If you haven't spent much time following book awards they are an excellent source for great reading lists. Here is a listing of authors recognized for their body of work by The Nobel Prize for Literature beginning in 1901 to present. Follow along in order or pick and choose as it pleases. Happy reading!

1901 - Sully Prudhomme
1902 - Theodor Mommsen
1903 - Bjornstjerne Bjørnson
1904 - Jose Echegaray / Frederic Mistral
1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906 - Giosue Carducci
1907 - Rudyard Kipling
1908 - Rudolf Eucken
1909 - Selma Lagerlöf
1910 - Paul Heyse
1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck
1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann
1913 - Rabindranath Tagore
1915 - Romain Rolland
1916 - Verner von Heidenstam
1917 - Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan
1919 - Carl Spitteler
1920 - Knut Hamsun
1921 - Anatole France
1922 - Jacinto Benavente
1923 - William Butler Yeats
1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont
1925 - George Bernard Shaw
1926 - Grazia Deledda
1927 - Henri Bergson
1928 - Sigrid Undset
1929 - Thomas Mann
1930 - Sinclair Lewis
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1932 - John Galsworthy
1933 - Ivan Bunin
1934 - Luigi Pirandello
1936 - Eugene O'Neill
1937 - Roger Martin du Gard
1938 - Pearl Buck
1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1944 - Johannes V. Jensen
1945 - Gabriela Mistral
1946 - Hermann Hesse
1947 - Andre Gide
1948 - T.S. Eliot
1949 - William Faulkner
1950 - Bertrand Russell
1951 - Par Lagerkvist
1952 - Francois Mauriac
1953 - Winston Churchill
1954 - Ernest Hemingway
1955 - Halldor Laxness
1956 - Juan Ramon Jimenez
1957 - Albert Camus
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo
1960 - Saint-John Perse
1961 - Ivo Andric
1962 - John Steinbeck
1963 - Giorgos Seferis
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre
1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov
1966 - Samuel Agnon / Nelly Sachs
1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias
1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
1969 - Samuel Beckett
1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1971 - Pablo Neruda
1972 - Heinrich Boll
1973 - Patrick White
1974 - Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson
1975 - Eugenio Montale
1976 - Saul Bellow
1977 - Vicente Aleixandre
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979 - Odysseus Elytis
1980 - Czeslaw Milosz
1981 - Elias Canetti
1982 - Gabriel García Márquez
1983 - William Golding
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert
1985 - Claude Simon
1986 - Wole Soyinka
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz
1989 - Camilo José Cela
1990 - Octavio Paz
1991 - Nadine Gordimer
1992 - Derek Walcott
1993 - Toni Morrison
1994 - Kenzaburo Oe
1995 - Seamus Heaney
1996 - Wislawa Szymborska
1997 - Dario Fo
1998 - Jose Saramago
1999 - Gunter Grass
2000 - Gao Xingjian
2001 - V.S. Naipaul
2002 - Imre Kertész
2003 - J.M. Coetzee
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
2005 - Harold Pinter
2006 - Orhan Pamuk
2007 - Doris Lessing
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M. E. Wood lives in Eastern Ontario, Canada. If you are going to find this eclectic reader and writer anywhere it is probably at her computer. For more information visit her official website.