Browse Namesakes
This is a list of namesakes in which the category is Nobel Prize Winners; and the keywords are literature
| Name | Gender | Year | Category | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sully Prudhomme | m | 1901 | literature |  | |
| Theodor Mommsen | m | 1902 | literature | | |
| Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | m | 1903 | literature | | |
| Frédéric Mistral | m | 1904 | literature | | |
| José Echegaray | m | 1904 | literature | | |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz | m | 1905 | literature | | |
| Giosuè Carducci | m | 1906 | literature | | |
| Rudyard Kipling | m | 1907 | literature | | |
| Rudolf Christoph Eucken | m | 1908 | literature | | |
| Selma Lagerlöf | f | 1909 | literature | | |
| Paul Heyse | m | 1910 | literature | | |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | m | 1911 | literature | | |
| Gerhart Hauptmann | m | 1912 | literature | | |
| Rabindranath Tagore | m | 1913 | literature | | |
| Romain Rolland | m | 1915 | literature | | |
| Verner von Heidenstam | m | 1916 | literature | | |
| Henrik Pontoppidan | m | 1917 | literature | | |
| Karl Adolph Gjellerup | m | 1917 | literature | | |
| Carl Spitteler | m | 1919 | literature | | |
| Knut Hamsun | m | 1920 | literature | | |
| Anatole France | m | 1921 | literature | | |
| Jacinto Benavente | m | 1922 | literature | | |
| William Butler Yeats | m | 1923 | literature | | |
| Władysław Reymont | m | 1924 | literature | (Stanisław) | |
| George Bernard Shaw | m | 1925 | literature | | |
| Grazia Deledda | f | 1926 | literature | | |
| Henri Bergson | m | 1927 | literature | | |
| Sigrid Undset | f | 1928 | literature | | |
| Thomas Mann | m | 1929 | literature | | |
| Sinclair Lewis | m | 1930 | literature | (Harry) | |
| Erik Axel Karlfeldt | m | 1931 | literature | | |
| John Galsworthy | m | 1932 | literature | | |
| Ivan Bunin | m | 1933 | literature | | |
| Luigi Pirandello | m | 1934 | literature | | |
| Eugene O'Neill | m | 1936 | literature | | |
| Roger Martin du Gard | m | 1937 | literature | | |
| Pearl S. Buck | f | 1938 | literature | (Sai, Sydenstricker, Zhenzhu) | |
| Frans Eemil Sillanpää | m | 1939 | literature | | |
| Johannes V. Jensen | m | 1944 | literature | (Vilhelm) | |
| Gabriela Mistral | f | 1945 | literature | | |
| Hermann Hesse | m | 1946 | literature | | |
| André Gide | m | 1947 | literature | | |
| T. S. Eliot | m | 1948 | literature | (Thomas, Stearns) | |
| William Faulkner | m | 1949 | literature | (Cuthbert) | |
| Bertrand Russell | m | 1950 | literature | | |
| Pär Lagerkvist | m | 1951 | literature | | |
| François Mauriac | m | 1952 | literature | | |
| Winston Churchill | m | 1953 | literature | | |
| Ernest Hemingway | m | 1954 | literature | (Miller) | |
| Halldór Laxness | m | 1955 | literature | (Kiljan) | |
| Juan Ramón Jiménez | m | 1956 | literature | | |
| Albert Camus | m | 1957 | literature | | |
| Boris Pasternak | m | 1958 | literature | | |
| Salvatore Quasimodo | m | 1959 | literature | | |
| Saint-John Perse | m | 1960 | literature | | |
| Ivo Andrić | m | 1961 | literature | | |
| John Steinbeck | m | 1962 | literature | (Ernst) | |
| Giorgos Seferis | m | 1963 | literature | | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | m | 1964 | literature | | |
| Mikhail Sholokhov | m | 1965 | literature | | |
| Nelly Sachs | f | 1966 | literature | | |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon | m | 1966 | literature | | |
| Miguel Ángel Asturias | m | 1967 | literature | | |
| Kawabata Yasunari | m | 1968 | literature | | |
| Samuel Beckett | m | 1969 | literature | | |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | m | 1970 | literature | | |
| Pablo Neruda | m | 1971 | literature | | |
| Heinrich Böll | m | 1972 | literature | | |
| Patrick White | m | 1973 | literature | | |
| Eyvind Johnson | m | 1974 | literature | | |
| Harry Martinson | m | 1974 | literature | | |
| Eugenio Montale | m | 1975 | literature | | |
| Saul Bellow | m | 1976 | literature | | |
| Vicente Aleixandre | m | 1977 | literature | | |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | m | 1978 | literature | | |
| Odysseas Elytis | m | 1979 | literature | | |
| Czesław Miłosz | m | 1980 | literature | | |
| Elias Canetti | m | 1981 | literature | | |
| Gabriel García Márquez | m | 1982 | literature | | |
| William Golding | m | 1983 | literature | | |
| Jaroslav Seifert | m | 1984 | literature | | |
| Claude Simon | m | 1985 | literature | | |
| Wole Soyinka | m | 1986 | literature | (Akinwande, Oluwole) | |
| Joseph Brodsky | m | 1987 | literature | | |
| Naguib Mahfouz | m | 1988 | literature | | |
| Camilo José Cela | m | 1989 | literature | | |
| Octavio Paz | m | 1990 | literature | | |
| Nadine Gordimer | f | 1991 | literature | | |
| Derek Walcott | m | 1992 | literature | | |
| Toni Morrison | f | 1993 | literature | (Chloe, Ardelia) | |
| Ōe Kenzaburō | m | 1994 | literature | | |
| Seamus Heaney | m | 1995 | literature | | |
| Wisława Szymborska | f | 1996 | literature | | |
| Dario Fo | m | 1997 | literature | | |
| José Saramago | m | 1998 | literature | | |
| Günter Grass | m | 1999 | literature | | |
| Gao Xingjian | m | 2000 | literature | | |
| V. S. Naipaul | m | 2001 | literature | (Vidiadhar, Surajprasad) | |
| Imre Kertész | m | 2002 | literature | | |
| J. M. Coetzee | m | 2003 | literature | (John, Maxwell) | |
| Elfriede Jelinek | f | 2004 | literature | | |
| Harold Pinter | m | 2005 | literature | | |
| Orhan Pamuk | m | 2006 | literature | (Ferit) | |
| Doris Lessing | f | 2007 | literature | (May) | |
| J. M. G. Le Clézio | m | 2008 | literature | (Jean, Marie, Gustave) | |
| Herta Müller | f | 2009 | literature | | |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | m | 2010 | literature | | |
| Tomas Tranströmer | m | 2011 | literature | | |
| Mo Yan | m | 2012 | literature | (Moye) | |
| Alice Munro | f | 2013 | literature | (Ann) | |
| Patrick Modiano | m | 2014 | literature | | |
| Svetlana Alexievich | f | 2015 | literature | | |
| Bob Dylan | m | 2016 | literature | (Robert, Allen) | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | m | 2017 | literature | | |
| Olga Tokarczuk | f | 2018 | literature | (Nawoja) | |
| Peter Handke | m | 2019 | literature | | |
| Louise Glück | f | 2020 | literature | | |
| Abdulrazak Gurnah | m | 2021 | literature | | |
| Annie Ernaux | f | 2022 | literature | | |
| Jon Fosse | m | 2023 | literature | |