Season 5
from april 29th to may 1st, 2011
at 2pm and at 4pm
at the International Antiquarian Book Fair
at the Grand Auditorium of the Grand Palais, Paris
LIST OF NOBEL PRIZES FOR LITERATURE
Since its creation in 1901, numbers of authors have been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature...
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru 1936
2009 Herta Muller, Allemagne 1953
2008 Jean-Marie Le Clézio , France 1940
2007 Doris Lessing, Great Britain 1919
2006 Orhan Pamuk Turkey 1952
2005 Harold Pinter England 1930
2004 Elfriede Jelinek Austria 1946
2003 J.M. Coetzee South Africa 1940
2002 Imre Kertész Hungary 1929
2001 V.S. Naipaul Sir England 1932
2000 Gao Xingjian France 1940
1999 Günter Grass Germany 1927
1998 José Saramago Portugal 1922
1997 Dario Fo Italy 1926
1996 Wislawa Szymborska Poland 1923
1995 Seamus Heaney Ireland 1939
1994 Kenzaburo Oe Japan 1935
1993 Toni Morrison USA 1931
1992 Derek Walcott Saint Lucy 1930
1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa 1923
1990 Octavio Paz Mexico 1914-1998
1989 Camilo José Cela Spain 1916-2002
1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypt 1911
1987 Joseph Brodsky USA 1940-1996
1986 Wole Soyinka Nigeria 1934 Premier africain à obtenir le prix
1985 Claude Simon France 1913-2005
1984 Jaroslav Seifert Czechoslovakia 1901-1986
1983 William Golding Sir England 1911-1993
1982 Gabriel García Márquez Columbia 1928
1981 Elias Canetti England 1905-1994
1980 Czeslaw Milosz Poland-USA 1911-2004
1979 Odysseus Elytis Greece 1911-1996
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer USA 1904-1991
1977 Vicente Aleixandre Spain 1898-1984
1976 Saul Bellow USA 1915-2005
1975 Eugenio Montale Italy 1896-1981
1974 Eyvind Johnson Sweden 1900-1976 Harry Martinson Suède 1904-1978
1973 Patrick White Australia 1912-1990
1972 Heinrich Böll West Germany 1917-1985
1971 Pablo Neruda Chili 1904-1973
1970 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn USSR 1918
1969 Samuel Beckett Ireland 1906-1989
1968 Yasunari Kawabata Japan 1899-1972
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias Guatemala 1899-1974
1966 Samuel Agnon Israel 1888-1970 Nelly Sachs Sweden 1891-1970
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov USSR 1905-1984
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre France 1905-1980
1963 Giorgos Seferis Greece 1900-1971
1962 John Steinbeck USA 1902-1968
1961 Ivo Andric Yougoslavia 1892-1975
1960 Saint-John Perse France 1887-1975
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo Italy 1901-1968
1958 Boris Pasternak USSR 1890-1960
1957 Albert Camus France 1913-1960
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez Spain 1881-1958
1955 Halldór Laxness Iceland 1902-1998
1954 Ernest Hemingway USA 1899-1961
1953 Winston Churchill United Kingdom1874-1965
1952 François Mauriac France 1885-1970
1951 Pär Lagerkvist Sweden 1891-1974
1950 Bertrand Russell United Kingdom1872-1970
1949 William Faulkner USA 1897-1962
1948 T.S. Eliot United Kingdom 1888-1965
1947 André Gide France 1869-1951
1946 Hermann Hesse Switzerland 1877-1962
1945 Gabriela Mistral Chili 1889-1957
1944 Johannes V. Jensen Denmark 1873-1950
1943 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1942 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1941 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1940 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää Finland 1888-1964
1938 Pearl Buck USA 1892-1973
1937 Roger Martin du Gard France 1881-1958
1936 Eugene O'Neill USA 1888-1953
1935 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1934 Luigi Pirandello Italy 1867-1936
1933 Ivan Bunin (stateless domicile in France) 1870-1953
1932 John Galsworthy United-Kingdom 1867-1933
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt Sweden 1864-1931
1930 Sinclair Lewis USA 1885-1951
1929 Thomas Mann Germany 1875-1955
1928 Sigrid Undset Norway 1882-1949
1927 Henri Bergson France 1859-1941
1926 Grazia Deledda Italy 1871-1936
1925 George Bernard Shaw United-Kingdom 1856-1950
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont Poland 1867-1925
1923 William Butler Yeats Ireland 1865-1939
1922 Jacinto Benavente Spain 1866-1954
1921 Anatole France France 1844-1924
1920 Knut Hamsun Norway 1859-1952
1919 Carl Spitteler Switzerland 1845-1924
1918 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1917 Karl Gjellerup Denmark 1857-1919 Henrik Pontoppidan Danemark 1857-1943
1916 Verner von Heidenstam Sweden 1859-1940
1915 Romain Rolland France 1866-1944
1914 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1913 Rabindranath Tagore India 1861-1941
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann Germany 1862-1946
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgium 1862-1949
1910 Paul Heyse Germany 1830-1914
1909 Selma Lagerlöf Sweden 1858-1940
1908 Rudolf Eucken Germany 1846-1926
1907 Rudyard Kipling United-Kingdom 1865-1936
1906 Giosuè Carducci Italy 1835-1907
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland 1846-1916
1904 Frédéric Mistral France 1830-1914 José Echegaray Espagne 1832-1916
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Norway 1832-1910
1902 Theodor Mommsen Germany 1817-1903
1901 Sully Prudhomme France 1839-1907