Nobel Literature Laureates, In Order
by Jason Farago
109. Frédéric Mistral, 1904
108. Winston Churchill, 1953
107. Pearl S. Buck, 1938
105 (tie). Harry Martinson, 1974
105 (tie). Eyvind Johnson, 1974
104. William Golding, 1983
103. Jacinto Benavente, 1922
102. John Galsworthy, 1932
101. Odysseus Elytis, 1979
100. Camilo José Cela, 1989
99. Rudyard Kipling, 1907
98. Roger Martin du Gard, 1937
97. John Steinbeck, 1962
96. Hermann Hesse, 1946
95. Sinclair Lewis, 1930
94. Paul Heyse, 1910
93. Vicente Aleixandre, 1977
92. Rudolf Christoph Eucken, 1908
91. V.S. Naipaul, 2001
90. Pablo Neruda, 1971
89. Jaroslav Seifert, 1984
88. Ernest Hemingway, 1954
87. Ivan Bunin, 1933
86. Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010
85. Giosuè Carducci, 1906
84. Gabriela Mistral, 1945
83. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, 1944
82. Pär Lagerkvist, 1951
81. Gabriel García Márquez, 1982
80. Władysław Reymont, 1924
79. Octavio Paz, 1990
78. Mo Yan, 2012
77. Miguel Ángel Asturias, 1967
76. Karl Adolph Gjellerup, 1917
75. Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1905
74. Erik Axel Karlfeldt, 1931
73. Orhan Pamuk, 2006
72. William Faulkner, 1949
71. Romain Rolland, 1915
70. Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978
69. S.Y. Agnon, 1966
68. Saul Bellow, 1976
67. Grazia Deledda, 1926
66. Gao Xingjian, 2000
65. Tomas Tranströmer, 2011
64. Elias Canetti, 1981
63. Sigrid Undset, 1928
62. Nelly Sachs, 1966
61. Carl Spitteler, 1919
60. Henrik Pontoppidan, 1917
59. Naguib Mahfouz, 1988
58. Nadine Gordimer, 1991
57. Eugenio Montale, 1975
56. Gerhart Hauptmann, 1912
55. Wisława Szymborska, 1996
54. Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 1939
53. Doris Lessing, 2007
52. José Echegaray, 1904
51. T.S. Eliot, 1948
50. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, 2008
49. Kenzaburo Oe, 1994
48. Giorgos Seferis, 1963
47. Wole Soyinka, 1986
46. Selma Lagerlöf, 1909
45. Ivo Andrić, 1961
44. Verner von Heidenstam, 1916
43. Juan Ramón Jiménez, 1956
42. Seamus Heaney, 1995
41. Mikhail Sholokhov, 1965
40. Salvatore Quasimodo, 1959
39. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1903
38. Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964 (refused)
37. Imre Kertész, 2002
36. Albert Camus, 1957
35. Günter Grass, 1999
34. Joseph Brodsky, 1987
33. Claude Simon, 1985
32. Heinrich Böll, 1972
31. Toni Morrison, 1993
30. Patrick White, 1973
29. José Saramago, 1998
28. Sully Prudhomme, 1901
27. Harold Pinter, 2005
26. François Mauriac, 1952
25. Derek Walcott, 1992
24. George Bernard Shaw, 1925
23. Halldór Laxness, 1955
22. Herta Müller, 2009
21. Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, 1911
20. W.B. Yeats, 1923
19. Elfriede Jelinek, 2004
18. Yasunari Kawabata, 1968
17. Dario Fo, 1997
16. Anatole France, 1921
15. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1970
14. Saint-John Perse, 1960
13. Boris Pasternak, 1958 (forced to decline)
12. Knut Hamsun, 1920
11. Luigi Pirandello, 1934
10. Czesław Miłosz, 1980
9. Rabindranath Tagore, 1913
8. Henri Bergson, 1927
7. Eugene O’Neill, 1936
6. Theodor Mommsen, 1902
5. J.M. Coetzee, 2003
4. Bertrand Russell, 1950
3. Thomas Mann, 1929
2. André Gide, 1947
1. Samuel Beckett, 1969
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