List of Nobel laureates in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.[1] As dictated by Nobel's will, the award is administered by the Nobel Foundation and awarded by a committee that consists of five members elected by the Swedish Academy.[2] The first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme of France. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years.[3] In 1901, Prudhomme received 150,782 SEK, which is equivalent to 7,731,004 SEK in December 2007. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.[4]
As of 2016, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 113 individuals.[5] When he received the award in 1958, Russian-born Boris Pasternak was forced to publicly reject the award under pressure from the government of the Soviet Union. In 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre made known that he did not wish to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature, as he had consistently refused all official honors in the past.[6] However the Nobel committee does not acknowledge refusals, and includes Pasternak and Sartre in its list of Nobel laureates.[7]
Fourteen women have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, more than any other Nobel Prize with the exception of the Nobel Peace Prize.[8] Among all the years the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded, there have been only four instances in which the award was given to two people (1904, 1917, 1966, 1974). There have been seven years in which the Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded (1914, 1918, 1935, 1940–1943).[5] The country with the most recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature is France, with 16, followed by the United States with 11 and the United Kingdom with 10.
Laureates
Year | Picture | Laureate | Country | Language(s) | Citation | Genre(s) |
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1901 | Sully Prudhomme | France | French | "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect"[9] | poetry, essay | |
1902 | Theodor Mommsen | Germany | German | "the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A History of Rome"[10] | history, law | |
1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Norway | Norwegian | "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit"[11] | poetry, novel, drama | |
1904 | Frédéric Mistral | France | Provençal | "in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist"[12] | poetry, philology | |
José Echegaray | Spain | Spanish | "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama"[12] | drama | ||
1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Poland | Polish | "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer"[13] | novel | |
1906 | Giosuè Carducci | Italy | Italian | "not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces"[14] | poetry | |
1907 | Rudyard Kipling | United Kingdom (Born in British Empire) |
English | "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration that characterize the creations of this world-famous author"[15] | novel, short story, poetry | |
1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | Germany | German | "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life"[16] | philosophy | |
1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden | Swedish | "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings"[17] | novel, short story | |
1910 | Paul von Heyse | Germany | German | "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories"[18] | poetry, drama, novel, short story | |
1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium | French | "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations"[19] | drama, poetry, essay | |
1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | Germany | German | "primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art"[20] | drama, novel | |
1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | India | Bengali and English | "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West"[21] | poetry, novel, drama, short story, music | |
1914 | Not awarded | |||||
1915 | Romain Rolland | France | French | "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings"[22] | novel | |
1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Sweden | Swedish | "in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature"[23] | poetry, novel | |
1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup | Denmark | Danish | "for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals"[24] | poetry | |
Henrik Pontoppidan | Denmark | Danish | "for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark"[24] | novel | ||
1918 | Not awarded | |||||
1919 | Carl Spitteler | Switzerland | German | "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring"[25] | poetry | |
1920 | Knut Hamsun | Norway | Norwegian | "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil"[26] | novel | |
1921 | Anatole France | France | French | "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament"[27] | novel, poetry | |
1922 | Jacinto Benavente | Spain | Spanish | "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama"[28] | drama | |
1923 | William Butler Yeats | Ireland | English | "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation"[29] | poetry | |
1924 | Władysław Reymont | Poland | Polish | "for his great national epic, The Peasants"[30] | novel | |
1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland | English | "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty"[31] | drama, literary criticism | |
1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italy | Italian | "for her idealistically inspired writings, which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general"[32] | poetry, novel | |
1927 | Henri Bergson | France | French | "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented"[33] | philosophy | |
1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norway (Born in Denmark) |
Norwegian | "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages"[34] | novel | |
1929 | Thomas Mann | Germany | German | "principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature"[35] | novel, short story, essay | |
1930 | Sinclair Lewis | United States | English | "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters"[36] | novel, short story, drama | |
1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Sweden | Swedish | "The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt"[37] | poetry | |
