Nobel Prize for Literature: 1950 to Present The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded by the Swedish Academy since 1901 to a person who has made the greatest contribution to the field of literature, as determined by the Nobel Committee. Nominations for the prize are made by members of the Academy, members of similar academies and societies, professors of literature and language, former Nobel laureates, and presidents of author organizations. The monetary award is a share of the interest on the endowment made by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, which is held in trust by the Nobel Foundation. 2006 Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) 2005 Harold Pinter (Great Britain) 2004 Elfriede Jelinek (Austria) 2003 J.M. Coetzee (South Africa) 2002 Imre Kert�sz (Hungary) 2001 V.S. Naipaul (England) 2000 Gao Xingjian (China) 1999 G�nter Grass (Germany) 1998 José Saramago (Portugal) 1997 Dario Fo (Italy) 1996 Wislawa Szymborska (Poland) 1995 Seamus Heaney (Ireland) 1994 Kenzaburo Oe (Japan) 1993 Toni Morrison (U.S.) 1992 Derek Walcott (St. Lucia, West Indies) 1991 Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) 1990 Octavio Paz (Mexico) 1989 Camilo Jose Cela (Spain) 1988 Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) 1987 Joseph Brodsky (U.S.) 1986 Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) 1985 Claude Simon (France) 1984 Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia) 1983 William Golding (Great Britain) 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia) 1981 Elias Canetti (Great Britain) 1980 Czeslaw Milosz (U.S. and Poland) 1979 Odysseus Elytis (pen name of Odysseus Alepoudhelis) (Greece) 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (U.S.) 1977 Vicente Aleixandre (Spain) 1976 Saul Bellow (U.S.) 1975 Eugenio Montale (Italy) 1974 Eyvind Johnson (Sweden) 1973 Patrick White (Australia) 1972 Heinrich Boell (W. Germany) 1971 Pablo Neruda (Chile) 1970 Alexandr Solzhjenitsyn (USSR) 1969 Samuel Beckett (Ireland) 1968 Yasunari Kawabata (Japan) 1967 Miguel A. Asturias (Guatemala) 1966 Shmuel Y. Agnon (Israel)      Nelly Sachs (Sweden) 1965 Michail A. Sholokhov (USSR) 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (France) 1963 Giorgos Seferis (pen name of Giorgos Seferiadis) (Greece) 1962 John Steinbeck (U.S.) 1961 Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia) 1960 Saint-John Perse (pen name of Alexis Leger) (France) 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy) 1958 Boris L. Pasternak (USSR) 1957 Albert Camus (France) 1956 Juan Ramon Jimenez (Spain) 1955 Halldor Kiljan Laxness (Iceland) 1954 Ernest M. Hemingway (U.S.) 1953 Sir Winston L.S. Churchill (Great Britain) 1952 Francois Mauriac (France) 1951 Par Fabian Lagerkvist (Sweden) 1950 Earl Russell (Bertrand Arthur William) (Great Britain) Topics: Awards,