Laureates in the Nobel Prize for Literature
1907 - Rudyard Kipling - "In consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration"
1920 - Knut Hamsun - "For his monumental work"
1930 - Sinclair Lewis - "For his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters"
1946 - Hermann Hesse - "For his inspired writings, which while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals"
1949 - William Faulkner - "For his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"
1954 - Ernest Hemingway - "For his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea"
1957 - Albert Camus - "For his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience"
1962 - John Steinbeck - "For his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"
1970 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - "For the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"










