Paritosh Uttam: Reading - Nobel Prize Winners

Nobel Prize winners for Literature

No.	Year	Winner	Nationality	Books read
1	1901	Sully Prudhomme	France
2	1902	Theodor Mommsen	Germany
3	1903	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Norway
4	1904	José Echegaray y Eizaguirre	Spain
4	1904	Frédéric Mistral	France
5	1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz	Poland
6	1906	Giosuè Carducci	Italy
7	1907	Rudyard Kipling	UK	The Jungle Book, Kim
8	1908	Rudolf Christoph Eucken	Germany
9	1909	Selma Lagerlöf	Sweden
10	1910	Paul von Heyse	Germany
11	1911	Maurice Maeterlinck	Belgium
12	1912	Gerhart Hauptmann	Germany
13	1913	Rabindranath Tagore	India	Mashi and Other Stories
14	1915	Romain Rolland	France	Jean-Christophe
15	1916	Verner von Heidenstam	Sweden
16	1917	Karl Gjellerup	Denmark
16	1917	Henrik Pontoppidan	Denmark
17	1918	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	Sweden
18	1919	Carl Spitteler	Switzerland
19	1920	Knut Hamsun	Norway
20	1921	Anatole France	France
21	1922	Jacinto Martínez	Spain
22	1923	William Butler Yeats	Ireland	On Baile’s Strand
23	1924	Wladyslaw Reymont	Poland
24	1925	G. B. Shaw	Ireland	The Doctor’s Dilemma, Saint Joan, Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Devil’s Disciple, The Apple Cart, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion Arms and The Man
25	1926	Grazia Deledda	Italy
26	1927	Henri Bergson	France
27	1928	Sigrid Undset	Norway
28	1929	Thomas Mann	Germany	The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Buddenbrooks, Doctor Faustus, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, Lotte in Weimar
29	1930	Sinclair Lewis	USA	Main Street, Babbitt
30	1931	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	Sweden
31	1932	John Galsworthy	UK
32	1933	Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin	USSR
33	1934	Luigi Pirandello	Italy	The Rules of the Game, Henry IV, Six Characters in Search of an Author
34	1936	Eugene O’Neill	USA	Desire Under the Elms
35	1937	Roger Martin du Gard	France
36	1938	Pearl S. Buck	USA	All Under Heaven, The Good Earth
37	1939	Frans Eemil Sillanpää	Finland
38	1944	Johannes V. Jensen	Denmark
39	1945	Gabriela Mistral	Chile
40	1946	Hermann Hesse	Switzerland	Siddhartha
41	1947	André Gide	France	The Coiners
42	1948	T. S. Eliot	UK	Murder in the Cathedral
43	1949	William Faulkner	USA	Light in August, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!
44	1950	Bertrand Russell	UK
45	1951	Pär Lagerkvist	Sweden
46	1952	François Mauriac	France
47	1953	Sir Winston Churchill	UK
48	1954	Ernest Hemingway	USA	A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, Across the River and Into the Trees, In Our Time
49	1955	Halldór Laxness	Iceland
50	1956	Juan Ramón Jiménez	Spain
51	1957	Albert Camus	France	The Stranger, Exile and the Kingdom
52	1958	Boris Pasternak	USSR	Doctor Zhivago
53	1959	Salvatore Quasimodo	Italy
54	1960	Perse Saint-John	France
55	1961	Ivo Andric	Yugoslavia
56	1962	Johnk Steinbeck	USA	To a God Unknown, The Red Pony, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Winter of Our Discontent
57	1963	George Seferis	Greece
58	1964	Jean-Paul Sartre	France	Nausea, Words, The Age of Reason, The Reprieve, Iron in the Soul
59	1965	Mikhail Sholokhov	USSR	Short Stories, And Quiet Flows the Don
60	1966	S.Y. Agnon	Israel
60	1966	Nelly Sachs	Sweden
61	1967	Miguel Ángel Asturias	Guatemala	The Cyclone
62	1968	Yasunari Kawabata	Japan
63	1969	Samuel Beckett	Ireland	Waiting for Godot
64	1970	Alexander Solzhenitsyn	USSR	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
65	1971	Pablo Neruda	Chile
66	1972	Heinrich Böll	Germany
67	1973	Patrick White	Australia	Voss
68	1974	Eyvind Johnson	Sweden
68	1974	Harry Martinson	Sweden
69	1975	Eugenio Montale	Italy
70	1976	Saul Bellow	USA	Humboldt’s Gift, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog
71	1977	Vicente Aleixandre	Spain
72	1978	Isaac Bashevis Singer	USA	The Slave
73	1979	Odysseus Elytis	Greece
74	1980	Czeslaw Milosz	USA
75	1981	Elias Canetti	Bulgaria
76	1982	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Colombia	One Hundred Years of Solitude,The General in His Labyrinth, Love in the Time of Cholera, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Of Love and Other Demons
77	1983	Sir William Golding	UK	Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Rites of Passage
78	1984	Jaroslav Seifert	Czechoslavakia
79	1985	Claude Simon	France
80	1986	Wole Soyinka	Nigeria
81	1987	Joseph Brodsky	USA
82	1988	Naguib Mahfouz	Egypt
83	1989	Camilo José Cela	Spain
84	1990	Octavio Paz	Mexico
85	1991	Nadine Gordimer	South Africa	The Conservationist
86	1992	Derek Walcott	St. Lucia
87	1993	Toni Morrison	USA	Song of Solomon, Beloved, Sula, Jazz
88	1994	Kenzaburo Oe	Japan
89	1995	Seamus Heaney	Ireland
90	1996	Wislawa Szymborska	Poland
91	1997	Dario Fo	Italy
92	1998	Jose Saramago	Portugal
93	1999	Günter Grass	Germany	The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse
94	2000	Gao Xingjian	China
95	2001	V. S. Naipaul	West Indies born, UK	A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State, Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion, India: A Wounded Civilization, India: A Million Mutinies Now, A Bend in the River, Half a Life, The Mimic Men, A Way in the World, An Area of Darkness, Among the Believers, The Mystic Masseur, Miguel Street, Beyond Belief, The Suffrage of Elvira, Magic Seeds, The Middle Passage, The Loss of El Dorado, The Engima of Arrival, A Turn in the South, Guerrillas, A Writer’s People
96	2002	Imre Kertesz	Hungary
97	2003	J. M. Coetzee	South Africa	Life and Times of Michael K., Disgrace
98	2004	Elfriede Jelinek	Austria
99	2005	Harold Pinter	UK
100	2006	Orhan Pamuk	Turkey	My Name is Red, Snow
101	2007	Doris Lessing	UK	The Golden Notebook
102	2008	Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio	France
103	2009	Herta Müller	Germany
104	2010	Mario Vargas Llosa	Peru
105	2011	Tomas Tranströmer	Sweden
106	2012	Mo Yan	China
107	2013	Alice Munro	Canada
108	2014	Patrick Modiano	France
109	2015	Svetlana Alexievich	Belarus
110	2016	Bob Dylan	USA
111	2017	Kazuo Ishiguro	UK	The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, An Artist of the Floating World
112	2018	Olga Tokarczuk	Poland
113	2019	Peter Handke	Austria
114	2020	Louise Glück	USA
115	2021	Abdulrazak Gurnah	Tanzania-born, UK
116	2022	Annie Ernaux	France