1. Sully Prudhomme (1901) - Les Solitudes
2. Theodor Mommsen (1902) - History of Rome
3. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903) - Synnöve Solbakken
4. Frédéric Passy (1901) - La paix et la guerre entre les nations
5. José Echegaray (1904) - El gran galeoto
6. Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905) - Quo Vadis
7. Giosuè Carducci (1906) - Rime Nuove
8. Rudyard Kipling (1907) - The Jungle Book
9. Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908) - Der Kampf um einen geistigen Lebensinhalt
10. Selma Lagerlöf (1909) - Gösta Berling's Saga
11. Paul Heyse (1910) - L'arrabbiata
12. Maurice Maeterlinck (1911) - Pelléas et Mélisande
13. Gerhart Hauptmann (1912) - The Weavers
14. Rabindranath Tagore (1913) - Gitanjali
15. Romain Rolland (1915) - Jean-Christophe
16. Verner von Heidenstam (1916) - The Charles Men
17. Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1917) - Minna
18. Henrik Pontoppidan (1917) - The Apothecary's Shop
19. Carl Spitteler (1919) - Prometheus and Epimetheus
20. Knut Hamsun (1920) - Growth of the Soil
21. Anatole France (1921) - The Gods Are Athirst
22. Jacinto Benavente (1922) - La Malquerida
23. William Butler Yeats (1923) - The Tower
24. Władysław Reymont (1924) - The Peasants
25. George Bernard Shaw (1925) - Saint Joan
26. Grazia Deledda (1926) - After the Divorce
27. Henri Bergson (1927) - Creative Evolution
28. Sigrid Undset (1928) - Kristin Lavransdatter
29. Thomas Mann (1929) - The Magic Mountain
30. Sinclair Lewis (1930) - Main Street
31. Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931) - Flora och Bellona
32. John Galsworthy (1932) - The Forsyte Saga
33. Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1933) - The Gentleman from San Francisco
34. Luigi Pirandello (1934) - Six Characters in Search of an Author
35. Eugene O'Neill (1936) - Long Day's Journey into Night
36. Roger Martin du Gard (1937) - Les Thibault
37. Pearl S. Buck (1938) - The Good Earth
38. Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1939) - Meek Heritage
39. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1944) - The Fall of the King
40. Gabriela Mistral (1945) - Desolación
41. Hermann Hesse (1946) - Siddhartha
42. André Gide (1947) - The Counterfeiters
43. T.S. Eliot (1948) - The Waste Land
44. William Faulkner (1949) - The Sound and the Fury
45. Bertrand Russell (1950) - A History of Western Philosophy
46. Pär Lagerkvist (1951) - The Dwarf
47. François Mauriac (1952) - Thérèse Desqueyroux
48. Winston Churchill (1953) - The Second World War
49. Ernest Hemingway (1954) - The Old Man and the Sea
50. Halldór Laxness (1955) - Independent People
51. Albert Schweitzer (1952) - The Philosophy of Civilization
52. Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956) - Diario de un poeta recién casado
53. Boris Pasternak (1958) - Doctor Zhivago
54. Salvatore Quasimodo (1959) - Selected Poems
55. Saint-John Perse (1960) - Anabasis
56. Ivo Andrić (1961) - The Bridge on the Drina
57. John Steinbeck (1962) - The Grapes of Wrath
58. Giorgos Seferis (1963) - Strophe and Antistrophe
59. Jean-Paul Sartre (1964) - Nausea
60. Mikhail Sholokhov (1965) - And Quiet Flows the Don
61. Nelly Sachs (1966) - O the Chimneys
62. Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1966) - A Simple Story
63. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967) - The President
64. Yasunari Kawabata (1968) - Snow Country
65. Samuel Beckett (1969) - Waiting for Godot
66. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1970) - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
67. Pablo Neruda (1971) - Canto General
68. Heinrich Böll (1972) - The Clown
69. Patrick White (1973) - Voss
70. Eyvind Johnson (1974) - Return to Ithaca
71. Harry Martinson (1974) - Aniara
72. Eugenio Montale (1975) - Cuttlefish Bones
73. Saul Bellow (1976) - Herzog
74. Vicente Aleixandre (1977) - A Longing for the Lights
75. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) - The Family Moskat
76. Odysseas Elytis (1979) - The Axion Esti
