Nobel Prize in Literature winners — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of nobel Prize in Literature winners, in order, with what the ranking counts and how firm the figures behind it are. Free reference, no sign-up — and the guessing game that plays the same list.
Every winner of the literature prize, most recent first — so the easy end is the one you have read about and the scoring is all in the interwar decades. Years with two laureates list both.
Ranked from published, countable figures.
100 entries, in order.
- Han Kang
- Jon Fosse
- Annie Ernaux
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Louise Gluck
- Peter Handke
- Olga Tokarczuk
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Bob Dylan
- Svetlana Alexievich
- Patrick Modiano
- Alice Munro
- Mo Yan
- Tomas Transtromer
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Herta Muller
- J. M. G. Le Clezio
- Doris Lessing
- Orhan Pamuk
- Harold Pinter
- Elfriede Jelinek
- J. M. Coetzee
- Imre Kertesz
- V. S. Naipaul
- Gao Xingjian
- Gunter Grass
- Jose Saramago
- Dario Fo
- Wislawa Szymborska
- Seamus Heaney
- Kenzaburo Oe
- Toni Morrison
- Derek Walcott
- Nadine Gordimer
- Octavio Paz
- Camilo Jose Cela
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Joseph Brodsky
- Wole Soyinka
- Claude Simon
- Jaroslav Seifert
- William Golding
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Elias Canetti
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Odysseas Elytis
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Vicente Aleixandre
- Saul Bellow
- Eugenio Montale
- Eyvind Johnson
- Harry Martinson
- Patrick White
- Heinrich Boll
- Pablo Neruda
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Samuel Beckett
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Miguel Angel Asturias
- Shmuel Agnon
- Nelly Sachs
- Mikhail Sholokhov
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Giorgos Seferis
- John Steinbeck
- Ivo Andric
- Saint-John Perse
- Salvatore Quasimodo
- Boris Pasternak
- Albert Camus
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
- Halldor Laxness
- Ernest Hemingway
- Winston Churchill
- Francois Mauriac
- Par Lagerkvist
- Bertrand Russell
- William Faulkner
- T. S. Eliot
- Andre Gide
- Hermann Hesse
- Gabriela Mistral
- Johannes V. Jensen
- Frans Eemil Sillanpaa
- Pearl S. Buck
- Roger Martin du Gard
- Eugene O'Neill
- Luigi Pirandello
- Ivan Bunin
- John Galsworthy
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt
- Sinclair Lewis
- Thomas Mann
- Sigrid Undset
- Henri Bergson
- Grazia Deledda
- George Bernard Shaw
- Wladyslaw Reymont
- W. B. Yeats
- Jacinto Benavente
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