Nobel Winner

From 1901 to 2010

1901 - Sully Prudhomme

1902 - Theodor Mommsen

1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

1904 - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray

1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz

1906 - Giosuè Carducci

1907 - Rudyard Kipling

1908 - Rudolf Eucken

1909 - Selma Lagerlöf

1910 - Paul Heyse

1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck

1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann

1913 - Rabindranath Tagore

1914 - No prize were given

1915 - Romain Rolland

1916 - Verner von Heidenstam

1917 - Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan

1918 - No prize were given

1919 - Carl Spitteler

1920 - Knut Hamsun

1921 - Anatole France

1922 - Jacinto Benavente

1923 - William Butler Yeats

1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont

1925 - George Bernard Shaw

1926 - Grazia Deledda

1927 - Henri Bergson

1928 - Sigrid Undset

1929 - Thomas Mann

1930 - Sinclair Lewis

1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt

1932 - John Galsworthy

1933 - Ivan Bunin

1934 - Luigi Pirandello

1935 - No prize were given

1936 - Eugene O'Neill

1937 - Roger Martin du Gard

1938 - Pearl Buck

1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää

1940 - No prize were given

1941 - No prize were given

1942 - No prize were given

1943- No prize were given

1944 - Johannes V. Jensen

1945 - Gabriela Mistral

1946 - Hermann Hesse

1947 - André Gide

1948 - T.S. Eliot

1949 - William Faulkner

1950 - Bertrand Russell

1951 - Pär Lagerkvist

1952 - François Mauriac

1953 - Winston Churchill

1954 - Ernest Hemingway

1955 - Halldór Laxness

1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez

1957 - Albert Camus

1958 - Boris Pasternak

1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo

1960 - Saint-John Perse

1961 - Ivo Andric

1962 - John Steinbeck

1963 - Giorgos Seferis

1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre

1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov

1966 - Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs

1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias

1968 - Yasunari Kawabata

1969 - Samuel Beckett

1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

1971 - Pablo Neruda

1972 - Heinrich Böll

1973 - Patrick White

1974 - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson

1975 - Eugenio Montale

1976 - Saul Bellow

1977 - Vicente Aleixandre

1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer

1979 - Odysseus Elytis

1980 - Czeslaw Milosz

1981 - Elias Canetti

1982 - Gabriel García Márquez

1983 - William Golding

1984 - Jaroslav Seifert

1985 - Claude Simon

1986 - Wole Soyinka

1987 - Joseph Brodsky

1988 - Naguib Mahfouz

1989 - Camilo José Cela

1990 - Octavio Paz

1991 - Nadine Gordimer

1992 - Derek Walcott

1993 - Toni Morrison

1994 - Kenzaburo Oe

1995 - Seamus Heaney

1996 - Wislawa Szymborska

1997 - Dario Fo

1998 - José Saramago

1999 - Günter Grass

2000 - Gao Xingjian

2001 - V. S. Naipaul

2002 - Imre Kertész

2003 - J. M. Coetzee

2004 - Elfriede Jelinek

2005 - Harold Pinter

2006 - Orhan Pamuk

2007 - Doris Lessing

2008 - Lee Clezio

2009-Herta Muller

2010-Mario Vargos Llosa

Announcements of the 2011 Nobel Prizes

The prize awarding institutions have set the following dates for their announcements of 2011 prize decisions:

PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE- Monday 3 October, 11:30 a.m. CET at the earliest
PHYSICS - Tuesday 4 October, 11:45 a.m. CET at the earliest
CHEMISTRY - Wednesday 5 October, 11:45 a.m. CET at the earliest
PEACE - Friday 7 October, 11:00 a.m. CET
LITERATURE - The date will be set later
ECONOMIC SCIENCES - Monday 10 October, 1:00 p.m. CET at the earliest