The first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901.
Here are the previous winners:
1901 Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907) French poet. Solitude and Deep Thought won the Nobel Prize for Literature;
1902 Theodor Monson (1817-1903) German historian. 1902 work "The Winds of Rome" won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1903 Bj?rnsten Bj?rnson (1832-1910) Norwegian dramatist, poet and novelist. 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work The Challenging Glove;
1904 Frédéric Mistal (1830-1914) French poet. 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work The Golden Isles.
José Echegaray (1832-1916) Spanish dramatist and poet, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904 for his work The Great Marionette.
1905 Henryk Hinckwich (1846-1916) Polish novelist. 1905 work "Where are you going" won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1906 Jozoue Carducci (1835-1907) Italian poet and literary critic. 1906 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work Poems of Youth.
1907 Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English novelist and poet. 1907 work "Tiger! Tiger! was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1908 Rudolf Eucken (1946-1926) German philosopher. 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "Writings on Spiritual Life".
1909 Thelma Lagerl?f (f) (1858-1940) Swiss writer, canonized. 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work "Travels with the Goose".
1910 Paul Johann Ludwig von Heisey (1830-1914) German writer. 1910 work "The Trebe Girl" won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) @belgium@ playwright, poet, essayist. 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work The Wisdom of Flowers.
1912 Gebhardt Hauptmann (1862-1946) German playwright and poet. 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature for his work "The Pack Rat".
1913 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and social activist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his work Gitanjali - The Hungry Stone. Reason for the award: because of his sharp, fresh and beautiful poems, which came out of great skill, and because he expressed himself in English, so that his poetic ideas have become part of Western literature.
No prize was awarded in 1914
1915 Roman Roland (1866-1944) French writer and music critic was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 for his work "John Christopher".
1916 WEILNER HEIDENSTEINM (1859-1940) Swedish poet and novelist. 1916 work "The Pilgrimage Years" won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1917 Carl Jellalup, Danish writer. 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "Blood in the Mill".
Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish novelist. 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "The Kingdom of Heaven".
No prize was awarded in 1918.
1919 Karl Spittler (1845-1924) Swiss poet and novelist. 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "Springtime in Olympia".
1920 Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) Norwegian novelist, dramatist, and poet, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 for his work Fruits of the Earth - Livestock Songs.
1921 Anatole France (1844-1924) French writer, literary critic and social activist, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921 for her work "Télévision".
1922 Jacinte Benavente y Martínez (1866~1954) Spanish writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922 for his work "The Unlucky Girl".
1923 William Bottler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet and playwright. 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "Leda and the Swan".
1924 Vladislav Lemont (1868-1925) Polish writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924 for his work "The Blessed Land".
1925 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish dramatist. *** Completed 51 plays. His major works include Joan of Arc, etc. In 1925, his work Joan of Arc was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1926 Grazia Delleda (F) (1871-1936) Italian writer. Her major works include the novels The Dove and the Eagle, The Fire in the Olive Garden, Mother, The Secret of the Lonely Man, and Flight to Egypt, etc. In 1926, her work The Wicked Way was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1927 Henri Bergson (1859-1941) French philosopher. His major works include Time and Free Will, Creation Evolution, The Two Origins of Morality and Religion, etc. In 1927, his work Creation Evolution was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1928 Sigrid Winsett (female) (1882-1949) Norwegian writer. His major works include the novel Jenny and the trilogy Christine, Daughter of Lawrence lamp. 1928 work Bride-Master-Cross won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1929 Paul Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German writer. His major works include the novels The Budenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, etc. In 1929, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work The Magic Mountain.
1930 Sinclair Lewis (1885～1951) American writer. His major works include Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, etc. In 1930, his work Babbitt was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1931 Elric Axel Karlfeld (1864-1931) Swedish poet. His major works include the collections of poems "The Wasteland and Love" and "The Horn of Autumn", etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1931 for his work "The Wasteland and Love".
1932 John Goldsworthy (1867-1933) English novelist and playwright. He is the author of the novel "Forsythe Family" trilogy, "Modern Comedy" trilogy and the play "Silver Box", etc. In 1932, his work "Proletarians" was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1933 Ivan Alexeevich Ponin (1870-1953) Russian writer. His major works include the collection of poems "Falling Leaves", short stories "Antonov's Apples", "The Pine Tree", "The New Road", and the middle grade novel "The Countryside", etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work "Mija's Love" in 1933.
1934 Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Italian speaker and dramatist. He wrote more than 40 plays in his life. The main plays are "honest pleasure", "six roles in search of a playwright", "Henry IV", "looking for self", etc. In 1934, the work "looking for self" was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
No prize was awarded in 1935.
1936 Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) American playwright. His major plays include Beyond the Sky, Anna Christie, The Infinite Years, and the self-proprietary play Long Day's Journey Into Night, etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 for his work Beyond the Sky.
