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从1901年到2021年，诺贝尔文学奖已经颁发了114次，有118位诺贝尔奖获得者。点击链接以获得更多信息。

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2022年诺贝尔文学奖
2022年诺贝尔文学奖还没有颁发。最早将于10月6日星期四中国东部时间13:00公布。

2021年诺贝尔文学奖
阿卜杜拉扎克-古尔纳 "因其对殖民主义的影响和文化与大陆之间的鸿沟中的难民的命运进行了不妥协和富有同情心的渗透"

2020年诺贝尔文学奖
露易丝-格吕克 "以其明确无误的诗歌声音，以朴素的美感使个人的存在具有普遍性"

2019年诺贝尔文学奖
彼得-汉德克 "为其具有影响力的作品，以语言的独创性探索了人类经验的边缘性和特殊性"

2018年诺贝尔文学奖
奥尔加-托卡丘克 "表彰他以百科全书式的激情表现了跨越边界的生活形式的叙事想象力"

2017年诺贝尔文学奖
石黑一雄 "他在具有巨大情感力量的小说中，揭示了我们与世界的虚幻联系感之下的深渊"

2016年诺贝尔文学奖
鲍勃-迪伦 "在伟大的美国歌曲传统中创造了新的诗意表达"

2015年诺贝尔文学奖
斯维特拉娜-阿列克谢耶维奇 "为她的多声部作品，为我们这个时代的苦难和勇气树立了一座丰碑"

2014年诺贝尔文学奖
帕特里克-莫迪亚诺 "表彰他用记忆的艺术唤起了最难以把握的人类命运，并揭开了占领区的生活世界"

2013年诺贝尔文学奖
爱丽丝-门罗 "当代短篇小说的大师"

2012年诺贝尔文学奖
莫言 "以幻觉般的现实主义将民间故事、历史和当代融合在一起"

2011年诺贝尔文学奖
托马斯-特朗斯特罗姆 "因为他通过浓缩的、半透明的图像，让我们对现实有了新的认识"

2010年诺贝尔文学奖
马里奥-巴尔加斯-略萨（Mario Vargas Llosa）"因为他对权力结构的制图以及他对个人的抵抗、反抗和失败的敏锐形象"

2009年诺贝尔文学奖
赫塔-穆勒 "以诗歌的专注和散文的坦率，描绘了被剥夺者的风景"

2008年诺贝尔文学奖
让-玛丽-古斯塔夫-勒克莱齐奥 "新的出发点、诗意的冒险和感官的狂喜的作者，超越和低于统治文明的人性的探索者"

2007年诺贝尔文学奖
多丽丝-莱辛（Doris Lessing） "这位女性经验的史诗家，以怀疑主义、火热和远见的力量对一个分裂的文明进行了审视"

2006年诺贝尔文学奖
奥尔罕-帕慕克 "在寻找其家乡的忧郁灵魂的过程中，发现了文化冲突和交错的新象征"

2005年诺贝尔文学奖
哈罗德-品特 "在他的剧作中揭开了日常喧嚣下的悬崖，并强行进入压迫的密室"

2004年诺贝尔文学奖
埃尔弗里德-耶利内克 "在小说和戏剧中用音乐般的声音和反声音，以非凡的语言热情揭示了社会陈词滥调的荒谬性及其征服力"

2003年诺贝尔文学奖
约翰-M-科兹 "以无数的姿态描写了局外人令人惊讶的参与"

2002年诺贝尔文学奖
伊姆雷-凯尔泰斯 "在写作中坚持个人脆弱的经验，反对历史的野蛮专制"

2001年诺贝尔文学奖
维迪达-苏拉杰普拉萨德-奈保尔爵士 "将敏锐的叙事和廉洁的审视结合在一起，迫使我们看到被压制的历史的存在"

2000年诺贝尔文学奖
高行健 "因为他的作品具有普遍的有效性、辛辣的洞察力和语言的独创性，为中国的小说和戏剧开辟了新的道路"

1999年诺贝尔文学奖
贡特-格拉斯 "他的黑色寓言故事描绘了被遗忘的历史面貌"

1998年诺贝尔文学奖
何塞-萨拉马戈（José Saramago），他以想象力、同情心和讽刺性的寓言，不断地使我们再次认识到一个难以捉摸的现实。

1997年诺贝尔文学奖
达里奥-福："他模仿中世纪的小丑，抨击权威，维护受压迫者的尊严"

