| class="wikitable sortable" style="table-layout: fixed; width:100%" |
| scope=col style="width: 45px" | Year
! scope=col class=unsortable style="width: 75px" | Picture
! scope=col style="width: 100px"| Laureate
! scope=col style="width: 100px" | Country
! scope=col style="width: 60px" | Language(s)
! scope=col class=unsortable style="width: 200px"| Citation
! scope=col style="width: 80px" | Genre(s) |
|---|
| id="1901"
|1901
|75px
! scope="row" |Sully Prudhomme
(1839–1907)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|French
|"in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1901/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1901|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034055/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1901/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, essay |
| 1902
|75px
! scope="row" |Theodor Mommsen
(1817–1903)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|German Empire|name=Germany}}
|German
|"the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work A History of Rome"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1902/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1902|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192600/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1902/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|history, law |
| 1903
|75px
! scope="row" |Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
(1832–1910)
|data-sort-value="Norway" |{{flag|Norway|name=Norway}}
|Norwegian
|"as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1903/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1903|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192607/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1903/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, novel, drama |
| rowspan="2" |1904
|75px
! scope="row" |Frédéric Mistral
(1830–1914)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|Provençal
|"in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1904/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1904|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192610/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1904/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, philology |
| 75px
! scope="row" |José Echegaray
(1832–1916)
|data-sort-value="Spain" |{{flag|Restoration (Spain)|name=Spain}}
|Spanish
|"in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama"
|drama |
| 1905
|75px
! scope="row" |Henryk Sienkiewicz
(1846–1916)
|data-sort-value="Russian Empire" |{{Flag|Poland|name=Poland}}
|Polish
|"because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1905/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1905|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192616/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1905/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel |
| 1906
|75px
! scope="row" |Giosuè Carducci
(1835–1907)
|data-sort-value="Italy" |{{flag|Kingdom of Italy|name=Italy}}
|Italian
|"not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1906/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1906|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192621/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1906/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| 1907
|75px
! scope="row" |Rudyard Kipling
(1865–1936)
|data-sort-value="United Kingdom" |{{flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
|English
|"in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration that characterize the creations of this world-famous author"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1907/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1907|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212750/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1907/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, poetry |
| 1908
|75px
! scope="row" |Rudolf Christoph Eucken
(1846–1926)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|German Empire|name=Germany}}
|German
|"in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1908/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1908|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192631/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1908/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|philosophy |
| 1909
|75px
! scope="row" |Selma Lagerlöf
(1858–1940)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|Swedish
|"in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1909/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1909|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212755/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1909/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story |
| id="1910"
|1910
|75px
! scope="row" |Paul von Heyse
(1830–1914)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|German Empire|name=Germany}}
|German
|"as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1910/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1910|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192641/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1910/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, drama, novel, short story |
| 1911
|75px
! scope="row" |Maurice Maeterlinck
(1862–1949)
|data-sort-value="Belgium" |{{flag|Belgium}}
|French
|"in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1911/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1911|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034105/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1911/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|drama, poetry, essay |
| 1912
|75px
! scope="row" |Gerhart Hauptmann
(1862–1946)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|German Empire|name=Germany}}
|German
|"primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1912/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1912|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192651/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1912/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|drama, novel |
| 1913
|75px
! scope="row" |Rabindranath Tagore
(1861–1941)
|data-sort-value= "India" |{{flag|British Raj|name=India (British Raj)}}
|Bengali and English
|"because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1913/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1913|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015210804/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1913/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-15|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, novel, drama, short story, essay, translation |
| 1914
| colspan="6" align="center" |Not awarded |
| 1915
|75px
! scope="row" |Romain Rolland
(1866–1944)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|French
|"as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1915/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1915|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192703/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1915/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel |
| 1916
|75px
! scope="row" |Verner von Heidenstam
(1859–1940)
|data-sort-value="Sweden" |{{flag|Sweden}}
|Swedish
