Who Is Your Favorite Nobel Prize Winning Author?

Who is your favorite Nobel Prize winning author? The Nobel Prize for Literature website listed the “Most Popular Literature Laureates” on its website, and some of the names might surprise you.

This blogger's favorite winner is Winston Churchill's The Second World War, given in 1953.  Run down the list to see if there is one that draws you.

Since 1901, 105 Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded to 109 laureates. The average age of these laureates is 64 years old and only 12 women have received the prestigious prize.

Below, is the the entire list–complete with links to their biographies at the Nobel Prize website.

Year	Author	Famous for
1901	Sully Prudhomme	Parnassian poetry
1902	Theodor Mommsen	History of Rome
1903	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Synnöve Solbakken
1904	José Echegaray	El gran Galeoto
1904	Frédéric Mistral	MIRÈIO
1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz	Quo vadis
1906	Giosuè Carducci	Rime Nuove (New Rhymes) , Odi Barbare (Barbarian Odes)
1907	Rudyard Kipling	Jungle Books
1908	Rudolf Eucken	The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers
1909	Selma Lagerlöf	The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
1910	Paul Heyse	Children of the World
1911	Maurice Maeterlinck	The Blue Bird
1912	Gerhart Hauptmann	Die Weber
1913	Rabindranath Tagore	Gitanjali
1915	Romain Rolland	Le Théâtre du peuple
1916	Verner von Heidenstam	Karolinerna
1917	Henrik Pontoppidan	Lucky Peter
1917	Karl Gjellerup	The German Student
1919	Carl Spitteler	Olympian Spring
1920	Knut Hamsun	Growth of the Soil
1921	Anatole France	The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
1922	Jacinto Benavente	The Bonds of Interest
1923	William Butler Yeats	The Wild Swans at Coole
1924	Wladyslaw Reymont	Chłopi
1925	George Bernard Shaw	Arms and the Man
1926	Grazia Deledda	Anime Oneste
1927	Henri Bergson	The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
1928	Sigrid Undset	Kristin Lavransdatter
1929	Thomas Mann	Buddenbrooks
1930	Sinclair Lewis	Arrowsmith
1931	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	Arcadia Borealis
1932	John Galsworthy	The Forsyte Saga
1933	Ivan Bunin	The Gentleman from San Francisco
1934	Luigi Pirandello	Lumie di Sicilia
1936	Eugene O'Neill	Anna Christie
1937	Roger Martin du Gard	Les Thibault
1938	Pearl Buck	The Good Earth
1939	Frans Eemil Sillanpää	People in the Summer Night
1944	Johannes V. Jensen	Poems 1906
1945	Gabriela Mistral	Piececitos de Niño
1946	Hermann Hesse	Siddhartha
1947	André Gide	Fruits of the Earth
1948	T.S. Eliot	The Waste Land
1949	William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury
1950	Bertrand Russell	A History of Western Philosophy
1951	Pär Lagerkvist	Fruits of the Earth
1952	François Mauriac	Thérèse
1953	Winston Churchill	The Second World War
1954	Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea
1955	Halldór Laxness	Independent People
1956	Juan Ramón Jiménez	Platero and I
1957	Albert Camus	The Plague
1958	Boris Pasternak	Doctor Zhivago
1959	Salvatore Quasimodo	Giorno Dopo Giorno
1960	Saint-John Perse	Exile
1961	Ivo Andric	Anxieties
1962	John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath
1963	Giorgos Seferis	Turning Point
1964	Jean-Paul Sartre	Nausea
1965	Mikhail Sholokhov	And Quiet Flows the Don
1966	Nelly Sachs	Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel
1966	Shmuel Agnon	The Bridal Canopy
1967	Miguel Angel Asturias	The President
1968	Yasunari Kawabata	Snow Country
1969	Samuel Beckett	Waiting for Godot
1970	Alexandr Solzhenitsyn	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
1971	Pablo Neruda	Canto General
1972	Heinrich Böll	Billiards at Half-past Nine
1973	Patrick White	Riders in the Chariot
1974	Harry Martinson	Aniara
1974	Eyvind Johnson	Here is Your Life!
1975	Eugenio Montale	Occasions
1976	Saul Bellow	The Adventures of Augie March
1977	Vicente Aleixandre	Shadow of Paradise
1978	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Gimpel the Fool
1979	Odysseus Elytis	Worthy It Is
1980	Czeslaw Milosz	The Captive Mind
1981	Elias Canetti	Crowds and Power
1982	Gabriel García Márquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude
1983	William Golding	Lord of the Flies
1984	Jaroslav Seifert	The Plague Column
1985	Claude Simon	The Flanders Road
1986	Wole Soyinka	The Bacchae of Euripides
1987	Joseph Brodsky	Love Song
1988	Naguib Mahfouz	Chitchat on the Nile
1989	Camilo José Cela	The Hive
1990	Octavio Paz	Collected Poems, 1957–1987
1991	Nadine Gordimer	The Conservationist
1992	Derek Walcott	Omeros
1993	Toni Morrison	Beloved
1994	Kenzaburo Oe	A Personal Matter
1995	Seamus Heaney	The Spirit Level
1996	Wislawa Szymborska	Some Like Poetry
1997	Dario Fo	Archangels Don't Play Pinball
1998	José Saramago	Baltasar and Blimunda
1999	Günter Grass	The Tin Drum
2000	Gao Xingjian	One Man's Bible
2001	V. S. Naipaul	In a Free State
2002	Imre Kertész	Fatelessness
2003	J. M. Coetzee	Disgrace
2004	Elfriede Jelinek	The Piano Teacher
2005	Harold Pinter	The Birthday Party
2006	Orhan Pamuk	The Black Book
2007	Doris Lessing	The Grass is Singing
2008	Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio	The Interrogation
2009	Herta Müller	The Land of Green Plums

*This information is also provided at GalleyCat by Jason Boog.