Nobel Prize Winners in Literature: Grouped according to Nationality

Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

American

Toni Morrison (1993)

Notable Works: The Bluest Eye, Beloved

Louise Glück (2020)

Notable Works: The Wild Iris, Faithful and Virtuous Night

John Steinbeck (1962)

Notable Works: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men

Ernest Hemingway (1954)

Notable Works: The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Eugene O'Neill (1936)

Notable Works: Long Day's Journey into Night, The Iceman Cometh

Pearl Buck (1938)

Notable Works: The Good Earth

Sinclair Lewis (1930)

Notable Works: Main Street, Babbitt

William Faulkner (1949)

Notable Works: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying

Saul Bellow (1976)

Notable Works: Herzog, Henderson the Rain King

Australian

Patrick White (1973)

Notable Works: Voss, The Tree of Man

Austrian

Peter Handke (2019)

Notable Works: A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

British

T.S. Eliot (1948)

Nationality: American-born, British

Notable Works: The Waste Land, Four Quartets

Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021)

Nationality: Tanzanian-born, British

Notable Works: Paradise, By the Sea

Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)

Nationality: Japanese-born, British

Notable Works: The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go

Doris Lessing (2007)

Nationality: Zimbabwean-born, British

Notable Works: The Golden Notebook, Memoirs of a Survivor

Harold Pinter (2005)

Notable Works: The Birthday Party, The Homecoming

William Golding (1983)

Notable Works: Lord of the Flies, Rites of Passage

Winston Churchill (1953)

Notable Works: The Second World War, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Rudyard Kipling (1907)

Notable Works: The Jungle Book, Kim

John Galsworthy (1932)

Notable Works: The Forsyte Saga

Canadian

Alice Munro (2013)

Notable Works: Lives of Girls and Women, Dear Life

Chilean

Pablo Neruda (1971)

Notable Works: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Canto General

Colombian

Gabriel García Márquez (1982)

Notable Works: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera

French

Annie Ernaux (2022)

Notable Works: The Years, A Woman's Story

Jean-Paul Sartre (1964)

Note: Declined the prize.

Notable Works: Nausea, Being and Nothingness

Albert Camus (1957)

Notable Works: The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus

Romain Rolland (1915)

Notable Works: Jean-Christophe

German

Thomas Mann (1929)

Notable Works: Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain

Indian

Rabindranath Tagore (1913)

Notable Works: Gitanjali

Irish

Seamus Heaney (1995)

Notable Works: Death of a Naturalist, District and Circle

George Bernard Shaw (1925)

Notable Works: Pygmalion, Man and Superman

William Butler Yeats (1923)

Notable Works: The Tower, The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Samuel Beckett (1969)

Notable Works: Waiting for Godot, Molloy

Italian

Dario Fo (1997)

Notable Works: Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Can't Pay? Won't Pay!

Luigi Pirandello (1934)

Notable Works: Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Late Mattia Pascal

Nigerian

Wole Soyinka (1986)

Notable Works: Death and the King's Horseman, The Lion and the Jewel

Norwegian

Jon Fosse (2023)

Notable Works: A New Name: Septology VI-VII, Trilogy

Polish

Olga Tokarczuk (2018)

Notable Works: Flights, The Books of Jacob

Russian

Mikhail Sholokhov (1965)

Notable Works: And Quiet Flows the Don

Saint Lucian

Derek Walcott (1992)

Notable Works: Omeros, Dream on Monkey Mountain

South African

J. M. Coetzee (2003)

Notable Works: Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians

Nadine Gordimer (1991)

Notable Works: July's People, Burger's Daughter

South Korean

Han Kang (2024)

Notable Works: The Vegetarian, Human Acts

Trinidadian/British

V. S. Naipaul (2001)

Notable Works: A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State