Nobel Prize Winners in Literature Flashcards by oppollo olo

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1901

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Sully Prudhomme (France)

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1902

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Theodor Mommsen (Germany)

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1903

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Norway)

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1904

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Frédéric Mistral (France) and José Echegaray (Spain)

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1905

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Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland)

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1906

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Giosuè Carducci (Italy)

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1907

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Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom)

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1908

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Rudolf Christoph Eucken (Germany)

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1909

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Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden)

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1910

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Paul von Heyse (Germany)

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1911

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Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)

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1912

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Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany)

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1913

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Rabindranath Tagore (India)

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1914

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No award

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1915

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Romain Rolland (France)

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1916

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Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden)

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1917

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Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Denmark) and Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark)

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1918

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No award

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1919

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Carl Spitteler (Switzerland)

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1920

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Knut Hamsun (Norway)

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1921

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Anatole France (France)

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1922

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Jacinto Benavente (Spain)

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1923

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William Butler Yeats (Ireland)

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1924

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Władysław Reymont (Poland)

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1925

George Bernard Shaw (Ireland)

1926

Grazia Deledda (Italy)

1927

Henri Bergson (France)

1928

Sigrid Undset (Norway)

1929

Thomas Mann (Germany)

1930

Sinclair Lewis (United States)

1931

Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden)

1932

John Galsworthy (United Kingdom)

1933

Ivan Bunin (Russia/France)

1934

Luigi Pirandello (Italy)

1935

No award

1936

Eugene O'Neill (United States)

1937

Roger Martin du Gard (France)

1938

Pearl S. Buck (United States)

1939

Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finland)

1940-1943

No award

1944

Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark)

1945

Gabriela Mistral (Chile)

1946

Hermann Hesse (Germany)

1947

André Gide (France)

1948

T.S. Eliot (United Kingdom)

1949

William Faulkner (United States)

1950

Bertrand Russell (United Kingdom)

1951

Pär Lagerkvist (Sweden)

1952

François Mauriac (France)

1953

Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)

1954

Ernest Hemingway (United States)

1955

Halldór Laxness (Iceland)

1956

Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain)

1957

Albert Camus (France)

1958

Boris Pasternak (Russia) (declined the prize under pressure from Soviet authorities)

1959

Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy)

1960

Saint-John Perse (France)

1961

Ivo Andrić (Yugoslavia)

1962

John Steinbeck (United States)

1963

Giorgos Seferis (Greece)

1964

Jean-Paul Sartre (France) (declined the prize)

1965

Mikhail Sholokhov (Soviet Union)

1966

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel) and Nelly Sachs (Sweden)

1967

Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala)

1968

Yasunari Kawabata (Japan)

1969

Samuel Beckett (Ireland)

1970

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Soviet Union)

1971

Pablo Neruda (Chile)

1972

Heinrich Böll (Germany)

1973

Patrick White (Australia)

1974

Eyvind Johnson (Sweden) and Harry Martinson (Sweden)

1975

Eugenio Montale (Italy)

1976

Saul Bellow (United States)

1977

Vicente Aleixandre (Spain)

1978

Isaac Bashevis Singer (United States)

1979

Odysseas Elytis (Greece)

1980

Czesław Miłosz (Poland)

1981

Elias Canetti (United Kingdom)

1982

Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)

1983

William Golding (United Kingdom)

1984

Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia)

1985

Claude Simon (France)

1986

Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)

1987

Joseph Brodsky (United States)

1988

Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)

1989

Camilo José Cela (Spain)

1990

Octavio Paz (Mexico)

1991

Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)

1992

Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia)

1993

Toni Morrison (United States)

1994

Kenzaburō Ōe (Japan)

1995

Seamus Heaney (Ireland)

1996

Wisława Szymborska (Poland)

1997

Dario Fo (Italy)

1998

José Saramago (Portugal)

1999

Günter Grass (Germany)

2000

Gao Xingjian (France)

2001

V.S. Naipaul (United Kingdom)

2002

Imre Kertész (Hungary)

2003

J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)

2004

Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)

2005

Harold Pinter (United Kingdom)

2006

Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)

2007

Doris Lessing (United Kingdom)

2008

J.M.G. Le Clézio (France)

2009

Herta Müller (Germany)

2010

Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)

2011

Tomas Tranströmer (Sweden)

2012

Mo Yan (China)

2013

Alice Munro (Canada)

2014

Patrick Modiano (France)

2015

Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)

2016

Bob Dylan (United States)

2017

Kazuo Ishiguro (United Kingdom)

2018

Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)

2019

Peter Handke (Austria)

2020

Louise Glück (United States)

2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah (United Kingdom/Tanzania)

2022

Annie Ernaux (France)

2023

Jon Fosse (Norway)