Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize is perhaps the most esteemed of all literary prizes. It is awarded not for an individual piece but for a writer’s entire body of work. It is also a global prize, meaning this list contains writers from diverse cultures and ways of life. I would like to read at least one work by each of these authors in my lifetime. The list below chronicles my progress.
2024 - Han King
2023 - Jon Fosse
2022 - Annie Ernaux
2021 - Abdulrazak Gurnah
2020 - Louise Gluck
2019 - Peter Handke
2018 - Olga Tokarczuk
2017 - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
Klara and the Sun
2016 - Bob Dylan
2015 - Svetlana Alexievich
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
2014 - Patrick Modiano
2013 - Alice Munro
Dear Life
Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
2012 - Mo Yan
2011 - Tomas Transtromer
2010 - Mario Vargas Llosa
2009 - Herta Muller
2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
2007 - Doris Lessing
2006 - Orhan Pamuk
2005 - Harold Pinter
2004 - Elfriede Jelinke
2003 - J.M. Coetzee
Life & Times of Michael K
2002 - Imre Kertesz
2001 - V.S. Naipaul
A House for Mr. Biswas
2000 - Gao Xingjian
1999 - Gunter Grass
1998 - Jose Saramago
Blindness
1997 - Dario Fo
1996 - Wislawa Szymborska
1995 - Seamus Heaney
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
1994 - Kenzaburo Oe
1993 - Toni Morrison
A Mercy
1992 - Derek Walcott
1991 - Nadine Gordimer
1990 - Octavio Paz
1989 - Camilo Jose Cela
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1986 - Wole Soyinka
1985 - Claude Simon
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert
1983 - William Golding
1982 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1981 - Elias Canetti
1980 - Czeslaw Milosz
1979 - Odysseus Elytis
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977 - Vincente Aleixandre
1978 - Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
The Victim
1975 - Eugenio Montale
1974 - Eyvind Johnson
1974 - Harry Martinson
1973 - Patrick White
1972 - Heinrich Boll
1971 - Pablo Neruda
1970 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1969 - Samuel Beckett
1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 - Shmuel Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre
1963 - Giorgos Seferis
1962 - John Steinbeck
1961 - Ivo Andric
1960 - Saint-John Perse
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1957 - Albert Camus
The Stranger
1956 - Juan Ramon Jimenez
1955 - Halldor Laxness
1954 - Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
Death in the Afternoon
The Sun Also Rises
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1953 - Winston Churchill
1952 - Francois Mauriac
1951 - Par Lagerkvist
1950 - Bertrand Russell
1949 - William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
1948 - T.S. Eliot
1947 - Andre Gide
1946 - Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
1945 - Gabriela Mistral
1944 - Johannes V. Jensen
1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpaa
1938 - Pearl Buck
The Good Earth
1937 - Roger Martin du Gard
1936 - Eugene O’Neill
1934 - Luigi Pirandello
1933 - Ivan Bunin
1932 - John Galsworthy
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930 - Sinclair Lewis
The Jungle
1929 - Thomas Mann
1928 - Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter
1927 - Henri Bergson
1926 - Grazia Deledda
1925 - George Bernard Shaw
1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont
1923 - William Butler Yeats
1922 - Jacinto Benavente
1921 - Anatole France
1920 - Knut Hamsun
1919 - Carl Spitteler
1917 - Karl Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 - Verner von Heidenstam
1915 - Romain Rolland
1913 - Rabindranath Tagore
1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann
1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 - Paul Heyse
1909 - Selma Lagerlof
1908 - Rudolf Eucken
1907 - Rudyard Kipling
1906 - Giosue Carducci
1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 - Frederic Mistral and Jose Echegaray
1903 - Bjornstjerne Bjornson
1902 - Theodor Mommsen
1901 - Sully Prudhomme