|"in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1916/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1916|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192708/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1916/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, novel |
| rowspan="2" |1917
|75px
! scope="row" |Karl Adolph Gjellerup
(1857–1919)
|data-sort-value="Denmark" |{{flag|Denmark}}
|Danish and German
|"for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1917/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1917|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034110/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1917/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| 75px
! scope="row" |Henrik Pontoppidan
(1857–1943)
|data-sort-value="Denmark" |{{flag|Denmark}}
|Danish
|"for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark"
|novel |
| 1918
| colspan="6" align="center" |Not awarded |
| 1919
|75px
! scope="row" |Carl Spitteler
(1845–1924)
|data-sort-value="Switzerland" |{{flag|Switzerland}}
|German
|"in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1919/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1919|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192718/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1919/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| id="1920"
|1920
|75px
! scope="row" |Knut Hamsun
(1859–1952)
|data-sort-value="Norway" |{{flag|Norway}}
|Norwegian
|"for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1920/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1920|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192723/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1920/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel |
| 1921
|75px
! scope="row" |Anatole France
(1844–1924)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|French
|"in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1921/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1921|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192728/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1921/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel, poetry |
| 1922
|75px
! scope="row" |Jacinto Benavente
(1866–1954)
|data-sort-value="Spain" |{{flag|Restoration (Spain)|name=Spain}}
|Spanish
|"for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1922/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1922|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192734/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1922/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|drama |
| 1923
|75px
! scope="row" |William Butler Yeats
(1865–1939)
|data-sort-value="Ireland" |{{flag|Irish Free State|name=Ireland}}
|English
|"for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1923|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180918/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| 1924
|75px
! scope="row" |Władysław Reymont
(1867–1925)
|data-sort-value="Poland" |{{flag|Poland|1919}}
|Polish
|"for his great national epic, The Peasants"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1924/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1924|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015210202/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1924/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-15|url-status=live}}]
|novel |
| 1925
|75px
! scope="row" |George Bernard Shaw
(1856–1950)
|data-sort-value="Ireland" |{{flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
{{flag|Irish Free State|name=Ireland}}[{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Bernard-Shaw|title=George Bernard Shaw {{!}} Irish dramatist and critic|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2018-02-18|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310044246/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Bernard-Shaw|archive-date=2018-03-10|url-status=live}}]
|English
|"for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1925|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212806/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}]
|drama, essay |
| 1926
|75px
! scope="row" |Grazia Deledda
(1871–1936)
|data-sort-value="Italy" |{{flag|Kingdom of Italy|name=Italy}}
|Italian
|"for her idealistically inspired writings, which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1926/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1926|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192754/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1926/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, novel |
| 1927
|75px
! scope="row" |Henri Bergson
(1859–1941)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|French
|"in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1927/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1927|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192759/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1927/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|philosophy |
| 1928
|75px
! scope="row" |Sigrid Undset
(1882–1949)
|data-sort-value="Norway" |{{flag|Norway}}
{{flag|Denmark}}
|Norwegian
|"principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1928/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1928|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192805/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1928/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel |
| 1929
|75px
! scope="row" |Thomas Mann
(1875–1955)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|Weimar Republic|name=Germany}}
|German
|"principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1929/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1929|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034121/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1929/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, essay |
| id="1930"
|1930
|75px
! scope="row" |Sinclair Lewis
(1885–1951)
|data-sort-value="United States" |{{flag|United States|1912}}
|English
|"for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1930|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212811/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, drama |
| 1931
|75px
! scope="row" |Erik Axel Karlfeldt
(1864–1931)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|Swedish
|"The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1931/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1931|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192815/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1931/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| 1932
|75px
! scope="row" |John Galsworthy
(1867–1933)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|English
|"for his distinguished art of narration, which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1932/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1932|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192820/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1932/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel |
| id="1933"
|1933
|75px
! scope="row" |Ivan Bunin
(1870–1953) | Stateless
(born in Russian Empire)
|Russian
