List of female nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Clockwise from top left: Gertrude Stein, Clarice Lispector, Agatha Christie and Virginia Woolf were among the influential 20th-century female writers who largely contributed in field of literature but were never considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Nobel Prize (Swedish: Nobelpriset) is a set of five different prizes that, according to its benefactor Alfred Nobel, in his 1895 will, must be awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". The five prizes are awarded in the fields of Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, and Peace.[1]

As of 2025, 68 Nobel Prizes and the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to 67 women[2] and since 1901, the year wherein the awarding of the prizes began, hundreds of women have already been nominated and shortlisted carefully in each field.[3][4] From 1901 to 1975, 89 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and 8 of these nominees were subsequently awarded.

The first woman to be nominated was the German memoirist Malwida von Meysenbug for the year 1901.[3] She was nominated by the French historian Gabriel Monod but unfortunately did not win the prize.[5] Her nomination was followed by Émilie Lerou and Selma Lagerlöf for the year 1904. Lagerlöf would later on become the first woman to win the prize in the year 1909.[6] Of the 83 currently revealed female nominees for the literature category, the celebrated authors Kate Chopin, Sarah Orne Jewett, Delmira Agustini, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Edith Nesbit, Carmen de Burgos, Begum Rokeya, Lu Yin, Alfonsina Storni, Marina Tsvetaeva, Virginia Woolf, Simone Weil, Jelena Dimitrijević, Else Lasker-Schüler, Gertrude Stein, Emma Orczy, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Zora Neale Hurston, Edith Hamilton, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Fannie Hurst, Nancy Mitford, Rosario Castellanos, Hannah Arendt, Agatha Christie, Clarice Lispector and Jean Rhys were not included.[7][8][9] Currently, the Nobel archives has revealed nominations from 1901 to 1975, the other enlisted writers were verified nominations based on public and private news agencies.

1901–2000

Picture Name Born Died Years Nominated Notes
1901
Malwida von Meysenbug 28 October 1816
Kassel, Hesse, Germany		 23 April 1903
Rome, Italy		 1901 Nominated by Gabriel Monod (1844–1912) the only time.[10]
1904
Selma Lagerlöf 20 November 1858
Värmland, Sweden		 16 March 1940
Värmland, Sweden		 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 Awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature[a][11]
Émilie Lerou 10 April 1855
Penne-d'Agenais, Lot-et-Garonne, France		 10 February 1935
Valence d'Agen, Tarn-et-Garonne, France		 1904 Nominated by Jules Claretie (1840–1913) the only time.[12]
1905
Eliza Orzeszkowa 6 June 1841
Mil'kovshchina, Belarus		 18 May 1910
Grodno, Belarus		 1905 [13]
1908
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche 10 July 1846
Lützen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany		 8 November 1935
Weimar, Thuringia, Germany		 1908, 1916, 1917, 1923 [14]
1910
Molly Elliot Seawell 23 October 1860
Gloucester, Virginia, United States		 15 November 1916
Washington, D.C., United States		 1910, 1911 Nominated by Charles William Kent (1860–1917) each time.[15]
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 13 September 1830
Troubky-Zdislavice, Kroměříž, Czechia		 12 March 1916
Vienna, Austria		 1910, 1911 Nominated by Emil Reich (1830–1916) each time.[16]
1913
Grazia Deledda 28 September 1871
Nuoro, Italy		 15 August 1936
Rome, Italy		 1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927 Awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927[b][17]
1914
Dora Melegari 27 June 1849
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland		 31 July 1924
Rome, Italy		 1914, 1923 [18]
1922
Sigrid Undset 20 May 1882
Kalundborg, Denmark		 10 June 1949
Lillehammer, Norway		 1922, 1925, 1926, 1928 Awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature[c][19]
Matilde Serao 7 March 1856
Patras, Greece		 25 July 1927
