The Nobel Prize in Literature
| Year | Author | Summaries | Book Rating |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | The Piano Teacher |  |
| 2003 | J.M. Coetzee | Disgrace | Boyhood | Youth |  |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész | Fateless |  |
| 2001 | V.S. Naipaul | The Enigma of Arrival | |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | Soul Mountain |  |
| 1999 | Günter Grass | The Tin Drum | |
| 1998 | José Saramago | Blindness | |
| 1997 | Dario Fo | Accidental Death of an An… | |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | ||
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | ||
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | ||
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | ||
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | ||
| 1990 | Octavio Paz | ||
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | ||
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | ||
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | ||
| 1985 | Claude Simon | ||
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | ||
| 1983 | William Golding | ||
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | ||
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz | ||
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis | ||
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | ||
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | ||
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | ||
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | ||
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson Harry Martinson | ||
| 1973 | Patrick White | ||
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | ||
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | ||
| 1970 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | ||
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | ||
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias | ||
| 1966 | Samuel Agnon 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 | ||
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | ||
| 1955 | Halldór Laxness | ||
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 1953 | Winston Churchill | ||
| 1952 | François Mauriac | ||
| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | ||
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 1949 | William Faulkner | ||
| 1948 | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 1947 | André Gide | ||
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | ||
| 1944 | Johannes V. Jensen | ||
| 1943 | – | ||
| 1942 | – | ||
| 1941 | – | ||
| 1940 | – | ||
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | ||
| 1938 | Pearl Buck | ||
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | ||
| 1936 | Eugene O’Neill | ||
| 1935 | – | ||
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | ||
| 1933 | Ivan Bunin | ||
| 1932 | John Galsworthy | ||
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | ||
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 1929 | Thomas Mann | ||
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1918 | – | ||
| 1917 | Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan | ||
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | ||
| 1915 | Romain Rolland | ||
| 1914 | – | ||
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | ||
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | ||
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | ||
| 1910 | Paul Heyse | ||
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | ||
| 1908 | Rudolf Eucken | ||
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci | ||
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray | ||
| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | ||
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen | ||
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme |
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