The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 119 times to 123 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2026. Click on the links to get more information.
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Nobel Prize in Literature 2026
“for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
“for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
“for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2023
“for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2022
“for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
“for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
“for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”