Nobel Prize in Literature laureates
Every laureate since 1901 · 121 people · 18 living
Who
- Theodor Mommsen · German Empire / German Reich / Kingdom of Prussia · 1817–1903
- Frédéric Mistral · France · 1830–1914
- Paul Heyse · Kingdom of Prussia · 1830–1914
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson · Norway · 1832–1910
- José Echegaray · Spain · 1832–1916
- Giosuè Carducci · Kingdom of Italy · 1835–1907
- Sully Prudhomme · France · 1839–1907
- Anatole France · France · 1844–1924
- Carl Spitteler · Switzerland · 1845–1924
- Henryk Sienkiewicz · Poland / Russian Empire · 1846–1916
- Rudolf Christoph Eucken · German Empire / Kingdom of Prussia / Weimar Republic · 1846–1926
- George Bernard Shaw · Ireland / United Kingdom / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · 1856–1950
- Henrik Pontoppidan · Kingdom of Denmark · 1857–1943
- Karl Adolph Gjellerup · Kingdom of Denmark · 1857–1919
- Selma Lagerlöf · Sweden · 1858–1940
- Henri Bergson · France · 1859–1941
- Knut Hamsun · Norway · 1859–1952
- Verner von Heidenstam · Sweden · 1859–1940
- Rabindranath Tagore · British Raj · 1861–1941
- Gerhart Hauptmann · Kingdom of Prussia / Weimar Republic · 1862–1946
- Maurice Maeterlinck · Belgium · 1862–1949
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt · Sweden · 1864–1931
- Rudyard Kipling · United Kingdom / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · 1865–1936
- William Butler Yeats · Irish Free State · 1865–1939
- Jacinto Benavente · Spain · 1866–1954
- Romain Rolland · France · 1866–1944
- John Galsworthy · United Kingdom / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · 1867–1933
- Luigi Pirandello · Kingdom of Italy · 1867–1936
- Władysław Reymont · Russian Empire / Second Polish Republic · 1867–1925
- André Gide · France · 1869–1922
- Ivan Bunin · France / Russian Empire · 1870–1953
- Grazia Deledda · Kingdom of Italy · 1871–1936
- Bertrand Russell · United Kingdom · 1872–1970
- Johannes V. Jensen · Kingdom of Denmark · 1873–1950
- Winston Churchill · United Kingdom · 1874–1965
- Thomas Mann · Czechoslovakia / United States · 1875–1955
- Hermann Hesse · German Empire / Germany / Russian Empire / Switzerland · 1877–1962
- Juan Ramón Jiménez · Spain · 1881–1958
- Roger Martin du Gard · France · 1881–1958
- Sigrid Undset · Norway · 1882–1949
- François Mauriac · France · 1885–1970
- Sinclair Lewis · United States · 1885–1951
- Saint-John Perse · France · 1887–1975
- Eugene O'Neill · United States · 1888–1953
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää · Finland · 1888–1964
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon · German Empire / Hungary / Israel / Mandatory Palestine / Weimar Republic · 1888–1970
- T. S. Eliot · United Kingdom · 1888–1965
- Gabriela Mistral · Chile · 1889–1957
- Boris Pasternak · Russian Empire / Soviet Union · 1890–1960
- Nelly Sachs · Sweden · 1891–1970
- Pär Lagerkvist · Sweden · 1891–1974
- Ivo Andrić · Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Kingdom of Yugoslavia / Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs · 1892–1975
- Pearl S. Buck · United States · 1892–1973
- Eugenio Montale · Italy · 1896–1981
- William Faulkner · United States · 1897–1962
- Vicente Aleixandre · Spain · 1898–1984
- Ernest Hemingway · United States · 1899–1961
- Miguel Ángel Asturias · Guatemala · 1899–1974
- Yasunari Kawabata · Japan · 1899–1972
- Eyvind Johnson · Sweden · 1900–1976
- Giorgos Seferis · Greece · 1900–1971
- Jaroslav Seifert · Czechoslovakia · 1901–1986
- Salvatore Quasimodo · Italy · 1901–1968
- Halldór Laxness · Iceland · 1902–1988
- John Steinbeck · United States · 1902–1968
- Isaac Bashevis Singer · Poland / Russian Empire / United States · 1903–1991
- Harry Martinson · Sweden · 1904–1978
- Pablo Neruda · Chile · 1904–1973
- Elias Canetti · Bulgaria / United Kingdom · 1905–1994
- Jean-Paul Sartre · France · 1905–1980
- Mikhail Sholokhov · Russian Empire / Soviet Union · 1905–1984
- Samuel Beckett · Ireland · 1906–1989
- Czesław Miłosz · Lithuania / Poland / United States · 1911–2004
- Naguib Mahfouz · Egypt · 1911–2006
- Odysseas Elytis · Greece · 1911–1996
- William Golding · United Kingdom · 1911–1993
- Patrick White · Australia · 1912–1990
- Albert Camus · France · 1913–1960
- Claude Simon · France · 1913–2005
- Octavio Paz · Mexico / Second Spanish Republic · 1914–1998
- Saul Bellow · United States · 1915–2005
- Camilo José Cela · Spain · 1916–2002
- Heinrich Böll · Germany · 1917–1985
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · Russia / Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic / Soviet Union · 1918–2008
- Doris Lessing · United Kingdom · 1919–2013
- José Saramago · Portugal · 1922–2010
- Nadine Gordimer · South Africa · 1923–2014
- Wisława Szymborska · Poland · 1923–2012
- Dario Fo · Italy · 1926–2016
- Gabriel García Márquez · Colombia · 1927–2014
- Günter Grass · Germany · 1927–2015
- Imre Kertész · Germany / Hungary · 1929–2016
- Derek Walcott · Saint Lucia · 1930–2017
- Harold Pinter · United Kingdom · 1930–2008
- Alice Munro · Canada · 1931–2024
- Tomas Tranströmer · Sweden · 1931–2015
- Toni Morrison · United States · 1931–2019
- V. S. Naipaul · Trinidad and Tobago / United Kingdom · 1932–2018
- Wole Soyinka · Nigeria · 1934–
- Kenzaburō Ōe · Japan · 1935–2023
- Mario Vargas Llosa · Dominican Republic / Peru / Spain · 1936–2025
- Seamus Heaney · Ireland · 1939–2013
- Annie Ernaux · France · 1940–
- 高行健 · France / People's Republic of China · 1940–
- J. M. Coetzee · Australia / South Africa · 1940–
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio · France / Mauritius · 1940–
- Joseph Brodsky · United States · 1940–1996
- Bob Dylan · United States · 1941–
- Louise Glück · United States · 1943–2023
- Patrick Modiano · France · 1945–
- Elfriede Jelinek · Austria · 1946–
- Abdulrazak Gurnah · Tanzania / United Kingdom · 1948–
- Svetlana Alexievich · Belarus · 1948–
- Orhan Pamuk · Turkey · 1952–
- Herta Müller · Germany / Romania · 1953–
- Kazuo Ishiguro · United Kingdom · 1954–
- László Krasznahorkai · Hungary · 1954–
- 莫言 · People's Republic of China · 1955–
- Jon Fosse · Norway · 1959–
- Olga Tokarczuk · Poland · 1962–
- Han Kang · South Korea · 1970–