1996年诺贝尔文学奖
维斯拉瓦-辛博斯卡 "以讽刺性的精确性使历史和生物背景在人类现实的碎片中显现出来的诗歌" 。

1995年诺贝尔文学奖
希尼（Seamus Heaney）"以表彰具有抒情美和伦理深度的作品，这些作品赞扬了日常的奇迹和活生生的过去"

1994年诺贝尔文学奖
大江健三郎 "以诗意的力量创造了一个想象中的世界，在那里，生活和神话浓缩成一幅令人不安的当今人类困境的画面"

1993年诺贝尔文学奖
托尼-莫里森 "他在小说中以远见卓识和诗意为特点，为美国现实的一个重要方面赋予了生命"

1992年诺贝尔文学奖
德里克-沃尔科特（Derek Walcott）："他的诗歌作品具有巨大的光辉，以历史眼光为支撑，是多元文化承诺的结果"

1991年诺贝尔文学奖
纳丁-戈迪默 "通过她华丽的史诗般的写作，用阿尔弗雷德-诺贝尔的话说，对人类有很大的好处"

1990年诺贝尔文学奖
奥克塔维奥-帕斯 "因其热情洋溢、视野开阔、具有感性智慧和人文关怀的写作特点"

1989年诺贝尔文学奖
卡米洛-何塞-塞拉 "因其丰富而深入的散文，以克制的同情心形成了对人类脆弱性的挑战性看法" 。

1988年诺贝尔文学奖
纳吉布-马赫福兹 "通过富有细微差别的作品--现在是清晰的现实主义，现在是令人回味的模糊性--形成了一种适用于全人类的阿拉伯叙事艺术"

1987年诺贝尔文学奖
约瑟夫-布罗茨基 "因其思想清晰、诗意盎然的全方位作者身份而获奖"

1986年诺贝尔文学奖
沃勒-索因卡 "以广泛的文化视角和诗意的色彩来塑造生存的戏剧"

1985年诺贝尔文学奖
克劳德-西蒙 "在他的小说中结合了诗人和画家的创造力，在描写人类状况时加深了对时间的认识"

1984年诺贝尔文学奖
雅罗斯拉夫-塞弗特 "因为他的诗歌被赋予了清新、感性和丰富的创造力，为人类不屈不挠的精神和多才多艺提供了一个解放的形象"

1983年诺贝尔文学奖
威廉-戈尔丁 "表彰他的小说以现实主义叙事艺术的敏锐性和神话的多样性和普遍性，照亮了当今世界的人类状况"

1982年诺贝尔文学奖
加布里埃尔-加西亚-马尔克斯（Gabriel García Márquez）"表彰他的小说和短篇小说，在这些作品中，梦幻与现实相结合，形成了一个丰富的想象世界，反映了一个大陆的生活和冲突"

1981年诺贝尔文学奖
埃利亚斯-卡内蒂 "因其著作具有广阔的视野、丰富的思想和艺术力量"

1980年诺贝尔文学奖
切斯拉夫-米洛什（Czeslaw Milosz），他以毫不妥协的敏锐洞察力表达了人类在一个严重冲突的世界中的暴露状况

1979年诺贝尔文学奖
奥德修斯-埃利蒂斯，"表彰他的诗歌，在希腊传统的背景下，以感性的力量和理性的洞察力描绘了现代人为自由和创造力而奋斗的过程

1978年诺贝尔文学奖
艾萨克-巴什维斯-辛格（Isaac Bashevis Singer）"以表彰他那根植于波兰-犹太文化传统的、充满激情的叙事艺术，将普遍的人类状况带到了生活中"

1977年诺贝尔文学奖
维森特-阿莱桑德雷（Vicente Aleixandre）"表彰他创造性的诗歌写作，照亮了人类在宇宙和当今社会中的状况，同时也代表了西班牙诗歌传统在战争期间的伟大复兴"

1976年诺贝尔文学奖
索尔-贝罗 "因其作品中结合了对人类的理解和对当代文化的微妙分析"

1975年诺贝尔文学奖
欧亨尼奥-蒙塔莱 "以表彰他独特的诗歌，以极大的艺术敏感性，在没有幻想的人生观的标志下诠释了人类价值"

1974年诺贝尔文学奖
埃温德-约翰逊 "表彰他为自由服务的、具有远见卓识的土地和时代的叙事艺术"