|"for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1933/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1933|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034126/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1933/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|short story, poetry, novel |
| id="1934"
|1934
|75px
! scope="row" |Luigi Pirandello
(1867–1936)
|data-sort-value="Italy" |{{flag|Italy|1861}}
|Italian
|"for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1934/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1934|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192830/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1934/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|drama, novel, short story |
| 1935
| colspan="6" align="center" |Not awarded |
| 1936
|75px
! scope="row" |Eugene O'Neill
(1888–1953)
|{{flag|United States|1912}}
|English
|"for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1936|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192835/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|drama |
| 1937
|75px
! scope="row" |Roger Martin du Gard
(1881–1958)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|French
|"for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel cycle Les Thibault"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1937/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1937|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034131/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1937/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel |
| 1938
|75px
! scope="row" |Pearl Buck
(1892–1973)
|{{flag|United States|1912}}
|English
|"for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1938/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1938|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218195128/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1938/index.html|archive-date=2009-02-18|url-status=live}}]
|novel, biography |
| 1939
|75px
! scope="row" |Frans Eemil Sillanpää
(1888–1964)
|{{flag|Finland}}
|Finnish
|"for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1939/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1939|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192855/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1939/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel |
| id="1940"
|1940
| colspan=6 rowspan=4 align="center" |Not awarded |
| 1941 |
| 1942 |
| 1943 |
| 1944
|75px
! scope="row" |Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
(1873–1950)
|{{flag|Denmark}}
|Danish
|"for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1944/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1944|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034136/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1944/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story |
| 1945
|75px
! scope="row" |Gabriela Mistral
(1889–1957)
|data-sort-value="Chile" |{{flag|Chile}}
|Spanish
|"for her lyric poetry, which inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1945/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1945|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083747/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1945/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| 1946
|75px
! scope="row" |Hermann Hesse
(1877–1962)
|data-sort-value="Switzerland" |{{flag|Allied-occupied Germany|name=Germany}}
{{flag|Switzerland}}
|German
|"for his inspired writings, which while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1946/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1946|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020010617/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1946/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-20|url-status=live}}]
|novel, poetry |
| 1947
|75px
! scope="row" |André Gide
(1869–1951)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Fourth Republic|name=France}}
|French
|"for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1947/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1947|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192906/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1947/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel, essay, drama, memoir |
| 1948
|75px
! scope="row" |Thomas Stearns Eliot
(1888–1965)
|data-sort-value="United Kingdom" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}
(born in the United States)
|English
|"for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1948|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034141/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, essay, drama |
| 1949
|75px
! scope="row" |William Faulkner
(1897–1962)
|{{flag|United States|1912}}
|English
|"for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1949|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180928/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story |
| id="1950"
|1950
|75px
! scope="row" |Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|English
|"in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1950|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192911/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|philosophy, essay |
| 1951
|75px
! scope="row" |Pär Lagerkvist
(1891–1974)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|Swedish
|"for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1951/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1951|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192916/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1951/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, novel, short story, drama |
| 1952
|75px
! scope="row" |François Mauriac
(1885–1970)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Fourth Republic|name=France}}
|French
|"for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1952|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192921/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story |
| 1953
|75px
! scope="row" |Winston Churchill
(1874–1965)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|English
|"for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1953/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1953|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034151/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1953/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|history, essay, memoir |
| 1954
|75px
! scope="row" |Ernest Hemingway
(1899–1961)
|{{flag|United States|1912}}
|English
|"for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1954|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212823/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, screenplay |
| 1955
|75px
! scope="row" |Halldór Laxness
(1902–1998)
|{{flag|Iceland}}
|Icelandic
|"for his vivid epic power, which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1955/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1955|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192937/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1955/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, drama, poetry |
| 1956
|75px
! scope="row" |Juan Ramón Jiménez
(1881–1958)
|{{flag|Francoist Spain|name=Spain}}
|Spanish
