Nobel Laureates Literature

Question 1

1901

Answer 1

Sully Prudhomme
France
poetry, essay

Question 2

1902

Answer 2

Theodor Mommsen
Germany
history, law

Question 3

1903

Answer 3

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Norway
poetry, novel, drama

Question 4

1904

Answer 4

Frédéric Mistral
France (occitan)
poetry, philology

José Echegaray
Spain
drama

Question 5

1905

Answer 5

Henryk Sienkiewicz
Poland
novel

Question 6

1906

Answer 6

Giosuè Carducci
Italy
poetry

Question 7

1907

Answer 7

Rudyard Kipling
United Kingdom
novel, short story, poetry

Question 8

1907

Answer 8

Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Germany
philoophy

Question 9

1909

Answer 9

Selma Lagerlöf
Sweden
novel, short story

Question 10

1910

Answer 10

Paul von Heyse
Germany
poetry, drama, novel, short story

Question 11

1911

Answer 11

Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgium
drama, poetry, essay

Question 12

1912

Answer 12

Gerhart Hauptmann
Germany
drama, novel

Question 13

1913

Answer 13

Rabindranath Tagore
India (Bengali)
poetry, novel, drama, short story, music

Question 14

1914

Answer 14

None

Question 15

1915

Answer 15

Romain Rolland
France
novel

Question 16

1916

Answer 16

Verner von Heidenstam
Sweden
poetry, novel

Question 17

1917

Answer 17

Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Denmark
poetry

Henrik Pontoppidan
Denmark
novel

Question 18

1918

Answer 18

None

Question 19

1919

Answer 19

Carl Spitteler
Switzerland (German)
poetry

Question 20

1920

Answer 20

Knut Hamsun
Norway
novel

Question 21

1921

Answer 21

Anatole France
France
novel, poetry

Question 22

1922

Answer 22

Jacinto Benavente
Spain
drama

Question 23

1923

Answer 23

William Butler Yeats
Ireland (English)
poetry

Question 24

1924

Answer 24

Władysław Reymont
Poland
novel

Question 25

1925

Answer 25

George Bernard Shaw Ireland (English) drama, literary criticism

Question 26

1926

Answer 26

Grazia Deledda Italy poetry, novel

Question 27

1927

Answer 27

Henri Bergson France philosophy

Question 28

1928

Answer 28

Sigrid Undset Norway novel

Question 29

1929

Answer 29

Thomas Mann Germany novel, short story, essay

Question 30

1930

Answer 30

``` Sinclair Lewis United States (English) novel, short story, drama ```

Question 31

1931

Answer 31

Erik Axel Karlfeldt Sweden poetry

Question 32

1932

Answer 32

John Galsworthy United Kingdom (English) novel

Question 33

1933

Answer 33

Ivan Bunin Stateless (Russian) short story, poetry, novel

Question 34

1934

Answer 34

Luigi Pirandello Italy drama, novel, short story

Question 35

1935

Answer 35

None

Question 36

1936

Answer 36

Eugene O'Neill United States (English) drama

Question 37

1937

Answer 37

Roger Martin du Gard France novel

Question 38

1938

Answer 38

Pearl S. Buck United States (English) novel, biography

Question 39

1939

Answer 39

Frans Eemil Sillanpää Finland novel

Question 40

1940

Answer 40

None

Question 41

1941

Answer 41

None

Question 42

1942

Answer 42

None

Question 43

1943

Answer 43

None

Question 44

1944

Answer 44

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Denmark poetry

Question 45

1945

Answer 45

Gabriela Mistral Chile (Spanish) poetry

Question 46

1946

Answer 46

Hermann Hesse Switzerland (German) novel, poetry

Question 47

1947

Answer 47

André Gide France novel, essay

Question 48

1948

Answer 48

T. S. Eliot United Kingdom poetry

Question 49

1949

Answer 49

``` William Faulkner United States (English) novel, short story ```

Question 50

1950

Answer 50

Bertrand Russell United Kingdom philosophy