Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960

Winners of Nobel Prize in literature since 1960

Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960:

— 2010: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru.

— 2009: Herta Mueller, Germany.

— 2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, France.

— 2007: Doris Lessing, Britain.

— 2006: Orhan Pamuk, Turkey.

— 2005: Harold Pinter, Britain.

— 2004: Elfriede Jelinek, Austria.

— 2003: J.M. Coetzee, South Africa.

— 2002: Imre Kertesz, Hungary.

— 2001: V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born Briton.

— 2000: Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French.

— 1999: Guenter Grass, Germany.

— 1998: Jose Saramago, Portugal.

— 1997: Dario Fo, Italy.

— 1996: Wislawa Szymborska, Poland.

— 1995: Seamus Heaney, Ireland.

— 1994: Kenzaburo Oe, Japan.

— 1993: Toni Morrison, United States.

— 1992: Derek Walcott, St. Lucia.

— 1991: Nadine Gordimer, South Africa.

— 1990: Octavio Paz, Mexico.

— 1989: Camilo Jose Cela, Spain.

— 1988: Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt.

— 1987: Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born American.

— 1986: Wole Soyinka, Nigeria.

— 1985: Claude Simon, France.

— 1984: Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia.

— 1983: William Golding, Britain.

— 1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia.

— 1981: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born Briton.

— 1980: Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born American.

— 1979: Odysseus Elytis, Greece.

— 1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American.

— 1977: Vicente Aleixandre, Spain.

— 1976: Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American.

— 1975: Eugenio Montale, Italy.

— 1974: Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson, Sweden.

— 1973: Patrick White, British-born Australian.

— 1972: Heinrich Boell, West Germany.

— 1971: Pablo Neruda, Chile.

— 1970: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia.

— 1969: Samuel Beckett, Ireland.

— 1968: Yasunari Kawabata, Japan.

— 1967: Miguel A. Asturias, Guatemala.

— 1966: Shmuel Y. Agnon, Polish-born Israeli, and Nelly Sachs, German-born Swede.

— 1965: Mikhail Sholokhov, Russia.

— 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre, France (declined award).

— 1963: Giorgos Seferis, Turkish-born Greek.

— 1962: John Steinbeck, United States.

— 1961: Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia.

— 1960: Saint-John Perse, Guadeloupe-born French.