The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards. Since its inception, 106 writers around the world have been awarded the Alfred Nobel Prize for Literature.
What the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded for
The Nobel Literary Prize has been awarded every year since 1901 by the Nobel Foundation for achievements in the field of literature. The Swedish Academy has the right to name the laureate. During its existence, writers and poets around the world have received 106 Alfred Nobel Prizes for Literature.
In 1914, 1918, 1935, as well as during the Second World War from 1940 to 1943, not a single writer was awarded. According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the prize may not be awarded if there are no worthy candidates. Four times in the history of the existence of the prize, two became laureates at once: in the 4th, 17th, 66th and 74th years of the last century.
Countries where Nobel laureates lived and worked
The largest number of Nobel Literary Prize laureates was given to the world by such countries as France (13 people), Great Britain (10), Germany and the USA (9 each). They are followed by Sweden, 7 writers who were born and worked in this country, received the Nobel Prize. Among the Nobel laureates there are 6 Italians, 5 Spaniards, 4 residents of Poland and the former USSR. 3 natives of Norway, Ireland and Denmark each received the Alfred Nobel Prize for Literature. In Greece, China, Chile, Switzerland, South Africa and Japan, 2 Nobel Prize winners were born. Once, during the Nobel Prize in Literature, the names of writers born in countries such as Austria, Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Guatemala, Egypt, Israel, India, Iceland, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Portugal, Saint -Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Finland, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. The stateless writer who won the Nobel Prize is Ivan Bunin, who emigrated from Russia to France in the 1920s.
Women and men who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
The beautiful half of humanity is a small part of Nobel laureates:
Selma Lagerlef received this prestigious award in 1909.
Grazia Deledda in 1926.
Sigrid Undset in 1928.
Pearl Buck in 1938.
Gabriela Mistral in 1945.
Nelly Sachs in 1966.
Nadine Gordimer in 1991.
Toni Morrison in 1993.
Wislava Szymborska - in 1996.
Elfrida Jelinek - in 2004.
Doris Lessing in 2007.
Hertha Müller in 2009.
Alice Munroe in 2013.
The Nobel Prize was awarded to such men:
1901 - Sully-Prudhomme
1902 - Theodor Mommsen
1903 - Bjørnstierne Bjørnson
1904 - Frederic Mistral and Jose Echegaray y Eisaguirre
1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906 - Josue Carducci
1907 - Rudyard Kipling
1908 - to Rudolf Eiken
1910 - Paul Heise
1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck
1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann
1913 - Rabindranath Tagore
1915 - Romain Rolland
1916 - Karl Heidenstam
1917 - Karl Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan
1919 - Karl Spitteler
1920 - to Knut Hamsun
1921 - Anatole France
1922 - Jacinto Benavente y Martinez
1923 - William Yates
1924 - Vladislav Reymont
1925 - Bernard Shaw
1927 - Henri Bergson
1929 - Thomas Mann
1930 - Sinclair Lewis
1931 - Eric Karlfeldt
1932 - John Galsworthy
1933 - Ivan Bunin
1934 - Luigi Pirandello
1936 - Eugene O'Neill
1937 - Roger Martin du Garou
1939 - Frans Sillanpää
1944 - Wilhelm Jensen
1946 - Hermann Hesse
1947 - André Gidoux
1948 - Thomas Eliot
1949 - William Faulkner
1950 - Bertrand Russell
1951 - Peru Lagerkvist
1952 - Francois Mauriac
1953 - Winston Churchill
1954 - Ernest Hemingway
1955 - Halldor Luxness
1956 - Juan Jimenez
1957 - Albert Camus
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo
1960 - Saint-Jon Perce
1961 - Ivo Andric
1962 - John Steinbeck
1963 - to Yorgos Seferis
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre
1965 - to Mikhail Sholokhov
1966 - Shmuel Agnon
1967 - Miguel Asturias
1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
1969 - Samuel Beckett
1970 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1971 - Pablo Nerudu
1972 - Heinrich Böll
1973 - Patrick White
1974 - Eyvind Yunson and Harry Martinson
1975 - Eugenio Montale
1976 - Saul Bellow
1977 - Vicent Alexandre
1978 - Isaac Bashevis-Singer
1979 - to Odiseas Elitis
1980 - Czeslaw Milosz
1981 - Elias Canetti
1982 - Gabriel García Márquez
1983 - William Golding
1984 - to Yaroslav Seyfert
1985 - Claude Simon
1986 - Will Shoyinka
1987 - to Joseph Brodsky
1988 - Naguib Mahfuzu
1989 - Camilo Selu
1990 - Octavio Paz
1992 - Derek Walcott
1994 - Kenzaburo Oe
1995 - Sheimas Heaney
1997 - Dario Fo
1998 - Jose Saramago
1999 - Gunther Grass
2000 - Gao Xingjian
2001 - Vidiadhar Naipaul
2002 - Imre Kertes
2003 - John Coetzee
2005 - Harold Pinter
2006 - Orhan Pamuk
2008 - Gustave Leclezio
2010 - Mario Vargas Llosa
2011 - Tumas Tranströmer
2012 - Mo Yan