|"for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1956/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1956|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008110601/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1956/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-08|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, novel |
| 1957
|75px
! scope="row" |Albert Camus
(1913–1960)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|French Fourth Republic|name=France}}
(born in French Algeria)
|French
|"for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1957/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1957|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034206/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1957/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, drama, philosophy, essay |
| id="1958"
|1958
|75px
! scope="row" |Boris Pasternak
(1890–1960)
|{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|Russian
|"for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1958/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1958|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034212/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1958/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, poetry, translation |
| id="1959"
|1959
|75px
! scope="row" |Salvatore Quasimodo
(1901–1968)
|{{flag|Italy}}
|Italian
|"for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1959/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1959|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192954/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1959/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| id="1960"
|1960
|75px
! scope="row" |Saint-John Perse
(1887–1975)
|{{flag|France}}
(born in Guadeloupe)
|French
|"for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry, which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1960|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192959/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| 1961
|75px
! scope="row" |Ivo Andrić
(1892–1975)
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}}
(born in Austria-Hungary)
|Serbo-Croatian
|"for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1961|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034217/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story |
| 1962
|75px
! scope="row" |John Steinbeck
(1902–1968)
|{{flag|United States}}
|English
|"for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1962|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034222/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, screenplay |
| 1963
|75px
! scope="row" |Giorgos Seferis
(1900–1971)
|data-sort-value="Greece" |{{flag|Greece|old}}
(born in the Ottoman Empire)
|Greek
|"for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1963/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1963|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008110606/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1963/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-08|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, essay, memoir |
| 1964
|75px
! scope="row" |Jean-Paul Sartre
(1905–1980)
|{{flag|France}}
|French
|"for his work, which rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1964/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1964|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020010622/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1964/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-20|url-status=live}}]
|philosophy, novel, drama, essay, short story, screenplay |
| 1965
|75px
! scope="row" |Mikhail Sholokhov
(1905–1984)
|{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|Russian
|"for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1965/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1965|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034237/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1965/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel |
| rowspan="2" |1966
|75px
! scope="row" |Shmuel Yosef Agnon
(1888–1970)
|{{flag|Israel}}
(born in Austria-Hungary)
|Hebrew
|"for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1966/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1966|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034242/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1966/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story |
| 75px
! scope="row" |Nelly Sachs
(1891–1970)
|data-sort-value="Sweden" |{{flag|West Germany}}
{{flag|Sweden}}
|German
|"for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength"
|poetry, drama |
| 1967
|75px
! scope="row" |Miguel Ángel Asturias
(1899–1974)
|{{flag|Guatemala}}
|Spanish
|"for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1967/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1967|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193025/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1967/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel, poetry |
| 1968
|75px
! scope="row" |Yasunari Kawabata
(1899–1972)
|{{flag|Japan|1947}}
|Japanese
|"for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1968|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034247/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story |
| 1969
|75px
! scope="row" |Samuel Beckett
(1906–1989)
|data-sort-value="Ireland" |{{flag|Irish Free State|name=Ireland}}
|French and English
|"for his writing, which – in new forms for the novel and drama – in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1969/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1969|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193035/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1969/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel, drama, poetry |
| id="1970"
|1970
|75px
! scope="row" |Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(1918–2008)
|{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|Russian
|"for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1970|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083757/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, essay, short story |
| 1971
|75px
! scope="row" |Pablo Neruda
(1904–1973)
|data-sort-value="Chile" |{{flag|Chile}}
|Spanish
|"for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1971|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193045/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| 1972
|75px
! scope="row" |Heinrich Böll
(1917–1985)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|West Germany}}
|German
|"for his writing, which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1972/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1972|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193051/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1972/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story |
| 1973
|75px
! scope="row" |Patrick White
(1912–1990)
|{{flag|Australia}}
(born in the United Kingdom)
|English
|"for an epic and psychological narrative art, which has introduced a new continent into literature"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1973/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1973|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193056/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1973/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, drama |
