Nobel laureates in English literature
All Nobel laureates in English literature
Name 
 | 
  
Nationality 
 | 
  
Title 
 | 
  
Year 
 | 
 
Sully
  Prudhomme 
 | 
  
French 
 | 
  
Poet 
 | 
  
1901 
 | 
 
Rudyard
  Kipling 
 | 
  
Indian by
  Birth and British by living 
 | 
  
Short story
  writer 
 | 
  
1907 
 | 
 
Rabindranath Tagore 
 | 
  
Indian 
 | 
  
Bengali Poet 
 | 
  
1913 
 | 
 
W.B. Yeats 
 | 
  
Poet Irish 
 | 
  
Poet 
 | 
  
1923 
 | 
 
George Bernard
  Shaw 
 | 
  
Irish 
 | 
  
Dramatist 
 | 
  
1925 
 | 
 
John
  Galsworthy 
 | 
  
British 
 | 
  
Novelist 
 | 
  
1932 
 | 
 
Eugene O’Neill 
 | 
  
American 
 | 
  
Playwright 
 | 
  
1936 
 | 
 
Pearl s Buck 
 | 
  
American 
 | 
  
A woman
  novelist 
 | 
  
1938 
 | 
 
T.S. Eliot 
 | 
  
American by
  Birth and British by living  
 | 
  
Poet 
 | 
  
1948 
 | 
 
William Faulkner 
 | 
  
American 
 | 
  
Novelist 
 | 
  
1949 
 | 
 
Bertrand Russell 
 | 
  
British 
 | 
  
Modern
  Philosopher 
 | 
  
1950 
 | 
 
Sir Winston
  Churchill 
 | 
  
British 
 | 
  
Politician 
 | 
  
1953 
 | 
 
Ernest
  Hemingway 
 | 
  
American 
 | 
  
Novelist 
 | 
  
1954 
 | 
 
Samuel Beckett 
 | 
  
British 
 | 
  
Dramatist 
 | 
  
1969 
 | 
 
Pablo Neruda 
 | 
  
Chilean 
 | 
  
Poet and
  Diplomat 
 | 
  
1971 
 | 
 
William
  Golding 
 | 
  
British 
 | 
  
Dramatist 
 | 
  
1983 
 | 
 
Wole Soyinka 
 | 
  
Nigerian 
 | 
  
Playwright 
 | 
  
1986 
 | 
 
Toni Morrison 
 | 
  
American 
 | 
  
Novelist 
 | 
  
1993 
 | 
 
Seamus Heaney 
 | 
  
British 
 | 
  
Poet laureate 
 | 
  
1995 
 | 
 
Harold Pinter 
 | 
  
British 
 | 
  
Dramatist 
 | 
  
2005 
 | 
 
Orhan Pamuk 
 | 
  
Turkish 
 | 
  
Novelist Short-story
  writer 
 | 
  
2006 
 | 
 
Doris Lessing 
 | 
  
British 
 | 
  
Novelist 
 | 
  
2007 
 | 
 
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio 
 | 
  
French 
 | 
  
Novelist and
  essayist 
 | 
  
2008 
 | 
 
Herta Müller 
 | 
  
German 
 | 
  
Novelist and Poet 
 | 
  
2009 
 | 
 
Mario Vargas Llosa 
 | 
  
  
Peruvian 
 | 
  
Novelist and
  essayist 
 | 
  
2010 
 | 
 
Tomas Tranströmer 
 | 
  
Swedish 
 | 
  
Poet
  psychologist and translator 
 | 
  
2011 
 | 
 
Mo Yan 
 | 
  
Chinese 
 | 
  
Short- story
  writer and Novelist 
 | 
  
2012 
 | 
 
Alice Munro 
 | 
  
Canadian 
 | 
  
Short-story
  writer 
 | 
  
2013 
 | 
 
Patrick Modiano 
 | 
  
French 
 | 
  
Novelist 
 | 
  
2014 
 | 
 
Svetlana Alexievich 
 | 
  
Belarusian 
 | 
  
Journalist and
  non-fiction prose writer 
 | 
  
2015 
 | 
 
Bob Dylan 
 | 
  
American 
 | 
  
Artist,
  singer, writer 
 | 
  
2016 
 | 
 
Kazuo Ishi
  Guro 
 | 
  
Japani British 
 | 
  
Novelist Short-story
  writer 
 | 
  
2017 
 | 
 
Olga Tokarczuk  
 | 
  
Polish  
 | 
  
writer, activist, and public intellectual 
 | 
  
2018 
 | 
 
Peter Handke Louise Glück 
 | 
  
Austrian  American  
 | 
  
Novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film
  director, and screenwriter  Poet 
 | 
  
2019 2020 
 | 
 
