Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates

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There have been four instances in which the award was given to two people (1904, 1917, 1966, 1974) and seven years in which the Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded (1914, 1918, 1935, 1940–1943).

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Authors

#	Name	Gender	Type	Date of birth	Date of death
1902	Theodor Mommsen	Male	Person	1817-11-30	1903-11-01
1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz	Male	Person	1846-05-05	1916-11-15
1906	Giosuè Carducci	Male	Person	1835-07-27	1907-02-16
1907	Rudyard Kipling	Male	Person	1865-12-30	1936-01-18
1909	Selma Lagerlöf	Female	Person	1858-11-20	1940-03-16
1910	Paul Heyse (German , writer, poet and translator)	Male	Person	1830-03-15	1914-04-02
1911	Maurice Maeterlinck	Male	Person	1862-08-29	1949-05-06
1912	Gerhart Hauptmann (German dramatist and novelist)	Male	Person	1862-11-15	1946-06-06
1913	Rabindranath Tagore	Male	Person	1861-05-07	1941-08-07
1915	Romain Rolland (French writer, art historian and music critic)	Male	Person	1866-01-29	1944-12-30
1917	Karl Gjellerup	Male	Person	1857-06-02	1919-10-11
1919	Carl Spitteler	Male	Person	1845-04-24	1924-12-29
1920	Knut Hamsun	Male	Person	1859-08-04	1952-02-19
1921	Anatole France	Male	Person	1844-04-16	1924-10-12
1925	George Bernard Shaw	Male	Person	1856-07-26	1950-11-02
1926	Grazia Deledda	Female	Person	1871-09-27	1936-08-15
1928	Sigrid Undset (Norwegian-Danish writer)	Female	Person	1882-05-20	1949-06-10
1929	Thomas Mann	Male	Person	1875-06-06	1955-08-12
1930	Sinclair Lewis	Male	Person	1885-02-07	1951-01-10
1931	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	Male	Person	1864-07-20	1931-04-08
1932	John Galsworthy	Male	Person	1867-08-14	1933-01-31
1936	Eugene O'Neill	Male	Person	1888-10-16	1953-11-27
1938	Pearl S. Buck	Female	Person	1892-06-26	1973-03-06
1939	Frans Emil Sillanpää	Male	Person	1888-09-16	1964-06-03
1945	Gabriela Mistral	Female	Person	1889-04-07	1957-01-10
1946	Hermann Hesse	Male	Person	1877-07-02	1962-08-09
1947	André Gide	Male	Person	1869-11-22	1951-02-19
1948	T. S. Eliot	Male	Person	1888-09-26	1965-01-04
1949	William Faulkner	Male	Person	1897-09-25	1962-07-06
1950	Bertrand Russell	Male	Person	1872-05-18	1970-02-02
1951	Pär Lagerkvist	Male	Person	1891-05-23	1974-07-11
1952	François Mauriac	Male	Person	1885-10-11	1970-09-01
1953	Winston Churchill (British statesman, soldier and writer)	Male	Person	1874-11-30	1965-01-24
1954	Ernest Hemingway	Male	Person	1899-07-21	1961-07-02
1955	Halldór Laxness	Male	Person	1902-04-23	1998-02-08
1957	Albert Camus	Male	Person	1913-11-07	1960-01-04
1958	Борис Леонидович Пастернак	Male	Person	1890-02-10	1960-05-30
1959	Salvatore Quasimodo	Male	Person	1901-08-20	1968-06-14
1960	Saint‐John Perse	Male	Person	1887-05-31	1975-09-20
1961	Ivo Andrić	Male	Person	1892-10-09	1975-03-13
1962	John Steinbeck	Male	Person	1902-02-27	1968-12-20
1964	Jean‐Paul Sartre	Male	Person	1905-06-21	1980-04-15
1965	Михаил Александрович Шолохов	Male	Person	1905-05-24	1984-02-21
