Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates

All Nobel Prize in Literature laureates, rankable by influence and literary legacy.

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▲ Top 5

William Faulkner (1949)

Ernest Hemingway (1954)

Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)

Albert Camus (1957)

Kenzaburō Ōe (1994)

▼ Bottom 5

Anatole France (1921)

-6

Günter Grass (1999)

-5

Luigi Pirandello (1934)

-4

Saul Bellow (1976)

-4

André Gide (1947)

-3

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All Items (116)

William Faulkner (1949)+9

Ernest Hemingway (1954)+6

Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)+4

Albert Camus (1957)+3

Kenzaburō Ōe (1994)+3

Samuel Beckett (1969)+2

John Steinbeck (1962)+1

Louise Glück (2020)+1

Sully Prudhomme (1901)—

Theodor Mommsen (1902)—

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903)—

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905)—

Giosuè Carducci (1906)—

Rudyard Kipling (1907)—

Rudolf Eucken (1908)—

Selma Lagerlöf (1909)—

Paul Heyse (1910)—

Maurice Maeterlinck (1911)—

Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)—

Rabindranath Tagore (1913)—

Romain Rolland (1915)—

Verner von Heidenstam (1916)—

Karl Adolph Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan (1917)—

Carl Spitteler (1919)—

Knut Hamsun (1920)—

Jacinto Benavente (1922)—

W.B. Yeats (1923)—

Władysław Reymont (1924)—

Grazia Deledda (1926)—

Henri Bergson (1927)—

Sigrid Undset (1928)—

Thomas Mann (1929)—

Sinclair Lewis (1930)—

Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931)—

John Galsworthy (1932)—

Ivan Bunin (1933)—

Eugene O'Neill (1936)—

Roger Martin du Gard (1937)—

Pearl S. Buck (1938)—

Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1939)—

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1944)—

Gabriela Mistral (1945)—

Hermann Hesse (1946)—

T.S. Eliot (1948)—

Bertrand Russell (1950)—

Pär Lagerkvist (1951)—

François Mauriac (1952)—

Halldór Laxness (1955)—

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956)—

Boris Pasternak (1958)—

Salvatore Quasimodo (1959)—

Saint-John Perse (1960)—

Ivo Andrić (1961)—

Giorgos Seferis (1963)—

Jean-Paul Sartre (1964)—

Mikhail Sholokhov (1965)—

Shmuel Yosef Agnon / Nelly Sachs (1966)—

Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967)—

Yasunari Kawabata (1968)—

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970)—

Pablo Neruda (1971)—

Heinrich Böll (1972)—

Patrick White (1973)—

Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson (1974)—

Eugenio Montale (1975)—

Vicente Aleixandre (1977)—

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978)—

Odysseas Elytis (1979)—

Czesław Miłosz (1980)—

Elias Canetti (1981)—

Gabriel García Márquez (1982)—

William Golding (1983)—

Jaroslav Seifert (1984)—

Claude Simon (1985)—

Wole Soyinka (1986)—

Joseph Brodsky (1987)—

Naguib Mahfouz (1988)—

Camilo José Cela (1989)—

Octavio Paz (1990)—

Nadine Gordimer (1991)—

Derek Walcott (1992)—

Toni Morrison (1993)—

Seamus Heaney (1995)—

Wisława Szymborska (1996)—

Dario Fo (1997)—

José Saramago (1998)—

Gao Xingjian (2000)—

V.S. Naipaul (2001)—

Imre Kertész (2002)—

J.M. Coetzee (2003)—

Elfriede Jelinek (2004)—

Harold Pinter (2005)—

Orhan Pamuk (2006)—

Doris Lessing (2007)—

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (2008)—

Herta Müller (2009)—

Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)—

Tomas Tranströmer (2011)—

Mo Yan (2012)—

Alice Munro (2013)—

Patrick Modiano (2014)—

Svetlana Alexievich (2015)—

Olga Tokarczuk (2018)—

Peter Handke (2019)—

Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021)—

Annie Ernaux (2022)—

Jon Fosse (2023)—

Bob Dylan (2016)-1

George Bernard Shaw (1925)-2

Frédéric Mistral / José Echegaray (1904)-3

André Gide (1947)-3

Winston Churchill (1953)-3

Luigi Pirandello (1934)-4

Saul Bellow (1976)-4

Günter Grass (1999)-5

Anatole France (1921)-6