1932 | John Galsworthy | United Kingdom | English | "for his distinguished art of narration, which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga"[38] | novel | |
1933 | Ivan Bunin | France (Born in Russia) | Russian | "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing"[39] | short story, poetry, novel | |
1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Italy | Italian | "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"[40] | drama, novel, short story | |
1935 | Not awarded | |||||
1936 | Eugene O'Neill | United States | English | "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy"[41] | drama | |
1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | France | French | "for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel cycle Les Thibault"[42] | novel | |
1938 | Pearl S. Buck | United States | English | "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"[43] | novel, biography | |
1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Finland | Finnish | "for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature"[44] | novel | |
1940 | Not awarded | |||||
1941 | Not awarded | |||||
1942 | Not awarded | |||||
1943 | Not awarded | |||||
1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | Denmark | Danish | "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style"[45] | poetry | |
1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chile | Spanish | "for her lyric poetry, which inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world"[46] | poetry | |
1946 | Hermann Hesse | Switzerland (Born in Germany) |
German | "for his inspired writings, which while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"[47] | novel, poetry | |
1947 | André Gide | France | French | "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight"[48] | novel, essay | |
1948 | T. S. Eliot | United Kingdom (Born in the United States) |
English | "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"[49] | poetry | |
1949 | William Faulkner | United States | English | "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"[50] | novel, short story | |
1950 | Bertrand Russell | United Kingdom | English | "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought"[51] | philosophy | |
1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | Sweden | Swedish | "for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind"[52] | poetry, novel, short story, drama | |
1952 | François Mauriac | France | French | "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life"[53] | novel, short story | |
1953 | Sir Winston Churchill | United Kingdom | English | "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"[54] | history, essay, memoirs | |
1954 | Ernest Hemingway | United States | English | "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"[55] | novel, short story, screenplay | |
1955 | Halldór Laxness | Iceland | Icelandic | "for his vivid epic power, which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland"[56] | novel, short story, drama, poetry | |
1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Spain | Spanish | "for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity"[57] | poetry | |
1957 | Albert Camus | France (Born in French Algeria) | French | "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"[58] | novel, short story, drama, philosophy, essay | |
1958 | Boris Pasternak | Soviet Union | Russian | "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition"[59] | novel, poetry, translation | |
1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Italy | Italian | "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"[60] | poetry | |
1960 | Saint-John Perse | France (Born in Guadeloupe) |
French | "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry, which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"[61] | poetry | |
1961 | Ivo Andrić | Yugoslavia (Born in Austria-Hungary) |
Serbo-Croatian[62] | "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country"[63] | novel, short story | |
1962 | John Steinbeck | United States | English | "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"[64] | novel, short story, screenplay | |
1963 | Giorgos Seferis | Greece (Born in the Ottoman Empire) |
Greek | "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture"[65] | poetry | |
1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre | France | French | "for his work, which rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age"[66] | novel, philosophy, drama, literary criticism, screenplay | |
1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | Soviet Union | Russian | "for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people"[67] | novel | |
1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Israel (Born in Austria-Hungary) |
Hebrew | "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people"[68] | novel, short story | |
Nelly Sachs | Sweden (Born in Germany) |
German | "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength"[68] | poetry, drama | ||
1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias | Guatemala | Spanish | "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America"[69] | novel, poetry | |
1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japan | Japanese | "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"[70] | novel, short story | |
1969 | Samuel Beckett | Ireland | English and French | "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation"[71] | novel, drama, poetry | |
1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Soviet Union | Russian | "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"[72] | novel | |
1971 | Pablo Neruda | Chile | Spanish | "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams"[73] | poetry | |
1972 | Heinrich Böll | West Germany | German | "for his writing, which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature"[74] | novel, short story | |
1973 | Patrick White | Australia (Born in the United Kingdom) |
English | "for an epic and psychological narrative art, which has introduced a new continent into literature"[75] | novel, short story, drama | |
1974 | Eyvind Johnson | Sweden | Swedish | "for a narrative art, farseeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom"[76] | novel | |
Harry Martinson | Sweden | Swedish | "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos"[76] | poetry, novel, drama | ||
1975 | Eugenio Montale | Italy | Italian | "for his distinctive poetry, which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions"[77] | poetry | |
