ShelfEvidentNobel Prize in Literature — Complete Winners List
125 years of winners · Swedish Academy · Since 1901 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | László Krasznahorkai | New Directions | |
| 2024 | Han Kang | Hogarth Press | |
| 2023 | Jon Fosse | Transit Books | |
| 2022 | Annie Ernaux | Seven Stories Press | |
| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | Riverhead Books | |
| 2020 | Louise Glück | Ecco Press | |
| 2019 | Peter Handke | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | Riverhead Books | |
| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Vintage Books | |
| 2016 | Bob Dylan | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | Penguin Books | |
| 2014 | Patrick Modiano | David R. Godine | |
| 2013 | Alice Munro | Knopf | |
| 2012 | Mo Yan | Viking | |
| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer | New Directions | |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2009 | Herta Müller | Granta Books | |
| 2008 | J. M. G. Le Clézio | David R. Godine | |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Knopf | |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter | — | |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | — | |
| 2003 | J. M. Coetzee | — | |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész | — | |
| 2001 | V. S. Naipaul | — | |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | — | |
| 1999 | Günter Grass | — | |
| 1998 | José Saramago | — | |
| 1997 | Dario Fo | — | |
| 1996 | Wisława Szymborska | — | |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | — | |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | — | |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | — | |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | — | |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | — | |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz | — | |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | — | |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | — | |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | — | |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | — | |
| 1985 | Claude Simon | — | |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | — | |
| 1983 | William Golding | — | |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | — | |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | — | |
| 1980 | Czesław Miłosz | — | |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis | — | |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | — | |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | — | |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | — | |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | — | |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson | — | |
| 1973 | Patrick White | — | |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | — | |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | — | |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | — | |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | — | |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | — | |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias | — | |
| 1966 | Shmuel Agnon | — | |
| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | — | |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre | — | |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis | — | |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck | — | |
| 1961 | Ivo Andrić | — | |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | — | |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | — | |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak | — | |
| 1957 | Albert Camus | — | |
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | — | |
| 1955 | Halldór Laxness | — | |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | — | |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill | — | |
| 1952 | François Mauriac | — | |
| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | — | |
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | — | |
| 1949 | William Faulkner | — | |
| 1948 | T.S. Eliot | — | |
| 1947 | André Gide | — | |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse | — | |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | — | |
| 1944 | Johannes V. Jensen | — | |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | — | |
| 1938 | Pearl Buck | — | |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | — | |
| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill | — | |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | — | |
| 1933 | Ivan Bunin | — | |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy | — | |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | — | |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | — | |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann | — | |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | — | |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson | — | |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | — | |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | — | |
| 1924 | Władysław Reymont | — | |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats | — | |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | — | |
| 1921 | Anatole France | — | |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | — | |
| 1919 | Carl Spitteler | — | |
| 1917 | Karl Gjellerup | — | |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | — | |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland | — | |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | — | |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | — | |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | — | |
| 1910 | Paul Heyse | — | |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | — | |
| 1908 | Rudolf Eucken | — | |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | — | |
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci | — | |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | — | |
| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral | — | |
| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | — | |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen | — | |
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme | — |
