List of Nobel Winners: Literature
| Year | Country | Full Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | US | Bob Dylan |
| 2015 | BY | Svetlana Alexievich |
| 2014 | FR | Patrick Modiano |
| 2013 | CA | Alice Munro |
| 2012 | CN | Mo Yan |
| 2011 | SE | Tomas Tranströmer |
| 2010 | ES | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| 2009 | RO | Herta Müller |
| 2008 | FR | J. M. G. Le Clézio |
| 2007 | GB | Doris Lessing |
| 2006 | TR | Orhan Pamuk |
| 2005 | GB | Harold Pinter |
| 2004 | AT | Elfriede Jelinek |
| 2003 | ZA | J. M. Coetzee |
| 2002 | HU | Imre Kertész |
| 2001 | TT | V. S. Naipaul |
| 2001 | GB | V.S. Naipaul |
| 2000 | FR | Gao Xingjian |
| 1999 | DE | Günter Grass |
| 1998 | PT | José de Sousa Saramago |
| 1997 | IT | Dario Fo |
| 1996 | PL | Wislawa Szymborska |
| 1995 | GB | Seamus Heaney |
| 1995 | IE | Séamus Heaney |
| 1994 | JP | Kenzaburo Oe |
| 1993 | US | Toni Morrison |
| 1992 | LC | Derek Walcott |
| 1991 | ZA | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1990 | MX | Octavio Paz Lozano |
| 1989 | ES | Camilo José Cela |
| 1988 | EG | Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1987 | RU | Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky |
| 1987 | US | Joseph Brodsky,L |
| 1986 | NG | Wole Soyinka |
| 1985 | FR | Claude Simon |
| 1984 | CZ | Jaroslav Seifert |
| 1983 | GB | William Golding |
| 1982 | CO | Gabriel García Márquez |
| 1981 | GB | Elias Canetti |
| 1980 | LT | Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1980 | US | Czeslaw Milosz,L |
| 1979 | GR | Odysseas Elytis |
| 1978 | PL | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1978 | US | Isaac Bashevis Singer,L |
| 1977 | ES | Vicente Aleixandre |
| 1976 | CA | Saul Bellow |
| 1976 | US | Saul Bellow,L |
| 1975 | IT | Eugenio Montale |
| 1974 | SE | Eyvind Johnson |
| 1974 | SE | Harry Martinson |
| 1973 | AU | Patrick White |
| 1972 | DE | Heinrich Böll |
| 1971 | CL | Pablo Neruda |
| 1970 | RU | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| 1969 | IE | Samuel Beckett |
| 1968 | JP | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 1967 | GT | Miguel Ángel Asturias |
| 1966 | DE | Nelly Sachs |
| 1966 | IL | Shmuel Yosef Agnon |
| 1965 | RU | Michail Sholokhov |
| 1964 | FR | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1963 | GR | Giorgos Seferis |
| 1962 | US | John Steinbeck |
| 1961 | RS | Ivo Andric |
| 1960 | FR | Saint-John Perse |
| 1959 | IT | Salvatore Quasimodo |
| 1958 | RU | Boris Pasternak |
| 1957 | FR | Albert Camus |
| 1956 | ES | Juan Ramón Jiménez |
| 1955 | IS | Halldór Laxness |
| 1954 | US | Ernest Hemingway |
| 1953 | GB | Winston Churchill |
| 1952 | FR | François Mauriac |
| 1951 | SE | Pär Lagerkvist |
| 1950 | GB | Bertrand Russell |
| 1949 | US | William Faulkner |
| 1948 | GB | T. S. Eliot |
| 1948 | US | T. S. Eliot |
| 1947 | FR | André Gide |
| 1946 | DE | Herman Hesse |
| 1946 | CH | Hermann Hesse |
| 1945 | CL | Gabriela Mistral |
| 1944 | DK | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen |
| 1939 | FI | Frans Eemil Sillanpää |
| 1938 | US | Pearl S. Buck |
| 1937 | FR | Roger Martin du Gard |
| 1936 | US | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1934 | IT | Luigi Pirandello |
| 1933 | FR | Ivan Bunin |
| 1932 | GB | John Galsworthy |
| 1931 | SE | Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
| 1930 | US | Sinclair Lewis |
| 1929 | DE | Thomas Mann |
| 1928 | NO | Sigrid Undset |
| 1927 | FR | Henri Bergson |
| 1926 | IT | Grazia Deledda |
| 1925 | IE | George Bernard Shaw |
| 1925 | GB | George Bernard Shaw,L |
| 1924 | PL | Wladyslaw Reymont |
| 1923 | IE | William Butler Yeats |
| 1922 | ES | Jacinto Benavente |
| 1921 | FR | Anatole France |
| 1920 | NO | Knut Hamsun |
| 1919 | CH | Carl Spitteler |
| 1917 | DK | Henrik Pontoppidan |
| 1917 | DK | Karl Adolph Gjellerup |
| 1916 | SE | Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam |
| 1915 | FR | Romain Rolland |
| 1913 | IN | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1912 | DE | Gerhart Hauptmann |
| 1911 | BE | Maurice Maeterlinck |
| 1910 | DE | Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse |
| 1909 | SE | Selma Lagerlöf |
| 1908 | DE | Rudolf Christoph Eucken |
| 1907 | GB | Rudyard Kipling,L |
| 1906 | IT | Giosuè Carducci |
| 1905 | PL | Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| 1904 | FR | Frédéric Mistral |
| 1904 | ES | José Echegaray |
| 1903 | NO | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
| 1902 | DE | Theodor Mommsen,L |
| 1901 | FR | Sully Prudhomme |