Winners since 1960

2005-10-13 13:22

Stockholm - Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960.

2004: Elfriede Jelinek, Austria

2003: JM Coetzee, South Africa

2002: Imre Kertesz, Hungary

2001: VS Naipaul, Trinidad-born Briton

2000: Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French

1999: Guenter Grass, Germany

1998: Jose Saramago, Portugal

1997: Dario Fo, Italy

1996: Wislawa Szymborska, Poland

1995: Seamus Heaney, Ireland

1994: Kenzaburo Oe, Japan

1993: Toni Morrison, United States

1992: Derek Walcott, St Lucia

1991: Nadine Gordimer, South Africa

1990: Octavio Paz, Mexico

1989: Camilo Jose Cela, Spain

1988: Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt

1987: Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born American

1986: Wole Soyinka, Nigeria

1985: Claude Simon, France

1984: Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia

1983: William Golding, Britain

1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia

1981: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born Briton

1980: Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born American

1979: Odysseus Elytis, Greece

1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American

1977: Vicente Aleixandre, Spain

1976: Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American

1975: Eugenio Montale, Italy

1974: Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson, Sweden

1973: Patrick White, British-born Australian

1972: Heinrich Boell, West Germany

1971: Pablo Neruda, Chile

1970: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia

1969: Samuel Beckett, Ireland

1968: Yasunari Kawabata, Japan

1967: Miguel A Asturias, Guatemala

1966: Shmuel Y Agnon, Polish-born Israeli, and Nelly Sachs, German-born Swede

1965: Mikhail Sholokhov, Russia

1964: Jean-Paul Sartre, France (declined award)

1963: Giorgos Seferis, Turkish-born Greek

1962: John Steinbeck, United States

1961: Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia

1960: Saint-John Perse, French

- AP