Nobel prizes in English Literature

Nobel Prizes in English 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 (born in Canada)

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