1937 Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958) French novelist. His major works include the long novel The Tibor Family in 8 volumes: The Gray Notebook, The Reformatory, The Good Season, Diagnosis, Little Sister, The Death of the Father, The Summer of 1914, and The End, etc. In 1937 his work The Tibor Family was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1938 Pearl Sai (Pearl Seidenstricker Booker) (female) (1892-1973) American writer. Main works include The House of the Earth trilogy: The Earth, Sons, Separation, Mother, Patriot, Dragon Seed, etc. In 1938 the work The Earth was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1939 Frans Emil Silampa (1888-1964) Finnish writer. His major works include the novels "Sacred Poverty", "The Maiden Celia" and "The People of the Summer Night", etc. In 1939, his work "The Maiden Celia" was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1940-1943 not awarded
1944 Johannes Wilhelm Jansen (1873-1950) Danish novelist and poet. His major works include the long series of novels The Long Journey: The Glacier, The Ship, The Lost Kingdom of Heaven, Nonia Gerst, The Chimri Expedition, and Columbus; and the collections of poems Brightness of the World and The Winds of Jutland, etc. His work The Long Journey was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1944.
1945 Lila Mistral (female) (1889-1957) Chilean poet. Her major works include "Sonnets of Death" and the collections "Despair", "Tenderness", "The Thorned Tree" and "The Grape Press", etc. In 1945, her work "Tenderness" was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Reason for the award: Her lyrical poems, nurtured by strong feelings, have made her name a symbol of the thirst for ideals throughout the Latin American world.
1946 Mann Hesse (1877-1962) German writer. His major works include the novels "Knulp", "Demir", "Schitzharta", "Wolves of the Wilderness", etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946 for his work "Wolves of the Wilderness".
1947 Drei Gide (1869~1951) French writer and critic. His major works include the novels "The Vatican Cellar", "The Narrow Gate", "Symphony of the Fields" and "The Counterfeiters", etc. In 1947, his work "Symphony of the Fields" was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1948 Maas Struensee Eliot (1888-1965) British and American poet, playwright and critic. His major works include the poems "The Love Song of Prufrock", "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets"; and the treatises "Tradition and Individual Talent", "The Function of Criticism" and "The Utility of Poetry and Criticism", etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work "Four Quartets" in 1948.
1949 Lian Faulkner (1897-1962) American writer. His major works include the novels "Hustle and Bustle", "My Mass" and "Sharon, Sharon", etc. In 1949, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work "My Mass";
1950 Arthur William Russell (1872～1970) was a British mathematician and philosopher. His major works include Principles of Mathematics, Problems of Philosophy, Education and Social Order, etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work Philosophy-Mathematics-Literature in 1950.
1951 Pal Fabian Lagerkvist (1891-1974) Swedish poet, dramatist, novelist. His major works include the collection of poems "Genius"; the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Asylum"; and the novels "Rumpelstiltskin" and "The Great Thief Barabbas", etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1951 for his work "The Great Thief Barabbas".
1952 Mauriac F. Mauriac French writer. Novel: Délèse Tessgueroux. In theater, Mauriac published plays such as Asmodeus, The Unloved People, and Fire on the Ground. He also wrote the memoirs Inner Memoirs, New Inner Memoirs and Political Memoirs, etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952 for The Desert of Love.
1953 Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British politician, historian and biographer. He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. His major works include The Malakand Expedition, Memoirs of the Second World War, and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. In 1952 the work The Unnecessary War was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1954 Ernest Hemingway (1899～1961) American writer. His major works include The Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, etc. In 1954, The Old Man and the Sea won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1955 Haldor Chirijan Laxness (1902 ~) Icelandic writer. His major works include the long novels Sharka Varka, The Independent People, The Light of the World, and the 3-volume long historical novel The Bells of Iceland, etc. In 1955, his work The Fisherman's Daughter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958) Spanish poet. His major works include the collections of poems "Poetry Rhymes" and "Aria of Sorrow", the collection of essays "Spaniards of the Three Worlds", and the long poem "Space", etc. In 1956, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work "Aria of Sorrow".
1957 Albert Camus (1913-1960) French writer. His major works include the plays Misunderstanding and Justice; the novels The Outsider and The Plague; and the collection of essays The Myth of Sisyphus, etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his 1957 work The Outsider - The Plague.
1958 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960) Soviet Russian poet and novelist. His major works include the poetry collections On the Street, O Life, My Sister, Themes and Variations; and the full-length novel Dr. Zhivago. ?In 1958 the work Dr. Zhivago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1959 Salvador Quasimodo (1901-1968) Italian poet. His major works include the poems "Water and Earth", "The Fading Flute", "Instantaneous is the Night" and "Day by Day", etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959 for his work "Water and Earth".
