List of Nobel Prize Winners (English Literature)

Nobel prize is one among the prestigious award in the world, every year Swedish Academy choose a best work in literature, this is common award for all literature not particularly for English alone. As a literature student it is crucial to know the Nobel prize winners in English literature. I hope for all the UGC NET aspirants and for all the teachers this post will be very useful and informative.


1. Rudyard Kipling - 1907
2. William Butler Yeats - 1923
3. George Bernard Shaw - 1925
4. Sinclair Lewis - 1930
5. John Galsworthy - 1932
6. Eugene O'Neill - 1936
7. Pearl S. Buck - 1938
8. T.S. Eliot - 1948
9. William Faulkner - 1949
10. Bertrand Russell - 1950
11. Sir Winston Churchill  - 1953
12. Ernest Hemingway - 1954
13. John Steinbeck - 1962
14. Samuel Beckett - 1969
15. Patrick White - 1973
16. Saul Bellow -  1976
17. William Golding - 1983
18. Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka -1986
19.  Joseph Brodsky - 1987
20. Nadine Gordimer - 1991
21. Derek Walcott - 1992
22 Toni Morrison - 1993
23. Seamus Heaney - 1995
24. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul - 2001
25. John Maxwell Coetzee - 2003
26. Harold Pinter - 2005
27. Doris Lessing - 2007
28. Alice Munro - 2013

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