CHRONOLOGY: Winners of the Nobel prize for literature since 1946

Stockholm - Winners of the Nobel prize for literature since 1946: <#> 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) <#>