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Nadine M. Mitchell, Chief Librarian
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Lynn, Massachusetts 01902
Phone: 781-595-0567 / TTY: 781-477-7057
Fax: 781-592-5050
Web: www.noblenet.org/lynn/
Nadine M. Mitchell, Chief Librarian
WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Click on the links below to find their works in the catalog.
(Note that no award was given in the years 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943.)
- 2007 - Lessing, Doris (British)
- 2006 - Pamuk, Orhan (Turkish)
- 2005 - Pinter, Harold (British)
- 2004 - Jelinek, Elfriede (Austrian)
- 2003 - Coetzee, J.M. (South African)
- 2002 - Imre Kertesz (Hungarian)
- 2001 - V.S. Naipaul (British/Indian)
- 2000 - Gao Xingjian (Chinese)
- 1999 - Grass, Gunter (German)
- 1998 - Saramago, Jose (Portuguese)
- 1997 - Fo, Dario (Italian)
- 1996 - Szymborska, Wislawa (Polish)
- 1995 - Heaney, Seamus (Irish)
- 1994 - Oe, Kenzaburo (Japanese)
- 1993 - Morrison, Toni (American)
- 1992 - Walcott, Derek (Saint Lucian)
- 1991 - Gordimer, Nadine (South African)
- 1990 - Paz, Octavio (Mexican)
- 1989 - Cela, Camilo Jose (Spanish)
- 1988 - Mahfouz, Naguib (Egyptian)
- 1987 - Brodsky, Joseph (Russian-American)
- 1986 - Soyinka, Wole (Nigerian)
- 1985 - Simone, Claude (French)
- 1984 - Siefert, Jaroslav (Czech)
- 1983 - Golding, William (British)
- 1982 - Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (Colombian-Mexican)
- 1981 - Canetti, Elias (Bulgarian-British)
- 1980 - Milosz, Czeslaw (Polish-American)
- 1979 - Elytis, Odysseus (Greek)
- 1978 - Singer, Isaac Bashevis (American)
- 1977 - Aleixandre, Vicente (Spanish)
- 1976 - Bellow, Saul (American)
- 1975 - Montale, Eugenio (Italian)
- 1974 - Johnson, Eyvind and Martinson, Harry Edmund (both Swedish)
- 1973 - White, Patrick (Australian)
- 1972 - Boll, Heinrich (German)
- 1971 - Neruda, Pablo (Chilean)
- 1970 - Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (Russian)
- 1969 - Beckett, Samuel (Irish)
- 1968 - Kawabata, Yasunari (Japanese)
- 1967 - Asturias, Miguel Angel (Guatemalan)
- 1966 - Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (Israeli) and Sachs, Nelly (Swedish)
- 1965 - Sholokhov, Mikhail (Russian)
- 1964 - Sartre, Jean Paul (French - declined award)
- 1963 - Seferis, Giorgos (Greek)
- 1962 - Steinbeck, John (American)
- 1961 - Andric, Ivo (Yugoslavian)
- 1960 - Saint-John Perse (French)
- 1959 - Quasimodo, Salvatore (Italian)
- 1958 - Pasternak, Boris (Russian - declined award)
- 1957 - Camus, Albert (French)
- 1956 - Jimenez, Juan Ramon (Spanish)
- 1955 - Laxness, Halldor (Icelandic)
- 1954 - Hemingway, Ernest (American)
- 1953 - Churchill, Sir Winston (British)
- 1952 - Mauriac, Francois (French)
- 1951 - Lagerkvist, Par (Swedish)
- 1950 - Russell, Bertrand (British)
- 1949 - Faulkner, William (American)
- 1948 - Eliot, T.S. (British)
- 1947 - Gide, Andre (French)
- 1946 - Hesse, Hermann (German-Swiss)
- 1945 - Mistral, Gabriela (Chilean)
- 1944 - Jensen, Johannes (Danish)
- 1939 - Sillanpaa, Frans (Finnish)
- 1938 - Martin Du Gard, Roger (French)
- 1936 - O'Neill, Eugene (American)
- 1934 - Pirandello, Luigi (Italian)
- 1933 - Bunin, Ivan (Russian)
- 1932 - Galsworthy, John (British)
- 1931 - Karlfeldt, Erik (Swedish)
- 1930 - Lewis, Sinclair (American)
- 1929 - Undset, Sigrid (Norwegian)
- 1927 - Bergson, Henri (French)
- 1926 - Deledda, Grazia (Italian)
- 1925 - Shaw, George Bernard (Irish)
- 1924 - Reymont, Wladyslaw (Polish)
- 1923 - Yeats, William Butler (Irish)
- 1922 - Benavente, Jacinto (Spanish)
- 1921 - France, Anatole (French)
- 1920 - Hamsun, Knut (Norwegian)
- 1919 - Spitteler, Karlt (Swiss)
- 1917 - Gjellerup, Karl and Pontoppidan, Henrik (both Danish)
- 1916 - von Heidenstam, Verner (Swedish)
- 1915 - Rolland, Romain (French)
- 1913 - Tagore, Rabindranath (Indian)
- 1912 - Hauptmann, Gerhart (German)
- 1911 - Maeterlinck, Maurice (Belgian)
- 1910 - Heyse, Paul (German)
- 1909 - Lagerlof, Selma (Swedish)
- 1908 - Eucken, Rudolf (German)
- 1907 - Kipling, Rudyard (British)
- 1906 - Carducci, Giosue (Italian)
- 1905 - Sienkiewicz, Henryk (Polish)
- 1904 - Mistral, Frederic (French) and Echegaray, Jose (Spanish)
- 1903 - Bjornson, Bjornsterne (Norwegian)
- 1902 - Mommsen, Theodor (German)
- 1901 - Prudhomme, Sully (French)