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The Nobel Prize in Literature was first awarded in 1901 to the poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme. Since then it has recognized a wide range of literary works including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays and speeches

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The Nobel Prize in Literature was first awarded in 1901 to the poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme. Since then it has recognized a wide range of literary works including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays and speeches
2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954	Doris Lessing Orhan Pamuk Harold Pinter Elfriede Jelinek J.M.Coetzee Imre Kertész Sir V.S Naipau Gao Xingjian GünterGrass José Saramago Dario Fo Wislawa Szymborska Seamus Heaney Kenzaburo Oe Toni Morrison Derek Walcott Nadine Gordimer Octavio Paz Camilo Jose Cela Naguib Mahfouz Joseph Brodsky Wole Soyinka Claude Simon Jaroslav Seifert Sir William Golding Gabriel Garcia Márzquez Elias Canetti Czeslaw Milosz Odysseus Elytis Isaac Bashevis Singer Vicente Aleixandre Saul Bellow Eugenio Montale Eyvind Johnson Patrick White Heinrich Böll Pablo Neruda Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Samuel Beckett Yasunari Kawabata Miguel Angel Asturias Shmuel Yosef Agnon Nelly Sachs Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholohkov Jean-Paul Sartre (declined prize) Giorgos Seferis John Steinbeck Ivo Andric Saint-John Perse Salvatore Quasimodo Boris Pasternak (forced to decline) Albert Camus Juan Ramón Jiménez Halldór Laxness Ernest Hemingway	1919- 1952- 1930- 1946- 1940- 1929- 1932- 1940- 1927- 1922- 1926- 1923- 1939- 1935- 1931- 1930- 1923- 1914-1998 1916-2002 1911-2006 1940-1996 1934- 1913-2005 1901-1986 1911-1993 1928- 1905-1994 1911-2004 1991-1996 1904-1991 1898-1984 1915-2005 1896-1981 1900-1976 1912-1990 1917-1985 1904-1973 1918- 1906-1989 1899-1972 1899-1974 1888-1970 1891-1970 1905-1984 1905-1980 1900-1971 1902-1968 1892-1975 1887-1975 1901-1968 1890-1960 1913-1960 1818-1958 1902-1998 1899-1961	1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1939 1938 1937 1936 1934 1933 1932 1931 1930 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 1924 1923 1922 1921 1920 1919 1917 1916 1915 1913 1912 1911 1910 1909 1908 1907 1906 1905 1904 1903 1902 1901	Sir Winston Churchill François Mauriac Pär Lagerkvist Bertrand Russell William Faulkner T.S. Eliot André Gide Hermann Hesse Gabriela Mistral Johannes V. Jensen Frans Eemil Sillanpää Pearl S. Buck Roger Martin du Gard Eugene O'Neill Luigi Pirandello Ivan Bunin John Galsworthy Erik Axel Karlfeldt Sinclair Lewis Thomas Mann Sigrid Undset Henri Bergson Grazia Deledda George Bernard Shaw Wladyslaw Reymont William Butler Yeats Jacinto Benavente Anatole France Knut Hamsun Carl Spitteler Karl Gjellerup Henrik Pontoppidan Verner von Heidenstam Romain Rolland Rabindranath Tagore Gerhart Hauptmann Maurice Maeterlinck Paul Heyse Selma Lagerlöf Rudolf Eucken Rudyard Kipling Giosuè Carducci Henryk Sienkiewicz Frédéric Mistral José Echegaray Eizaguirre Biørnstierne Biørnson Theodor Mommsen Sully Prudhomme	1874-1965 1885-1970 1891-1974 1872-1970 1897-1962 1888-1965 1869-1951 1877-1962 1889-1957 1873-1950 1988-1964 1892-1973 1881-1958 1888-1953 1867-1936 1870-1953 1867-1933 1864-1931 1885-1951 1875-1955 1882-1949 1859-1941 1871-1936 1856-1950 1867-1925 1865-1939 1886-1954 1844-1924 1859-1952 1845-1924 1857-1919 1857-1943 1858-1940 1866-1944 1861-1941 1862-1946 1882-1949 1830-1914 1858-1940 1846-1926 1865-1936 1835-1907 1846-1916 1830-1914 1832-1916 1832-1910 1817-1903 1839-1907