Naples, Italy		 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 [20]
1926
Sofía Casanova 30 September 1861
A Coruña, Spain		 16 January 1958
Poznań, Poland		 1926 [21]
Ada Negri 3 February 1870
Lodi, Italy		 11 January 1945
Milan, Italy		 1926, 1927 [22]
Concha Espina de la Serna 15 April 1869
Santander, Spain		 19 May 1955
Madrid, Spain		 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1952, 1954 [23]
1927
Edith Wharton 24 January 1862
New York City, New York, United States		 August 11, 1937
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France		 1927, 1928, 1930 [24]
1928
Anna de Noailles 15 November 1876
Paris, France		 30 April 1933
Paris, France		 1928 Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) the only time.[25]
Edith Howes 29 August 1872
London, England		 14 June 1954
Dunedin, New Zealand		 1928 Nominated by Francis Prendeville Wilson (1874–1950) the only time.[26]
Blanca de los Ríos Nostench 15 August 1956
Seville, Spain		 13 April 1956
Madrid, Spain		 1928 [27]
Ricarda Huch 18 July 1864
Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany		 17 November 1947
Kronberg, Hesse, Germany		 1928, 1935, 1937, 1946 [28]
1930
Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo 19 September 1887
Los Teques, Miranda, Venezuela		 20 June 1959
Caracas, Venezuela		 1930 Nominated by Manuel María Villalobos (1858–1929) the only time.[29]
1931
Laura Mestre Hevia 6 April 1867
Havana, Cuba		 11 January 1944
Havana, Cuba		 1931 Nominated Juan Miguel Dihigo Mestre (1866–1952) the only time.[30]
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 18 April 1874
Ogulin, Croatia		 21 September 1928
Zagreb, Croatia		 1931, 1935, 1937, 1938 [31]
1934
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício 19 April 1884
Lisbon, Portugal		 3 November 1947
Lisbon, Portugal		 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947 [32]
1935
Violet Clifton 2 November 1883
Rome, Italy		 20 November 1961
Lytham St Annes, England		 1935[d] Nominated by Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) the only time.[33]
Elise Richter 2 March 1865
Vienna, Austria		 23 June 1943
Theresienstadt Ghetto, Terezín, Czechia		 1935[d] [34]
1936
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti 20 January 1871
Vienna, Austria		 8 April 1955
Linz, Upper Austria, Austria		 1936 [35]
Cécile Tormay 8 October 1875
Budapest, Hungary		 2 April 1937
Gyöngyös, Hungary		 1936, 1937 [36]
1937
Maria Jotuni 9 April 1880
Kuopio, Finland		 30 September 1943
Helsinki, Finland		 1937 Nominated by Viljo Tarkiainen (1879–1951) the only time.[37]
Sally Salminen 25 April 1906
Vårdö, Åland, Finland		 18 July 1976
Copenhagen, Denmark		 1937, 1938, 1939 [38]
Maila Talvio 17 October 1871
Hartola, Finland		 6 January 1951
Helsinki, Finland		 1937, 1939, 1947 [39]
1938
Pearl Buck 26 June 1892
Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States		 6 March 1973
Danby, Vermont, United States		 1938 Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature[e] and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[40]
Margaret Mitchell 8 November 1900
Atlanta, Georgia, United States		 16 August 1949
Atlanta, Georgia, United States		 1938 Nominated by Sven Hedin (1865–1952) the only time.[41]
Henriette Charasson 13 February 1884
Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France		 29 May 1972
Toulouse, France		 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945,[f] 1947, 1949, 1954, 1957 [43]
1939
Ethel Florence Richardson 3 January 1870
East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia		 20 March 1946
Hastings, England		 1939 Nominated by Sten Bodvar Liljegren (1885–1984) the only time.[44]
Henriette Roland Holst 24 December 1869
Noordwijk, South Holland, Netherlands		 21 November 1952
Amsterdam, Netherlands		 1939, 1950, 1952 [45]
Maria Dąbrowska 6 October 1889
Russów, Kalisz, Poland		 19 May 1965
Warsaw, Poland		 1939, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965 [46]
1940
Gabriela Mistral 7 April 1889
Vicuña, Chile		 10 January 1957
Hempstead, New York, United States		 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 Awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature[g][47]
1941
Ruth Comfort Mitchell 21 July 1882
San Francisco, California, United States		 18 February 1954
Los Gatos, California, United States		 1941[d] [48]
1943
Elisaveta Bagryana 16 April 1893
Sofia, Bulgaria		 23 March 1991
Sofia, Bulgaria		 1943, 1944, 1945, 1969 [49]
1944
Willa Cather 7 December 1873
Gore, Virginia, United States		 24 April 1947
New York City, New York, United States		 1944[h] [50]
1945
Marie Under 27 March 1883
Tallinn, Estonia		 25 September 1980
Stockholm, Sweden		 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 [51]
1948
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette 28 January 1873
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, France		 3 August 1954
Paris, France		 1948 Nominated by Claude Farrère (1876–1957) the only time.[52]
Dorothy Canfield Fisher 17 February 1879
Lawrence, Kansas, United States		 9 November 1958
Arlington, Vermont, United States		 1948, 1949 Nominated by David Baumgardt (1890–1963) each time.[53]
1950
Karen Blixen 17 April 1885
Rungsted, Denmark		 7 September 1962
Rungsted, Denmark		 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 [54]
Gertrud von Le Fort 11 October 1876
Minden, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany		 1 November 1971
Oberstdorf, Bavaria, Germany		 1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963 [55]
1951
María Enriqueta Camarillo 19 February 1872
Coatepec, Mexico		 13 February 1968
Mexico City, Mexico		 1951 Nominated by Leavitt Olds Wright (1891–1980) the only time.[56]
Katharine Susannah Prichard 4 December 1883
Levuka, Fiji		 2 October 1969
Greenmount, Western Australia, Australia		 1951 [57]
1955
Edith Sitwell 7 September 1887
Scarborough, England		 9 December 1964
London, England		 1955, 1958, 1959 [58]
1956
Melpo Axioti 15 July 1905
Athens, Greece		 22 May 1973
Athens, Greece		 1956 Nominated by André Bonnard (1888–1959) the only time.[59]
Marthe Bibesco 28 January 1886
Bucharest, Romania		 28 November 1973
Paris, France		 1956 [60]
Elizabeth Goudge 24 April 1900
Wells, England		 1 April 1984
Oxfordshire, England		 1956, 1959 Nominated by Edmond Privat (1889–1962) each time.[61]
1958
Elizabeth Bowen 7 June 1899
Dublin, Ireland		 22 February 1973
London, England		 1958 Nominated by Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) the only time.[62]
1959
Juana de Ibarbourou 8 March 1892
Melo, Uruguay		 15 July 1979
Montevideo, Uruguay		 1959, 1960, 1963 [63]
María Raquel Adler ca. 1900
Argentine Sea		 28 July 1974
Bernal, Argentina		 1959, 1965 [64]
Anna Seghers 19 November 1900
Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany		 1 June 1983
East Berlin, Germany		 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975 [65]
1960
Marie Noël 16 February 1883
Auxerre, Yonne, France		 23 December 1967
Auxerre, Yonne, France		 1960 Nominated by Maurice Bemol (1900–1961) the only time.[66]
1961
Cora Sandel 20 December 1880
Oslo, Norway		 3 April 1974
Uppsala, Sweden		 1961 Nominated by Harald Ofstad (1920–1994) the only time.[67]
Giulia Scappino Murena 1902
Ferrara, Italy		 1982
Bologna, Italy		 1961, 1962 Nominated by Alfredo Galletti (1872–1962) each time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[68]
Simone de Beauvoir 9 January 1908
Paris, France		 14 April 1986
Paris, France		 1961, 1969, 1973, 1975 [69]
1963
Nelly Sachs 10 December 1891
Berlin, Germany		 12 May 1970
Stockholm, Sweden		 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 Shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Shmuel Yosef Agnon[i][70]
Ingeborg Bachmann 25 June 1926
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria		 17 October 1973
Rome, Italy		 1963 Nominated by Harald Patzer (1910–2005) the only time.[71]
Kate Roberts 13 February 1891
Rhosgadfan, Wales		 4 April 1985
Denbigh, Wales		 1963 Nominated by Idris Foster (1911–1984) the only time.[72]
1964
Ina Seidel 15 September 1885
Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany		 2 October 1974
Schäftlarn, Bavaria, Germany		 1964 Nominated by Günther Jachmann (1887–1979) the only time.[73]
Judith Wright 31 May 1915
Armidale, New South Wales, Australia		 25 June 2000
