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Original Essays | September 9, 2013
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The Nobel Prize for LiteratureThe Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to an individual based on the body of their published work. In his will, Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel stipulated that a portion of his estate be awarded "to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency." 2012: Mo Yan
Awarded October 2012 Previous Nobel laureates:2011 Tomas Tranströmer2010 Mario Vargas Llosa 2009 Herta Müller 2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio France 2007 Doris Lessing England 2006 Orhan Pamuk Turkey 2005 Harold Pinter England 2004 Elfriede Jelinek Austria 2003 J. M. Coetzee South Africa 2002 Imre Kertesz Hungary 2001 V. S. Naipaul England 2000 Gao Xingjian China 1999 Gunter Grass Germany 1998 Jose Saramago Portugal 1997 Dario Fo Italy 1996 Wislawa Szymborska Poland 1995 Seamus Heaney Ireland 1994 Kenzaburo Oe Japan 1993 Toni Morrison U.S. 1992 Derek Walcott The Antilles/US 1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa 1990 Octavio Paz Mexico 1989 Camilo Jose Cela Spain 1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypt 1987 Joseph Brodsky U.S. 1986 Wole Soyinka Nigeria 1985 Claude Simon France 1984 Jaroslav Seifert Czechoslovakia 1983 William Golding England 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Colombia 1981 Elias Canetti Bulgaria 1980 Czeslaw Milosz U.S. 1979 Odysseus Elytis Greece 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer U.S. 1977 Vicente Aleixandre Spain 1976 Saul Bellow U.S. 1975 Eugenio Montale Italy 1974 Harry Martinson Sweden 1974 Eyvind Johnson Sweden 1973 Patrick White Australia 1972 Heinrich Boll Germany 1971 Pablo Neruda Chile 1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn U.S.S.R. 1969 Samuel Beckett France 1968 Yasunari Kawabata Japan 1967 Miguel Angel Asturias Guatemala 1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon Israel 1966 Nelly Sachs Sweden 1965 Mikhail Sholokov U.S.S.R. 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre France 1963 Giorgios Seferis Greece 1962 John Steinbeck U.S. 1961 Ivo Andric Yugoslavia 1960 St.-John Perse France 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo Italy 1958 Boris Pasternak U.S.S.R. 1957 Albert Camus France 1956 Juan Ramon Jimenez Spain 1955 Halldor Kiljan Laxness Iceland 1954 Ernest Hemingway U.S. 1953 Winston Churchill England 1952 Francois Mauriac France 1951 Par Lagerkvist Sweden 1950 Bertrand Russell England 1949 William Faulkner U.S. 1948 T.S. Eliot England 1947 Andre Gide France 1946 Hermann Hesse Switzerland 1945 Gabriela Mistral Chile 1944 Johannes V. Jensen Denmark 1943 No award was given 1942 No award was given 1941 No award was given 1940 No award was given 1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpaa Finland 1938 Pearl S. Buck U.S. 1937 Roger Martin Du Gard France 1936 Eugene O'Neill U.S. 1935 No award was given 1934 Luigi Pirandello Italy 1933 Ivan Bunin Russia 1932 John Galsworthy England 1931 Erik Karlfeldt Sweden 1930 Sinclair Lewis U.S. 1929 Thomas Mann Germany 1928 Sigrid Undset Norway 1927 Henri Bergson France 1926 Grazia Deledda Italy 1925 George Bernard Shaw England 1924 Wladyslaw Reymont Poland 1923 William Butler Yeats Ireland 1922 Jacinto Benavente Spain 1921 Anatole France France 1920 Knut Hamsun Norway 1919 Carl Spitteler Switzerland 1918 No award was given 1917 Karl Gjeilerup Denmark 1917 Henrik Pontoppidan Denmark 1916 Verner Von Heidenstam Sweden 1915 Romain Rolland France 1914 No award was given 1913 Rabindranath Tagore India 1912 Gerhart Hauptmann Germany 1911 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgium 1910 Paul Von Heyse Germany 1909 Selma Lagerlof Sweden 1908 Rudolf Eucken Germany 1907 Rudyard Kipling England 1906 Giosue Carducci Italy 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland 1904 Jose Echegaray Spain 1904 Frederic Mistral France 1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson Norway 1902 Theodor Mommsen Germany 1901 Rene F.A.S. Prudhomme France
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