A Full list of Nobel Prize For Literature winners - note some war years no prize was awarded and one has been declined.
Sully Prudhomme
Theodor Mommsen
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Frédéric Mistral
José Echegaray
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Giosuè Carducci
Rudyard Kipling
Rudolf Eucken
Selma Lagerlöf
Paul Von Heyse
Maurice Maeterlinck
Gerhart Hauptmann
Rabindranath Tagore
No Prize Given
Romain Rolland
Verner Von Heidenstam
Karl Gjellerup
Henrik Pontoppidan
No Prize Given
Carl Spitteler
Knut Hamsun
Anatole France
Jacinto Benavente
William Butler Yeats
Wladyslaw Reymont
George Bernard Shaw
Grazia Deledda
Henri Bergson
Sigrid Undset
Thomas Mann
Sinclair Lewis
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
John Galsworthy
Ivan Bunin
Luigi Pirandello
Eugene O'Neill
Roger Martin Du Gard
Pearl S. Buck
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
No Prize Given
No Prize Given
No Prize Given
No Prize Given
Johannes V. Jensen
Gabriela Mistral
Hermann Hesse
André Gide
T. S. Eliot
William Faulkner
Bertrand Russell
Pär Lagerkvist
François Mauriac
Winston Churchill
Ernest Hemingway
Halldòr Laxness
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Albert Camus
Boris Pasternak (Declined)
Salvatore Quasimodo
Saint-John Perse
Ivo Andric
John Steinbeck
Giorgios Seferis
Jean-Paul Sartre (Declined)
Mikhail Sholokhov
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Nelly Sachs
Miguel Angel Asturias
Yasunari Kawabata
Samuel Beckett
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Pablo Neruda
Heinrich Böll
Patrick White
Eyvind Johnson
Harry Martinson
Eugenio Montale
Saul Bellow
Vicente Aleixandre
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Odysseus Elytis
Czeslaw Milosz
Elias Canetti
Gabriel García Márquez
William Golding
Jaroslav Seifert
Claude Simon
Wole Soyinka
Joseph Brodsky
Naguib Mahfouz
Camilo José Cela
Octavio Paz
Nadine Gordimer
Derek Walcott
Toni Morrison
Kenzaburo Oe
Seamus Heaney
Wislawa Szymborska
Dario Fo
José Saramago
Günter Grass
Gao Xingjian
V. S. Naipaul
Imre Kertész
J. M. Coetzee
Elfriede Jelinek
Harold Pinter
Orhan Pamuk
Doris Lessing
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clèzio
Herta Müller