Canberra, Australia		 1964, 1965, 1967 [74]
Katherine Anne Porter 15 May 1890
Indian Creek, Texas, United States		 18 September 1980
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States		 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 [75]
1965
Marguerite Yourcenar 8 June 1903
Brussels, Belgium		 17 December 1987
Northeast Harbor, Maine, United States		 1965 Nominated by Ida-Marie Frandon (1907–1997) the only time.[76]
Anna Akhmatova 28 June 1889
Odesa, Ukraine		 5 March 1966
Moscow, Russia		 1965, 1966 [77]
Marie Luise Kaschnitz 31 January 1901
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany		 10 October 1974
Rome, Italy		 1965, 1967 Nominated by Hermann Tiemann (1899–1981) each time.[78]
1967
Lina Kostenko 19 March 1930
Rzhyshchiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine		 (aged 96) 1967 Nominated jointly with Pavlo Tychyna (1891–1967) and Ivan Drach (1936–2018) by Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) the only time.[79]
1968
Marianne Moore 15 November 1887
Kirkwood, Missouri, United States		 5 February 1972
New York City, New York, United States		 1968 Nominated by Erik Lindegren (1910–1968) the only time.[80]
Mildred Breedlove 27 May 1904
Coal Hill, Arkansas, United States		 14 August 1994
Ferron, Utah, United States		 1968 Nominated by United Poets Laureate International.[81]
1969
Nathalie Sarraute 18 July 1900
Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Russia		 19 October 1999
Paris, France		 1969, 1975 [82]
1970
Victoria Ocampo 7 April 1890
Buenos Aires, Argentina		 27 January 1979
Béccar, Argentina		 1970, 1974, 1975 [83]
1972
Nadine Gordimer 20 November 1923
Springs, Gauteng, South Africa		 13 July 2014
Johannesburg, South Africa		 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature[j][84]
Doris Lessing 22 October 1919
Kermanshah, Iran		 17 November 2013
London, England		 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature[k][85]
Astrid Lindgren 14 November 1907
Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden		 28 January 2002
Stockholm, Sweden		 1972, 1974 [86]
1973
Indira Devi Dhanrajgir 17 August 1930
Hyderabad, Telangana, India		 13 January 2026
Hyderabad, Telangana, India		 1973 Nominated by Krishna Srinivas (1913–2007) the only time.[87]
Zenta Mauriņa 15 December 1897
Lejasciems, Latvia		 25 April 1978
Basel, Switzerland		 1973 Nominated by Mārtiņš Zīverts (1903–1990) the only time.[88]
1974[89]
Gwen Bristow 16 September 1903
Marion, South Carolina, United States		 17 August 1980
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States		 1974 Nominated by Lorenz Graham (1902–1989) the only time.[90]
Chen Min-hwa 7 September 1934
Longkou, Shandong, China		 (aged 91) 1974 Nominated by Emeterio Barcelón Barceló-Soriano (1897–1978) the only time.[91]
Argentina Díaz Lozano 5 December 1909
Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras		 13 August 1999
Tegucigalpa, Honduras		 1974 [92]
Louise Weiss 25 January 1893
Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France		 26 May 1983
Paris, France		 1974 Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too[93]
Kamala Surayya–Das 31 March 1934
Punnayurkulam, Kerala, India		 31 May 2009
Pune, Maharashtra, India		 1974, 1984 Nominated by Kappadath Parameswara Kannan (1949–) the only time.[94]
1975[95]
Anna Banti 27 June 1895
Florence, Italy		 2 September 1985
Massa, Massa-Carrara, Italy		 1975 Nominated by Gustavo Costa (1930–2012) the only time.
Tove Jansson 9 August 1914
Helsinki, Finland		 27 June 2001
Helsinki, Finland		 1975
Rina Lasnier 6 August 1915
Iberville, Quebec, Canada		 9 May 1997
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada		 1975
Desanka Maksimović 16 May 1898
Valjevo, Serbia		 11 February 1993
Belgrade, Serbia		 1975 Nominated by Miljan Mojašević (1918–2002) the only time.
Kamala Markandaya 23 June 1923
Mysore, Karnataka, India		 16 May 2004
London, England		 1975 Nominated by Horacio Serrano (1904–1980) the only time.
Mary Renault 4 September 1905
Forest Gate, Essex, England		 13 December 1983
Cape Town, South Africa		 1975 Nominated by Hugh Finn (1925–) the only time.
