Premiul Nobel pentru literatura

Premiul Nobel pentru literatura, acordat de Academia Suedeza si de Fundatia Nobel, este cu siguranta cel mai important premiu literar din lume.

Castigatorii acestui premiu au fost: 2005 - Harold Pinter, Marea Britanie 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austria 2003 - John Maxwell Coetzee, Africa de Sud 2002 - Imre Kertesz, Ungaria 2001 - V.S. Naipaul, Marea Britanie 2000 - Gao Xingjian, China 1999 - Gunter Grass, Germania 1998 - Jose Saramago, Portugalia 1997 - Dario Fo, Italia 1996 - Wislawa Szymborska, Polonia 1995 - Seamus Heaney, Irlanda 1994 - Kenzaburo Oe, Japonia 1993 - Toni Morrison, S.U.A. 1992 - Derek Walcott, Trinidad 1991 - Nadine Gordimer, Africa de Sud 1990 - Octavio Paz, Mexic 1989 - Dr. Camilo Jose Cela, Spania 1988 - Najib Mahfuz, Egipt 1987 - Joseph Brodsky, U.R.S.S 1986 - Wole Soyinka, Nigeria 1985 - Claude Simon, Franta 1984 - Jaroslav Seifert, Cehoslovacia 1983 - William Golding, Marea Britanie 1982 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Columbia 1981 - Elias Canetti, Marea Britanie 1980 - Czeslaw Milosz, Polonia/S.U.A. 1979 - Odysseus Elytis, Grecia 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, S.U.A. 1977 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spania 1976 - Saul Bellow, S.U.A. 1975 - Eugenio Montale, Italia 1974 - Eyvind Johnson, Suedia 1973 - Patrick White, Australia 1972 - Heinrich Boll, Republica Federativa Germania 1971 - Pablo Neruda, Chile 1970 - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, U.R.S.S. 1969 - Samuel Beckett, Irlanda 1968 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japonia 1967 - Miguel A. Asturias, Guatemala 1966 - Shmuel Y. Agnon, Israel; Nelly Sachs, Germania 1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov, U.R.S.S. 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre, Franta (refuza premiul) 1963 - Giorgos Seferis, Grecia 1962 - John Steinbeck, S.U.A. 1961 - Ivo Andric, Iugoslavia 1960 - Saint-John Perse, Franta 1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italia 1958 - Boris Pasternak, U.R.S.S. 1957 - Albert Camus, Franta 1956 - J.R. Jimenez, Spania 1955 - Halldor Laxness, Islanda 1954 - Ernest Hemingway, S.U.A. 1953 - Winston Churchill, Marea Britanie 1952 - Francois Mauriac, Franta 1951 - Par Lagerkvist, Suedia 1950 - Bertrand Russell, Marea Britanie 1949 - William Faulkner, S.U.A. 1948 - T.S. Eliot, Marea Britanie 1947 - Andre Gide, Franta 1946 - Hermann Hesse, Elvetia 1945 - Gabriela Mistral, Chile 1944 - Johannes V. Jensen, Danemarca 1943 - nu se acorda 1942 - nu se acorda 1941 - nu se acorda 1940 - nu se acorda 1939 - F.E. Sillanpaa, Finlanda 1938 - Pearl S. Buck, S.U.A. 1937 - Roger Martin du Gard, Franta 1936 - Eugene O'Neill, S.U.A. 1935 - nu se acorda 1934 - Luigi Pirandello, Italia 1933 - Ivan Bunin, fara cetatenie 1932 - John Galsworthy, Marea Britanie 1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Suedia 1930 - Sinclair Lewis, S.U.A. 1929 - Thomas Mann, Germania 1928 - Sigrid Undset, Norvegia 1927 - Henri Bergson, Franta 1926 - Grazia Deledda, Italia 1925 - George Bernard Shaw, Marea Britanie 1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont, Polonia 1923 - William Butler Yeats, Irlanda 1922 - Jacinto Benavente, Spania 1921 - Anatole France, Franta 1920 - Knut Hamsun, Norvegia 1919 - Carl Spitteler, Elvetia 1918 - nu se acorda 1917 - Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan, Danemarca 1916 - Verner von Heidenstam, Suedia 1915 - Romain Rolland, Franta 1914 - nu se acorda 1913 - Rabindranath Tagore, India 1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann, Germania 1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgia 1910 - Paul Heyse, Germania 1909 - Selma Lagerlof, Suedia 1908 - Rudoll Eucken, Germania 1907 - Rudyard Kipling, Marea Britanie 1906 - Giouse Carducci, Italia 1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polonia 1904 - Jose Echegaray, Spania 1903 - Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norvegia 1902 - Theodor Mommsen, Germania 1901 - Sully Prudhomme, Franta