The Nobel Prize in Literature – Laureates           Exhibit 11a

2004 Elfriede Jelinek (6)

2003 J. M. Coetzee

2002 Imre Kertész (1)(3)(6)
2001 V.S. Naipaul
2000 Gao Xingjian
1999 Günter Grass
1998 José Saramago
1997 Dario Fo
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1995 Seamus Heaney
1994 Kenzaburo Oe
1993 Toni Morrison
1992 Derek Walcott
1991 Nadine Gordimer (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)
1990 Octavio Paz
1989 Camilo José Cela
1988 Naguib Mahfouz
1987 Joseph Brodsky (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)
1986 Wole Soyinka
1985 Claude Simon
1984 Jaroslav Seifert
1983 William Golding
1982 Gabriel García Márquez
1981 Elias Canetti (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)1980 Czeslaw Milosz
1979 Odysseus Elytis
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)1977 Vicente Aleixandre
1976 Saul Bellow (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)
1975 Eugenio Montale
1974 Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
1973 Patrick White
1972 Heinrich Böll
1971 Pablo Neruda
1970 Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1969 Samuel Beckett
1968 Yasunari Kawabata
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 Samuel Agnon (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6), Nelly Sachs (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)
1965 Michail Sholokhov
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
1963 Giorgos Seferis
1962 John Steinbeck
1961 Ivo Andric
1960 Saint-John Perse
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 Boris Pasternak (1)(2)(3)(5)(6)
1957 Albert Camus
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1953 Winston Churchill
1952 François Mauriac
1951 Pär Lagerkvist
1950 Bertrand Russell
1949 William Faulkner
1948 Thomas Stearns Eliot
1947 André Gide
1946 Hermann Hesse
1945 Gabriela Mistral
1944 Johannes V. Jensen
1943 Prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1942 Prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1941 Prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1940 Prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938 Pearl Buck
1937 Roger Martin du Gard
1936 Eugene O'Neill
1935 Prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1934 Luigi Pirandello
1933 Ivan Bunin
1932 John Galsworthy
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930 Sinclair Lewis
1929 Thomas Mann
1928 Sigrid Undset
1927 Henri Bergson (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)
1926 Grazia Deledda
1925 George Bernard Shaw
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
1923 William Butler Yeats
1922 Jacinto Benavente
1921 Anatole France
1920 Knut Hamsun
1919 Carl Spitteler
1918 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1917 Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 Verner von Heidenstam
1915 Romain Rolland
1914 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1913 Rabindranath Tagore
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 Paul Heyse (1)(2)(3)(4)(6)
1909 Selma Lagerlöf
1908 Rudolf Eucken
1907 Rudyard Kipling
1906 Giosuè Carducci
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1902 Theodor Mommsen
1901 Sully Prudhomme

Notes:  For Jewish Laureates, parenthetical numbers after the name indicates the source is:  (1) the website “jewho.com” section on Nobels for 2002 and the pages devoted to Authors and Literature. (2) the book “The Nobel Prize” by Burton Feldman. (3) the “us-israel.org” web site. (4) web site “yahoodi.com”. (5) the book “Nobel Laureates 1901 – 2000” by Alan Symons.  (6) web site “jinfo.org

For purposes of this book, only Jews cited by more than one source are included in tallys used in the text and tables.  All 11 Jewish winners of the Nobel for Literature were cited by more than one source.