Others[l]
1976
Anja Lundholm 28 April 1918
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany		 4 August 2007
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany		 1976 [96]
Anaïs Nin 21 February 1903
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France		 14 January 1977
Los Angeles, California, United States		 1976 [97]
1979
Joyce Carol Oates 16 June 1938
Lockport, New York, United States		 (aged 87) 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 [98]
1981
Mary Kawena Pukui 20 April 1895
Kau, Hawaii, United States		 21 May 1986
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States		 1981 [99]
1984
Andrée Chedid 20 March 1920
Cairo, Egypt		 6 February 2011
Paris, France		 1984
1985
Ding Ling' 12 October 1904
Linli, Hunan, China		 4 March 1986
Beijing, China		 1985
Susan Howe 10 June 1937
Boston, Massachusetts, United States		 (aged 88) 1985, 1987
1987
Christa Wolf 18 March 1929
Gorzów Wielkopolski, Lubusz, Poland		 1 December 2011
Berlin, Germany		 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2007 [100]
1988
Marguerite Duras 4 April 1914
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam		 3 March 1996
Paris, France		 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992
1989
Ana María Matute 26 July 1925
Barcelona, Spain		 25 June 2014
Barcelona, Spain		 1989
Joan Didion 5 December 1934
Sacramento, California, United States		 23 December 2021
New York City, United States		 1989, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021
1990
Maria Luisa Spaziani 7 December 1922
Turin, Italy		 30 June 2014
Rome, Italy		 1990, 1992, 1997
Margaret Atwood 18 November 1939
Ottawa, Canada		 (aged 86) 1990, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
1991
Patricia Highsmith 19 January 1921
Fort Worth, Texas, United States		 4 February 1995
Locarno, Switzerland		 1991 [101]
Janet Frame 28 August 1924
Dunedin, New Zealand		 29 January 2004
Dunedin, New Zealand		 1991, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003 [102]
1992
Matilde Alba Swann 24 February 1912
Berisso, Argentina		 13 September 2000
La Plata, Argentina		 1992 [103]
Vizma Belševica 30 May 1931
Riga, Latvia		 6 August 2005
Riga, Latvia		 1992, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 [104]
1993
Toni Morrison 18 February 1931
Lorain, Ohio, United States		 5 August 2019
New York City, New York, United States		 1993 Awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature[m]
1994
Wisława Szymborska 2 July 1923
Kórnik, Poznań, Poland		 1 February 2012
Kraków, Poland		 1994, 1995, 1996 Awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature[n]
1995
Friederike Mayröcker 20 December 1924
Vienna, Austria		 4 June 2021
Vienna, Austria		 1995, 2004, 2020 [105]
1996
Iris Murdoch 15 July 1919
Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland		 8 February 1999
Oxford, England		 1996
Alda Merini 21 March 1931
Milan, Italy		 1 November 2009
Milan, Italy		 1996, 2001 [106]
Inger Christensen 16 January 1935
Vejle, Denmark		 2 January 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark		 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 [107]
1997
Alicia Ghiragossian 13 July 1936
Córdoba, Argentina		 22 May 2014
Los Angeles, California, United States		 1997 [108]
1998
Agustina Bessa-Luís 15 October 1922
Amarante, Portugal		 3 June 2019
Porto, Portugal		 1998, 2018 [109]
1999
Simin Behbahani 20 July 1927
Tehran, Iran		 19 August 2014
Tehran, Iran		 1999, 2002 [110]
2000
Alice Munro 10 July 1931
Wingham, Ontario, Canada		 13 May 2024
Port Hope, Ontario, Canada		 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013 Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature[o]

2001–present

Picture Name Born Died Years Nominated Notes
2001
Herta Müller 17 August 1953
Nițchidorf, Romania		 (aged 72) 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.[p]
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen 6 November 1919
Porto, Portugal		 2 July 2004
Lisbon, Portugal		 2001
Assia Djebar 30 June 1936
Cherchell, Tipaza, Algeria		 6 February 2015
Paris, France		 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013
2002
Leyla Erbil 12 January 1931
Istanbul, Türkiye		 19 July 2013
Istanbul, Türkiye		 2002 [111]
Susan Sontag 16 January 1933
New York City, United States		 28 December 2004
New York City, United States		 2002, 2003, 2004
2003
Elfriede Jelinek 20 October 1946
Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria		 (aged 79) 2003, 2004 Awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature[q]
Svetlana Alexievich 31 May 1948
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine		 (aged 77) 2003, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2015 Awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.[r]
Klára Jarunková 28 April 1922
Šumiac, Brezno, Slovakia		 11 July 2005
Bratislava, Slovakia		 2003 [112]
Giovanna Mulas 6 May 1969
Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy		 (aged 56) 2003 [113]
2004
Muriel Spark 1 February 1918
Edinburgh, Scotland		 13 April 2006
Uliveto Terme, Pisa, Italy		 2004
Isabel Allende 2 August 1942
Lima, Peru		 (aged 83) 2004, 2025
2005
Anne-Marie Albiach 9 August 1937
Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France		 4 November 2012
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France		 2005
Nancy Morejón 7 August 1944
Havana, Cuba		 (aged 81) 2005
Adrienne Rich 16 May 1929
Baltimore, Maryland, United States		 27 March 2012
Santa Cruz, California, United States		 2005
Luisa Valenzuela 26 November 1938
Buenos Aires, Argentina		 (aged 87) 2005
Eeva Kilpi 18 February 1928
Khiytola, Karelia, Russia		 (aged 98) 2005, 2009, 2015
Maryse Condé 11 February 1934
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe		 2 April 2024
Apt, Vaucluse, France		 2005, 2007, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Adélia Prado 13 December 1935
Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil		 (aged 90) 2005, 2025
Dương Thu Hương 1947
Thái Bình, Vietnam		 (aged 79) 2005, 2009, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 [114]
Hélène Cixous 5 June 1937
Oran, Algeria		 (aged 88) 2005, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
2006
Hanna Krall 20 May 1935
Warsaw, Poland		 (aged 90) 2006
Elena Poniatowska 19 May 1932
Paris, France		 (aged 93) 2006, 2023, 2025
2007
Luz Pozo Garza 21 July 1922
Ribadeo, Lugo, Spain		 20 April 2020
A Coruña, Spain		 2007 [115]
2008
Marjorie Boulton 7 May 1924
Teddington, Greater London, England		 30 August 2017
London, England		 2008 [116][117]
Mahasweta Devi 14 January 1926
Dhaka, Bangladesh		 28 July 2016
Kolkata, West Bengal, India		 2008, 2009, 2012 [118]
Antonia Susan Byatt 24 August 1936
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England		 16 November 2023
London, England		 2008, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2017
2009
Maya Angelou 4 April 1928
St. Louis, Missouri, United States		 28 May 2014
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States		 2009
Beryl Bainbridge 21 November 1934
Liverpool, England		 2 July 2010
London, England		 2009
Marge Piercy 31 March 1936
Detroit, Michigan, United States		 (aged 90) 2009
Gitta Sereny 13 March 1921
Vienna, Austria		 14 June 2012
Cambridge, England		 2009, 2010
2010
Jeanette Winterson 27 August 1959
Manchester, England		 (aged 66) 2010
Rosmarie Waldrop 24 August 1935
Kitzingen, Bavaria, Germany		 (aged 90) 2010
Anne Carson 21 June 1950
Toronto, Ontario, Canada		 (aged 75) 2010, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
2011
Nawal El Saadawi 22 October 1931
Kafr Tahla, Qalyubiyya, Egypt		 21 March 2021
Cairo, Egypt		 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 [119][120]
2012
Olga Tokarczuk 29 January 1962
Sulechów, Zielona Góra, Poland		 (aged 64) 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019[s]
Sofi Oksanen 7 January 1977
Jyväskylä, Finland		 (aged 49) 2012
Dacia Maraini 13 November 1936
Florence, Italy		 (aged 89) 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 [121]
2015
Merethe Lindstrøm 26 May 1963
Bergen, Norway		 (aged 75) 2015, 2017
Lydia Davis 15 July 1947
Northampton, Massachusetts, United States		 (aged 78) 2015, 2016, 2017
Ursula Le Guin 21 October 1929
Berkeley, California, United States		 22 January 2018
Portland, Oregon, United States		 2015, 2016, 2017
Anna Nerkagi 15 February 1951
Yamalo-Nenets, Russia		 (aged 75) 2015, 2018, 2020 [122][123]
Dubravka Ugrešić 27 March 1949
Kutina, Sisak-Moslavina, Croatia		 17 March 2023
Amsterdam, Netherlands		 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022
Hilary Mantel 6 July 1952
Glossop, Derbyshire, England		 22 September 2022
Exeter, Devon, England		 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022
Lyudmila Ulitskaya 21 February 1943
Davlekanovo, Bashkortostan, Russia		 (aged 83) 2015, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Marilynne Robinson 26 November 1943
