Source:
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/
The Nobel Prize in Literature - Laureates
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2005 Harold Pinter UK, b. 1930
2004 Elfriede Jelinek, Austria, b. 1946
2003 John M. Coetzee, South Africa, b. 1940
2002 Imre Kertész, Hungary, b. 1929
2001 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, United Kingdom, b. 1932 (Trinidad)
2000 Gao Xingjian, France, b. 1940 (Ganzhou, China)
1999 Günter Grass, Federal Republic of Germany, b. 1927 (Danzig)
1998 José Saramago, Portugal, b. 1922
1997 Dario Fo, Italy, b. 1926
1996 Wislawa Szymborska, Poland, b. 1923
1995 Seamus Heaney, Ireland, b. 1939
1994 Kenzaburo Oe, Japan, b. 1935
1993 Toni Morrison, USA, b. 1931
1992 Derek Walcott, Saint Lucia, b. 1930
1991 Nadine Gordimer, South Africa, b. 1923
1990 Octavio Paz, Mexico, b. 1914, d. 1998
1989 Camilo José Cela, Spain, b. 1916, d. 2002
1988 Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, b. 1911
1987 Joseph Brodsky, USA, b. 1940 (Leningrad, then USSR), d. 1996
1986 Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, b. 1934
1985 Claude Simon, France, b. 1913, d. 2005
1984 Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia, b. 1901, d. 1986
1983 William Golding, United Kingdom, b. 1911, d. 1993
1982 Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia, b. 1928
1981 Elias Canetti, United Kingdom, b. 1905, (Rustschuk, Bulgaria), d. 1994
1980 Czeslaw Milosz, Poland and USA, b. 1911, d. 2004
1979 Odysseus Elytis (O. Alepoudhelis), Greece, b. 1911, d. 1996
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer, USA, b. 1904 (Radzymin, Poland), d. 1991
1977 Vicente Aleixandre, Spain, b. 1898, d. 1984
1976 Saul Bellow, USA, b. 1915, d. 2005
1975 Eugenio Montale, Italy, b. 1896, d. 1981
1974 Eyvind Johnson, Sweden. b. 1900, d. 1976
1974 Harry Martinson, Sweden, b. 1904, d. 1978
1973 Patrick White, Australia, b. 1912 (London, UK), d. 1990
1972 Heinrich Böll, Federal Republic of Germany b. 1917, d. 1985
1971 Pablo Neruda (Neftalí R. R. Basoalto), Chile, b. 1904, d. 1973
1970 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, USSR, b. 1918
1969 Samuel Beckett, Ireland, b. 1906, d. 1989
1968 Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, b. 1899, d. 1972
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala, b. 1899, d. 1974
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israel, b. 1888, d. 1970
1966 Nelly Sachs, Sweden, b. 1891 (Berlin, Germany), d. 1970
1965 Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, USSR, b. 1905, d. 1984
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre, France, b. 1905, d. 1980
1963 Giorgos Seferis (G. Seferiadis), Greece, b. 1900 (Smyrna, Turkey), d. 1971
1962 John Steinbeck, USA, b. 1902, d. 1968
1961 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, b. 1892 (Travnik, Bosnia), d. 1975
1960 Saint-John Perse (A. Léger), France, b. 1887 (Guadeloupe Island), d. 1975
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, b. 1901, d. 1968
1958 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, USSR, b. 1890, d. 1960
1957 Albert Camus, France, b. 1913 (Mondovi, Algeria), d. 1960
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spain, b. 1881, d. 1958 (domiciled in Puerto Rico)
