Nobel Prize in Literature

1901 - Sully Prudhomme @ 1913 - Rabindranath Tagore @ 1902 - Theodor Mommsen @ 1915 - Romain Rolland @ 1903 - Bjornstjerne Bjornso @ 1916 - Carl von Heidenstam @ 1904 - Frédéric Mistral @ 1917 - Henrik Pontoppidan @ 1904 - José Echegaray Y Eiz @ 1917 - Karl A. Gjellerup @ 1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz @ 1919 - Carl Spitteler @ 1906 - Giosuè Carducci @ 1920 - Knut Pedersen Hamsun @ 1907 - Rudyard Kipling @ 2002 - Günter Grass @ 1908 - Rudolf C. Eucken @ 2003 - J.M. Coetzee @ 1909 - Selma Otti Lagerlöf @ 2005 - Harold Pinter @ 1910 - Paul von Heyse @ 2006 - Orhan Pamuk @ 1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck @ 2007 - Doris Lessing @ 1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann @

Nobel Prize in Literature - Laureates
By the terms of Alfred Bernhard Nobel's will (1896), the Nobel Prize for Literature is given to the person who has produced "the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency" in the field of literature.

Nobel Laureates in Literature (1901-present)
By the terms of Alfred Bernhard Nobel's will (1896), the Nobel Prize for Literature is given to the person who has produced "the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency" in the field of literature. Just a few of the Nobel laureates include: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow, Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, John Steinbeck, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, William Butler Yeats, and Rudyard Kipling.

The Nobel Prize in Literature - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize in Literature has recognized the whole spectrum of literary works including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays and speeches.