哈里-马丁森 "表彰捕捉露珠和反映宇宙的著作"

1973年诺贝尔文学奖
帕特里克-怀特 "以表彰其史诗般的心理叙事艺术，为文学引入了一个新大陆"

1972年诺贝尔文学奖
海因里希-伯尔 "表彰他的写作，通过对其时代的广泛视角和敏感的人物描写技巧的结合，促进了德国文学的复兴"

1971年诺贝尔文学奖
巴勃罗-聂鲁达 "表彰他的诗歌以一种基本的力量将一个大陆的命运和梦想生动地表现出来"

1970年诺贝尔文学奖
亚历山大-伊萨耶维奇-索尔仁尼琴 "为他追求俄罗斯文学不可缺少的传统的道德力量而获奖

1969年诺贝尔文学奖
塞缪尔-贝克特 "为他的写作--以小说和戏剧的新形式--在现代人的穷困中获得升华"

1968年诺贝尔文学奖
川端康成 "以表彰他在叙事方面的高超技巧，他以极大的感性表达了日本人的思想精髓"

1967年诺贝尔文学奖
米格尔-安赫尔-阿斯图里亚斯（Miguel Angel Asturias）"以表彰他深深扎根于拉丁美洲印第安人的民族特征和传统的生动的文学成就"

1966年诺贝尔文学奖
Shmuel Yosef Agnon "表彰他具有深刻特色的叙事艺术，其主题来自于犹太民族的生活"

耐莉-萨克斯 "表彰她出色的抒情和戏剧性写作，以感人的力量诠释了以色列的命运"

1965年诺贝尔文学奖
米哈伊尔-亚历山大罗维奇-肖洛霍夫 "以表彰他在《顿河》史诗中表达了俄罗斯人民生活中的一个历史阶段的艺术力量和完整性"

1964年诺贝尔文学奖
让-保罗-萨特 "表彰他的作品，其丰富的思想，充满了自由和追求真理的精神，对我们这个时代产生了深远的影响"

1963年诺贝尔文学奖
乔戈斯-塞弗里斯 "因其杰出的抒情性写作，对希腊文化世界的深厚感情所激发"

1962年诺贝尔文学奖
约翰-斯坦贝克 "因其现实主义和富有想象力的作品，结合了同情的幽默和敏锐的社会洞察力"

1961年诺贝尔文学奖
伊沃-安德里奇 "以史诗般的力量追溯主题并描绘了来自其国家历史的人类命运"

1960年诺贝尔文学奖
圣约翰-珀斯 "为其诗歌的飞翔和令人回味的意象，以一种富有远见的方式反映了我们时代的状况"

1959年诺贝尔文学奖
萨尔瓦托尔-卡西莫多 "表彰他的抒情诗，它以古典的火焰表达了我们这个时代的悲惨生活经历"

1958年诺贝尔文学奖
鲍里斯-列昂尼多维奇-帕斯捷尔纳克 "以表彰他在当代抒情诗和伟大的俄罗斯史诗传统领域的重要成就"

1957年诺贝尔文学奖
阿尔贝-加缪 "以表彰他的重要文学作品，它以清晰的洞察力照亮了我们时代的人类良知问题"

1956年诺贝尔文学奖
胡安-拉蒙-希门尼斯 "表彰他的抒情诗，它在西班牙语言中构成了高尚精神和纯洁艺术的典范"

1955年诺贝尔文学奖
Halldór Kiljan Laxness "表彰他生动的史诗力量，使冰岛的伟大叙事艺术得到了更新"

1954年诺贝尔文学奖
欧内斯特-米勒-海明威 "因其对叙事艺术的精通，最近在《老人与海》中得到体现，并因其对当代风格的影响而获奖"

1953年诺贝尔文学奖
温斯顿-伦纳德-斯宾塞-丘吉尔爵士，"表彰他对历史和传记的娴熟描述，以及在捍卫崇高的人类价值观方面的出色演说"

1952年诺贝尔文学奖
弗朗索瓦-莫里亚克 "以表彰他在其小说中对人类生活戏剧的深刻精神洞察力和艺术强度"

1951年诺贝尔文学奖
帕尔-法比安-拉格奎斯特 "以表彰他在诗歌中努力为人类面临的永恒问题寻找答案的艺术活力和真正的独立思想"

