STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- List of Nobel Prize in Literature winners:
2012 -- Mo Yan, China
2011 -- Tomas Transtromer, Sweden
2010 -- Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
2009 -- Herta Mueller, Romania and Germany
2008 -- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, France and Mauritius
2007 -- Doris Lessing, United Kingdom
2006 -- Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
2005 -- Harold Pinter, United Kingdom
2004 -- Elfriede Jelinek, Austria
2003 -- J. M. Coetzee, South Africa
2002 -- Imre Kertesz, Hungary
2001 -- V. S. Naipaul, United Kingdom
2000 -- Gao Xingjian, France
1999 -- Gunter Grass, Germany
1998 -- Jose Saramago, Portugal
1997 -- Dario Fo, Italy
1996 -- Wislawa Szymborska, Poland
1995 -- Seamus Heaney, Ireland
1994 -- Kenzaburo Oe, Japan
1993 -- Toni Morrison, United States
1992 -- Derek Walcott, Saint Lucia
1991 -- Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
1990 -- Octavio Paz, Mexico
1989 -- Camilo Jose Cela, Spain
1988 -- Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
1987 -- Joseph Brodsky, United States
1986 -- Wole Soyinka, Nigeria
1985 -- Claude Simon, France
1984 -- Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia
1983 -- William Golding, United Kingdom
1982 -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia
1981 -- Elias Canetti, United Kingdom
1980 -- Czeslaw Milosz, Poland and United States
1979 -- Odysseus Elytis, Greece
1978 -- Isaac Bashevis Singer, United States
1977 -- Vicente Aleixandre, Spain
1976 -- Saul Bellow, United States
1975 -- Eugenio Montale, Italy
1974 -- Eyvind Johnson, Sweden; Harry Martinson, Sweden
1973 -- Patrick White, Australia
1972 -- Heinrich Boll, Germany
1971 -- Pablo Neruda, Chile
1970 -- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet Union
1969 -- Samuel Beckett, Ireland
1968 -- Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
1967 -- Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala
1966 -- Shmuel Agnon, Israel; Nelly Sachs, Sweden
1965 -- Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Union
1964 -- Jean-Paul Sartre, France
1963 -- Giorgos Seferis, Greece
1962 -- John Steinbeck, United States
1961 -- Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia
1960 -- Saint-John Perse, France
1959 -- Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy
1958 -- Boris Pasternak, Soviet Union
1957 -- Albert Camus, France
1956 -- Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spain
1955 -- Halldor Laxness, Iceland
1954 -- Ernest Hemingway, United States
1953 -- Winston Churchill, United Kingdom
1952 -- Francois Mauriac, France
1951 -- Par Lagerkvist, Sweden
1950 -- Bertrand Russell, United Kingdom
1949 -- William Faulkner, United States
1948 -- T.S. Eliot, United Kingdom
1947 -- Andre Gide, France
1946 -- Hermann Hesse, Switzerland
1945 -- Gabriela Mistral, Chile
1944 -- Johannes V. Jensen, Denmark
1943 -- No prize awarded
1942 -- No prize awarded
1941 -- No prize awarded
1940 -- No prize awarded
1939 -- Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finland
1938 -- Pearl Buck, United States
1937 -- Roger Martin du Gard, France
1936 -- Eugene O'Neill, United States
1935 -- No prize awarded
1934 -- Luigi Pirandello, Italy
1933 -- Ivan Bunin, stateless domicile in France
1932 -- John Galsworthy, United Kingdom
1931 -- Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sweden
1930 -- Sinclair Lewis, United States
1929 -- Thomas Mann, Germany
1928 -- Sigrid Undset, Norway
1927 -- Henri Bergson, France
1926 -- Grazia Deledda, Italy
1925 -- George Bernard Shaw, United Kingdom
1924 -- Wladyslaw Reymont, Poland
1923 -- William Butler Yeats, Ireland
1922 -- Jacinto Benavente, Spain
1921 -- Anatole France, France
1920 -- Knut Hamsun, Norway
1919 -- Carl Spitteler, Switzerland
1918 -- No prize awarded
1917 -- Karl Gjellerup, Denmark; Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark
1916 -- Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden
1915 -- Romain Rolland, France
1914 -- No prize awarded
1913 -- Rabindranath Tagore, India
1912 -- Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany
1911 -- Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium
1910 -- Paul Heyse, Germany
1909 -- Selma Lagerlof, Sweden
1908 -- Rudolf Eucken, Germany
1907 -- Rudyard Kipling, United Kingdom
1906 -- Giosue Carducci, Italy
1905 -- Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland
1904 -- Frederic Mistral, France; Jose Echegaray, Spain
1903 -- Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norway
1902 -- Theodor Mommsen, Germany
1901 -- Sully Prudhomme, France
