Nobel Prize for Literature

Historical Accolades

Missing: Vicente Aleixandre * Ivo Andric * Miguel Angel Asturias * Jacinto Benavente * Elias Canetti * Giosue Carducci * Grazia Deledda * Jose Echegaray * Odysseus Elytis * Rudolf Eucken * Karl Gjellerup * Paul Heyse * Johannes V. Jensen * Eyvind Johnson * Erik Axel Karlfeldt * Yasunari Kawabata * Pär Lagerkvist * Harry Martinson * Frederic Mistral * Eugenio Montale * Henrik Pontoppidan * Salvatore Quasimodo * Wladyslaw Reymont * Giorgos Seferis * Jarolsav Seifert * Frans Eemil Sillanpaa * Carl Spitteler * Tomas Tranströmer * Verner Von Heidenstam

Vote Ranking  

1

Kenzaburo Oe

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

2

Thomas Mann

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

3

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

4

Knut Hamsun

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

5

Romain Rolland

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

6

Selma Lagerlof

Author

100% (2 of 2 votes)

7

Heinrich Böll

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

8

J.M. Coetzee

Author

100% (2 of 2 votes)

9

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Poet

100% (1 of 1 votes)

10

Ivo Andric

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

11

Ivan Bunin

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

12

Ernest Hemingway

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

13

Seamus Heaney

Poet

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

14

Winston Churchill

World Leader

43.24% (16 of 37 votes)

15

Nadine Gordimer

Author

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

16

Bob Dylan

Vocalist

32.14% (18 of 56 votes)

17

Toni Morrison

Author

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

18

Rudyard Kipling

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

19

Albert Camus

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

20

Henri Bergson

Philosopher

0% (0 of 1 votes)

21

Samuel Beckett

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

22

Hermann Hesse

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

23

Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

24

Bertrand Russell

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

25

Pablo Neruda

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

26

George Bernard Shaw

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

27

Eugene O'Neill

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

28

W.B. Yeats

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

29

John Steinbeck

Author

0% (0 of 3 votes)

30

William Faulkner

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

31

Boris Pasternak

Poet

0% (0 of 3 votes)

32

Joseph Brodsky

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

33

Wislawa Szymborska

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

34

Anatole France

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

35

Sully Prudhomme

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

36

Theodor Mommsen

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

37

Gerhart Hauptmann

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

38

Roger Martin du Gard

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

39

Halldor Laxness

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

40

Gao Xingjian

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

41

Svetlana Alexievich

Commentator

0% (0 of 0 votes)

42

Czeslaw Milosz

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

43

Derek Walcott

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

44

Saint-John Perse

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

45

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

46

Imre Kertesz

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

47

J. M. G. Le Clezio

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

48

Dario Fo

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

49

Peter Handke

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

50

Louise Glück

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

51

Elias Canetti

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

52

Yasunari Kawabata

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

53

John Galsworthy

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

54

Maurice Maeterlinck

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

55

Orhan Pamuk

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

56

Mo Yan

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

57

V.S. Naipaul

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

58

Herta Muller

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

59

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

60

Wole Soyinka

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

61

Nelly Sachs

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

62

Claude Simon

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

63

Francois Mauriac

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

64

Camilo Jose Cela

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

65

Alice Munro

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

66

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

67

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

68

Andre Gide

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

69

Gunter Grass

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

70

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

71

Saul Bellow

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

72

Doris Lessing

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

73

Harold Pinter

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

74

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

75

William Golding

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

76

Elfriede Jelinek

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

77

T.S. Eliot

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

78

Luigi Pirandello

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

79

Jose Saramago

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

80

Patrick White

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

81

Mikhail Sholokhov

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

82

Gabriela Mistral

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

83

Octavio Paz

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

84

Naguib Mahfouz

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

85

Patrick Modiano

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

86

Sinclair Lewis

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

87

Pearl S. Buck

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

88

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

89

Annie Ernaux

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

90

Jon Fosse

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

91

Giorgos Seferis

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

92

Frederic Mistral

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

93

Jose Echegaray

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

94

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

95

Sigrid Undset

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

96

Olga Tokarczuk

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)