1950年诺贝尔文学奖
罗素伯爵（伯特兰-阿瑟-威廉）"以表彰他在倡导人道主义理想和思想自由方面的各种重要著作"

1949年诺贝尔文学奖
威廉-福克纳 "以表彰他对现代美国小说的强大和艺术上的独特贡献"

1948年诺贝尔文学奖
托马斯-斯特恩斯-艾略特 "表彰他对当今诗歌的杰出、先锋的贡献"

1947年诺贝尔文学奖
安德烈-保罗-纪尧姆-纪德 "以表彰他全面的和具有艺术意义的著作，其中以无畏的真理之爱和敏锐的心理洞察力阐述了人类的问题和状况"

1946年诺贝尔文学奖
赫尔曼-黑塞 "表彰他的灵感之作，这些作品越来越大胆和深入，体现了古典的人道主义理想和高尚的风格"

1945年诺贝尔文学奖
加芙列拉-米斯特拉尔 "因其抒情诗受到强烈情感的激发，使她的名字成为整个拉丁美洲世界理想主义愿望的象征" 。

1944年诺贝尔文学奖
约翰内斯-维尔海姆-延森 "以表彰他罕见的强大和丰富的诗歌想象力，其中结合了广泛的知识性好奇心和大胆、新鲜的创作风格"

1943年诺贝尔文学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金的1/3分配给主基金，2/3分配给该奖项的特别基金。

1942年诺贝尔文学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金的1/3分配给主基金，2/3分配给该奖项的特别基金。

1941年诺贝尔文学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金的1/3分配给主基金，2/3分配给该奖项的特别基金。

1940年诺贝尔文学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金的1/3分配给主基金，2/3分配给该奖项的特别基金。

1939年诺贝尔文学奖
弗朗斯-埃米尔-西兰帕 "因为他对本国农民的深刻理解，以及他以精湛的艺术描绘了他们的生活方式和他们与自然的关系"

1938年诺贝尔文学奖
巴克（Pearl Buck）"因其对中国农民生活的丰富和真正的史诗般的描述以及她的传记杰作"

1937年诺贝尔文学奖
罗杰-马丁-杜尔 "以表彰他在其小说系列Les Thibault中对人类冲突以及当代生活的一些基本方面的艺术力量和真实描述"

1936年诺贝尔文学奖
尤金-格拉德斯通-奥尼尔 "表彰他的戏剧作品的力量、诚实和深刻的情感，这些作品体现了一种独特的悲剧概念"

1935年诺贝尔文学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金的1/3分配给主基金，2/3分配给该奖项的特别基金。

1934年诺贝尔文学奖
路易吉-皮兰德娄 "因其大胆而巧妙地复兴了戏剧和场景艺术"

1933年诺贝尔文学奖
伊万-阿列克谢耶维奇-布宁 "以表彰他在散文写作中继承了俄罗斯的古典传统，具有严格的艺术性"

1932年诺贝尔文学奖
约翰-高尔斯沃西 "因其杰出的叙事艺术，在《福尔赛特传奇》中达到了最高境界"

1931年诺贝尔文学奖
埃里克-阿克塞尔-卡尔费尔特 "埃里克-阿克塞尔-卡尔费尔特的诗歌"

1930年诺贝尔文学奖
辛克莱-刘易斯 "因其充满活力和形象的描述艺术，以及他以机智和幽默创造新型人物的能力"

1929年诺贝尔文学奖
托马斯-曼 "主要因为他的伟大小说《巴登布鲁克斯》，该小说作为当代文学的经典作品之一，赢得了稳步增长的认可"

1928年诺贝尔文学奖
西格丽德-温塞特 "主要是由于她对中世纪北方生活的有力描述"

1927年诺贝尔文学奖
亨利-柏格森 "表彰他丰富而有生命力的思想以及展示这些思想的杰出技巧"

1926年诺贝尔文学奖
格拉齐亚-德莱达 "表彰她受理想主义启发的著作，这些著作以可塑的清晰度描绘了她家乡岛屿的生活，并以深度和同情心处理了一般的人类问题"

1925年诺贝尔文学奖
萧伯纳 "为表彰他的作品既具有理想主义又具有人性，其刺激性的讽刺常常注入一种奇特的诗意的美"

1924年诺贝尔文学奖
弗拉迪斯瓦夫-斯坦尼斯瓦夫-雷蒙 "因其伟大的民族史诗《农民》"

