The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 102 times to 106 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2009. Click on each name to see the Nobel Laureate’s page.
The Laureates from 2009 – 1979:
2009 – Herta Müller 1953- Germany
- 2008 – Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio 1940- France
- 2007 – Doris Lessing 1919- United Kingdom
- 2006 – Orhan Pamuk 1952- Turkey
- 2005 – Harold Pinter 1930-2008 United Kingdom
- 2004 – Elfriede Jelinek 1946- Austria
- 2003 – J. M. Coetzee 1940- South Africa
- 2002 – Imre Kertész 1929- Hungary
- 2001 – V. S. Naipaul 1932- United Kingdom
- 2000 – Gao Xingjian 1940- France
- 1999 – Günter Grass 1927- Germany
- 1998 – José Saramago 1922- Portugal
- 1997 – Dario Fo 1926- Italy
- 1996 – Wislawa Szymborska 1923- Poland
- 1995 – Seamus Heaney 1939- Ireland
- 1994 – Kenzaburo Oe 1935- Japan
- 1993 – Toni Morrison 1931- USA
- 1992 – Derek Walcott 1930- Saint Lucia
- 1991 – Nadine Gordimer 1923- South Africa
- 1990 – Octavio Paz 1914-1998 Mexico
- 1989 – Camilo José Cela 1916-2002 Spain
- 1988 – Naguib Mahfouz 1911-2006 Egypt
- 1987 – Joseph Brodsky 1940-1996 USA
- 1986 – Wole Soyinka 1934- Nigeria
- 1985 – Claude Simon 1913-2005 France
- 1984 – Jaroslav Seifert 1901-1986 Czechoslovakia
- 1983 – William Golding 1911-1993 United Kingdom
- 1982 – Gabriel García Márquez 1928- Colombia
- 1981 – Elias Canetti 1905-1994 United Kingdom
- 1980 – Czeslaw Milosz 1911-2004 Poland and USA
- 1979 – Odysseus Elytis 1911-1996 Greece
United Kingdom (4); France, USA (3); Germany, South Africa, Poland (2);
Turkey, Austria, Hungary, Portugal, Italy, Ireland Japan, Saint-Lucia, Mexico, Spain, Egypt, Nigeria, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Greece (1)
Nineteen Laureates are still alive (at 13th November 2009)