1960 Saint. Joan. Saint-John Perse French writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 for his work "Les Bleus".
1961 Ivo Andri? (1892-1975) Yugoslav novelist. His major works include the prose poems "On the Shore of the Black Sea" and "Turmoil", and the novels "Bridge over the Drina", "Travnik Chronicle" and "Sarajevo Woman" known as the "Bosnian Trilogy", etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work "The Bridge - Miss" in 1961.
1962 John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer. His major works include The Grapes of Wrath, The Moon Goes Down, The Pearl and The Winter of Troubles. 1962 work Between Mice and Men.
1963 George Seferis (1900-1971) Greek poet. His major works include "The Turning Point", "Myths and Histories", "Voyage Journal" and "The Painted Bird", which was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963.
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) French philosopher and writer. His major works include the philosophical works "Being and Nothingness", "Existentialism is a Humanism" and "Critique of Dialectical Reason"; the novels "Nausea" and "The Road to Freedom" trilogy; and the plays "The Fly" and "The Confinement", etc. In 1964, his work "The Fly" was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1965 Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984) Soviet writer. His major works include the book-length masterpiece "Stillness on the Don" and the novel "What Happened to a Man", etc. In 1965, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work "Stillness on the Don".
1966 Samuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) Israeli writer. His major works include the novels The Wedding Waffle, The Depths of the Sea, The Overnight Guest, and The Nailed Wedding, etc. In 1966, his work The Book of Acts was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Nellie Sachs (female) (1891-1970) Swedish poet. Main works include the poetry collection "escape and metamorphosis", "dustless world travel," "death's still celebrate life"; poetry drama "Eli", etc. In 1966 the work "escape" won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1967 Angel Asturias (1899-1974) Guatemalan poet and novelist. His major works include the novels Legends of Guatemala, Mr. President, and The Corn People, etc. In 1967, his work The Corn People was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1968 Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) Japanese novelist. His major works include The Dancer of Izu, Snow Country, Kudo, and A Thousand Cranes, etc. In 1968, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work Snow Country, A Thousand Cranes, and Kudo.
1969 Samuel Beckett (1906~1989) French writer. 1969 his work "Waiting for Godot" won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918~) Soviet writer. 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature for his work "The Cancer Ward".
1971 Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Chilean poet, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 for his work "Erotic Poems - Elegies - Hymns".
1972 Henrich B?ll (1917-1985) German writer. 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "The Lady and All the People".
1973 Patrick White (1912 to 1990) Australian novelist and playwright. 1973 work The Eye of the Storm
1974 Evette Johansson (1900 to 1976) Swedish author. 1974 work The Story of Ulof won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Harry Edmund Martinsson (1904～1978) Swedish poet. 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "The World in the Dew".
1975 Eugenio Montale (1896～1981) Italian poet. 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "The Evil of Life".
1976 Saul Bellow (1915~) American writer. 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "Herself".
1977 Aleixandre Melo (1898~1984) Spanish poet. 1977 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "Shadows in Paradise." .
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) American author. 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "The Magician-King of the Plains.
1979 Odysseus Elytis (1911~) Greek poet. His major works include the collections of poems "The First Sun", "Heroic Elegy" and "Taken for Granted", etc. In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work "Heroic Elegy".
1980 Czeslaw Mi?osz (1911-2004) Polish poet. 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "The Disassembled Notebook".
1981 Elias Canetti (1905-) English German-language writer. 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "Dazed and Confused".
1982 Gabriel García Márquez (1928～) Colombian journalist and writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his work "Love in the Time of Cholera".
1983 William Golding (1911～1994) British writer. 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "Lord of the Flies - The Pyramid".
1984 Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986) Czech poet. 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature for The Violet.
1985 Claude Simon (1913) French novelist. 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work Flanders Highway - Poems on Farming.
1986 Wole Soyinka (1934~) Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, critic. 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work The Lion and the Jewel.
1987 Joseph Brodsky (1940~1996) Soviet-American poet. 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature for From Petersburg to Stockholm.
1988 Naguib Mahfouz (1911~) Egyptian writer. 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "The Soul of the Street".
1989 Cela Camilo Jose Cela Spanish writer. won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 for his novel Playing for the Dead.
1990 Octavio Paz (1914- ) Mexican poet. 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "The Sunstone".
1991 Nédine Gordimer (f) (1923- ) South African writer. 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work "The People of July".
1992 Derek Walcott (1930-) St. Lucian poet. 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "The West Indies".
1993 Toni Morrison (f) (1931 ~) American writer. Her major works include the full-length novels The Bluest Eye, Shula, Song of Solomon, Baby, Jazz, etc. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
1994 Kenzaburo Oe (1935～) Japanese novelist. His major works include the novels Wonderful Work, The Luxury of the Dead, and Feeding; the full-length novels Personal Physical Examination, The Flood Surged Upon My Soul, and The Women Who Listened to the Rain Tree; and the full-length trilogy Burning Greens; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.
