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The Nobel Prize for Literature

2003
J.M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee
South Africa

In his will, Alfred Nobel stated that prizes for Literature be given to those who, during the preceding year, "shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind" and that one part be given to the person who "shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction." The prize, therefore, is not associated with one particular book, but bestowed upon an author who produces works consistent with Nobel's vision. Create your own collection of Nobel Prize winners. (Click on the author names to search the abebooks.com database for books by that author.) Read more about the Nobel Prize at the official site, www.nobel.se.



Current Winners Past Winners

Search for Books by Imre Kertesz2002
Imre Kertész
Hungary



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Gao Xingjian
China

V.S. Naipaul2001
V.S. Naipaul
United Kingdom



Search for Books by Gunter Grass1999
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 - U.S
1992 - Derek Walcott - The Antilles/US
1991 - Nadine Gordimer - South Africa
1990 - Octavio Paz - Mexico
1989 - Camilo Jose Cela - Spain
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz - Egypt
1987 - Joseph Brodsky - U.S.
1986 - Wole Soyinka - Nigeria
1985 - Claude Simon - France
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert - Czechoslovakia
1983 - William Golding - England
1982 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Colombia
1981 - Elias Canetti - Bulgaria
1980 - Czeslaw Milosz - U.S.
1979 - Odysseus Elytis - Greece
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - U.S.
1977 - Vicente Aleixandre - Spain
1976 - Saul Bellow - U.S.
1975 - Eugenio Montale - Italy
1974 - Henry Martinson - Sweden
1974 - Eyvind Johnson - Sweden
1973 - Patrick White - Australia
1972 - Heinrich Boll - Germany
1971 - Pablo Neruda - Chile
1970 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - U.S.S.R.
1969 - Samuel Beckett - France
1968 - Yasunari Kawabata - Japan
1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias - Guatemala
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Israel
1966 - Nelly Sachs - Sweden
1965 - Mikhail Sholokov - U.S.S.R.
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre - France
1963 - Giorgios Seferis - Greece
1962 - John Steinbeck - U.S.
1961 - Ivo Andric - Yugoslavia
1960 - St.-John Perse - France
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo - Italy
1958 - Boris Pasternak - U.S.S.R.
1957 - Albert Camus - France
1956 - Juan Ramon Jimenez - Spain
1955 - Halldor Kiljan Laxness - Iceland
1954 - Ernest Hemingway - U.S.
1953 - Winston Churchill - England
1952 - Francois Mauriac - France
1951 - Par Lagerkvist - Sweden
1950 - Bertrand Russell - England
1949 - William Faulkner - U.S.
1948 - T.S. Eliot - England
1947 - Andre Gide - France
1946 - Hermann Hesse - Switzerland
1945 - Gabriela Mistral - Chile
1944 - Johannes V. Jensen - Denmark
1943 - No award given
1942 -No award given
1941 - No award given
1940 - No award given
1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpaa - Finland
1938 - Pearl S. Buck - U.S.
1937 - Roger Martin Du Gard - France
1936 - Eugene O'Neill - U.S.
1935 - No award given
1934 - Luigi Pirandello - Italy
1933 - Ivan Bunin - Russia
1932 - John Galsworthy - England
1931 - Erik Karlfeldt - Sweden
1930 - Sinclair Lewis - U.S.
1929 - Thomas Mann - Germany
1928 - Sigrid Undset - Norway
1927 - Henri Bergson - France
1926 - Grazia Deledda - Italy
1925 - George Bernard Shaw - England
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 award given
1917 - Karl Gjeilerup - Denmark
1917 - Henrik Pontoppidan - Denmark
1916 - Verner Von Heidenstam - Sweden
1915 - Romain Rolland - France
1914 - No award given
1913 - Rabindranath Tagore - India
1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann - Germany
1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck - Belgium
1910 - Paul Von Heyse - Germany
1909 - Selma Lagerlof - Sweden
1908 - Rudolf Eucken - Germany
1907 - Rudyard Kipling - England
1906 - Giosue Carducci - Italy
1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz - Poland
1904 - Jose Echegaray - Spain
1904 - Frederic Mistral - France
1903 - Bjornstjerne Bjornson - Norway
1902 - Theodor Mommsen - Germany
1901 - Rene F.A.S. Prudhomme - France

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