| rowspan="2" |1974
|75px
! scope="row" |Eyvind Johnson
(1900–1976)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|Swedish
|"for a narrative art, farseeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1974/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1974|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193101/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1974/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel |
| 75px
! scope="row" |Harry Martinson
(1904–1978)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|Swedish
|"for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos"
|poetry, novel, drama |
| 1975
|75px
! scope="row" |Eugenio Montale
(1896–1981)
|{{flag|Italy}}
|Italian
|"for his distinctive poetry, which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1975/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1975|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193106/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1975/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| 1976
|75px
! scope="row" |Saul Bellow
(1915–2005)
|data-sort-value="United States" |{{flag|United States}}
(born in Canada)
|English
|"for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1976|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180933/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story |
| 1977
|75px
! scope="row" |Vicente Aleixandre
(1898–1984)
|{{flag|Spain|1977}}
|Spanish
|"for a creative poetic writing, which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1977/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1977|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193116/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1977/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| 1978
|75px
! scope="row" |Isaac Bashevis Singer
(1902–1991)
|data-sort-value="United States" |{{flag|United States}}
{{flag|Poland|1928}}
|Yiddish
|"for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1978/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1978|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222201316/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1978/index.html|archive-date=2011-02-22|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, memoir |
| 1979
|75px
! scope="row" |Odysseas Elytis
(1911–1996)
|{{flag|Greece}}
|Greek
|"for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1979/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1979|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008110611/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1979/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-08|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, essay |
| id="1980"
|1980
|75px
! scope="row" |Czesław Miłosz
(1911–2004)
|
{{flag|Poland}}
(born in Russian Empire)
|Polish
|"who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1980/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1980|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193126/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1980/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, novel, essay |
| 1981
|75px
! scope="row" |Elias Canetti
(1905–1994)
|data-sort-value="United Kingdom" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}
{{flag|Bulgaria|1971}}
|German
|"for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1981/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1981|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180943/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1981/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}]
|novel, drama, memoirs, essay |
| 1982
|75px
! scope="row" |Gabriel García Márquez
(1927–2014)
|{{flag|Colombia}}
|Spanish
|"for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1982|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212833/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, screenplay |
| 1983
|75px
! scope="row" |William Golding
(1911–1993)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|English
|"for his novels, which with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1983/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1983|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034307/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1983/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, poetry, drama |
| 1984
|75px
! scope="row" |Jaroslav Seifert
(1901–1986)
|{{flag|Czechoslovakia}}
(born in Austria-Hungary)
|Czech
|"for his poetry, which endowed with freshness, and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1984/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1984|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193137/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1984/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|poetry |
| 1985
|75px
! scope="row" |Claude Simon
(1913–2005)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|France}}
(born in French Madagascar)
|French
|"who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1985/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1985|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212838/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1985/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}]
|novel, essay |
| 1986
|75px
! scope="row" |Wole Soyinka
(b. 1934)
|{{flag|Nigeria}}
|English
|"who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1986/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1986|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193147/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1986/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|drama, novel, poetry, screenplay |
| 1987
|75px
! scope="row" |Joseph Brodsky
(1940–1996)
|data-sort-value="United States" |{{flag|United States}}
{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|Russian and English
|"for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1987|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180958/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, essay |
| 1988
|75px
! scope="row" |Naguib Mahfouz
(1911–2006)
|{{flag|Egypt}}
|Arabic
|"who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1988/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1988|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193157/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1988/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story |
| 1989
|75px
! scope="row" |Camilo José Cela
(1916–2002)
|{{flag|Spain}}
|Spanish
|"for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1989/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1989|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193202/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1989/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, essay, poetry |
| id="1990"
|1990
|75px
! scope="row" |Octavio Paz
(1914–1998)
|{{flag|Mexico}}
|Spanish
|"for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1990/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1990|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181003/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1990/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, essay |