1923年诺贝尔文学奖
威廉-巴特勒-叶芝（William Butler Yeats）"以表彰他总是受到启发的诗歌，它以高度的艺术形式表达了整个民族的精神"

1922年诺贝尔文学奖
哈辛托-贝纳文特 "以表彰他继承了西班牙戏剧的辉煌传统的快乐方式"

1921年诺贝尔文学奖
安纳托尔-法兰西 "表彰他杰出的文学成就，这些成就的特点是风格高贵，对人有深刻的同情心，优雅，以及真正的高卢气质"

1920年诺贝尔文学奖
克努特-佩德森-汉姆森 "因其不朽的作品《土壤的生长》"。

1919年诺贝尔文学奖
卡尔-弗里德里希-乔治-斯皮特勒 "特别感谢他的史诗《奥林匹亚之春》" 。

1918年诺贝尔文学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金被分配给该奖项的特别基金。

1917年诺贝尔文学奖
卡尔-阿道夫-盖勒鲁普 "因其多样而丰富的诗歌，其灵感来自崇高的理想"

亨利克-蓬托皮丹 "以表彰他对丹麦当今生活的真实描述"

1916年诺贝尔文学奖
卡尔-古斯塔夫-维尔纳-冯-海登斯坦姆，"表彰他作为我国文学新时代的主要代表所具有的重要性"

1915年诺贝尔文学奖
罗曼-罗兰 "以表彰他的文学创作中的崇高理想主义，以及他对不同类型的人的同情和热爱"

1914年诺贝尔文学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金被分配给该奖项的特别基金。

1913年诺贝尔文学奖
拉宾德拉纳特-泰戈尔 "因为他深刻敏感、清新优美的诗句，他以精湛的技巧，使他的诗歌思想，用他自己的英语语言表达出来，成为西方文学的一部分"

1912年诺贝尔文学奖
格哈特-约翰-罗伯特-哈普特曼 "主要是为了表彰他在戏剧艺术领域的丰富、多样和杰出的创作"

1911年诺贝尔文学奖
莫里斯（Mooris）-波利多-玛丽-伯恩哈德-梅特林克伯爵 "表彰他多方面的文学活动，特别是他的戏剧作品，这些作品以丰富的想象力和诗意的幻想而著称，有时以童话的形式揭示了深刻的灵感，同时以一种神秘的方式吸引了读者自己的感情，激发了他们的想象力"

1910年诺贝尔文学奖
保罗-约翰-路德维希-海斯 "以表彰他作为抒情诗人、戏剧家、小说家和世界著名短篇小说家在长期的创作生涯中所表现出的渗透着理想主义的完美艺术性"

1909年诺贝尔文学奖
塞尔玛-奥蒂莉亚-洛维萨-拉格洛夫，"表彰她的著作中所体现的崇高的理想主义、生动的想象力和精神感悟力"

1908年诺贝尔文学奖
鲁道夫-克里斯托夫-欧根 "表彰他对真理的认真探索，他的思想力量，他的广泛视野，以及他在众多作品中以热情和力量证明和发展了一种理想主义的生活哲学"

1907年诺贝尔文学奖
鲁德亚德-吉卜林 "考虑到观察力、想象力的独创性、思想的活力和非凡的叙述才能，这些都是这位世界著名作家的创作特点"

1906年诺贝尔文学奖
吉奥苏埃-卡杜奇 "不仅是考虑到他深厚的学识和批判性的研究，更重要的是对其诗歌杰作所具有的创造活力、清新风格和抒情力量的赞誉"

1905年诺贝尔文学奖
亨利克-西恩凯维茨 "因其作为史诗作家的突出优点"

1904年诺贝尔文学奖
弗雷德里克-米斯特拉尔 "表彰他的诗歌创作的新的原创性和真正的灵感，它忠实地反映了他的人民的自然风光和本土精神，此外，他作为普罗旺斯语言学家的重要工作"

何塞-埃切加雷-埃扎吉雷（José Echegaray y Eizaguirre）"以表彰他以独特和新颖的方式恢复了西班牙戏剧的伟大传统的大量辉煌作品"

1903年诺贝尔文学奖
比昂斯捷尔尼-马蒂纳斯-比昂松 "以表彰他高尚、壮丽和多才多艺的诗歌，他的诗歌总是以其灵感的新鲜和其精神的罕见的纯洁而闻名"

