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The Caldecott Medal
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The Man Booker Prize
The Michael L. Printz Award
The National Book Awards
The National Book Critics Award
The Newbery Medal

The Nobel Prize for Literature
The Pulitzer Prize
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The Nobel Prize is the first international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The prize consists of a medal, a personal diploma, and a prize amount.

The Nobel Prize for Literature recognizes a person who has produced the most distinguished work of an idealistic nature in the field of literature. Authors, regardless of nationality, are considered for their complete body of work.

 
2007 Doris Lessing--United Kingdom
2006 Orhan Pumak--Turkey
2005
Harold Pinter--East London, UK
2004 Elfriede Jelinek--Austria
2003
John Maxwell Coetzee--South Africa
2002 Imre Kertesz--Hungary
2001 V.S. Naipaul--Great Britain
2000 Gao Xingjian--China
1999 Günter 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.A
1992 Derek Walcott--St. Lucia
1991 Nadine Gordimer--South Africa
1990 Octavio Paz--Mexico
1989 Dr. Camilo José Cela--Spain
1988 Naguib Mahfouz--Egypt
1987 Joseph Brodsky--U.S.A
1986 Wole Soyinka--Nigeria
1985 Claude Simon--France
1984 Jaroslav Seifert--Czechoslovakia
1983 William Golding--United Kingdom
1982 Gabriel García Márquez--Colombia
1981 Elias Canetti--United Kingdom
1980 Czeslaw Milosz--Poland/U.S.A
1979 Odysseus Elytis--Greece
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer--U.S.A.
1977 Vincente Aleixandre--Spain
1976 Saul Bellow--U.S.A
1975 Eugenio Montale--Italy
1974 Eyvind Johnson & Harry Martinson--Sweden
1973 Patrick White--Australia
1972 Heinrich Böll--Germany
1971 Pablo Neruda--Chile
1970 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn--U.S.S.R.
1969 Samuel Beckett--Ireland
1968 Yasunari Kawabata--Japan
1967 Miguel A. Asturias--Guatemala
1966 Schmel Y. Agnon (Israel) and Nelly Sachs (Germany)
1965 Michail Sholokhov--U.S.S.R.
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre--France (declined)
1963 Giorgos Seferis--Greece
1962 John Steinbeck--U.S.A
1961 Ivo Andric--Yugoslavia
1960 Saint-John Perse--France
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo --Italy
1958 Boris Pasternak--U.S.S.R.
1957 Albert Camus--France
1956 J.R. Jiménez--Spain
1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness--Iceland
1954 Ernest Hemingway--U.S.A.
1953 Winston Churchill--United Kingdom
1952 François Mauriac--France
1951 Pär Lagerkvist--Sweden
1950 Bertrand Russell--United Kingdom
1949 William Faulkner--U.S.A.
1948 T.S. Eliot--United Kingdom
1947 André Gide--France
1946 Hermann Hesse--Switzerland
1945 Gabriela Mistral--Chile
1944 Johannes V. Jensen--Denmark
1943 No Award
1942 No Award
1941 No Award
1940 No Award
1939 F.E. Sillanpää--Finland
1938 Pearl S. Buck--U.S.A.
1937 Roger Martin du Gard--France
1936 Eugene O'Neill--U.S.A.
1935 No Award
1934 Luigi Pirandello--Italy
1933 Ivan Bunin--U.S.S.R
1932 John Galsworthy--United Kingdom
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt --Italy
1930 Sinclair Lewis--U.S.A.
1929Thomas Mann--Germany
1928 Singrid Undset--Norway
1927 Henri Bergson--France
1926 Grazia Deledda--Italy
1925 George Bernard Shaw--United Kingdom
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont--Poland
1923 William Butler Yeats--Ireland
1922 Jacinto Benavente--Spain
1921 Anatole France--France
1920 Knut Hamsun--Norway
1919 Carl Spitteler--Switzerland
1918 No Award
1917 Karl Gjellerup (Italy) and Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark)
1916 Verner von Heidenstam--Sweden
1915 Romain Rolland--France
1914 No Award
1913 Rabindranath Tagore--India
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann--Germany
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck--Belgium
1910 Paul von Heyse--Germany
1909 Selma Lagerlöf--Sweden
1908 Rudolf Eucken--Germany
1907 Rudyard Kipling--United Kingdom
1906 Giosue Carducci--Italy
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz--Poland
1904 José Echegaray (Spain) and Frédéric Mistral (France)
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson--Norway
1902 Theodor Mommsen--Germany
1901 Sully Prudhomme --France