Nobel Prize in Literature winners

• Rudyard Kipling (1907): UK
• 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