Twentieth-century

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Rudyard Kipling (1907): UK (born in British India)
Rabindranath Tagore (1913): India W. B. Yeats (1923): Ireland
George Bernard Shaw (1925): Ireland Sinclair Lewis (1930): US
John Galsworthy (1932): UK Eugene O'Neill (1936): US Pearl S. Buck (1938): US
T. S. Eliot (1948): UK (born in the US) William Faulkner (1949): US Bertrand Russell (1950): UK Winston Churchill (1953): UK
Ernest Hemingway (1954): US John Steinbeck (1962): US
Samuel Beckett (1969): Ireland (lived in France much of his life)
Patrick White (1973): Australia Saul Bellow (1976): US
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978): US (born
in Poland)
William Golding (1983): UK Wole Soyinka (1986): Nigeria
Joseph Brodsky (1987): US (born in Russia)
Nadine Gordimer (1991): South Africa
Derek Walcott (1992): St Lucia, West Indies
Toni Morrison (1993): US Seamus Heaney (1995): Ireland
V. S. Naipaul (2001): UK (born in Trinidad)
J. M. Coetzee (2003): South Africa Harold Pinter (2005): UK
Doris Lessing (2007): UK (grew-up in Zimbabwe)
Alice Munro (2013): Canada Bob Dylan (2016): US
Kazuo Ishiguro (2017): UK (born in Japan)
Louise Glück (2020): US

See also

African literature; and see former British colonies, Nigeria, Kenya, South African literature, etc.
Australian literature Canadian literature Caribbean literature Indian English literature New Zealand literature Pakistani English literature

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