Past winners of the Nobel in literature

Here is a list of previous winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1980:

2013: Alice Munro, Canada

2012: Mo Yan, China

2011: Tomas Transtromer, Sweden

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