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Nobel Prize for Literature

Literature is one of the five prize areas mentioned in Alfred 's will. The will was, however, partly incomplete. Nobel simply stated that prizes be given to those who, during the year, "shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind" and that one part be given to the person who "shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction."

This award is granted not for a single book, but for an author's entire body of work, and hence usually goes to a well-established writer.

This year's winner is Sir V. S. Naipaul, "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories." Sir Naipaul will be speaking at a bookstore event on November 8th at the Boston Public Library.

2001 V. S. Naipaul
2000 Gao Xingjian
1999 Gunter Grass
1998 Jose Saramago
1997 Dario Fo
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1995 Seamus Heaney
1994 Kenzaburo Oe
1993 Toni Morrison
1992 Derek Walcott
1991 Nadine Gordimer
1990 Octavio Paz
1989 Camilo Jose Cela
1988 Naguib Mahfouz
1987 Joseph Brodsky
1986 Wole Soyinka
1985 Claude Simon
1984 Jaroslav Seifert
1983 William Golding
1982 Gabriel García Márquez
1981 Elias Canetti
1980 Czeslaw Milosz
1979 Odysseus Elytis
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977 Vicente Aleixandre
1976 Saul Bellow
1975 Eugenio Montale
1974 Eyvind Johnson and Harry Edmund Martinson
1973 Patrick White
1972 Heinrich Böll
1971 Pablo Neruda
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1969 Samuel Beckett
1968 Yasunari Kawabata
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 Samuel Joseph Agnon and Nelly Sachs
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
1963 Giorgios Seferis
1962 John Steinbeck
1961 Ivo Andric
1960 St-John Perse (Alexis St. Léger)
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 Boris Pasternak
1957 Albert Camus
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955 Halidór Kiljian Laxness
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1953 Sir Winston Churchill
1952 Francois Mauriac
1951 Pär Lagerkvist
1950 Bertrand Russell
1949 William Faulkner
1948 T. S. Eliot
1947 André Gide
1946 Herman Hesse
1945 Gabriela Mistral
1944 Johannes V. Jensen
no awards given between 1940 and 1943
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938 Pearl S. Buck
1937 Robert Martin du Gard
1936 Eugene O'Neill
1935 No Award
1934 Luigi Pirandello
1933 Ivan G. Bunin
1932 John Galsworthy
1931 Erik A. Karlfeldt
1930 Sinclair Lewis
1929 Thomas Mann
1928 Sigrid Undset
1927 Henri Bergson
1926 Grazia Deledda
1925 George Bernard Shaw
1924 Wladyslaw Reymount
1923 William Butler Yeats
1922 Jacinto Benavente
1921 Anatole France
1920 Knut Hamsun
1919 Carl F. G. Spitteler
1918 No Award
1917 Karl Gjellerup
1916 Verner von Heidenstam
1915 Romain Rolland
1914 No Award
1913 Rabindranath Tagore
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 Paul J. L. Heyse
1909 Selma Lagerlöf
1908 Rudolf Eucken
1907 Rudyard Kipling
1906 Giusuè Carducci
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 Frédéric Mistral and José Echegary
1903 Björnstjerne Björnson
1902 Theodor Mommsen
1901 René F. A. Sully-Prudhomme


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