(CNN Spanish) – The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang for his “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and reveals the fragility of human life.”
Since the Nobel Prize was first awarded in 1901, the prize in the literary category has been awarded 117 times (including the Kong Award).
Of those 117 cases, four awards were shared, one was awarded posthumously, and two were awarded but rejected by the award-winning authors. According to the Nobel Prize website. Similarly, out of total 117 awards, 18 awards have been given to women.
1. Sully Prudhomme (Originally from France, Nobel Prize Winner in 1901)
2. Theodor Mommsen (Germany, 1902)
3. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Norway, 1903)
4. Frédéric Mistral and José Echegare y Esaguirre (France and Spain, 1904, shared prize)
5. Henryk Sienkiewicz (Bologna, 1905)
6. Giussue Carducci (Italy, 1906)
7. Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom, 1907)
8. Rudolf Yucken (Germany, 1908)
9. Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden, 1909, first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature)
10. Paul Heise (Germany, 1910)
11. Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium, 1911)
12. Gerhard Hauptmann (Germany, 1912)
13. Rabindranath Tagore (India, 1913)
(1914 – no prize this year)
14. Romain Rolland (France, 1915)
15. Werner von Heydenstam (Susia, 1916)
16. Carl Zellerup and Henrik Pontoppitan (Denmark, 1917, Premio Compartido)
(1918 – no award this year)
17. Carl Spitteler (Switzerland, 1919)
18. Knut Hamson (Norway, 1920)
19. Anatole France (France, 1921)
20. Jacinto Benavente (Spain, 1922)
21. William Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1923)
22. Vladislav Raymond (Bologna, 1924)
23. George Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1925)
24. Grazia Deleda (Italy, 1926)
25. Henri Bergson (France, 1927)
26. Sigrid Unset (Norway, 1928)
27. Thomas Mann (Germany, 1929)
28. Sinclair Lewis (USA, 1930)
29. Erik Axel Carlfeld (Sweden, 1931) – Surrendered posthumously.
30. John Galsworthy (UK, 1932)
31. Ivan Bunin (Russia, 1933)
32. Luigi Pirandello (Italy, 1934)
(1935 – no award this year)
33. Eugene O’Neill (USA, 1936)
34. Roger Martin du Cord (France, 1937)
35. Pearl Buck (USA, 1938)
36. Frans Emil Silanpa (Finland, 1939)
(There was no prize from 1940 to 1943. This was the last time there was no prize)
37. Johannes v. Jensen (Denmark, 1944)
38. Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 1945)
39. Hermann Hesse (Germany, 1946)
40. Andre Kid (France, 1947)
41. Thomas Stearns Eliot (United States-United Kingdom, 1948)
42. William Faulkner (USA, 1949)
43. Bertrand Russell (United Kingdom, 1950)
44. Pär Lagerkvist (Suecia, 1951)
45. François Mauriac (France, 1952)
46. Winston Churchill (United Kingdom, 1953)
47. Ernest Hemingway (USA, 1954)
48. Halter Laxness (Iceland, 1955)
49. Juan Ramon Jimenez (Spain, 1956)
50. Albert Camus (France, 1957)
51. Boris Pasternak (Russia, 1958) – Nobel Prize for Literature recognized but not awarded; He initially accepted the award, but was later rejected by officials in his home country, the Soviet Union.
52. Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy, 1959)
53. Saint-John Perce (France, 1960)
54. Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia, 1961)
55. John Steinbeck (USA, 1962)
56. Giorgos Seferis (Greece, 1963)
57. Jean-Paul Sartre (France, 1964) – Another Nobel Prize for Literature recognized but not awarded; The author did not accept the prize, having formally declined all official honors.
58. Mikhail Sholokov (Russia, 1965)
59. Shmuel Agnon and Nellie Sachs (Israel and Germany, 1966, prize sharing)
60. Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala, 1967)
61. Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, 1968)
62. Samuel Beckett (Ireland, 1969)
63. Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russia, 1970)
64. Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1971)
65. Heinrich Paul (Germany, 1972)
66. Patrick White (Australia, 1973)
67. Eivind Johnson and Harry Martinsson (Sweden, 1974, prize sharing)
68. Eugenio Montele (Italy, 1975)
69. Saul Bellow (USA-Canada, 1976)
70. Vicente Alexandre (Spain, 1977)
71. Isaac Bashewicz Singer (Poland, USA, 1978)
72. Odysseus Elytis (Greece, 1979)
73. Czeslaw Milosz (Bologna, 1980)
74. Elias Ganetti (Bulgaria, 1981)
75. Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, 1982)
76. William Golding (United Kingdom, 1983)
77. Jaroslav Seifert (Czech Republic, 1984)
78. Claude Simon (France, 1985)
79. Wole Soyinka (Nigeria, 1986)
80. Joseph Brodsky (Russia-USA, 1987)
81. Naguib Mahbouz (Egypt, 1988)
82. Camilo Jose Cela (Spain, 1989)
83. Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1990)
84. Nadine Gortimer (South Africa, 1991)
85. Derek Walcott (Santa Lucia, 1992)
86. Toni Morrison (USA, 1993)
87. Kenzaburo O (Japan, 1994)
88. Seamus Heaney (Ireland, 1995)
89. Wisława Szymborska (Bologna, 1996)
90. Dario Fo (Italy, 1997)
91. Jose Saramago (Portugal, 1998)
92. Thug Cross (Germany, 1999)
93. Gao Xingjian (China, 2000)
94. Vidyadar Surajprasad Naipaul (United Kingdom-Trinidad and Tobago, 2001)
95. Imre Kertesz (Hungary, 2002)
96. John M. Coetzee (South Africa, 2003)
97. Elfriede Jelinek (Austria, 2004)
98. Harold Pinter (United Kingdom, 2005)
99. Orhan Pamuk (Turkey, 2006)
100. Doris Lessing (United Kingdom, 2007)
101. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Glacio (France, 2008)
102. Herda Müller (Germany, 2009)
103. Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru, 2010)
104. Thomas Tranströmer (Sweden, 2011)
105. Mo Yan (China, 2012)
106. Alice Munro (Canada, 2013)
107. Patrick Modiano (France, 2014)
108. Svetlana Aleksievich (Belarus, 2015)
109. Bob Dylan (USA, 2016)
110. Kazuo Ishiguro (Japan-UK, 2017)
111. Olga Tokarchuk (Bologna, 2018)
112. Peter Handke (Austria, 2019)
113. Louise Kluk (USA, 2020)
114. Abdulrazak Gurna (Tanzania-United Kingdom, 2021)
115. Annie Ernaux (France, 2022)
116. John Foss (Norway, 2023)
117. Han Kong (South Korea, 1970)
