Lista laureailor Premiului Nobel pentru literatur din 1901

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An Nume Tara
1901 Sully Prudhomme Frana
1902 Theodor Mommsen Germania
1903 Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson Norvegia
Frdric Mistral Frana
1904
Jos Echegaray y Eizaguirre Spania
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz Polonia
1906 Giosu Carducci Italia
1907 Rudyard Kipling Marea Britanie
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken Germania
1909 Selma Lagerlf Suedia
1910 Paul Heyse Germania
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgia
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann Germania
1913 Rabindranath Tagore India
1915 Romain Rolland Frana
1916 Verner von Heidenstam Suedia
Karl Adolph Gjellerup Danemarca
1917
Henrik Pontoppidan Danemarca
1919 Carl Spitteler Elveia
1920 Knut Hamsun Norvegia
1921 Anatole France Frana
1922 Jacinto Benavente Spania
1923 William Butler Yeats Irlanda
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont Polonia
1925 George Bernard Shaw Irlanda
1926 Grazia Deledda Italia
1927 Henri Bergson Frana
1928 Sigrid Undset Norvegia
1929 Thomas Mann Germania
1930 Sinclair Lewis Statele Unite
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt Suedia
1932 John Galsworthy Marea Britanie
1933 Ivan Alexeievich Bunin Rusia
1934 Luigi Pirandello Italia
1936 Eugene O'Neill Statele Unite
1937 Roger Martin du Gard Frana
1938 Pearl S. Buck Statele Unite
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanp Finlanda
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Danemarca
1945 Gabriela Mistral Chile
1946 Hermann Hesse Elveia
1947 Andr Gide Frana
1948 T. S. Eliot Statele Unite/Marea Britanie
1949 William Faulkner Statele Unite
1950 Bertrand Russell Marea Britanie
1951 Pr Lagerkvist Suedia
1952 Franois Mauriac Frana
1953 Sir Winston Churchill Marea Britanie
1954 Ernest Hemingway Statele Unite
1955 Halldr Laxness Islanda
1956 Juan Ramn Jimnez Spania
1957 Albert Camus Frana
1958 Boris Pasternak (a fost forat de Stalin s-l refuze) Rusia
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo Italia
1960 Saint-John Perse Frana
1961 Ivo Andric Iugoslavia
1962 John Steinbeck Statele Unite
1963 Giorgos Seferis Grecia
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (a refuzat premiul) Frana
1965 Mihail Alexandrovici olohov Rusia
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Israel
1966
Nelly Sachs Germania
1967 Miguel ngel Asturias Guatemala
1968 Yasunari Kawabata Japonia
1969 Samuel Beckett Irlanda
1970 Alexadru Soljenin Rusia
1971 Pablo Neruda Chile
1972 Heinrich Bll Germania (RFG)
1973 Patrick White Australia
1974 Eyvind Johnson Suedia
 Harry Martinson Suedia
1975 Eugenio Montale Italia
1976 Saul Bellow Canada/Statele Unite
1977 Vicente Aleixandre Spania
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer Statele Unite
1979 Odysseas Elytis Grecia
1980 Czeslaw Milosz Polonia/Statele Unite
1981 Elias Canetti Marea Britanie
1982 Gabriel Garca Mrquez Columbia
1983 William Golding Marea Britanie
1984 Jaroslav Seifert Cehoslovacia
1985 Claude Simon Frana
1986 Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka Nigeria
1987 Joseph Brodsky Rusia/Statele Unite
1988 Naghib Mahfuz Egipt
1989 Camilo Jos Cela Spania
1990 Octavio Paz Mexic
1991 Nadine Gordimer Africa de Sud
1992 Derek Walcott Santa Lucia
1993 Toni Morrison Statele Unite
1994 Oe Kenzaburo Japonia
1995 Seamus Heaney Irlanda
1996 Wislawa Szymborska Polonia
1997 Dario Fo Italia
1998 Jos Saramago Portugalia
1999 Gnter Grass Germania
2000 Gao Xingjian Frana/China
2001 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul Marea Britanie
2002 Imre Kertsz Ungaria
2003 John Maxwell Coetzee Africa de Sud
2004 Elfriede Jelinek Austria
2005 Harold Pinter Marea Britanie
2006 Orhan Pamuk Turcia
2007 Doris Lessing Marea Britanie
2008 Jean Marie Gustave Le Clzio Frana/ Mauritius
2009 Herta Mller Germania/ Romnia
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa Peru/ Spania
2011 Tomas Transtrmer Suedia
2012 Mo Yan China
2013 Alice Munro Canada
 2014 Patrick Modiano Frana
2015 Svetlana Alexievici Belarus
2016 Bob Dylan Statele Unite
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro Marea Britanie

Note
Premiul Nobel pentru literatur se acord n fiecare an unui autor care a produs "cea mai
deosebit oper cu o tendin idealist". "Opera" se refera la tot corpusul de texte al unui
autor, nu la un volum anume. Academia Suedez decide cine va primi acest premiu, an de an,
dup dezbateri furtunoase.

Premiul Nobel nu msoar talentul sau valoarea "absolut" a unui scriitor. Urmtorii mari
scriitori nu l-au obinut dei erau perfect eligibili: Anna Akhmatova, Jorge Amado, Tudor
Arghezi, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Lucian Blaga, Maurice Blanchot, Jorge Luis
Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Paul Celan, Ren Char, Anton Chekhov, Alejandro Ciornescu, Hugo
Claus, Joseph Conrad, Julio Cortzar, Jacques Derrida, Theodore Dreiser, Lion
Feuchtwanger, Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Willem Frederik Hermans, Hans-Georg
Gadamer, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Nikos Kazantzakis,
Arthur Koestler, D.H. Lawrence, William Somerset Maugham, Andr Malraux, Sndor Mrai,
Arthur Miller, Yukio Mishima, Alberto Moravia, Harry Mulisch, Robert Musil, Vladimir
Nabokov, George Orwell, Fernando Pessoa, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, Boleslaw Prus, Mihail
Sadoveanu, Marin Sorescu, Nichita Stnescu, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, August
Strindberg, Leo Tolstoy, Arnold Toynbee, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mark Twain, Franz Werfel,
Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams i Virginia Woolf.
Printre nominalizaii din 2005 se numr Margaret Atwood, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, John
Updike i Bob Dylan. Cel mai controversat nume a fost cel al lui Dylan deoarece nu e destul de
clar dac versurile unor cntece sunt literatur, dei Dylan le-a publicat i n cteva volume
separate.

Dei mai muli scriitori romni au fost nominalizai (ntre ei Tudor Arghezi, Mihail Sadoveanu,
Marin Sorescu sau Nichita Stnescu), nu a reuit s obin aceast distincie. O situaie
special a constituit-o cazul poetului i filozofului Lucian Blaga, cruia regimul comunist a
refuzat s-i propun candidatura, n 1956, dei avea anse reale de a-l ctiga.