2019 - Peter Handke 2018 - Olga Tokarczuk (awarded 2019) 2017 - Kazuo Ishiguro 2016 - Bob Dylan 2015 - Svetlana Alexievich 2014 - Patrick Modiano 2013 - Alice Munro 2012 - Mo Yan 2011 - Tomas Transförmer 2010 - Mario Vargas Llosa 2009 - Herta Müller 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 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 1982 - Gabriel García Márquez 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 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1969 - Samuel Beckett 1968 - Yasunari Kawabata 1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias 1966 - Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs 1965 - Michail Sholokhov 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre 1963 - Giorgos Seferis 1962 - John Steinbeck 1961 - Ivo Andric 1960 - Saint-John Perse 1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1957 - Albert Camus 1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez 1955 - Halldór Laxness 1954 - Ernest Hemingway 1953 - Winston Churchill 1952 - François Mauriac 1951 - Pär Lagerkvist 1950 - Bertrand Russell 1949 - William Faulkner 1948 - T.S. Eliot 1947 - André Gide 1946 - Hermann Hesse 1945 - Gabriela Mistral 1944 - Johannes V. Jensen 1943 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was divided, with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1942 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was divided, with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1941 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was divided, with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1940 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was divided, 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 1935 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was divided, with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1934 - Luigi Pirandello 1933 - Ivan Bunin 1932 - John Galsworthy 1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1930 - Sinclair Lewis 1929 - Thomas Mann 1928 - Sigrid Undset 1927 - Henri Bergson 1926 - Grazia Deledda 1925 - George Bernard Shaw 1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont 1923 - William Butler Yeats 1922 - Jacinto Benavente 1921 - Anatole France 1920 - Knut Hamsun 1919 - Carl Spitteler 1918 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 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 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 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 1906 - Giosuè Carducci 1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz 1904 - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray 1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1902 - Theodor Mommsen 1901 - Sully Prudhomme