Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency". The "work" in this case generally refers to an author's work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes cited in the awards. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year.

List of Nobel Prize laureates in Literature from 1901 to the present day.

1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

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1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

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1990s

2000s

Notes

• The women who have received the Nobel Prize for Literature are Selma Lagerlöf, Grazia Deledda, Sigrid Undset, Pearl S. Buck, Gabriela Mistral, Nelly Sachs, Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison, Wisława Szymborska, and Elfriede Jelinek. The other recipients are men.
• The Nobel Prize is not the sole measure of literary excellence and lasting worth. The following people, for instance, missed the Nobel Prize: Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Julio Cortázar, Anton Chekhov, Jacques Derrida, Lion Feuchtwanger, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Alberto Moravia, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Marcel Proust, Oswald Spengler, Leo Tolstoy, and Arnold Toynbee.

External links

• http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/index.html
• Nobel Prize Winners in Literature (http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature)

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