An image based on the medal which winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature receive.
Winners
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich |
| 2014 | Patrick Modiano |
| 2013 | Alice Munro |
| 2012 | Mo Yan |
| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| 2009 | Herta Müller |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek |
| 2003 | John M. Coetzee |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész |
| 2001 | V.S. Naipaul |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian |
| 1999 | Günter Grass |
| 1998 | José Saramago |
| 1997 | Dario Fo |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka |
| 1985 | Claude Simon |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert |
| 1983 | William Golding |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti |
| 1980 | Czesław Miłosz |
| 1979 | Odysseas Elytis |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1977 | Vicente Alexandre |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson |
| 1973 | Patrick White |
| 1972 | Heinrich Boll |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda |
| 1970 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett |
| 1968 | Kawabata Yasunari |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias |
| 1966 |  Shmuel Yosef Agnon ( Israel)
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| 1966 |  Nelly Sachs ( Germany/ Sweden)
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| 1965 | File:Sholokhov-1938.jpg Mikhail Sholokov ( Soviet Union)
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| 1964 |  Jean-Paul Sartre ( France)
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| 1963 |  Giorgos Seferis ( Greece)
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| 1962 |  John Steinbeck ( United States)
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| 1961 | File:Andric Ivo.jpg Ivo Andric ( Yugoslavia)
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| 1960 |  Saint-John Perse ( France)
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| 1959 |  Salvatore Quasimodo ( Italy)
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| 1958 | File:Boris Pasternak cropped.jpg Boris Pasternak ( Soviet Union)
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| 1957 |  Albert Camus ( French Algeria/France)
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| 1956 |  Juan Ramon Jimenez ( Spain)
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| 1955 |  Halldor Laxness ( Iceland)
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| 1954 |  Ernest Hemingway ( United States)
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| 1953 |  Winston Churchill ( United Kingdom)
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| 1952 |  François Mauriac ( France)
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| 1951 |  Par Lagerkvist ( Sweden)
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| 1950 |  Bertrand Russell ( United Kingdom)
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| 1949 |  William Faulkner ( United States)
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| 1948 |  T.S. Eliot ( United States/ United Kingdom)
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| 1947 |  André Gide ( France)
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| 1946 |  Hermann Hesse ( Germany/ Switzerland)
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| 1945 |  Gabriela Mistral ( Chile)
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| 1944 |  Johannes Vilhelm Jensen ( Denmark)
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| 1943 | No prize awarded |
| 1942 | No prize awarded |
| 1941 | No prize awarded |
| 1940 | No prize awarded |
| 1939 |  Frans Eeemil Sillanpaa ( Finland)
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| 1938 |  Pearl S. Buck ( United States)
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| 1937 |  Roger Martin du Gard ( France)
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| 1936 |  Eugene O'Neiill United States)
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| 1935 | No prize awarded |
| 1934 |  Luigi Pirandello ( Italy)
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| 1933 |  Ivan Bunin ( Russian Empire/ France)
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| 1932 |  John Galsworthy ( United Kingdom)
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| 1931 |  Erik Axel Karlfedt ( Sweden)
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| 1930 |  Sinclair Lewis ( United States)
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| 1929 |  Thomas Mann ( Germany)
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| 1928 |  Sigrid Undset ( Denmark/ Norway)
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| 1927 |  Henri Bergson ( France)
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| 1926 |  Grazia Deledda ( Italy)
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| 1925 |  George Bernard Shaw ( Ireland)
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| 1924 |  Wladyslaw Reymont ( Poland)
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| 1923 |  W.B. Yeats ( Ireland)
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| 1922 |  Jacinto Benavente ( Spain)
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| 1921 |  Anatole France ( France)
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| 1920 |  Knut Hamsun ( Norway)
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| 1919 |  Carl Spitteler ( Switzerland)
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| 1918 | No prize awarded |
| 1917 |  Henrik Pontoppidan ( Denmark)
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| 1917 |  Karl Adolph Gjellerup ( Denmark)
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| 1916 |  Verner von Heidenstam ( Sweden)
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| 1915 |  Roman Rolland ( France)
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| 1914 | No prize awarded |
| 1913 |  Rabindranath Tagore ( India)
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| 1912 |  Gerhart Hauptmann ( German Empire)
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| 1911 |  Maurice Maeterlinck ( Belgium)
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| 1910 |  Paul von Heyse ( German Empire)
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| 1909 |  Selma Lagerlof ( Sweden)
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| 1908 |  Rudolph Christoph Eucken ( German Empire)
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| 1907 |  Rudyard Kipling ( India/ United Kingdom)
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| 1906 |  Giosue Carducci ( Italy)
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| 1905 |  Henryk Sienkiewicz ( Poland)
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| 1904 |  Frédéric Mistral ( France)
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| 1904 |  José Echegaray ( Spain)
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| 1903 |  Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson ( Norway)
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| 1902 |  Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen ( German Empire)
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| 1901 |  Sully Prudhomme ( France)
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