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 1989
“for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1988
“who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1987
“for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1986
“who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1985
“who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1984
“for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1983
“for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
“for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1981
“for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1980
“who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts”