1901 — 2026

Nobel Prize in Literature 2026

Every Nobel Prize in Literature laureate since 1901, and the book to start with.

8.10.2026 · 13:00

Nobel Prize in Literature 2026

The Swedish Academy announces the winner on Thursday 8 October at 13:00 Stockholm time.

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All laureates

122 prizes since 1901. Tap a decade to jump.

1900–1909

  1. 1901
    Sully Prudhomme FranceStanzas and Poems
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  2. 1902
    Theodor Mommsen GermanyThe History of Rome
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  3. 1903
    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson NorwaySynnøve Solbakken
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  4. 1904
    Frédéric Mistral FranceMirèio
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  5. 1904
    José Echegaray SpainThe Great Galeoto
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  6. 1905
    Henryk Sienkiewicz PolandQuo Vadis
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  7. 1906
    Giosuè Carducci ItalyBarbarian Odes
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  8. 1907
    Rudyard Kipling United KingdomThe Jungle Book
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  9. 1908
    Rudolf Eucken GermanyThe Meaning and Value of Life
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  10. 1909
    Selma Lagerlöf SwedenThe Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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1910–1919

  1. 1910
    Paul Heyse GermanyL'Arrabbiata
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  2. 1911
    Maurice Maeterlinck BelgiumThe Blue Bird
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  3. 1912
    Gerhart Hauptmann GermanyThe Weavers
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  4. 1913
    Rabindranath Tagore IndiaGitanjali
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  5. 1914: Not awarded
  6. 1915
    Romain Rolland FranceJean-Christophe
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  7. 1916
    Verner von Heidenstam SwedenThe Charles Men
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  8. 1917
    Karl Gjellerup DenmarkThe Pilgrim Kamanita
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  9. 1917
    Henrik Pontoppidan DenmarkLucky Per
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  10. 1918: Not awarded
  11. 1919
    Carl Spitteler SwitzerlandOlympian Spring
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1920–1929

  1. 1920
    Knut Hamsun NorwayHunger
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  2. 1921
    Anatole France FranceThe Gods Will Have Blood
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  3. 1922
    Jacinto Benavente SpainThe Bonds of Interest
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  4. 1923
    W. B. Yeats IrelandThe Tower
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  5. 1924
    Władysław Reymont PolandThe Peasants
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  6. 1925
    George Bernard Shaw IrelandPygmalion
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  7. 1926
    Grazia Deledda ItalyReeds in the Wind
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  8. 1927
    Henri Bergson FranceCreative Evolution
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  9. 1928
    Sigrid Undset NorwayKristin Lavransdatter
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  10. 1929
    Thomas Mann GermanyBuddenbrooks
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1930–1939

  1. 1930
    Sinclair Lewis United StatesBabbitt
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  2. 1931
    Erik Axel Karlfeldt SwedenFridolin's Songs
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  3. 1932
    John Galsworthy United KingdomThe Forsyte Saga
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  4. 1933
    Ivan Bunin RussiaThe Life of Arseniev
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  5. 1934
    Luigi Pirandello ItalySix Characters in Search of an Author
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  6. 1935: Not awarded
  7. 1936
    Eugene O'Neill United StatesLong Day's Journey into Night
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  8. 1937
    Roger Martin du Gard FranceThe Thibaults
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  9. 1938
    Pearl S. Buck United StatesThe Good Earth
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  10. 1939
    Frans Eemil Sillanpää FinlandThe Maid Silja
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1940–1949

  1. 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943: Not awarded
  2. 1944
    Johannes V. Jensen DenmarkThe Long Journey
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  3. 1945
    Gabriela Mistral ChileDesolation
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  4. 1946
    Hermann Hesse SwitzerlandSteppenwolf
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  5. 1947
    André Gide FranceThe Counterfeiters
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  6. 1948
    T. S. Eliot United KingdomThe Waste Land
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  7. 1949
    William Faulkner United StatesThe Sound and the Fury
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1950–1959

  1. 1950
    Bertrand Russell United KingdomA History of Western Philosophy
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  2. 1951
    Pär Lagerkvist SwedenBarabbas
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  3. 1952
    François Mauriac FranceThe Knot of Vipers
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  4. 1953
    Winston Churchill United KingdomThe Second World War
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  5. 1954
    Ernest Hemingway United StatesThe Old Man and the Sea
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  6. 1955
    Halldór Laxness IcelandIndependent People
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  7. 1956
    Juan Ramón Jiménez SpainPlatero and I
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  8. 1957
    Albert Camus FranceThe Stranger
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  9. 1958
    Boris Pasternak Soviet UnionDoctor Zhivago
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  10. 1959
    Salvatore Quasimodo ItalyAnd Suddenly It's Evening
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1960–1969

  1. 1960
    Saint-John Perse FranceAnabasis
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  2. 1961
    Ivo Andrić YugoslaviaThe Bridge on the Drina
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  3. 1962
    John Steinbeck United StatesThe Grapes of Wrath
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  4. 1963
    Giorgos Seferis GreeceMythistorema
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  5. 1964
    Jean-Paul Sartre FranceNausea
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  6. 1965
    Mikhail Sholokhov Soviet UnionAnd Quiet Flows the Don
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  7. 1966
    Shmuel Yosef Agnon IsraelOnly Yesterday
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  8. 1966
    Nelly Sachs SwedenIn the Habitations of Death
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  9. 1967
    Miguel Ángel Asturias GuatemalaThe President
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  10. 1968
    Yasunari Kawabata JapanSnow Country
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  11. 1969
    Samuel Beckett IrelandWaiting for Godot
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1970–1979

  1. 1970
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Soviet UnionOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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  2. 1971
    Pablo Neruda ChileTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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  3. 1972
    Heinrich Böll GermanyThe Clown
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  4. 1973
    Patrick White AustraliaVoss
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  5. 1974
    Eyvind Johnson SwedenReturn to Ithaca
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  6. 1974
    Harry Martinson SwedenAniara
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  7. 1975
    Eugenio Montale ItalyCuttlefish Bones
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  8. 1976
    Saul Bellow United StatesHerzog
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  9. 1977
    Vicente Aleixandre SpainDestruction or Love
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  10. 1978
    Isaac Bashevis Singer United StatesGimpel the Fool
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  11. 1979
    Odysseas Elytis GreeceThe Axion Esti
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1980–1989

  1. 1980
    Czesław Miłosz PolandThe Captive Mind
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  2. 1981
    Elias Canetti United KingdomAuto-da-Fé
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  3. 1982
    Gabriel García Márquez ColombiaOne Hundred Years of Solitude
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  4. 1983
    William Golding United KingdomLord of the Flies
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  5. 1984
    Jaroslav Seifert CzechoslovakiaAll the Beauties of the World
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  6. 1985
    Claude Simon FranceThe Flanders Road
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  7. 1986
    Wole Soyinka NigeriaDeath and the King's Horseman
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  8. 1987
    Joseph Brodsky United StatesLess Than One
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  9. 1988
    Naguib Mahfouz EgyptThe Cairo Trilogy
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  10. 1989
    Camilo José Cela SpainThe Family of Pascual Duarte
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1990–1999

  1. 1990
    Octavio Paz MexicoThe Labyrinth of Solitude
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  2. 1991
    Nadine Gordimer South AfricaJuly's People
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  3. 1992
    Derek Walcott Saint LuciaOmeros
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  4. 1993
    Toni Morrison United StatesBeloved
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  5. 1994
    Kenzaburō Ōe JapanA Personal Matter
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  6. 1995
    Seamus Heaney IrelandDeath of a Naturalist
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  7. 1996
    Wisława Szymborska PolandView with a Grain of Sand
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  8. 1997
    Dario Fo ItalyAccidental Death of an Anarchist
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  9. 1998
    José Saramago PortugalBlindness
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  10. 1999
    Günter Grass GermanyThe Tin Drum
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2000–2009

  1. 2000
    Gao Xingjian FranceSoul Mountain
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  2. 2001
    V. S. Naipaul United KingdomA House for Mr Biswas
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  3. 2002
    Imre Kertész HungaryFatelessness
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  4. 2003
    J. M. Coetzee South AfricaDisgrace
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  5. 2004
    Elfriede Jelinek AustriaThe Piano Teacher
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  6. 2005
    Harold Pinter United KingdomThe Caretaker
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  7. 2006
    Orhan Pamuk TurkeyMy Name Is Red
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  8. 2007
    Doris Lessing United KingdomThe Golden Notebook
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  9. 2008
    J. M. G. Le Clézio FranceDesert
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  10. 2009
    Herta Müller GermanyThe Hunger Angel
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2010–2019

  1. 2010
    Mario Vargas Llosa PeruThe Time of the Hero
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  2. 2011
    Tomas Tranströmer SwedenThe Great Enigma
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  3. 2012
    Mo Yan ChinaRed Sorghum
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  4. 2013
    Alice Munro CanadaRunaway
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  5. 2014
    Patrick Modiano FranceMissing Person
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  6. 2015
    Svetlana Alexievich BelarusThe Unwomanly Face of War
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  7. 2016
    Bob Dylan United StatesChronicles: Volume One
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  8. 2017
    Kazuo Ishiguro United KingdomThe Remains of the Day
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  9. 2018
    Olga Tokarczuk PolandDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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  10. 2019
    Peter Handke AustriaThe Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
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2020–2029

  1. 2020
    Louise Glück United StatesThe Wild Iris
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  2. 2021
    Abdulrazak Gurnah TanzaniaParadise
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  3. 2022
    Annie Ernaux FranceThe Years
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  4. 2023
    Jon Fosse NorwaySeptology
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  5. 2024
    Han Kang South KoreaThe Vegetarian
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  6. 2025
    László Krasznahorkai HungarySatantango
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