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2002
Prize Winner Imre Kertesz's novel Fateless.
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The
Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded annually by the Swedish
Academy to someone who, as Alfred Nobel stated in his will, "shall
have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work
of an idealistic tendency." Nobel also specified that "no consideration
shall be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the
most worthy shall receive it, whether he be Scandinavian or not."
It
is the largest monetary prize in the literary world, one of the
most international of prizes and is based on an author's career
rather than a single title. However, it does not appear to be gender-blind
and has only been awarded to a handful of women over the years.
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2002
Imre
Kertesz
2001
V.S.
Naipaul
2000
Gao
Xingjian
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1999
Gunter
Grass
1998
Jose
Saramago
1997
Dario
Fo
1996
Wislawa
Szymborska
1995
Seamus
Heaney
1994
Kenzaburo Oe
1993
Toni
Morrison
1992
Derek
Walcott
1991
Nadine
Gordimer
1990
Octavio
Paz
1989
Jose
Camilo Cela
1988
Naguib
Mahfouz
1987
Joseph
Brodsky
1986
Wole
Soyinka
1985
Claude
Simon
1984
Jaroslav
Seifert
1983
William
Golding
1982
Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
1981
Elias
Canetti
1980
Czeslaw
Milosz
1979
Odysseus
Elytis
1978
Isaac
Bashevis Singer
1977
Vincente
Aleixandre
1976
Saul
Bellow
1975
Eugenio
Montale
1974
Eyvind
Johnson and Harry
Martinson
1973
Patrick
White
1972
Heinrich
Böll
1971
Pablo
Neruda
1970
Aleksandr
I. Solzhenitsyn
1969
Samuel
Beckett
1968
Yasunari
Kawabata
1967
Miguel
A. Asturias
1966
Schmel
Y. Agnon and Nelly
Sachs
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
1957
Albert
Camus
1956
J. R.
Jiménez
1955
Halldór
Kiljan Laxness
1954
Ernest
Hemingway
1953
Winston
Churchill
1952
François
Mauriac
1951
Pär Lagerkvist
1950
Bertrand
Russell
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1949
William
Faulkner
1948
T.
S. Eliot
1947
André
Gide
1946
Hermann
Hesse
1945
Gabriela
Mistral
1944
Johannes
V. Jensen
1943
No Award
1942
No
Award
1941
No
Award
1940
No
Award
1939
F. E.
Sillanpää
1938
Pearl S. Buck
1937
Roger
Martin du Gard
1936
Eugene
O'Neill
1935
No Award
1934
Luigi
Pirandello
1933
Ivan
Bunin
1932
John
Galsworthy
1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930
Sinclair
Lewis
1929
Thomas
Mann
1928
Singrid
Undset
1927
Henri
Bergson
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
No
Award
1917
Karl Gjellerup
and Henrik Pontoppidan
1916
Verner
von Heidenstam
1915
Romain
Rolland
1914
No
Award
1913
Rabindranath
Tagore
1912
Gerhart
Hauptmann
1911
Maurice
Maeterlinck
1910
Paul
von Heyse
1909
Selma
Lagerlöf
1908
Rudolf
Eucken
1907
Rudyard
Kipling
1906
Giosue
Carducci
1905
Henryk
Sienkiewicz
1904
José
Echegaray and Frédéric
Mistral
1903
Bjørnstjerne
Bjørnson
1902
Theodor
Mommsen
1901
Sully
Prudhomme
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