List of Nobel Prize in Literature winners

List of Nobel Prize in Literature winners: 2012 -- Mo Yan, China 2011 -- Tomas Transtromer, Sweden 2010 -- Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru 2009 -- Herta Mueller, Romania and Germany 2008 -- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, France and Mauritius 2007 -- Doris Lessing, United Kingdom 2006 -- Orhan Pamuk, Turkey 2005 -- Harold Pinter, United Kingdom 2004 -- Elfriede Jelinek, Austria 2003 -- J. M. Coetzee, South Africa 2002 -- Imre Kertesz, Hungary 2001 -- V. S. Naipaul, United Kingdom 2000 -- Gao Xingjian, France 1999 -- Gunter Grass, Germany 1998 -- Jose Saramago, Portugal 1997 -- Dario Fo, Italy 1996 -- Wislawa Szymborska, Poland 1995 -- Seamus Heaney, Ireland 1994 -- Kenzaburo Oe, Japan 1993 -- Toni Morrison, United States 1992 -- Derek Walcott, Saint Lucia 1991 -- Nadine Gordimer, South Africa 1990 -- Octavio Paz, Mexico 1989 -- Camilo Jose Cela, Spain 1988 -- Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt 1987 -- Joseph Brodsky, United States 1986 -- Wole Soyinka, Nigeria 1985 -- Claude Simon, France 1984 -- Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia 1983 -- William Golding, United Kingdom 1982 -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia 1981 -- Elias Canetti, United Kingdom 1980 -- Czeslaw Milosz, Poland and United States 1979 -- Odysseus Elytis, Greece 1978 -- Isaac Bashevis Singer, United States 1977 -- Vicente Aleixandre, Spain 1976 -- Saul Bellow, United States 1975 -- Eugenio Montale, Italy 1974 -- Eyvind Johnson, Sweden; Harry Martinson, Sweden 1973 -- Patrick White, Australia 1972 -- Heinrich Boll, Germany 1971 -- Pablo Neruda, Chile 1970 -- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet Union 1969 -- Samuel Beckett, Ireland 1968 -- Yasunari Kawabata, Japan 1967 -- Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala 1966 -- Shmuel Agnon, Israel; Nelly Sachs, Sweden 1965 -- Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Union 1964 -- Jean-Paul Sartre, France 1963 -- Giorgos Seferis, Greece 1962 -- John Steinbeck, United States 1961 -- Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia 1960 -- Saint-John Perse, France 1959 -- Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy 1958 -- Boris Pasternak, Soviet Union 1957 -- Albert Camus, France 1956 -- Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spain 1955 -- Halldor Laxness, Iceland 1954 -- Ernest Hemingway, United States 1953 -- Winston Churchill, United Kingdom 1952 -- Francois Mauriac, France 1951 -- Par Lagerkvist, Sweden 1950 -- Bertrand Russell, United Kingdom 1949 -- William Faulkner, United States 1948 -- T.S. Eliot, United Kingdom 1947 -- Andre Gide, France 1946 -- Hermann Hesse, Switzerland 1945 -- Gabriela Mistral, Chile 1944 -- Johannes V. Jensen, Denmark 1943 -- No prize awarded 1942 -- No prize awarded 1941 -- No prize awarded 1940 -- No prize awarded 1939 -- Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finland 1938 -- Pearl Buck, United States 1937 -- Roger Martin du Gard, France 1936 -- Eugene O'Neill, United States 1935 -- No prize awarded 1934 -- Luigi Pirandello, Italy 1933 -- Ivan Bunin, stateless domicile in France 1932 -- John Galsworthy, United Kingdo 1931 -- Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sweden 1930 -- Sinclair Lewis, United States 1929 -- Thomas Mann, Germany 1928 -- Sigrid Undset, Norway 1927 -- Henri Bergson, France 1926 -- Grazia Deledda, Italy 1925 -- George Bernard Shaw, United Kingdom 1924 -- Wladyslaw Reymont, Poland 1923 -- William Butler Yeats, Ireland 1922 -- Jacinto Benavente, Spain 1921 -- Anatole France, France 1920 -- Knut Hamsun, Norway 1919 -- Carl Spitteler, Switzerland 1918 -- No prize awarded 1917 -- Karl Gjellerup, Denmark; Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark 1916 -- Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden 1915 -- Romain Rolland, France 1914 -- No prize awarded 1913 -- Rabindranath Tagore, India 1912 -- Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany 1911 -- Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium 1910 -- Paul Heyse, Germany 1909 -- Selma Lagerlof, Sweden 1908 -- Rudolf Eucken, Germany 1907 -- Rudyard Kipling, United Kingdom 1906 -- Giosue Carducci, Italy 1905 -- Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland 1904 -- Frederic Mistral, France; Jose Echegaray, Spain 1903 -- Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norway 1902 -- Theodor Mommsen, Germany 1901 -- Sully Prudhomme, France