| 1991
|75px
! scope="row" |Nadine Gordimer
(1923–2014)
|{{flag|South Africa|1928}}
|English
|"who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1991|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034328/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, essay, drama |
| 1992
|75px
! scope="row" |Derek Walcott
(1930–2017)
|{{flag|Saint Lucia|1979}}
|English
|"for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1992|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212843/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, drama |
| 1993
|75px
! scope="row" |Toni Morrison
(1931–2019)
|{{flag|United States}}
|English
|"who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1993|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025733/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/index.html|archive-date=2009-03-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, essay |
| 1994
|75px
! scope="row" |Kenzaburō Ōe
(1935–2023)
|{{flag|Japan|1947}}
|Japanese
|"who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1994/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1994|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181013/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1994/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, essay |
| 1995
|75px
! scope="row" |Seamus Heaney
(1939–2013)
|data-sort-value="Ireland" |{{flag|Ireland}}
|English
|"for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1995|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181018/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, drama, translation, essay |
| 1996
|75px
! scope="row" |Wisława Szymborska
(1923–2012)
|{{flag|Poland}}
|Polish
|"for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1996/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1996|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019181428/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1996/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, essay, translation |
| 1997
|75px
! scope="row" |Dario Fo
(1926–2016)
|{{flag|Italy}}
|Italian
|"who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1997/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1997|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193239/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1997/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}]
|drama, song lyrics |
| 1998
|75px
! scope="row" |José Saramago
(1922–2010)
|{{flag|Portugal}}
|Portuguese
|"who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1998|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019023430/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}]
|novel, drama, poetry |
| 1999
|75px
! scope="row" |Günter Grass
(1927–2015)
|{{flag|Germany}}
(born in Free City of Danzig)
|German
|"whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1999|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212914/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}]
|novel, drama, poetry, essay |
| id="2000"
|2000
|75px
! scope="row" |Gao Xingjian
(b. 1940)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|France}}
{{flagicon|ROC}}{{flag|China}}
|Chinese
|"for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2000/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2000|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212919/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2000/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}]
|novel, drama, essay |
| 2001
|75px
! scope="row" |Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
(1932–2018)
|data-sort-value="United Kingdom" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}
{{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}
|English
|"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2001/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2001|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201013651/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2001/index.html|archive-date=2016-02-01|url-status=live}}]
|novel, essay |
| 2002
|75px
! scope="row" |Imre Kertész
(1929–2016)
|{{flag|Hungary}}
|Hungarian
|"for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2002/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2002|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083802/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2002/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel |
| 2003
|75px
! scope="row" |John Maxwell Coetzee
(b. 1940)
|{{flag|South Africa}}
|English
|"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2003|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019023435/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-19|url-status=live}}]
|novel, essay, translation |
| 2004
|75px
! scope="row" |Elfriede Jelinek
(b. 1946)
|{{flag|Austria}}
|German
|"for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2004/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2004|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021083807/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2004/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-21|url-status=live}}]
|novel, drama |
| 2005
|75px
! scope="row" |Harold Pinter
(1930–2008)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|English
|"who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2005|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017213042/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}]
|drama, screenplay, poetry |
| 2006
|75px
! scope="row" |Orhan Pamuk
(b. 1952)
|{{flag|Turkey}}
|Turkish
|"who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2006|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016023713/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-16|url-status=live}}]
|novel, screenplay, autobiography, essay |
| 2007
|75px
! scope="row" |Doris Lessing
(1919–2013)
|data-sort-value="United Kingdom" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}
(born in Iran)
|English
|"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2007|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016025537/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-16|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, memoir/ autobiography, drama, poetry, essay |
| 2008
|75px
! scope="row" |Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
(b. 1940)
|data-sort-value="France" |{{flag|France}}
{{Flag|Mauritius}}
|French
|"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2008|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=14 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012000137/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/index.html|archive-date=12 October 2008|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, essay, translation |
| 2009
|75px
! scope="row" |Herta Müller
(b. 1953)
|data-sort-value="Germany" |{{flag|Germany}}
{{flag|Romania}}
|German
|"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2009/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2009|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=8 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091011034823/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2009/index.html|archive-date=11 October 2009|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, poetry, essay |