77. Czesław Miłosz (1980) - The Captive Mind
78. Elias Canetti (1981) - Auto-da-Fé
79. Gabriel García Márquez (1982) - One Hundred Years of Solitude
80. William Golding (1983) - Lord of the Flies
81. Jaroslav Seifert (1984) - Na vlnách TSF
82. Claude Simon (1985) - The Georgics
83. Wole Soyinka (1986) - Death and the King's Horseman
84. Joseph Brodsky (1987) - A Part of Speech
85. Naguib Mahfouz (1988) - Children of Gebelawi
86. Camilo José Cela (1989) - The Hive
87. Octavio Paz (1990) - The Labyrinth of Solitude
88. Nadine Gordimer (1991) - Burger's Daughter
89. Derek Walcott (1992) - Omeros
90. Toni Morrison (1993) - Beloved
91. Kenzaburō Ōe (1994) - A Personal Matter
92. Seamus Heaney (1995) - The Spirit Level
93. Wisława Szymborska (1996) - View with a Grain of Sand
94. Dario Fo (1997) - Morte accidentale di un anarchico
95. José Saramago (1998) - Blindness
96. Günter Grass (1999) - The Tin Drum
97. Gao Xingjian (2000) - Soul Mountain
98. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (2001) - A House for Mr Biswas
99. Imre Kertész (2002) - Fatelessness
100. John M. Coetzee (2003) - Disgrace
101. Elfriede Jelinek (2004) - The Piano Teacher
102. Harold Pinter (2005) - The Birthday Party
103. Orhan Pamuk (2006) - My Name Is Red
104. Doris Lessing (2007) - The Golden Notebook
105. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (2008) - The Interrogation
106. Herta Müller (2009) - The Land of Green Plums
107. Mario Vargas Llosa (2010) - The War of the End of the World
108. Tomas Tranströmer (2011) - The Great Enigma
109. Mo Yan (2012) - Red Sorghum
110. Alice Munro (2013) - Runaway
111. Patrick Modiano (2014) - Missing Person
112. Svetlana Alexievich (2015) - Secondhand Time
113. Bob Dylan (2016) - Song lyrics and poetry
114. Kazuo Ishiguro (2017) - The Remains of the Day
115. Olga Tokarczuk (2018) - Flights
116. Peter Handke (2019) - essayistic work and for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience
Note: This list only includes the Nobel Laureates in Literature from 1901 to 2019.
2. Theodor Mommsen (1902) - History of Rome
3. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903) - Synnöve Solbakken
4. Frédéric Passy (1901) - La paix et la guerre entre les nations
5. José Echegaray (1904) - El gran galeoto
6. Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905) - Quo Vadis
7. Giosuè Carducci (1906) - Rime Nuove
8. Rudyard Kipling (1907) - The Jungle Book
9. Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908) - Der Kampf um einen geistigen Lebensinhalt
10. Selma Lagerlöf (1909) - Gösta Berling's Saga
11. Paul Heyse (1910) - L'arrabbiata
12. Maurice Maeterlinck (1911) - Pelléas et Mélisande
13. Gerhart Hauptmann (1912) - The Weavers
14. Rabindranath Tagore (1913) - Gitanjali
15. Romain Rolland (1915) - Jean-Christophe
16. Verner von Heidenstam (1916) - The Charles Men
17. Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1917) - Minna
18. Henrik Pontoppidan (1917) - The Apothecary's Shop
19. Carl Spitteler (1919) - Prometheus and Epimetheus
20. Knut Hamsun (1920) - Growth of the Soil
21. Anatole France (1921) - The Gods Are Athirst
22. Jacinto Benavente (1922) - La Malquerida
23. William Butler Yeats (1923) - The Tower
24. Władysław Reymont (1924) - The Peasants
25. George Bernard Shaw (1925) - Saint Joan
26. Grazia Deledda (1926) - After the Divorce
27. Henri Bergson (1927) - Creative Evolution
28. Sigrid Undset (1928) - Kristin Lavransdatter
29. Thomas Mann (1929) - The Magic Mountain
30. Sinclair Lewis (1930) - Main Street
31. Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931) - Flora och Bellona
32. John Galsworthy (1932) - The Forsyte Saga
33. Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1933) - The Gentleman from San Francisco
34. Luigi Pirandello (1934) - Six Characters in Search of an Author
35. Eugene O'Neill (1936) - Long Day's Journey into Night
36. Roger Martin du Gard (1937) - Les Thibault
37. Pearl S. Buck (1938) - The Good Earth
38. Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1939) - Meek Heritage
39. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1944) - The Fall of the King
40. Gabriela Mistral (1945) - Desolación
41. Hermann Hesse (1946) - Siddhartha
42. André Gide (1947) - The Counterfeiters
43. T.S. Eliot (1948) - The Waste Land
44. William Faulkner (1949) - The Sound and the Fury
45. Bertrand Russell (1950) - A History of Western Philosophy
46. Pär Lagerkvist (1951) - The Dwarf
47. François Mauriac (1952) - Thérèse Desqueyroux
48. Winston Churchill (1953) - The Second World War
49. Ernest Hemingway (1954) - The Old Man and the Sea
50. Halldór Laxness (1955) - Independent People
51. Albert Schweitzer (1952) - The Philosophy of Civilization
52. Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956) - Diario de un poeta recién casado
53. Boris Pasternak (1958) - Doctor Zhivago
54. Salvatore Quasimodo (1959) - Selected Poems
55. Saint-John Perse (1960) - Anabasis
56. Ivo Andrić (1961) - The Bridge on the Drina
57. John Steinbeck (1962) - The Grapes of Wrath
58. Giorgos Seferis (1963) - Strophe and Antistrophe
59. Jean-Paul Sartre (1964) - Nausea
60. Mikhail Sholokhov (1965) - And Quiet Flows the Don
61. Nelly Sachs (1966) - O the Chimneys
62. Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1966) - A Simple Story
63. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967) - The President
64. Yasunari Kawabata (1968) - Snow Country
65. Samuel Beckett (1969) - Waiting for Godot
66. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1970) - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
67. Pablo Neruda (1971) - Canto General
68. Heinrich Böll (1972) - The Clown
69. Patrick White (1973) - Voss
70. Eyvind Johnson (1974) - Return to Ithaca
71. Harry Martinson (1974) - Aniara
72. Eugenio Montale (1975) - Cuttlefish Bones
73. Saul Bellow (1976) - Herzog
74. Vicente Aleixandre (1977) - A Longing for the Lights
75. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) - The Family Moskat
76. Odysseas Elytis (1979) - The Axion Esti
77. Czesław Miłosz (1980) - The Captive Mind
78. Elias Canetti (1981) - Auto-da-Fé
79. Gabriel García Márquez (1982) - One Hundred Years of Solitude
80. William Golding (1983) - Lord of the Flies
81. Jaroslav Seifert (1984) - Na vlnách TSF
82. Claude Simon (1985) - The Georgics
83. Wole Soyinka (1986) - Death and the King's Horseman
84. Joseph Brodsky (1987) - A Part of Speech
85. Naguib Mahfouz (1988) - Children of Gebelawi
86. Camilo José Cela (1989) - The Hive
87. Octavio Paz (1990) - The Labyrinth of Solitude
88. Nadine Gordimer (1991) - Burger's Daughter
89. Derek Walcott (1992) - Omeros
90. Toni Morrison (1993) - Beloved
91. Kenzaburō Ōe (1994) - A Personal Matter
92. Seamus Heaney (1995) - The Spirit Level
93. Wisława Szymborska (1996) - View with a Grain of Sand
94. Dario Fo (1997) - Morte accidentale di un anarchico
95. José Saramago (1998) - Blindness
96. Günter Grass (1999) - The Tin Drum
97. Gao Xingjian (2000) - Soul Mountain
98. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (2001) - A House for Mr Biswas
99. Imre Kertész (2002) - Fatelessness
100. John M. Coetzee (2003) - Disgrace
101. Elfriede Jelinek (2004) - The Piano Teacher
102. Harold Pinter (2005) - The Birthday Party
103. Orhan Pamuk (2006) - My Name Is Red
104. Doris Lessing (2007) - The Golden Notebook
105. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (2008) - The Interrogation
106. Herta Müller (2009) - The Land of Green Plums
107. Mario Vargas Llosa (2010) - The War of the End of the World
108. Tomas Tranströmer (2011) - The Great Enigma
109. Mo Yan (2012) - Red Sorghum
110. Alice Munro (2013) - Runaway
111. Patrick Modiano (2014) - Missing Person
112. Svetlana Alexievich (2015) - Secondhand Time
113. Bob Dylan (2016) - Song lyrics and poetry
114. Kazuo Ishiguro (2017) - The Remains of the Day
115. Olga Tokarczuk (2018) - Flights
116. Peter Handke (2019) - essayistic work and for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience
Note: This list only includes the Nobel Laureates in Literature from 1901 to 2019.