Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960:

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* 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, French.