Year | Laureate | Country
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1901 | Sully Prudhomme | France
1902 | Theodor Mommsen | Germany
1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Norway
1904 | Frédéric Mistral | France
1904 | José Echegaray y Eizaguirre | Spain
1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Poland
1906 | Giosuè Carducci | Italy
1907 | Rudyard Kipling | United Kingdom
1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | Germany
1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden
1910 | Paul von Heyse | Germany
1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium
1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | Germany
1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | India
1915 | Romain Rolland | France
1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Sweden
1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup | Denmark
1917 | Henrik Pontoppidan | Denmark
1918 | *No award* | —
1919 | Carl Spitteler | Switzerland
1921 | Anatole France | France
1922 | Jacinto Benavente | Spain
1923 | W. B. Yeats | Ireland
1924 | Władysław Reymont | Poland
1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland
1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italy
1927 | Henri Bergson | France
1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norway
1930 | Sinclair Lewis | United States
1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Sweden
1932 | John Galsworthy | United Kingdom
1933 | Ivan Bunin | Russian Empire / Soviet Union
1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Italy
1935 | *No award* | —
1936 | Eugene O’Neill | United States
1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | France
1938 | Pearl S. Buck | United States
1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Finland
1940 | *No award* | —
1941 | *No award* | —
1942 | *No award* | —
1943 | *No award* | —
1944 | Johannes V. Jensen | Denmark
1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chile
1946 | Hermann Hesse | Switzerland / Germany
1948 | T. S. Eliot | United Kingdom
1949 | William Faulkner | United States
1950 | Bertrand Russell | United Kingdom
1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | Sweden
1952 | François Mauriac | France
1953 | Winston Churchill | United Kingdom
1954 | Ernest Hemingway | United States
1955 | Halldór Laxness | Iceland
1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Spain
1957 | Albert Camus | France
1958 | Boris Pasternak | Soviet Union
1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Italy
1960 | Saint-John Perse | France
1961 | Ivo Andrić | Yugoslavia
1962 | John Steinbeck | United States
1963 | Giorgos Seferis | Greece
1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre | France (declined)
1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | Soviet Union
1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Israel
1966 | Nelly Sachs | Germany / Sweden
1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias | Guatemala
1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japan
1969 | Samuel Beckett | Ireland / France
1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Soviet Union
1971 | Pablo Neruda | Chile
1972 | Heinrich Böll | Germany
1973 | Patrick White | Australia
1974 | Eyvind Johnson | Sweden
1974 | Harry Martinson | Sweden
1975 | Eugenio Montale | Italy
1976 | Saul Bellow | United States
1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Spain
1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | United States / Poland
1979 | Odysseas Elytis | Greece
1980 | Czesław Miłosz | Poland / United States
1981 | Elias Canetti | United Kingdom / Bulgaria
1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | Colombia
1983 | William Golding | United Kingdom
1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | Czechoslovakia
1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria
1987 | Joseph Brodsky | United States / Soviet Union
1989 | Camilo José Cela | Spain
1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa
1992 | Derek Walcott | Saint Lucia
1993 | Toni Morrison | United States
1995 | Seamus Heaney | Ireland
1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | Poland
1997 | Dario Fo | Italy
1998 | José Saramago | Portugal
2000 | Gao Xingjian | China / France
2001 | V. S. Naipaul | United Kingdom / Trinidad & Tobago
2002 | Imre Kertész | Hungary
2003 | J. M. Coetzee | South Africa / Australia
2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria
2005 | Harold Pinter | United Kingdom
2007 | Doris Lessing | United Kingdom
2008 | J. M. G. Le Clézio | France
2009 | Herta Müller | Germany / Romania
2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peru / Spain
2011 | Tomas Tranströmer | Sweden
2012 | Mo Yan | China
2013 | Alice Munro | Canada
2014 | Patrick Modiano | France
2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus
2016 | Bob Dylan | United States
2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | United Kingdom
2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | Poland
2020 | Louise Glück | United States
2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | Tanzania / United Kingdom
2025| Laszlo Krasznarhorkai| Korea
