Noble Laureates in Literature

* Note: Selections read from the Nobel Laureates in Literature follow hers or his name in Orange Bold Italic and are listed in alphabetical order.

2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

2007 - Doris Lessing

2006 - Orhan Pamuk

2005 - Harold Pinter

2004 - Elfriede Jelinek

2003 - J. M. Coetzee

2002 - Imre Kertész

2001 - V. S. Naipaul

2000 - Gao Xingjian

1999 - Günter Grass

Cat and Mouse (1961)

The Tin Drum (1959)

My Century (1999)

1998 - José Saramago

1997 - Dario Fo

1996 - Wislawa 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

Lord of the Flies

1982 - Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

1981 - Elias Canetti

1980 - Czeslaw Milosz

1979 - Odysseus Elytis

1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer

1977 - Vicente Aleixandre

1976 - Saul Bellow

1975 - Eugenio Montale

1974 - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson

1973 - Patrick White

1972 - Heinrich Böll

1971 - Pablo Neruda

1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

1969 - Samuel Beckett

Endgame (1957) drama

Happy Days (1960) drama

Waiting for Godot (1959) drama

1968 - Yasunari Kawabata

1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias

1966 - Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs

1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov

1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre

No Exit (1947) drama

1963 - Giorgos Seferis

1962 - John Steinbeck

Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Of Mice and Men (1937)

The Red Pony (1933)

The Pearl (1947)

Travels with Charley (1960)

1961 - Ivo Andric

1960 - Saint-John Perse

1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo

1958 - Boris Pasternak

1957 - Albert Camus

The Stranger (1942)

1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez

1955 - Halldór Laxness

1954 - Ernest Hemingway

1952 - François Mauriac

1951 - Pär Lagerkvist

1950 - Bertrand Russell

1949 - William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

As I Lay Dying (1930)

1948 - T.S. Eliot

1947 - André Gide

1946 - Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha (1922)

1945 - Gabriela Mistral

1944 - Johannes V. Jensen

1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää

1938 - Pearl Buck

1937 - Roger Martin du Gard

1936 - Eugene O'Neill

Ah, Wilderness! (1933) drama

The Iceman Cometh (1939) drama

Long Days Journey Into Night (1941) drama

1935 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1934 - Luigi Pirandello

Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) drama

1933 - Ivan Bunin

1932 - John Galsworthy

1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt

1930 - Sinclair Lewis

1929 - Thomas Mann

Death in Venice (1921)

1928 - Sigrid Undset

1927 - Henri Bergson

1926 - Grazia Deledda

1925 - George Bernard Shaw

Major Barbara (1905) drama

Misalliance (1910) drama

Pygmalion (1912-1913) drama

1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont

1923 - William Butler Yeats

1922 - Jacinto Benavente

1921 - Anatole France

1920 - Knut Hamsun

1919 - Carl Spitteler

1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1917 - Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan

1916 - Verner von Heidenstam

1915 - Romain Rolland

1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1913 - Rabindranath Tagore

1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann

1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck

1910 - Paul Heyse

1909 - Selma Lagerlöf

1908 - Rudolf Eucken

1907 - Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book (1894)

1906 Giosue Carducci

1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz

1904 - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray

1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

1902 - Theodor Mommsen

1901 - Sully Prudhomme