1902年诺贝尔文学奖
克里斯蒂安-马蒂亚斯-西奥多-蒙姆森 "在世的最伟大的历史写作艺术大师，特别是他的巨著《罗马史》"

1901年诺贝尔文学奖
苏利-普鲁多姆 "特别表彰他的诗歌创作，它证明了崇高的理想主义、完美的艺术以及心灵与智慧的罕见结合"



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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 has not been awarded yet. It will be announced on Thursday 6 October, 13:00 CEST at the earliest.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019
Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018
Olga Tokarczuk “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017
Kazuo Ishiguro “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015
Svetlana Alexievich “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014
Patrick Modiano “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013
Alice Munro “master of the contemporary short story”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012
Mo Yan “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011
Tomas Tranströmer “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010
Mario Vargas Llosa “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009
Herta Müller “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007
Doris Lessing “that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006
Orhan Pamuk “who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005
Harold Pinter“who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004
Elfriede Jelinek “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003
John M. Coetzee “who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002
Imre Kertész “for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2000
Gao Xingjian “for an æuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999
Günter Grass “whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998
José Saramago who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1997
Dario Fo “who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
Wislawa Szymborska “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995
Seamus Heaney “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994
Kenzaburo Oe “who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993
Toni Morrison “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992
Derek Walcott “for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991
Nadine Gordimer “who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990
Octavio Paz “for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1989
Camilo José Cela “for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man’s vulnerability”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988
Naguib Mahfouz “who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987
Joseph Brodsky “for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986
Wole Soyinka “who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1985
Claude Simon “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1984
Jaroslav Seifert “for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983
William Golding “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
Gabriel García Márquez “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1981
Elias Canetti “for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980
Czeslaw Milosz who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man’s exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1979
Odysseus Elytis “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer “for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1977
Vicente Aleixandre “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1976
Saul Bellow “for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1975
Eugenio Montale “for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1974
Eyvind Johnson “for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom”

Harry Martinson “for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973
Patrick White “for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1972
Heinrich Böll “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1971
Pablo Neruda “for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent’s destiny and dreams”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969
Samuel Beckett “for his writing, which – in new forms for the novel and drama – in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968
Yasunari Kawabata “for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1967
Miguel Angel Asturias “for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1966
Shmuel Yosef Agnon “for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people”

Nelly Sachs“for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel’s destiny with touching strength”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1964
Jean-Paul Sartre “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1963
Giorgos Seferis “for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962
John Steinbeck “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961
Ivo Andric “for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960
Saint-John Perse “for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1959
Salvatore Quasimodo “for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak “for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957
Albert Camus “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1956
Juan Ramón Jiménez “for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1955
Halldór Kiljan Laxness “for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954
Ernest Miller Hemingway “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1952
François Mauriac “for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1951
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950
Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell “in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949
William Faulkner “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948
Thomas Stearns Eliot “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947
André Paul Guillaume Gide “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1946
Hermann Hesse “for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945
Gabriela Mistral “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1944
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1943
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1942
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1941
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1940
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1939
Frans Eemil Sillanpää “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938
Pearl Buck “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1937
Roger Martin du Gard “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1936
Eugene Gladstone O’Neill “for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1935
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1934
Luigi Pirandello “for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1933
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin “for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1932
John Galsworthy “for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt “The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930
Sinclair Lewis “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1929
Thomas Mann “principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1928
Sigrid Undset “principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1927
Henri Bergson “in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926
Grazia Deledda “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925
George Bernard Shaw “for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1924
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont “for his great national epic, The Peasants”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923
William Butler Yeats “for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1922
Jacinto Benavente “for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1921
Anatole France “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1920
Knut Pedersen Hamsun “for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1919
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler “in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1918
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1917
Karl Adolph Gjellerup “for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals”

Henrik Pontoppidan “for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1916
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam “in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1915
Romain Rolland “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1914
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913
Rabindranath Tagore “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1912
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann “primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1911
Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1910
Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1909
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf “in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1908
Rudolf Christoph Eucken “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907
Rudyard Kipling “in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1906
Giosuè Carducci “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz “because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1904
Frédéric Mistral “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”

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre “in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1903
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson “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”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1902
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen “the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A history of Rome”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1901
Sully Prudhomme “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”