| id="2010"
|2010
|75px
! scope="row" |Mario Vargas Llosa
(1936–2025)
|{{flag|Peru}}
{{flag|Spain}}
|Spanish
|"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"[{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2010|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=7 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009204641/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/index.html|archive-date=9 October 2010|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, essay, drama, memoir |
| 2011
|75px
! scope="row" |Tomas Tranströmer
(1931–2015)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|Swedish
|"because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality"[{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2011/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2011|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=6 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007061342/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2011/|archive-date=7 October 2011|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, translation |
| 2012
|75px
! scope="row" |Mo Yan
(b. 1955)
|{{flag|China}}
|Chinese
|"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"[{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2012/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2012|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=11 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010224321/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2012/|archive-date=10 October 2012|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story |
| 2013
|75px
! scope="row" |Alice Munro
(1931–2024)
|{{flag|Canada}}
|English
|"master of the contemporary short story"[{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2013|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=27 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010174644/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/|archive-date=10 October 2013|url-status=live}}]
|short story |
| 2014
|75px
! scope="row" |Patrick Modiano
(b. 1945)
|{{flag|France}}
|French
|"for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the Occupation"[{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2014/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2014|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=24 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231022447/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2014/|archive-date=31 December 2014|url-status=live}}]
|novel, screenplay |
| 2015
|75px
! scope="row" |Svetlana Alexievich
(b. 1948)
|{{flag|Belarus}}
(born in Soviet Ukraine)
|Russian
|"for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time"[{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2015|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=8 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921083825/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/|archive-date=21 September 2015|url-status=live}}]
|history, essay |
| 2016
|75px
! scope="row" |Bob Dylan
(b. 1941)
|{{flag|United States}}
|English
|"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"[{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/press.pdf|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2016|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=13 October 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170920010410/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/press.pdf|archive-date=2017-09-20|url-status=dead}}]
|poetry, song lyrics |
| 2017
|75px
! scope="row" |Kazuo Ishiguro
(b. 1954)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}} (born in Japan)
|English
|"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"[{{Cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2017/press.html |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 – Press Release |publisher=Nobel Prize |access-date=5 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005120134/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2017/press.html |archive-date=5 October 2017 |url-status=live }}]
|novel, screenplay, short story |
| 2018
|75px
! scope="row" |Olga Tokarczuk
(b. 1962)
|{{flag|Poland}}
|Polish
|"for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life"[{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2018/|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2018|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2019-10-10|archive-date=2020-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601144832/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2018/summary/|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, poetry, essay, screenplay |
| 2019
|75px
! scope="row" |Peter Handke
(b. 1942)
|{{flag|Austria}}
|German
|"for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience"[{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2019/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-10|archive-date=2019-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926060839/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2019/summary/|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, drama, essay, translation, screenplay |
| id="2020"
|2020
|75px
! scope="row" |Louise Glück
(1943–2023)
|{{flag|United States}}
|English
|"for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal"[{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=8 October 2020|archive-date=8 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008121718/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/summary/|url-status=live}}]
|poetry, essay |
| 2021
|75px
! scope="row" |Abdulrazak Gurnah
(b. 1948) | {{flag|Tanzania}}
{{flag|United Kingdom}}
(born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar)
|English
|"for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents"[{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=7 October 2021|archive-date=7 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007151626/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/summary/|url-status=live}}]
|novel, short story, essay |
| 2022
|75px
! scope="row" |Annie Ernaux
(b. 1940) | {{flag|France}}
|French
|"for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory"[{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2022/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=6 October 2022|archive-date=6 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006113742/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2022/summary/|url-status=live}}]
|memoir, novel |
| 2023
|75px
! scope="row" |Jon Fosse
(b. 1959)
|{{flag|Norway}}
|Norwegian
|"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable"[[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2023/summary/ The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005111612/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2023/summary/ |date=2023-10-05 }} nobelprize.org]
|drama, novel, poetry, essay |
| 2024
|75px
! scope="row" |Han Kang
(b. 1970)
|{{flag|South Korea}}
|Korean
|"for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life"[[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/summary/ The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024] nobelprize.org]
|novel, poetry |
