List of Important Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

1901 Sully Prudhomme 

1907 Rudyard Kipling 

1913 Rabindranath Tagore 

1923 W. B. Yeats 

1925 George Bernard Shaw 

1929 Thomas Mann

1930 Sinclair Lewis

1932 John Galsworthy 

1934 Luigi Pirandello 

1936 Eugene O’Neill 

1938 Pearl S. Buck 

1946 Hermann Hesse 

1948 T. S. Eliot 

1949 William Faulkner 

1950 Bertrand Russel 

1953 Sir Winston Churchill 

1954 Ernest Hemingway 

1957 Albert Camus 

1962 John Steinbeck 

1964 Jean-Paul-Sarte 

1969 Samuel Beckett

1973 Patrick White 

1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

1983 William Golding 

1986 Wole Soyinka 

1991 Nadine Gordimer 

1992 Derek Walcott 

1993 Tony Morrison 

1995 Seamus Heaney 

1999 Gunter Gross 

2001 V. S. Naipaul 

2003 J. M. Coetzee 

2005 Harold Pinter 

2007 Doris Lessing 

2013 Alice Munroe 

2015 Svetlana Alexieich 

2016 Bob Dylon 

2017 Kazuo Ishiguro 

2018 Olga Tokarczuk 

2019 Peter Handke 

2020 Louise Glück 

2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah

2022 Annie Ernaux

2023 Jon Fosse

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