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Nobel Prize Winners

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2012 Mo Yan - China
2011 Tomas Tranströmer - Sweden
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa - Peru
2009 Herta Müller - Germany (born Nitzkydorf, Banat, Romania)
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 John Maxwell Coetzee - South Africa
2002 Imre Kertész - Hungary
2001 V. S. Naipaul - Great Britain
2000 Gao Xingjian - China
1999 Günter Grass - Germany
1998 Jose Saramago - Portugal
1997 Dario Fo - Italy
1996 Wislawa Szymborska - Poland
1995 Seamus Heaney - Ireland
1994 Kenzaburo Oe - Japan
1993 Toni Morrison - U.S.A.
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 - U.S.A. (born in Leningrad, USSR)
1986 Wole Soyinka - Nigeria
1985 Claude Simon - France
1984 Jaroslav Seifert - Czechoslovakia
1983 Sir William Golding - Great Britain
1982 Gabriel García Márquez - Colombia
1981 Elias Canetti - Great Britain (born in Rustschuk, Bulgaria)
1980 Czeslaw Milosz - U.S.A. and Poland
1979 Elytis Odysseus (pen name of Odysseus Alepoudhelis) - Greece
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer - U.S.A. (born in Radzymin, Poland)
1977 Vicente Aleixandre - Spain
1976 Saul Bellow - U.S.A.
1975 Eugenio Montale - Italy
1974 The prize was divided equally between:
Eyvind Johnson - Sweden
and
Harry Martinson - Sweden
1973 Patrick White - Australia (born Great Britain)
1972 Heinrich Böll - Federal Republic of Germany
1971 Pablo Neruda (pen name of Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto) - Chile

1970 Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn - USSR
1969 Samuel Beckett - Ireland
1968 Yasunari Kawabata - Japan
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias - Guatemala
1966 The prize was divided equally between:
Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Israel
and
Nelly Sachs - Sweden (born in Germany)
1965 Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov - USSR
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre - France (declined the prize)
1963 Giorgos Seferis (pen name of Giorgos Seferiadis) - Greece (born in Smyrna, Turkey)
1962 John Steinbeck - U.S.A.
1961 Ivo Andric - Yugoslavia (born in Dolac, Bosnia)
1960 Saint-John Perse (pen name of Alexis Léger) - France (born in French Antilles)
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo - Italy
1958 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak - USSR (accepted first, later caused by the authorities of his country to decline the prize)
1957 Albert Camus - France (born in Mondovi, Algeria)
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez - Spain (domicile in Puerto Rico, U.S.A.)
1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness

1954 Ernest Miller Hemingway - U.S.A.
1953 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill - Great Britain
1952 Françla;ois Mauriac - France
1951 Pär Fabian Lagerkvist - Sweden
1950 Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell - Great Britain
1949 William Faulkner - U.S.A.
1948 Thomas Stearns Eliot - Great Britain (born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.)
1947 André Paul Guillaume Gide - France
1946 Hermann Hesse - Switzerland (born in Germany)
1945 Gabriela Mistral (pen name of Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga) - Chile
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen - Denmark
1943 The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää - Finland
1938 Pearl Buck (pen name of Pearl Walsh née Sydenstricker) - U.S.A.
1937 Roger Martin Du Gard - France
1936 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill - U.S.A.
1935 The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
1934 Luigi Pirandello - Italy
1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin - stateless, domicile in France (born in Voronezh, Russia)
1932 John Galsworthy - Great Britain
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt - Sweden
1930 Sinclair Lewis - U.S.A.
1929 Thomas Mann - Germany
1928 Sigrid Undset - Norway (born in Denmark)
1927 Henri Bergson - France
1926 Grazia Deledda (pen name of Grazia Madesani née Deledda) - Italy
1925 George Bernard Shaw - Great Britain (born in Dublin, Ireland)
1924 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (pen name of Reyment) - Poland
1923 William Butler Yeats - Ireland
1922 Jacinto Benavente - Spain
1921 Anatole France (pen name of Jacques Anatole Thibault) - France
1920 Knut Pedersen Hamsun - Norway
1919 Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler - Switzerland
1918 The prize money for 1918 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917 Divided equally between:
Karl Adolph Gjellerup - Denmark
and
Henrik Pontoppidan - Denmark
1916 Carl Gustaf Verner Von Heidenstam - Sweden
1915 Romain Rolland - France
1914 The prize money for 1914 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1913 Rabindranath Tagore - India
1912 Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann - Germany
1911 Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck - Belgium
1910 Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse - Germany
1909 Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf - Sweden
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken - Germany
1907 Rudyard Kipling - Great Britain (born in Bombay, British India)
1906 Giosuè Carducci - Italy
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz - Poland
1904 Divided equally between:
Frédéric Mistral - France
and
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre - Spain
1903 Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson - Norway
1902 Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen - Germany
1901 Sully Prudhomme (pen name of René Françla;ois Armand Prudhomme ) - France
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