Nobel Prize in Literature (1901-2006)

Alfred Nobel was a Swedish scientist who wanted to improve the world. His will left approximately ninety-four percent of his worth to fund the Nobel Prize, which is annually awarded in six different categories, literature being one of them. The Prize is given to an individual for their valuable contributions to society.

Click on the author's name to see what they have written, and to place a hold on any of their books.

The number in parentheses after each author is the year in which he or she was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Orhan Pamuk (2006)

Harold Pinter (2005)

Elfriede Jelinek (2004)

John Maxwell Coetzee (2003)

Imre Kertész (2002)

V.S. Naipaul (2001)

Gao Xingjian (2000)

Gunter Grass (1999)

Jose Saramago (1998)

Dario Fo (1997)

Wislawa Szymborska (1996)

Seamus Heaney (1995)

Kenzaburo Oe (1994)

Toni Morrison (1993)

Derek Walcott (1992)

Nadine Gordimer (1991)

Octavio Paz (1990)

Camilo José Cela (1989)

Naguib Mahfouz (1988)

Joseph Brodsky (1987)

Wole Soyinka (1986)

Claude Simon (1985)

Jaroslav Seifert (1984)

Sir William Golding (1983)

Gabriel García Márquez (1982)

Elias Canetti (1981)

Czeslaw Milosz (1980)

Odysseus Elytis, pen-name of Odysseus Alepoudhelis (1979)

Issac Bashevis Singer (1978)

Vicente Aleixandre (1977)

Saul Bellow (1976)

Eugenio Montale (1975)

Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson (1974)

Patrick White (1973)

Heinrich Böll (1972)

Pablo Neruda (1971)

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (1970)

Samuel Beckett (1969)

Yasunari Kawabata (1968)

Miguel Angel Asturias (1967)

Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs (1966)

Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1965)

Jean-Paul Sartre (1964)

Giorgos Seferis, pen-name of Giorgos Seferiadis (1963)

John Steinbeck (1962)

Ivo Andri'c (1961)

Saint-John Perse, pen-name of Alexis Léger (1960)

Salvatore Quasimodo (1959)

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1958)

Albert Camus (1957)

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956)

Halldór Kiljan Laxenss (1955)

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1954)

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1953)

François Mauriac (1952)

Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1951)

Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1950)

William Faulkner (1949)

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1948)

André Paul Guillaume Gide (1947)

Hermann Hesse (1946)

Gabriela Mistral, pen-name of Lucila Godoy Y Alca-Yaga (1945)

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1944)

Note: for the years 1940 - 1943, no Nobel Prizes in literature were awarded

Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1939)

Pearl Buck, pen-name of Pearl Walsh, neé Sydenstricker (1938)

Roger Martin du Gard (1937)

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1936)

Note: for the year 1935, no Nobel Prizes in literature were awarded

Luigi Pirandello (1934)

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1933)

John Galsworthy (1932)

Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931)

Sinclair Lewis (1930)

Thomas Mann (1929)

Sigrid Undset (1928)

Henri Bergson (1927)

Grazia Deledda, pen-name of Grazia Madesani, neé Deledda (1926)

George Bernard Shaw (1925)

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, pen-name of Reyment (1924)

William Butler Yeats (1923)

Jacinto Benavente (1922)

Anatole France, pen-name of Jacques Anatole Thibault (1921)

Knut Pedersen Hamsun (1920)

Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (1919)

Note: for the year 1918, no Nobel Prizes in literature were awarded

Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan (1917)

Carl Gustaf Verner Von Heidenstam (1916)

Romain Rolland (1915)

Note: for the year 1914, no Nobel Prizes in literature were awarded

Rabindranath Tagore (1913)

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (1912)

Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck (1911)

Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse (1910)

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1909)

Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908)

Rudyard Kipling (1907)

Giosuè Carducci (1906)

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905)

Frédéric Mistral and José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre (1904)

Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (1903)

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (1902)

Sully Prudhomme, pen-name of René François Armand (1901)