Stockholm - Winners of the Nobel prize for literature since
1946:
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2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (France)
2007 - Doris Lessing (Britain)
2006 - Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
2005 - Harold Pinter (Britain)
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2003 - John M Coetzee (South Africa)
2002 - Imre Kertesz (Hungary)
2001 - VS Naipaul (Trinidad/Britain)
2000 - Gao Xingjian (China/France)
1999 - Guenter Grass (Germany)
1998 - Jose Saramago (Portugal)
1997 - Dario Fo (Italy)
1996 - Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1995 - Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
1994 - Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
1993 - Toni Morrison (US)
1992 - Derek Walcott (Trinidad and Tobago)
1991 - Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1990 - Octavio Paz (Mexico)
1989 - Camilo Jose Cela (Spain)
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
1987 - Joseph Brodsky (USSR)
1986 - Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
1985 - Claude Simon (France)
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia)
1983 - William G. Golding (Britain)
1982 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia)
1981 - Elias Canetti (Britain)
1980 - Czeslaw Milosz (Poland)
1979 - Odysseus Elytis (Greece)
1978 - Isaac B Singer (US)
1977 - Vicente Aleixandre (Spain)
1976 - Saul Bellow (US)
1975 - Eugenio Montale (Italy)
1974 - Eyvind Johnson (Sweden)
Harry Martinson (Sweden)
1973 - Patrick White (Australia)
1972 - Heinrich Boell (Germany)
1971 - Pablo Neruda (Chile)
1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (USSR)
1969 - Samuel Beckett (Ireland)
1968 - Yasunari Kawabata (Japan)
1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala)
1966 - Shmuel Josef Agnon (Israel)
Nelly Sachs (Sweden, born in Germany)
1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov (USSR)
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre (France)
1963 - Giorgos Seferis (Greece)
1962 - John Steinbeck (US)
1961 - Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia)
1960 - Saint-John Perse (France)
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy)
1958 - Boris Pasternak (USSR)
1957 - Albert Camus (France)
1956 - Juan Ramon Jimenez (Spain)
1955 - Halldor Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
1954 - Ernest Hemingway (US)
1953 - Winston Churchill (Britain)
1952 - Francois Mauriac (France)
1951 - Par Lagerkvist (Sweden)
1950 - Bertrand Russell (Britain)
1949 - William Faulkner (US)
1948 - Thomas Stearns Eliot (Britain)
1947 - Andre Gide (France)
1946 - Hermann Hesse (Switzerland, born in Germany)
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