Nobel Laureates Literature Flashcards
1901
Sully Prudhomme
France
poetry, essay
1902
Theodor Mommsen
Germany
history, law
1903
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Norway
poetry, novel, drama
1904
Frédéric Mistral
France (occitan)
poetry, philology
José Echegaray
Spain
drama
1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Poland
novel
1906
Giosuè Carducci
Italy
poetry
1907
Rudyard Kipling
United Kingdom
novel, short story, poetry
1907
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Germany
philoophy
1909
Selma Lagerlöf
Sweden
novel, short story
1910
Paul von Heyse
Germany
poetry, drama, novel, short story
1911
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgium
drama, poetry, essay
1912
Gerhart Hauptmann
Germany
drama, novel
1913
Rabindranath Tagore
India (Bengali)
poetry, novel, drama, short story, music
1914
None
1915
Romain Rolland
France
novel
1916
Verner von Heidenstam
Sweden
poetry, novel
1917
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Denmark
poetry
Henrik Pontoppidan
Denmark
novel
1918
None
1919
Carl Spitteler
Switzerland (German)
poetry
1920
Knut Hamsun
Norway
novel
1921
Anatole France
France
novel, poetry
1922
Jacinto Benavente
Spain
drama
1923
William Butler Yeats
Ireland (English)
poetry
1924
Władysław Reymont
Poland
novel
1925
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland (English)
drama, literary criticism
1926
Grazia Deledda
Italy
poetry, novel
1927
Henri Bergson
France
philosophy
1928
Sigrid Undset
Norway
novel
1929
Thomas Mann
Germany
novel, short story, essay
1930
Sinclair Lewis United States (English) novel, short story, drama
1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Sweden
poetry
1932
John Galsworthy
United Kingdom (English)
novel
1933
Ivan Bunin
Stateless (Russian)
short story, poetry, novel
1934
Luigi Pirandello
Italy
drama, novel, short story
1935
None
1936
Eugene O’Neill
United States (English)
drama
1937
Roger Martin du Gard
France
novel
1938
Pearl S. Buck
United States (English)
novel, biography
1939
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Finland
novel
1940
None
1941
None
1942
None
1943
None
1944
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Denmark
poetry
1945
Gabriela Mistral
Chile (Spanish)
poetry
1946
Hermann Hesse
Switzerland (German)
novel, poetry
1947
André Gide
France
novel, essay
1948
T. S. Eliot
United Kingdom
poetry
1949
William Faulkner United States (English) novel, short story
1950
Bertrand Russell
United Kingdom
philosophy