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Nobel Prize in Literature

one of five prizes established by Alfred Nobel

97 dated entries naming Nobel Prize in Literature, drawn from 73 separate years between 1817 CE and 1974 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 (d. 1903)source
  • 1830September 8 – Frédéric Mistral, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)source
  • 1832December 8 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)source
  • 1844April 16 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)source
  • 1856July 26 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)source
  • 1857July 24 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)source
  • 1858November 20 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)source
  • 1859August 4 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)source
  • 1859October 18 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 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. (d. 1941)source
  • 1862August 29 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1949)source
  • 1865June 13 – W. B. Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)source
  • 1866January 29 – Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)source
  • 1867August 14 – John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1933)source
  • 1867June 28 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)source
  • 1867May 7 – Władysław Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)source
  • 1869November 22 – André Gide, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1951)source
  • 1870October 10 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)source
  • 1872May 18 – Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1970)source
  • 1873January 20 – Johannes V. Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)source
  • 1875June 6 – Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)source
  • 1882May 20 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)source
  • 1885February 7 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)source
  • 1885October 11 – François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)source
  • 1887May 31 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)source
  • 1888July 17 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)source
  • 1888October 16 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)source
  • 1888September 26 – T. S. Eliot, American-born British poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)source
  • 1889April 7 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)source
  • 1890February 10 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (Doctor Zhivago), Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960)source
  • 1892June 26 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)source
  • 1896October 12 – Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)source
  • 1897September 25 – William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)source
  • 1899October 19 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)source
  • 1900March 13 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1971)source

20th century

  • 1902April 23 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)source
  • 1902February 27 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)source
  • 1903November 1 – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)source
  • 1904July 12 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)source
  • 1904May 6 – Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1978)source
  • 1907September 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)source
  • 1912May 28 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)source
  • 1914March 31 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat, writer, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)source
  • 1915June 10 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)source
  • 1916May 11 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)source
  • 1916November 15 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)source
  • 1917December 21 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)source
  • 1918December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)source
  • 1922November 16 – José Saramago, Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)source
  • 1923November 20 – Nadine Gordimer, South African fiction writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)source
  • 1924October 12 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)source
  • 1925December 5 – Władysław Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)source
  • 1927October 16 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)source
  • 1930January 23 – Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)source
  • 1930October 10 – Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)source
  • 1931April 15 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, translator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2015)source
  • 1931February 18 – Toni Morrison, African-American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2019)source
  • 1931July 10 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2024)source
  • 1932August 17 – V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)source
  • 1933January 31 – John Galsworthy, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)source
  • 1934July 13 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer and Nobel laureatesource
  • 1936December 10 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)source
  • 1936January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)source
  • 1939April 13 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)source
  • 1939January 28 – W. B. Yeats, Irish writer, 1923 Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)source
  • 1940February 9 – J. M. Coetzee, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureatesource
  • 1940March 16 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)source
  • 1940May 24 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)source
  • 1941August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)source
  • 1941January 4 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859)source
  • 1943April 22 – Louise Glück, American poet, 12th US Poet Laureate, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2023)source
  • 1944December 30 – Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)source
  • 1946June 6 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)source
  • 1948May 31 – Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian writer of literary reportage, Nobel Prize laureatesource
  • 1949June 10 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)source
  • 1949May 6 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1862)source
  • 1950November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)source
  • 1951February 19 – André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)source
  • 1951January 10 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)source
  • 1952February 19 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)source
  • 1953November 27 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)source
  • 1953November 8 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)source
  • 1954November 8 – Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British author, Nobel Prize laureatesource
  • 1955August 12 – Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)source
  • 1957January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)source
  • 1960January 4 – Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize winner, automobile accident (b. 1913)source
  • 1960May 30 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)source
  • 1961July 2 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899)source
  • 1962August 9 – Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)source
  • 1962July 6 – William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)source
  • 1965January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American-British poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)source
  • 1968December 20 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)source
  • 1970February 17 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)source
  • 1970February 2 – Bertrand Russell, British logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872)source
  • 1973March 6 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)source
  • 1973September 23 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)source
  • 1974June 9 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)source