this prize.