1995 Heaney (1939 ~) Irish poet. His major works include the collections of poems "Death of a Naturalist", "Door to Darkness", "Wintering Out", "The North", "Fieldwork", "The Island of the Bitter Path", "Hawthorn Lamp", "Illusions", etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.
1996 Szymborska (F) (1923 ~) Polish poet. His major works include the collections of poems "We Live for This", "Questions to Myself", "Calling the Snowman", "Salt", "One Hundred Pleasures", "History on the Bridge", "The End and the Beginning", etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.
1997 Dario Fo (1926～) Italian satirical playwright. His major works include the plays The Mystery of Comedy, The Death of an Anarchist, We Can't and Won't Pay, The Devil with the Big Boobs, etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997.
1998 José Saramago (1922～) Portuguese journalist and writer. His major works include the novels "The History of the Siege of Lisbon", "The Memoirs of Blindness" and "The Monastery Chronicle", etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
1999 Curtis Glass (1927～), German writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999 for his work "Harry the Tin Drum".
2000 Gao Xingjian (1940~) French-Chinese. 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature for his works "The Spirit Mountain" and "One Man's Bible".
2001 V.S. Naipaul (1932~) Indian-born British writer, knighted by the Queen of England in 1990. His major works include the novels The Mysterious Masseur, Miguel Street, River Bend, Flags on the Island, Beyond Belief, The Mysterious Newcomer, etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.
2002 Kertész Imre (1929～) Hungarian writer. His major works include the novels Non-Hijacking, Fiasco, Prayer for an Unborn Child, etc. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.
2003 Kutcher (1940~) South African writer. His major works include the novels Waiting for the Barbarians, The Dim Country, From the Heart of the Nation, Shame, and The Age of Steel. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
2004 Elfriede Jelinek (1943 ~) Austrian author. 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature. She thus became the first Austrian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
2005 Harold Pinter (1930~), English playwright, critically acclaimed as the most important English playwright since George Bernard Shaw. Winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
2006 Orhan Pamuk (1952~), Turkish writer, won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "discovering new symbols of the clash and intersection between civilizations in his quest for the melancholic soul of his homeland." His major works include White Castle, My Name is Red, and Istanbul.
2007 Doris Lessing (f) (Doris Lessing, 1919- ), a British woman writer, won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, represented by a five-part series of novels, "Children of Violence," "Briefly Descending into Hell," "The Marriage Between the Third, Fourth and Fifth Regions," and "The Diary of Jane Summers," among others.
2008 Le Clézio, a representative writer of the French "neo-allegorical school", was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008 on the grounds that he was "a writer of new beginnings, poetic adventures, and sensual psychedelia, and an explorer of human nature outside of modern civilization". He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008 on the grounds that he was "a writer of new beginnings, poetic adventure and sensual psychedelia, an explorer of human nature outside modern civilization. His major works include Transcript of a Lawsuit, Goldfish, Wandering Stars, Juvenile Minds, War (awarded in 2008), and Urania.
2009 Herta Müller, Romanian-born German woman novelist, poet, and essayist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009 for "focusing on poetry as well as on the frankness of her prose, which depicts the life of the unemployed".
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian-Spanish (biracial) writer. This is the first Latin American author to win the prize since 1990.He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 for "an in-depth description of power structures and a sharp portrayal of resistance, rebellion and frustration of individual characters."
2011 Tomas Transtr?mer, Swedish poet, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011 for "his condensed, concise images that bring us into contact with reality from a new perspective." He published his debut collection of poems, Seventeen Poems, at the age of 23, and after he became famous, he published collections of poems such as Secrets of the Road, Watching in the Dark, and Obstacles to Truth.
2012 Mo Yan Chinese writer. Since his rise to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of folkloric works filled with the complex emotions of "nostalgia for the homeland" and "resentment of the homeland", he has been categorized as a writer of "root literature". His works are heavily influenced by magical realism, and he writes a series of "legends" that take place in the northeastern township of Gaomi, Shandong Province. He is the author of eleven full-length novels, including Red Sorghum Family, Wine Country, Plump Breasts and Fat Hips, Sandalwood Penalty, and Fatigue of Life and Death, and more than one hundred short and medium-sized novels, including Transparent Carrot and Commander's Woman.
2013 Canadian author Alice Munro. The prize was awarded for "the master of the contemporary short story". Munro is the 13th female author in the history of the Nobel Prize for Literature to receive this honor, and her major works include Escape, Happy Shadow Dance, and The Course of Love. She is known for writing short stories, mostly about the ordinary lives of ordinary people in small places, especially women, who have an implicitly tragic fate.