Nobel Literature laureates
A directory of Nobel Literature laureates on booknest: portraits, country, year awarded and each writer’s signature work.
- Abdulrazak Gurnah — Tanzania / United Kingdom · Nobel 2021
- Albert Camus — France (born in Algeria) · Nobel 1957
- Annie Ernaux — France · Nobel 2022
- Derek Walcott — Saint Lucia · Nobel 1992
- Doris Lessing — United Kingdom (born in Iran) · Nobel 2007
- Ernest Hemingway — United States · Nobel 1954
- Eugene O'Neill — United States · Nobel 1936
- Gabriel García Márquez — Colombia · Nobel 1982
- George Bernard Shaw — Ireland (based in England) · Nobel 1925
- Halldór Laxness — Iceland · Nobel 1955
- Han Kang — South Korea · Nobel 2024
- Henryk Sienkiewicz — Poland · Nobel 1905
- Hermann Hesse — Germany (naturalised Swiss) · Nobel 1946
- John Galsworthy — United Kingdom · Nobel 1932 · 2 works
- Jon Fosse — Norway · Nobel 2023
- José Saramago — Portugal · Nobel 1998
- Kawabata Yasunari — Japan · Nobel 1968
- Kazuo Ishiguro — United Kingdom (born in Japan) · Nobel 2017
- Knut Hamsun — Norway · Nobel 1920
- László Krasznahorkai — Hungary · Nobel 2025
- Luigi Pirandello — Italy · Nobel 1934
- Mario Vargas Llosa — Peru · Nobel 2010
- Maurice Maeterlinck — Belgium · Nobel 1911
- Nadine Gordimer — South Africa · Nobel 1991
- Naguib Mahfouz — Egypt · Nobel 1988
- Olga Tokarczuk — Poland · Nobel 2018
- Orhan Pamuk — Turkey · Nobel 2006
- Patrick Modiano — France · Nobel 2014
- Patrick White — Australia · Nobel 1973
- Rabindranath Tagore — India · Nobel 1913 · 2 works
- Rudyard Kipling — United Kingdom (born in British India) · Nobel 1907 · 2 works
- Selma Lagerlöf — Sweden · Nobel 1909
- Sinclair Lewis — United States · Nobel 1930 · 2 works
- Thomas Mann — Germany · Nobel 1929 · 2 works
- Toni Morrison — United States · Nobel 1993
- W. B. Yeats — Ireland · Nobel 1923