1976 | Saul Bellow | United States (Born in Canada) |
English | "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work"[78] | novel, short story | |
1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Spain | Spanish | "for a creative poetic writing, which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars"[79] | poetry | |
1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | United States (Born in Poland) |
Yiddish | "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life"[80] | novel, short story, memoirs | |
1979 | Odysseas Elytis | Greece | Greek | "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness"[81] | poetry | |
1980 | Czesław Miłosz | Poland | Polish | "who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"[82] | poetry, essay | |
1981 | Elias Canetti | United Kingdom (Born in Bulgaria) |
German | "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"[83] | novel, drama, memoirs, essay | |
1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | Colombia | Spanish | "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts"[84] | novel, short story, screenplay | |
1983 | William Golding | United Kingdom | English | "for his novels, which with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today"[85] | novel, poetry, drama | |
1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | Czechoslovakia (Born in Austria-Hungary) |
Czech | "for his poetry, which endowed with freshness, and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man"[86] | poetry | |
1985 | Claude Simon | France (Born in French Madagascar) | French | "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition"[87] | novel | |
1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria | English | "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence"[88] | drama, novel, poetry | |
1987 | Joseph Brodsky | United States (Born in the Soviet Union) |
English and Russian | "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"[89] | poetry, essay | |
1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Egypt | Arabic | "who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind"[90] | novel | |
1989 | Camilo José Cela | Spain | Spanish | "for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability"[91] | novel, short story | |
1990 | Octavio Paz | Mexico | Spanish | "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity"[92] | poetry, essay | |
1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa | English | "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity"[93] | novel, short story, essay | |
1992 | Derek Walcott | Saint Lucia | English | "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment"[94] | poetry, drama | |
1993 | Toni Morrison | United States | English | "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"[95] | novel | |
1994 | Kenzaburō Ōe | Japan | Japanese | "who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today"[96] | novel, short story | |
1995 | Seamus Heaney | Ireland (Born in the United Kingdom) | English | "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past"[97] | poetry | |
1996 | Wisława Szymborska | Poland | Polish | "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"[98] | poetry | |
1997 | Dario Fo | Italy | Italian | "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden"[99] | drama | |
1998 | José Saramago | Portugal | Portuguese | "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality"[100] | novel, drama, poetry | |
1999 | Günter Grass | Germany | German | "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history"[101] | novel, drama, poetry | |
2000 | Gao Xingjian | France (since 1998) China (1940–1998) |
Chinese | "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama"[102] | novel, drama, literary criticism | |
2001 | Sir V. S. Naipaul | United Kingdom (Born in Trinidad & Tobago) |
English | "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"[103] | novel, essay | |
2002 | Imre Kertész | Hungary | Hungarian | "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"[104] | novel | |
2003 | J. M. Coetzee | South Africa | English | "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"[105] | novel, essay, translation | |
2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria | German | "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power"[106] | novel, drama | |
2005 | Harold Pinter | United Kingdom | English | "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"[107] | drama, screenplay | |
2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey | Turkish | "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"[108] | novel, screenplay, essay | |
2007 | Doris Lessing | United Kingdom (Born in Iran) | English | "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"[109] | novel, drama, poetry, short story, memoirs | |
2008 | J. M. G. Le Clézio | France Mauritius |
French | "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"[110] | novel, short story, essay, translation | |
2009 | Herta Müller | Germany (Born in Romania) |
German | "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"[111] | novel, poetry | |
2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peru Spain |
Spanish | "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"[112] | novel, short story, essay, drama, memoirs | |
2011 | Tomas Tranströmer | Sweden | Swedish | "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality"[113] | poetry, translation | |
2012 | Mo Yan | China | Chinese | "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"[114] | novel, short story | |
2013 | Alice Munro | Canada | English | "master of the contemporary short story"[115] | short story | |
2014 | Patrick Modiano | France | French | "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation"[116] | novel | |
2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus (Born in Ukrainian SSR) |
Russian | "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time" [117] | history, essay | |
2016 | Bob Dylan | United States | English | "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"[118] | poetry, songwriting |
Nobel laureates by country
The 113 Nobel laureates in literature from 1901 to 2016 have come from the following countries:
Country | Number |
---|---|
France | 16 |
United States | 11 |
United Kingdom | 10 |
Germany | 8 |
Sweden | 8 |
Italy | 6 |
Spain | 6 |
Poland | 5 |
Ireland | 4 |
Russia/USSR | 4 |
Denmark | 3 |
Norway | 3 |
China | 2 |
Japan | 2 |
South Africa | 2 |
Greece | 2 |
