They are all winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature from 1901 to 2022

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This Thursday we met the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022. It was the French author Annie Ernaux, who received this award "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, distances and collective restrictions of personal memory”.

From the first Nobel in 1901 to the present, the prize in the Literature category has been awarded 115 times (including the Annie Ernaux award).

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Of those 115 occasions, four have been shared prizes, one was awarded posthumously, and two were awarded but rejected by the winning authors, according to the Nobel Prize website.

Also, of the 115 total, 16 awards have been for women.

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Here are the 115 winners in this category in each year since 1901.

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1901 to 2022

1900s

1. Sully Prudhomme (natively from France, 1991 Nobel laureate)

2. Theodor Mommsen (Germany, 1902)

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3. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Norway, 1903)

4. Frédéric Mistral and José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (France and Spain, 1904, shared prize)

5. Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland, 1905)

6. Giosuè Carducci (Italy, 1906)

7. Rudyard Kipling (UK, 1907)

8. Rudolf Eucken (Germany, 1908)

9. Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden, 1909, first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature)

1910s

10. Paul Heyse (Germany, 1910)

11. Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium, 1911)

12. Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany, 1912)

13. Rabindranath Tagore (India, 1913)

(1914 - No award this year)

14. Romain Rolland (France, 1915)

15. Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden, 1916)

16. Karl Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark, 1917, shared prize)

(1918 - No award this year)

17. Carl Spitteler (Switzerland, 1919)

1920s

18. Knut Hamsun (Norway, 1920)

19. Anatole France (France, 1921)

20. Jacinto Benavente (Spain, 1922)

21. William Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1923)

22. Wladyslaw Reymont (Poland, 1924)

23. George Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1925)

24. Grazia Deledda (Italy, 1926)

25. Henri Bergson (France, 1927)

26. Sigrid Undset (Norway, 1928)

27. Thomas Mann (Germany, 1929)

1930s

28. Sinclair Lewis (United States, 1930)

29. Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden, 1931) - Surrendered posthumously.

30. John Galsworthy (UK, 1932)

31. Ivan Bunin (Russia, 1933)

32. Luigi Pirandello (Italy, 1934)

(1935 - No award this year)

33. Eugene O'Neill (USA, 1936)

34. Roger Martin du Gard (France, 1937)

35. Pearl Buck (USA, 1938)

36. Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finland, 1939)

1940s

(From 1940 to 1943 there was no prize. It was the last time without a prize)

37. Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark, 1944)

38. Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 1945)

39. Hermann Hesse (Germany, 1946)

40. Andre Gide (France, 1947)

41. Thomas Stearns Eliot (United States-United Kingdom, 1948)

42. William Faulkner (United States, 1949)

1950s

43. Bertrand Russell (UK, 1950)

44. Pär Lagerkvist (Sweden, 1951)

45. Francois Mauriac (France, 1952)

46. ​​Winston Churchill (UK, 1953)

47. Ernest Hemingway (United States, 1954)

48. Halldór Laxness (Iceland, 1955)

49. Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain, 1956)

50. Albert Camus (France, 1957)

51. Boris Pasternak (Russia, 1958) - A recognized but not awarded Nobel Prize in Literature;

he initially accepted the award, but was later coerced by authorities in the Soviet Union, his native country, into rejecting it.

52. Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy, 1959)

1960s

53. Saint-John Perse (France, 1960)

54. Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia, 1961)

55. John Steinbeck (USA, 1962)

56. Giorgos Seferis (Greece, 1963)

57. Jean-Paul Sartre (France, 1964) - Another Nobel Prize for Literature recognized but not awarded;

the author did not accept the award because he had consistently refused all official honors.

58. Mikhail Sholokhov (Russia, 1965)

59. Shmuel Agnon and Nelly Sachs (Israel and Germany, 1966, shared award)

60. Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala, 1967)

61. Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, 1968)

62. Samuel Beckett (Ireland, 1969)

1970s

63. Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russia, 1970)

64. Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1971)

65. Heinrich Böll (Germany, 1972)

66.Patrick White (Australia, 1973)

67. Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson (Sweden, 1974, shared award)

68. Eugenio Montale (Italy, 1975)

69. Saul Bellow (United States-Canada, 1976)

70. Vicente Aleixandre (Spain, 1977)

71. Isaac Bashevis Singer (Poland, United States, 1978)

72. Odysseus Elytis (Greece, 1979)

1980s

73. Czeslaw Milosz (Poland, 1980)

74. Elias Canetti (Bulgaria, 1981)

75. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia, 1982)

76. William Golding (UK, 1983)

77. Jaroslav Seifert (Czech Republic, 1984)

78. Claude Simon (France, 1985)

79. Wole Soyinka (Nigeria, 1986)

80. Joseph Brodsky (Russia-United States, 1987)

81. Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt, 1988)

82. Camilo Jose Cela (Spain, 1989)

1990s

83. Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1990)

84. Nadine Gordimer (South Africa, 1991)

85. Derek Walcott (St. Lucia, 1992)

86. Toni Morrison (USA, 1993)

87. Kenzaburo Oe (Japan, 1994)

88. Seamus Heaney (Ireland, 1995)

89. Wislawa Szymborska (Poland, 1996)

90. Dario Fo (Italy, 1997)

91. Jose Saramago (Portugal, 1998)

92. Gunter Grass (Germany, 1999)

2000s

93. Gao Xingjian (China, 2000)

94. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (United Kingdom-Trinidad and Tobago, 2001)

95. Imre Kertesz (Hungary, 2002)

96. John M. Coetzee (South Africa, 2003)

97. Elfriede Jelinek (Austria, 2004)

98. Harold Pinter (UK, 2005)

99. Orhan Pamuk (Turkey, 2006)

100. Doris Lessing (UK, 2007)

101. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (France, 2008)

102. Herta Müller (Germany, 2009)

2010s

103. Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru, 2010)

104. Tomas Tranströmer (Sweden, 2011)

105. Mo Yan (China, 2012)

106. Alice Munro (Canada, 2013)

107. Patrick Modiano (France, 2014)

108. Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus, 2015)

109. Bob Dylan (United States, 2016)

110. Kazuo Ishiguro (Japan-UK, 2017)

111. Olga Tokarczuk (Poland, 2018)

112. Peter Handke (Austria, 2019)

2020s

113. Louise Glück (United States, 2020)

114. Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania-UK, 2021)

115. Annie Ernaux (France, 2022)

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