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 1999
“whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1998
“who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1997
“who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
“for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1995
“for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1994
“who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1993
“who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1992
“for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1991
“who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity”
Nobel Prize in Literature 1990
“for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity”