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Nobel Prize in Literature

one of five prizes established by Alfred Nobel

43 dated entries naming Nobel Prize in Literature, drawn from 41 separate years between 1817 CE and 2014 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1817November 30 – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1903)source
  • 1856July 26 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1950)source
  • 1859October 18 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1941)source
  • 1861May 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, Poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, story-writer, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, educationist, linguist, grammarian, and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate for the collection of poems Gitanjali. (died 1941)source
  • 1865June 13 – W. B. Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1939)source
  • 1867August 14 – John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1933)source
  • 1870October 10 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)source
  • 1872May 18 – Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1970)source
  • 1874November 30 – Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1965)source
  • 1875June 6 – Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)source
  • 1887May 31 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, writer and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)source
  • 1888September 26 – T. S. Eliot, American-born British poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)source

20th century

  • 1902February 27 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)source
  • 1904July 12 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)source
  • 190910 December – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first woman to be given the Nobel Prize in Literature.source
  • 191026 April – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (born 1832).source
  • 1913Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali poet, got the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book of lyrics called Gitanjali translated into English by himself.source
  • 1914March 31 – Octavio Paz, writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literaturesource
  • 1918December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)source
  • 192314 November – The poet William Butler Yeats became the first Irish Nobel prize laureate when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.source
  • 1925George Bernard Shaw is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.source
  • 1931February 18 – Toni Morrison, African-American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 2019)source
  • 1933January 31 – John Galsworthy, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)source
  • 1936January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)source
  • 1939January 28 – W. B. Yeats, Irish writer, 1923 Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)source
  • 1941August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)source
  • 194510 December - Professor Gabriela Mistral receives the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded by the Swedish Academy.source
  • 1950November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)source
  • 195219 February – Knut Hamsun, author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (born 1859)source
  • 1955August 12 – Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1875)source
  • 1960May 30 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (born 1890)source
  • 1961July 2 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (born 1899)source
  • 1965January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American-British poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)source
  • 1965January 24 – Sir Winston Churchill, British politician and statesman, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, World War II leader, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (born 1874)source
  • 1966October – Shmuel Yosef Agnon receives the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Israeli Nobel laureate.source
  • 1968December 20 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)source
  • 1970February 2 – Bertrand Russell, British logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (born 1872)source
  • 1970October 8 – Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.source
  • 1974Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson are awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The two laureates were members of the Swedish Academy at the time; the decision was criticized by the media, and Martinson committed suicide in 1978.source
  • 1994October 13 – Kenzaburō Ōe receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.source
  • 19955 October - Seamus Heaney is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.source

21st century

  • 2008December 24 – Harold Pinter, 78, British playwright (The Homecoming), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2005), throat cancer.source
  • 2014April 17 – Gabriel García Márquez, 87, Colombian author (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera), laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1982), pneumonia.source

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