1901 Rene F A Sully Prudhomme (France)
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1902 Theodor Mommsen (Germany)
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1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson (Norway)
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1904 Frederic Mistral (France) & Jose Echegaray (Spain)
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1905 Henryk Slenkiewicz (Poland)
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1906 Giosue Carducci (Italy)
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1907 Rudyard Kipling (U K)
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1908 Rudolf Eucken (Germany)
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1909 Salma Lagerlof (Sweden)
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1910 Paul von Heyse (Germany)
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1911 Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)
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1912 Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany)
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1913 Rabindranath Tagore (India)
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1914 no award
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1915 Romain Rolland (France)
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1916 Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden)
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1917 Karl Gjellerup (Denmark) & Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark)
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1918 no award
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1919 Carl Spitteler (Switzerland)
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1920 Knut Hamsen (Norway)
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1921 Anatole France (France)
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1922 Jacinto Benavente (Spain)
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1923 William B Yeats (Ireland)
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1924 Wladyslaw Reymont (Poland)
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1925 George Bernard Shaw (Ireland)
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1926 Grazia Deladda (Italy)
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1927 Henri Bergson (France)
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1928 Sigrid Undset (Norway)
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1929 Thomas Mann (Germany)
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1930 Sinclair Lewis
(U S)
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1931 Erik A Karlfeldt (Sweden)
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1932 John Galsworthy
(U K)
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1933 Ivan G Bunin (Russia)
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1934 Luigi Pirandello (Italy)
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1935 no award
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1936 Eugene Oneill
(U S)
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1937 Roger Martin du Gard (France)
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1938 Pearl S Buck (U S)
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1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpaa (France)
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1940 no award
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1941 no award
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1942 no award
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1943 no award
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1944 Johannes V Jansen (Denmark)
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1945 Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
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1946 Hermann Hesse (Switzerland)
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1947 Andre Gide (France)
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1948 Thomas Stearns Eliot (U K)
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1949 Willaim Faulkner
(U S)
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1950 Bertrand Russell
(U K)
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1951 Par Lagerkvist (Sweden)
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1952 Francios Mauriac (France)
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1953 Sir Winston Churchill (U K)
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1954 Ernest Hemingway (U S)
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1955 Halldor Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
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1956 Juan Ramon Jimenez (Spain)
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1957 Albert Camus (France)
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1958 Boris Pasternack (U S S R) (declined)
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1959 Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy)
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1960 St John Perse (Alexis St-Leger Leger) (France)
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1961 Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia)
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1962 John Stienbeck
(U S)
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1963 Giorgios Seferis (Seferiades) (Greece)
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1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (France) (declined)
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1965 Mikhail Sholokhov (U S S R)
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1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel) & Nelly Sachs (Sweden)
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1967 Miguel Angel Asturius (Guatemala)
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1968 Yasunari Kawabata (Japan)
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1969 Samuell Beckett (Ireland)
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1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (U S S R)
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1971 Pablo Neruda (Chili)
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1972 Heinrich Boll (Germany)
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1973 Patrick White (Australia)
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1974 Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson (Sweden)
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1975 Eugenio Montale (Italy)
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1976 Saul Below (U S)
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1977 Vincente Aleixandre (Spain)
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1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (U S)
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1979 Odysseus Elytis (Greece)
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1980 Czeslaw Milosz (U S)
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1981 Elias Canetti (Bulgaria)
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1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia)
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1983 Willaim Golding
(U K)
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1984 Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslavakia)
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1985 Claude Simon (France)
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1986 Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
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1987 Joseph Brodsky
(U S)
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1988 Naguib Mahfouz (Eqypt)
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1989 Camilo Jose Cela (Spain)
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1990 Octavio Paz (Mexico)
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1991 Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
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1992 Derek Walcott (Trinidad)
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1993 Toni Morrison (U S)
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1994 Kenzaburro Oe (Japan)
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1995 Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
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1996 Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
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1997 Dario Fo (Italy)
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1998 Jose Saramago (Portugal)
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1999 Gunter Grass (Germany)
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2000 Gao Xingjian (China)
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2001 Sir V. S. Naipaul (UK)
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