List of Nobel Prize winners in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature is one of many Nobel Prizes given in honor of Alfred Nobel. Every year, a writer is chosen by the Swedish Academy to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. But in some years, no writer was chosen. The Academy onlu chooses someone who they think has written something that has great value according to the request of Alfred Nobel.[1][2]
Since 1901, there have been 122 writers who were given the Nobel Prize in Literature. Eighteen of these winners are women. Only the writer Jean-Paul Sartre willingly rejected it.
List of laureates
[change | change source]List of Nobel Prize laureates (winners) in Literature from 1901 to the present date.
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[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Alfred Nobel – The Man Behind the Nobel Prize". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
- ↑ "Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature | Nobel Prize in Literature". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2017-08-24. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1901". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-10-21. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
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