Nobel Prize for Literature
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Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm,Sweden.In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred
Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash ward.
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | France and Mauritius |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing | United Kingdom |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter | England |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria |
| 2003 | John Maxwell Coetzee | South Africa |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész | Hungary |
| 2001 | V.S. Naipaul | British writer, born in Trinidad |
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2000 |
China |
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1999 |
Germany |
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1998 |
Portugal |
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1997 |
Italy |
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1996 |
Poland |
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1995 |
Ireland |
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1994 |
Japan |
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1993 |
U.S.A. |
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1992 |
St. Lucia |
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1991 |
South Africa |
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1990 |
Mexico |
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1989 |
Spain |
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1988 |
Egypt |
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1987 |
U.S.A. |
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1986 |
Nigeria |
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1985 |
France |
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1984 |
Czechoslovakia |
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1983 |
United Kingdom |
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1982 |
Colombia |
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1981 |
United Kingdom |
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1980 |
Poland/U.S.A. |
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1979 |
Greece |
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1978 |
U.S.A. |
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1977 |
Spain |
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1976 |
U.S.A. |
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1975 |
Italy |
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1974 |
Eyvind |
Sweden |
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Sweden |
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1973 |
Australia |
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1972 |
Germany |
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1971 |
Chile |
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1970 |
U.S.S.R. |
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1969 |
Ireland |
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1968 |
Japan |
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1967 |
Guatemala |
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1966 |
Israel (shared) |
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Germany (shared) |
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1965 |
U.S.S.R. |
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1964 |
France |
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1963 |
Greece |
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1962 |
U.S.A. |
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1961 |
Yugoslavia |
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1960 |
France |
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1959 |
Italy |
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1958 |
U.S.S.R. |
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1957 |
France |
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1956 |
Spain |
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1955 |
Iceland |
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1954 |
U.S.A. |
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1953 |
United Kingdom |
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1952 |
France |
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1951 |
Sweden |
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1950 |
United Kingdom |
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1949 |
U.S.A. |
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1948 |
United Kingdom |
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1947 |
France |
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1946 |
Switzerland |
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1945 |
Chile |
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1944 |
Denmark |
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1943 |
No |
The prize money was allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. |
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1942 |
No |
The prize money was allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. |
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1941 |
No |
The prize money was allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. |
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1940 |
No Award |
The prize money was allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. |
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1939 |
F.E. Sillanpää |
Finland |
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1938 |
U.S.A. |
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1937 |
France |
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1936 |
U.S.A. |
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1935 |
No Award |
The prize money was allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. |
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1934 |
Italy |
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1933 |
U.S.S.R. |
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1932 |
United Kingdom |
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1931 |
Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
Sweden |
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1930 |
U.S.A. |
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1929 |
Germany |
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1928 |
Norway |
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1927 |
France |
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1926 |
Italy |
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1925 |
United Kingdom |
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1924 |
Wladyslaw Reymont |
Poland |
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1923 |
Ireland |
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1922 |
Spain |
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1921 |
France |
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1920 |
Norway |
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1919 |
Carl |
Switzerland |
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1918 |
No Award |
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. |
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1917 |
Karl |
Denmark (shared) |
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Henrik Pontoppidan |
Denmark (shared) |
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1916 |
Sweden |
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1915 |
France |
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1914 |
No |
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. |
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1913 |
India |
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1912 |
Germany |
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1911 |
Belgium |
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1910 |
Germany |
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1909 |
Sweden |
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1908 |
Germany |
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1907 |
United Kingdom |
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1906 |
Giosuae Garducci |
Italy |
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1905 |
Poland |
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1904 |
Spain (shared) |
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Frédéric Mistral |
France (shared) |
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1903 |
Norway |
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1902 |
Germany |
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1901 |
René François Armand |
France |