| World Literature Timeline |
| Year(s) |
Event |
| 700 BCE |
Homer Iliad and The Odyssey |
| 1307 |
Dante The Divine Comedy |
| 1667 |
John Milton Paradise Lost |
| 1798 |
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lyrical Ballads |
| 1818 |
Mary Shelley Frankenstein |
| 1847 |
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights |
| 1855 |
Walt Whitman Song of Myself |
| 1869 |
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace |
| 1902 |
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness |
| 1922 |
T.S. Eliot The Waste Land |
| 1929 |
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury |
| 1940 |
Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| 1967 |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Nobel Prize for Literature |
| Year |
Winner |
| 2006 |
Orhan Pamuk |
| 2005 |
Harold Pinter |
| 2004 |
Elfriede Jelinek |
| 2003 |
J.M. Coetzee |
| 2002 |
Imre Kertész |
| 2001 |
V.S. Naipaul |
| 2000 |
Gao Xingjian |
| 1999 |
Günter Grass |
| 1998 |
José Saramago |
| 1997 |
Dario Fo |
| 1996 |
Wislawa Szymborska |
| 1995 |
Seamus Heaney |
| 1994 |
Kenzaburo Oe |
| 1993 |
Toni Morrison |
| 1992 |
Derek Walcott |
| 1991 |
Nadine Gordimer |
| 1990 |
Octavio Paz |
| 1989 |
Camilo José Cela |
| 1988 |
Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1987 |
Joseph Brodsky |
| 1986 |
Wole Soyinka |
| 1985 |
Claude Simon |
| 1984 |
Jaroslav Seifert |
| 1983 |
William Golding |
| 1982 |
Gabriel García Márquez |
| 1981 |
Elias Canetti |
| 1980 |
Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1979 |
Odysseus Elytis |
| 1978 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1977 |
Vicente Aleixandre |
| 1976 |
Saul Bellow |
| 1975 |
Eugenio Montale |
| 1974 |
Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson |
| 1973 |
Patrick White |
| 1972 |
Heinrich Böll |
| 1971 |
Pablo Neruda |
| 1970 |
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn |
| 1969 |
Samuel Beckett |
| 1968 |
Yasunari Kawabata |
| 1967 |
Miguel Angel Asturias |
| 1966 |
Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs |
| 1965 |
Mikhail Sholokhov |
| 1964 |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1963 |
Giorgos Seferis |
| 1962 |
John Steinbeck |
| 1961 |
Ivo Andric |
| 1960 |
Saint-John Perse |
| 1959 |
Salvatore Quasimodo |
| 1958 |
Boris Pasternak |
| 1957 |
Albert Camus |
| 1956 |
Juan Ramón Jiménez |
| 1955 |
Halldór Laxness |
| 1954 |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 1953 |
Winston Churchill |
| 1952 |
François Mauriac |
| 1951 |
Pär Lagerkvist |
| 1950 |
Bertrand Russell |
| 1949 |
William Faulkner |
| 1948 |
T.S. Eliot |
| 1947 |
André Gide |
| 1946 |
Hermann Hesse |
| 1945 |
Gabriela Mistral |
| 1944 |
Johannes V. Jensen |
| 1943 |
No Award |
| 1942 |
No Award |
1941 |
No Award |
| 1940 |
No Award |
| 1939 |
Frans Eemil Sillanpää |
| 1938 |
Pearl Buck |
| 1937 |
Roger Martin du Gard |
| 1936 |
Eugene O'Neill |
| 1935 |
No Award |
| 1934 |
Luigi Pirandello |
| 1933 |
Ivan Bunin |
| 1932 |
John Galsworthy |
| 1931 |
Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
| 1930 |
Sinclair Lewis |
| 1929 |
Thomas Mann |
| 1928 |
Sigrid Undset |
| 1927 |
Henri Bergson |
| 1926 |
Grazia Deledda |
| 1925 |
George Bernard Shaw |
| 1924 |
Wladyslaw Reymont |
| 1923 |
William Butler Yeats |
| 1922 |
Jacinto Benavente |
| 1921 |
Anatole France |
| 1920 |
Knut Hamsun |
| 1919 |
Carl Spitteler |
| 1918 |
No Award |
| 1917 |
Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan |
| 1916 |
Verner von Heidenstam |
| 1915 |
Romain Rolland |
| 1914 |
No Award |
| 1913 |
Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1912 |
Gerhart Hauptmann |
| 1911 |
Maurice Maeterlinck |
| 1910 |
Paul Heyse |
| 1909 |
Selma Lagerlöf |
| 1908 |
Rudolf Eucken |
| 1907 |
Rudyard Kipling |
| 1906 |
Giosuè Carducci |
| 1905 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| 1904 |
Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray |
| 1903 |
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
| 1902 |
Theodor Mommsen |
| 1901 |
Sully Prudhomme |
