110 Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Name all 110 laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature (until 2013). If the prize was split, name all laureates.

You can suffice with the last word of their last name (in case their last name has multiple words)

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Year	Category	Country of birth	Laureate
1901	Literature	France	Sully Prudhomme
1902	Literature	Schleswig (now Germany)	Theodor Mommsen
1903	Literature	Norway	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904	Literature	France	Frédéric Mistral
1904	Literature	Spain	José Echegaray
1905	Literature	Poland	Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906	Literature	Tuscany (now Italy)	Giosuè Carducci
1907	Literature	British India (now India)	Rudyard Kipling
1908	Literature	East Friesland (now Germany)	Rudolf Eucken
1909	Literature	Sweden	Selma Lagerlöf
1910	Literature	Prussia (now Germany)	Paul Heyse
1911	Literature	Belgium	Maurice Maeterlinck
1912	Literature	Prussia (now Germany)	Gerhart Hauptmann
1913	Literature	India	Rabindranath Tagore
1915	Literature	France	Romain Rolland
1916	Literature	Sweden	Verner von Heidenstam
1917	Literature	Denmark	Karl Gjellerup
1917	Literature	Denmark	Henrik Pontoppidan
1919	Literature	Switzerland	Carl Spitteler
1920	Literature	Norway	Knut Hamsun
1921	Literature	France	Anatole France
1922	Literature	Spain	Jacinto Benavente
1923	Literature	Ireland	William Butler Yeats
1924	Literature	Russian Empire (now Poland)	Wladyslaw Reymont
1925	Literature	Ireland	George Bernard Shaw
1926	Literature	Italy	Grazia Deledda
1927	Literature	France	Henri Bergson
1928	Literature	Denmark	Sigrid Undset
1929	Literature	Germany	Thomas Mann
1930	Literature	USA	Sinclair Lewis
1931	Literature	Sweden	Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1932	Literature	United Kingdom	John Galsworthy
1933	Literature	Russia	Ivan Bunin
1934	Literature	Italy	Luigi Pirandello
1936	Literature	USA	Eugene O'Neill
1937	Literature	France	Roger Martin du Gard
1938	Literature	USA	Pearl Buck
1939	Literature	Russian Empire (now Finland)	Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1944	Literature	Denmark	Johannes V. Jensen
1945	Literature	Chile	Gabriela Mistral
1946	Literature	Germany	Hermann Hesse
1947	Literature	France	André Gide
1948	Literature	USA	T.S. Eliot
1949	Literature	USA	William Faulkner
1950	Literature	United Kingdom	Bertrand Russell
1951	Literature	Sweden	Pär Lagerkvist
1952	Literature	France	François Mauriac
1953	Literature	United Kingdom	Winston Churchill
1954	Literature	USA	Ernest Hemingway
1955	Literature	Iceland	Halldór Laxness
1956	Literature	Spain	Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957	Literature	Algeria	Albert Camus
1958	Literature	Russia	Boris Pasternak
1959	Literature	Italy	Salvatore Quasimodo
1960	Literature	Guadeloupe Island	Saint-John Perse

Year	Category	Country of birth	Laureate
1961	Literature	Bosnia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)	Ivo Andric
1962	Literature	USA	John Steinbeck
1963	Literature	Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)	Giorgos Seferis
1964	Literature	France	Jean-Paul Sartre
1965	Literature	Russia	Mikhail Sholokhov
1966	Literature	Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)	Shmuel Agnon
1966	Literature	Germany	Nelly Sachs
1967	Literature	Guatemala	Miguel Angel Asturias
1968	Literature	Japan	Yasunari Kawabata
1969	Literature	Ireland	Samuel Beckett
1970	Literature	Russia	Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1971	Literature	Chile	Pablo Neruda
1972	Literature	Germany	Heinrich Böll
1973	Literature	United Kingdom	Patrick White
1974	Literature	Sweden	Eyvind Johnson
1974	Literature	Sweden	Harry Martinson
1975	Literature	Italy	Eugenio Montale
1976	Literature	Canada	Saul Bellow
1977	Literature	Spain	Vicente Aleixandre
1978	Literature	Russian Empire (now Poland)	Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979	Literature	Crete (now Greece)	Odysseus Elytis
1980	Literature	Russian Empire (now Lithuania)	Czeslaw Milosz
1981	Literature	Bulgaria	Elias Canetti
1982	Literature	Colombia	Gabriel García Márquez
1983	Literature	United Kingdom	William Golding
1984	Literature	Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)	Jaroslav Seifert
1985	Literature	Madagascar	Claude Simon
1986	Literature	Nigeria	Wole Soyinka
1987	Literature	USSR (now Russia)	Joseph Brodsky
1988	Literature	Egypt	Naguib Mahfouz
1989	Literature	Spain	Camilo José Cela
1990	Literature	Mexico	Octavio Paz
1991	Literature	South Africa	Nadine Gordimer
1992	Literature	Saint Lucia	Derek Walcott
1993	Literature	USA	Toni Morrison
1994	Literature	Japan	Kenzaburo Oe
1995	Literature	Northern Ireland	Seamus Heaney
1996	Literature	Poland	Wislawa Szymborska
1997	Literature	Italy	Dario Fo
1998	Literature	Portugal	José Saramago
1999	Literature	Free City of Danzig (now Poland)	Günter Grass
2000	Literature	China	Gao Xingjian
2001	Literature	Trinidad	V. S. Naipaul
2002	Literature	Hungary	Imre Kertész
2003	Literature	South Africa	J. M. Coetzee
2004	Literature	Austria	Elfriede Jelinek
2005	Literature	United Kingdom	Harold Pinter
2006	Literature	Turkey	Orhan Pamuk
2007	Literature	Persia (now Iran)	Doris Lessing
2008	Literature	France	Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2009	Literature	Romania	Herta Müller
2010	Literature	Peru	Mario Vargas Llosa
2011	Literature	Sweden	Tomas Tranströmer
2012	Literature	China	Mo Yan
2013	Literature	Canada	Alice Munro

Level 59

Nov 8, 2015

I think there are at least two identification problems: It didn't accept:

- Le Clezio

- Garcia Marquez, nor García Márquez

Quiz master, please check it...

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Jan 21, 2019

It's not up to date! Where's Dylan?

Level 93

Jun 21, 2023

I have an updated version here: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/207341/nobel-prize-in-literature-winners

Level 78

Mar 23, 2020

If you want to be precise, country of birth for 1961 lauerate was Austria-Hungary, Bosnia as an independent country did not exist at time of his birth

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