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Tema Nobel Prize winners

Read about the founder of the Nobel Prize, inventor Alfred Nobel in Project Runeberg's Nordic Authors.

Read more about Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize at the web site of The Nobel Foundation.

Recent Nobel Prize winners for literature:

• 1998, José Saramago
• 1997, Dario Fo, Italy (1926 -)
• 1996, Wislawa Szymborska, Poland (1923 -)
• 1995, Seamus Heaney, Ireland (1939 -)
• 1994, Kenzaburo Oe, Japan (1935 -)
• 1993, Toni Morrison, USA (1931 -)
• 1992, Derek Walcott, Saint Lucia (1930 -)
• 1991, Nadine Gordimer, South Africa, (1923 -)
• 1990, Octavio Paz, Mexico, (1914 -)
• 1989, Camilo José Cela, Spain, (1916 -)
• 1988, Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (1911 -)
• 1987, Joseph Brodsky, USA, (1940 -)

The following Nordic Authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature:

• 1902, Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen, Germany (born in then-Denmark) (1817 - 1903)
• 1903, Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson, Norway (1832 - 1910)
• 1909, Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf, Sweden (1858 - 1940)
• 1916, Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, (1859 - 1940)
• 1917, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Denmark (1857 - 1919)
• 1917, Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark (1857 - 1943)
• 1920, Knut Pedersen Hamsun, Norway (1859 - 1952)
• 1928, Sigrid Undset, Norway (1882 - 1949)
• 1931, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sweden (1864 - 1931)
• 1939, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finland (1888 - 1964)
• 1944, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Denmark (1873 - 1950)
• 1951, Pär Fabian Lagerkvist, Sweden (1891 - 1974)
• 1955, Halldór Kiljan Laxness, Iceland (1902 -)
• 1974, Eyvind Johnson, Sweden (1900 - 1976)
• 1974, Harry Martinson, Sweden (1904 - 1978)

Nordic Authors from Project Runeberg

• Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
• Gjellerup, Karl
• Hamsun, Knut
• Heidenstam, Verner von
• Martinson, Harry
• Jensen, Johannes V.
• Johnson, Eyvind
• Karlfeldt, Erik Axel
• Lagerkvist, Pär
• Lagerlöf, Selma
• Laxness, Halldór
• Mommsen, Christian Matthias Theodor
• Nobel, Alfred
• Pontoppidan, Henrik
• Sillanpää, Frans Eemil
• Undset, Sigrid