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COMPLETE LIST OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

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2000-PRESENT
2007 Doris Lessing, Britain
2006 Orhan Pamuk, Turkey,
2005 Harold Pinter, England,
2004 Elfriede Jelinek, Austria,
2003 J. M. Coetzee, South Africa,
2002 Imre Kertesz, Hungary,
2001 V. S. Naipaul, England,
2000 Gao Xingjian, China.

rabindranath tagore, wikipedia, public domain1913 was a good year for Rabindranath Tagore of India!

THE NINTIES:
1999 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,  Antilles/US,
1991 Nadine Gordimer, South Africa,
1990 Octavio Paz, Mexico.

THE EIGHTIES:
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.

THE SEVENTIES:
1979 Odysseus Elytis, Greece,
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer,  U.S.,
1977 Vicente Aleixandre, Spain,
1976 Saul Bellow,  U.S.,
1975 Eugenio Montale, Italy,
1974 Harry Martinson, Sweden,
also
1974 Eyvind Johnson, Sweden,
1973 Patrick White, Australia,
1972 Heinrich Boll, Germany,
1971 Pablo Neruda, Chile,
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, U.S.S.R.

THE SIXTIES:
1969 Samuel Beckett, France,
1968 Yasunari Kawabata, Japan,
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala,
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israel,
also
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.

THE FIFTIES:
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.

THE FORTIES:
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,
1940-1943 no awards probably due to that pesky Second World War...

THE THIRTIES:
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 was given,
1934 Luigi Pirandello, Italy,
1933 Ivan Bunin, Russia,
1932 John Galsworthy, England,
1931 Erik Karlfeldt, Sweden,
1930 Sinclair Lewis, U.S.

THE TWENTIES:
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.

1910-1919:
1919 Carl Spitteler, Switzerland,
1918 No award was given,
1917 Karl Gjeilerup, Denmark ,
also
1917 Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark,
1916 Verner Von Heidenstam, Sweden,
1915 Romain Rolland, France,
1914 No award was given,
1913 Rabindranath Tagore, India,
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany,
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium,
1910 Paul Von Heyse Germany.

1901-1909:
1909 Selma Lagerlof, Sweden,
1908 Rudolf Eucken, Germany,
1907 Rudyard Kipling, England,
1906 Giosue Carducci, Italy,
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland,
1904 Jose Echegaray, Spain,
also
1904 Frederic Mistral, France,
1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norway,
1902 Theodor Mommsen, Germany,
1901 Rene F.A.S. Prudhomme, France

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