The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 118 times to 122 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2025. Click on the links to get more information.
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Nobel Prize in Literature 1919
“in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1918
“No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1917
“for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals”
“for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1916
“in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1915
“as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1914
“No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1913
“because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1912
“primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1911
“in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1910
“as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories”