Average Age for a Nobel Laureate in Literature

The ages in the graphs below refers to how old the Nobel Laureates were the year they were awarded the Nobel Prize. The average age when awarded is 64 for all the Literature Laureates between 1901 and 2012. The most frequent age brackets for Literature Laureates is 60-64 and 70-74. To date, the youngest Literature Laureate is Rudyard Kipling, best known for The Jungle Book, who was 42 years old when he was awarded the Literature Prize in 1907.

Percent and number of Literature Laureates in different age brackets

 

 

Average age of Literature Laureates during the past century

 

 

Average age of Nobel Laureate per prize category