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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