Chile | 2 |
Switzerland | 2 |
Belgium | 1 |
India | 1 |
Finland | 1 |
Iceland | 1 |
Yugoslavia | 1 |
Israel | 1 |
Turkey | 1 |
Guatemala | 1 |
Australia | 1 |
Bulgaria | 1 |
Colombia | 1 |
Czechoslovakia | 1 |
Nigeria | 1 |
Egypt | 1 |
Mexico | 1 |
Saint Lucia | 1 |
Portugal | 1 |
Hungary | 1 |
Austria | 1 |
Mauritius | 1 |
Peru | 1 |
Canada | 1 |
Belarus | 1 |
One Nobel laureate is classified as stateless (Ivan Bunin, 1933).
Nobel laureates by language
The 113 Nobel laureates in literature from 1901 to 2016 have written in the following languages:
Language | Number |
---|---|
English | 27 |
French | 16 |
German | 13 |
Spanish | 11 |
Swedish | 7 |
Italian | 6 |
Russian | 6 |
Polish | 4 |
Danish | 3 |
Norwegian | 3 |
Chinese | 2 |
Greek | 2 |
Japanese | 2 |
Arabic | 1 |
Bengali | 1 |
Czech | 1 |
Finnish | 1 |
Hebrew | 1 |
Hungarian | 1 |
Icelandic | 1 |
Provençal | 1 |
Portuguese | 1 |
Serbo-Croatian | 1 |
Turkish | 1 |
Yiddish | 1 |
Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature 1913) wrote in Bengali and English, Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize in Literature 1969) wrote in French and English and Joseph Brodsky (Nobel Prize in Literature 1987) wrote poetry in Russian and prose in English. These three Nobel laureates have been sorted under Bengali, French and Russian, respectively.[119]
Nobel laureates by gender
The 113 Nobel laureates in literature from 1901 to 2016 were from the following genders :
Decade | Males | Females |
---|---|---|
1900 - 1909 | 9 | 1 |
1910 - 1919 | 9 | 0 |
1920 - 1929 | 8 | 2 |
1930 - 1939 | 8 | 1 |
1940 - 1949 | 5 | 1 |
1950 - 1959 | 10 | 0 |
1960 - 1969 | 10 | 1 |
1970 - 1979 | 11 | 0 |
1980 - 1989 | 10 | 0 |
1990 - 1999 | 7 | 3 |
2000 - 2009 | 7 | 3 |
2010 - 2016 | 5 | 2 |
Total | 99 | 14 |
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- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1946". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1947". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1948". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1949". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1950". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1951". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1952". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1953". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1954". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1955". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1956". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1957". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1958". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1959". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1960". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1961". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1961". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1962". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1963". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1964". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1965". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- 1 2 "Nobel Prize in Literature 1966". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1967". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1968". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1969". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1970". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1971". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1972". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1973". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- 1 2 "Nobel Prize in Literature 1974". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1975". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1976". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1977". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1978". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1979". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1980". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1981". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1982". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1983". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1984". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1985". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1986". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1987". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1988". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1989". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1990". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1991". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1992". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1993". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1994". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1995". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1996". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1997". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1998". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1999". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2000". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2001". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2002". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2003". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2004". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2005". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2006". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2007". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2008". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2009". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2010". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2011". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2012". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2013". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2014". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2015". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
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- ↑ Number of Nobel Laureates in Literature Sorted in Languages
- Notes
^ A. The information in the country column is according to nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Foundation. This information may not necessarily reflect the recipient's birthplace or citizenship.
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