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States		 (aged 82) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
2016
Lygia Fagundes Telles 19 April 1918
São Paulo, Brazil		 3 April 2022
São Paulo, Brazil		 2016 [124]
Tess Osonye Onwueme 8 September 1955
Ogwashi Ukwu, Delta, Nigeria		 (aged 70) 2016 [125]
Doris Kareva 28 November 1958
Tallinn, Estonia		 (aged 67) 2016, 2017, 2019
2019
Yoko Tawada 23 March 1960
Nakano, Tokyo, Japan		 (aged 66) 2019, 2024, 2025
Can Xue 30 May 1953
Changsha, Hunan, China		 (aged 72) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
2020
Louise Glück 22 April 1943
New York City, New York, United States		 13 October 2023
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States		 2020 Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature[t]
Annie Ernaux 1 September 1940
Lillebonne, Seine-Maritime, France		 (aged 85) 2020, 2021, 2022 Awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature[u]
Etel Adnan 24 February 1925
Beirut, Lebanon		 14 November 2021
Paris, France		 2020
Giovanna Giordano 12 November 1961
Milan, Italy		 (aged 64) 2020 [126][127]
Lorna Goodison 1 August 1947
Kingston, Jamaica		 (aged 78) 2020
Ama Ata Aidoo 23 March 1942
Abeadzi Kyiakor, Saltpond, Ghana		 31 May 2023
Accra, Ghana		 2020, 2021
Edna O'Brien 15 December 1930
Tuamgraney, Ireland		 27 July 2024
London, England		 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Jamaica Kincaid 25 May 1949
St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda		 (aged 76) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Scholastique Mukasonga 20 December 1956
Gikongoro, Rwanda		 (aged 69) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 [128][129]
2021
Xi Xi 7 October 1937
Shanghai, China		 18 December 2022
Hong Kong		 2021, 2022
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 15 September 1977
Enugu, Nigeria		 (aged 48) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Zoë Wicomb 23 November 1948
Vanrhynsdorp, Western Cape, South Africa		 13 October 2025
Glasgow, Scotland		 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
2022
Edwidge Danticat 19 January 1969
Port-au-Prince, Haiti		 (aged 57) 2022 [130]
Claudia Lee Hae-in 7 June 1945
Yanggu, Gangwon, South Korea		 (aged 80) 2022
Shahrnush Parsipur 17 February 1946
Tehran, Iran		 (aged 80) 2022
Marie NDiaye 4 June 1967
Pithiviers, Loiret, France		 (aged 58) 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Martha Nussbaum 6 May 1947
New York City, New York, United States		 (aged 78) 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Ali Smith 24 August 1962
Inverness, Scotland		 (aged 63) 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
2023
Han Kang 27 November 1970
Gwangju, South Korea		 (aged 55) 2023, 2024 Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature[v]
Helle Helle 14 December 1965
Nakskov, Lolland, Denmark		 (aged 60) 2023, 2025
Mieko Kanai 3 November 1947
Takasaki, Gunma, Japan		 (aged 78) 2023, 2024, 2025
Joanne Rowling 31 July 1965
Yate, Gloucestershire, England		 (aged 60) 2023, 2024, 2025
Ida Vitale 2 November 1923
Montevideo, Uruguay		 (aged 102) 2023, 2024, 2025 [131]
Alexis Wright 25 November 1950
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia		 (aged 75) 2023, 2024, 2025
2024
Maria Tedeschi 3 January 1972
Naples, Italy		 (aged 54) 2024 [132]
Paulina Chiziane 4 June 1955
Manjacaze, Gaza, Mozambique		 (aged 70) 2024, 2025
Ananda Devi 23 March 1957
Trois-Boutiques, Grand Port, Mauritius		 (aged 69) 2024, 2025
Louise Erdrich 7 June 1954
Little Falls, Minnesota, United States		 (aged 71) 2024, 2025
Patricia Grace 17 August 1937
Wellington, New Zealand		 (aged 88) 2024, 2025
Xiaolu Guo 20 November 1973
Wenling, Zhejiang, China		 (aged 52) 2024, 2025
Joy Harjo 9 May 1951
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States		 (aged 74) 2024, 2025
Leslie Marmon Silko 5 March 1948
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States		 (aged 78) 2024, 2025
Ersi Sotiropoulou 1953
Patras, Greece		 (aged 73) 2024, 2025
2025
Helen Garner 7 November 1942
Geelong, Victoria, Australia		 (aged 83) 2025
Cristina Peri Rossi 12 November 1941
Montevideo, Uruguay		 (aged 84) 2025
Cristina Rivera Garza 1 October 1964
Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico		 (aged 61) 2025 [133][134]
Astrid Roemer 27 April 1947
Paramaribo, Suriname		 8 January 2026
Paramaribo, Suriname		 2025

Notes

See also

References

External links

Related Articles

Wikiwand AI