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Year
|
Winner
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Country
|
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1901
|
Rene F. A. Sully Prudhomme
|
France
|
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1902
|
Theodore Mommsen
|
Germany
|
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1903
|
Bjornsterne Bjornson
|
Norway
|
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1904
|
Frederic Mistral
Jose Echegaray
|
France
Spain
|
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1905
|
Henryk Sienkiewicz
|
Poland
|
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1906
|
Giosue Carducci
|
Italy
|
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1907
|
Rudyard Kipling
|
Great Britain
|
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1908
|
Rudolf C. Eucken
|
Germany
|
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1909
|
Selma Lagerlöf
|
Sweden
|
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1910
|
Paul J. L. Heyse
|
Germany
|
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1911
|
Maurice Maeterlinck
|
Belgium
|
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1912
|
Gerhart Hauptmann
|
Germany
|
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1913
|
Rabindranath Tagore
|
India
|
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1914
|
|
|
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1915
|
Romain Rolland
|
France
|
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1916
|
Verner von Heidenstam
|
Sweden
|
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1917
|
Karl A. Gjellerup
Henrik Pontoppidan
|
Denmark
Denmark
|
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1918
|
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1919
|
Carl F. G. Spitteler
|
Switzerland
|
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1920
|
Knut Hamsun
|
Norway
|
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1921
|
Anatole France
|
France
|
|
1922
|
Jacinto Benavente
|
Spain
|
|
1923
|
William Butler Yeats
|
Ireland
|
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1924
|
Wladyslaw S. Reymont
|
Poland
|
|
1925
|
George Bernard Shaw
|
Ireland - Great Britain
|
|
1926
|
Grazia Deledda
|
Italy
|
|
1927
|
Henri Bergson
|
France
|
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1928
|
Sigrid Undset
|
Norway
|
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1929
|
Thomas Mann
|
Germany
|
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1930
|
Sinclair Lewis
|
United States
|
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1931
|
Erik A. Karlfeldt
|
Sweden
|
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1932
|
John Galsworthy
|
Great Britain
|
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1933
|
Ivan A. Bunin
|
Soviet Union
|
|
1934
|
Luigi Pirandello
|
Italy
|
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1935
|
|
|
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1936
|
Eugene O'Neill
|
United States
|
|
1937
|
Roger Martin du Gard
|
France
|
|
1938
|
Parl S. Buck
|
United States
|
|
1939
|
Frans E. Sillanpää
|
Finland
|
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1940
|
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1941
|
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1942
|
|
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1943
|
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1944
|
Johannes V. Jensen
|
Denmark
|
|
1945
|
Gabriela Mistral
|
Chile
|
|
1946
|
Hermann Hesse
|
Germany - Switzerland
|
|
1947
|
André Gide
|
France
|
|
1948
|
T. S. Eliot
|
Great Britain
|
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1949
|
William Faulkner
|
United States
|
|
1950
|
Bertrand Russell
|
Great Britain
|
|
1951
|
Pär F. Lagerkvist
|
Sweden
|
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1952
|
Francois Mauriac
|
France
|
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1953
|
Sir Winston Churchill
|
Great Britain
|
|
1954
|
Ernest Hemingway
|
United States
|
|
1955
|
Halldor K. Laxness
|
Iceland
|
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1956
|
Juan Ramón Jiménez
|
Spain
|
|
1957
|
Albert Camus
|
France
|
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1958
|
Boris L. Pasternak (declined)
|
Soviet Union
|
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1959
|
Salvatore Quasimodo
|
Italy
|
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1960
|
Saint-John Perse
|
France
|
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1961
|
Ivo Andric
|
Yugoslavia
|
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1962
|
John Steinbeck
|
United States
|
|
1963
|
Giorgos Seferis
|
Greece
|
|
1964
|
Jean Paul Sartre (declined)
|
France
|
|
1965
|
Mikhail Sholokhov
|
Soviet Union
|
|
1966
|
Samuel Joseph Agnon
Nelly Sachs
|
Israel
Sweden
|
|
1967
|
Miguel Angel Asturias
|
Guatemala
|
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1968
|
Yasunari Kawabata
|
Japan
|
|
1969
|
Samuel Beckett
|
Ireland
|
|
1970
|
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
|
Soviet Union
|
|
1971
|
Pablo Neruda
|
Chile
|
|
1972
|
Heinrich Böll
|
Germany
|
|
1973
|
Patrick White
|
Australia
|
|
1974
|
Eyvind Johnson
Harry Edmund Martinson
|
Sweden
Sweden
|
|
1975
|
Eugenio Montale
|
Italy
|
|
1976
|
Saul Bellow
|
United States
|
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1977
|
Vicente Aleixandre
|
Spain
|
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1978
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer
|
United States
|
|
1979
|
Odysseus Elytis
|
Greek
|
|
1980
|
Czeslaw Milosz
|
Poland - United States
|
|
1981
|
Elias Canetti
|
Bulgaria - Great Britain
|
|
1982
|
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
|
Columbia - Mexico
|
|
1983
|
William Golding
|
Great Britain
|
|
1984
|
Jaroslav Siefert
|
Czechoslovakia
|
|
1985
|
Claude Simon
|
France
|
|
1986
|
Wole Soyinka
|
Nigeria
|
|
1987
|
Joseph Brodsky
|
Soviet Union - United States
|
|
1988
|
Naguib Mahfouz
|
Egypt
|
|
1989
|
Camilo José Cela
|
Spain
|
|
1990
|
Octavio Paz
|
Mexico
|
|
1991
|
Nadine Gordimer
|
South Africa
|
|
1992
|
Derek Walcott
|
West Indies
|
|
1993
|
Toni Morrison
|
United States
|
|
1994
|
Kenzaburo Oe
|
Japan
|
|
1995
|
Seamus Heaney
|
Ireland
|
|
1996
|
Wislawa Szymborska
|
Poland
|
|
1997
|
Dario Fo
|
Italy
|
|
1998
|
José Saramago
|
Portugal
|
|
1999
|
Günter Grass
|
Germany
|
|
2000
|
Gao Xingjian
|
France
|
|
2001
|
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
|
United Kingdom
|
|
2002
|
Imre Kertész
|
Hungary
|
|
2003
|
Imre Kertész
|
South Africa
|
|
2004
|
Elfriede Jelinek
|
Austria
|
|
2005
|
Harold Pinter
|
United Kingdom
|
|
2006
|
Orhan Pamuk
|
Turkey
|
|
2007
|
Doris Lessing
|
United Kingdom
|
|
2008
|
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
|
France
|
|
2009
|
Herta Muller
|
Germany
|