1966	Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew writer)	Male	Person	1888-07-17	1970-02-17
1966	Nelly Sachs	Female	Person	1891-12-10	1970-05-12
1967	Miguel Ángel Asturias	Male	Person	1899-10-19	1974-06-09
1969	Samuel Beckett	Male	Person	1906-04-13	1989-12-22
1970	Александр Исаевич Солженицын	Male	Person	1918-12-11	2008-08-03
1971	Pablo Neruda	Male	Person	1904-07-12	1973-09-23
1972	Heinrich Böll	Male	Person	1917-12-21	1985-07-16
1973	Patrick White (Australian writer)	Male	Person	1912-05-28	1990-09-30
1974	Harry Martinson (Swedish writer and poet)	Male	Person	1904-05-06	1978-02-11
1974	Eyvind Johnson (Swedish novelist and short story writer)	Male	Person	1900-07-29	1976-08-25
1975	Eugenio Montale	Male	Person	1896-10-12	1981-09-12
1976	Saul Bellow (Canadian-American writer)	Male	Person	1915-06-10	2005-04-05
1978	Isaac Bashevis Singer (Polish-American writer)	Male	Person	1902-11-21	1991-07-24
1980	Czesław Miłosz	Male	Person	1911-06-30	2004-08-14
1981	Elias Canetti	Male	Person	1905-07-25	1994-08-14
1982	Gabriel García Márquez	Male	Person	1927-03-06	2014-04-17
1983	William Golding	Male	Person	1911-09-19	1993-06-19
1985	Claude Simon (French novelist)	Male	Person	1913-10-10	2005-07-06
1986	Wole Soyinka	Male	Person	1934-07-13	?
1988	Naguib Mahfouz	Male	Person	1911-12-11	2006-08-30
1989	Camilo José Cela (Spanish writer)	Male	Person	1916-05-11	2002-01-17
1991	Nadine Gordimer	Female	Person	1923-11-20	2014-07-13
1992	Derek Walcott	Male	Person	1930-01-23	2017-03-17
1993	Toni Morrison	Female	Person	1931-02-18	2019-08-05
1995	Seamus Heaney	Male	Person	1939-04-13	2013-08-30
1997	Dario Fo (Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist)	Male	Person	1926-03-24	2016-10-13
1998	José Saramago (Portuguese writer)	Male	Person	1922-11-16	2010-06-10
1999	Günter Grass	Male	Person	1927-10-16	2015-04-15
2001	V. S. Naipaul	Male	Person	1932-08-17	2018-08-11
2002	Imre Kertész (Hungarian writer)	Male	Person	1929-11-09	2016-03-31
2003	J. M. Coetzee	Male	Person	1940-02-09	?
2004	Elfriede Jelinek	Female	Person	1946-10-20	?
2005	Harold Pinter	Male	Person	1930-10-10	2008-12-24
2006	Orhan Pamuk	Male	Person	1952-06-07	?
2007	Doris Lessing	Female	Person	1919-10-22	2013-11-17
2008	Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio	Male	Person	1940-04-13	?
2009	Herta Müller (German writer)	Female	Person	1953-08-17	?
2010	Mario Vargas Llosa	Male	Person	1936-03-28	?
2012	Mo Yan (Chinese writer)	Male	Person	1955-02-17	?
2013	Alice Munro (Canadian writer)	Female	Person	1931-07-10	?
2014	Patrick Modiano	Male	Person	1945-07-30	?
2015	Светлана Алексиевич	Female	Person	1948-05-31	?
2016	Bob Dylan	Male	Person	1941-05-24	?
2017	Kazuo Ishiguro	Male	Person	1954-11-08	?
2019	Peter Handke	Male	Person	1942-12-06	?
2020	Louise Glück	Female	Person	1943-04-22	?
2021	Abdulrazak Gurnah	Male	Person	1948-12-20	?
2022	Annie Ernaux	Female	Person	1940-09-01	?
2023	Jon Fosse (Norwegian writer)	Male	Person	1959-09-29	?
2024	한강 (South Korean writer)	Female	Person	1970-11-27	?

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