Prizes

1900s

• 1901Sully Prudhommepoet
• 1902Theodor Mommsenhistorian
• 1903Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson1832–1910
• 1904Frédéric Mistralpoet; shared with José Echegaray
• 1904José Echegarayplaywright; shared with Frédéric Mistral
• 1905Henryk Sienkiewicz1846–1916
• 1906Giosuè Carduccipoet
• 1907Rudyard Kipling1865–1936
• 1908Rudolf Christoph Euckenphilosopher
• 1909Selma Lagerlöf1858–1940

1910s

• 1910Paul Heyse1830–1914
• 1911Maurice Maeterlinckplaywright
• 1912Gerhart Hauptmannplaywright
• 1913Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941
• 1915Romain Rolland1866–1944
• 1916Verner von Heidenstampoet
• 1917Karl Gjellerup1857–1919shared with Henrik Pontoppidan
• 1917Henrik Pontoppidan1857–1943shared with Karl Adolph Gjellerup
• 1919Carl Spittelerpoet

1920s

• 1920Knut Hamsun1859–1952
• 1921Anatole France1844–1924
• 1922Jacinto Benaventeplaywright
• 1923William Butler Yeatspoet; also playwright
• 1924Władysław Reymont1867–1925
• 1925George Bernard Shawplaywright
• 1926Grazia Deledda1871–1936
• 1927Henri Bergsonphilosopher
• 1928Sigrid Undset1882–1949
• 1929Thomas Mann1875–1955

1930s

• 1930Sinclair Lewis1885–1951
• 1931Erik Axel Karlfeldtpoet
• 1932John Galsworthy1867–1933
• 1933Ivan Bunin1870–1953
• 1934Luigi Pirandello1867–1936
• 1936Eugene O'Neillplaywright
• 1937Roger Martin du Gard1881–1958
• 1938Pearl S. Buck1892–1973
• 1939Frans Eemil Sillanpää1888–1964

1940s

• 1944Johannes V. Jensen1873–1950
• 1945Gabriela Mistralpoet
• 1946Hermann Hesse1877–1962
• 1947André Gide1869–1951
• 1948T. S. Eliotpoet; also playwright/critic
• 1949William Faulkner1897–1962

1950s

• 1950Bertrand Russellphilosopher
• 1951Pär Lagerkvist1891–1974
• 1952François Mauriac1885–1970
• 1953Winston Churchillhistorian; statesman/memoirist
• 1954Ernest Hemingway1899–1961
• 1955Halldór Laxness1902–1998
• 1956Juan Ramón Jiménezpoet
• 1957Albert Camus1913–1960
• 1958Boris Pasternak1890–1960forced by Soviet authorities to decline the prize
• 1959Salvatore Quasimodopoet

1960s

• 1960Saint-John Persepoet
• 1961Ivo Andrić1892–1975
• 1962John Steinbeck1902–1968
• 1963Giorgos Seferispoet
• 1964Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980declined the prize
• 1965Mikhail Sholokhov1905–1984
• 1966S. Y. Agnon1887–1970shared with Nelly Sachs
• 1966Nelly Sachspoet; shared with Shmuel Yosef Agnon
• 1967Miguel Ángel Asturias1899–1974
• 1968Yasunari Kawabata1899–1972
• 1969Samuel Beckett1906–1989

1970s

• 1970Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1918–2008
• 1971Pablo Nerudapoet
• 1972Heinrich Böll1917–1985
• 1973Patrick White1912–1990
• 1974Eyvind Johnson1900–1976shared with Harry Martinson
• 1974Harry Martinsonpoet; shared with Eyvind Johnson
• 1975Eugenio Montalepoet
• 1976Saul Bellow1915–2005
• 1977Vicente Aleixandrepoet
• 1978Isaac Bashevis Singer1902–1991
• 1979Odysseas Elytispoet

1980s

• 1980Czesław Miłoszpoet; also wrote prose (The Captive Mind) but reputation rests on poetry
• 1981Elias Canetti1905–1994
• 1982Gabriel García Márquez1927–2014
• 1983William Golding1911–1993
• 1984Jaroslav Seifertpoet
• 1985Claude Simon1913–2005
• 1986Wole Soyinkab. 1934
• 1987Joseph Brodskypoet
• 1988Naguib Mahfouz1911–2006
• 1989Camilo José Cela1916–2002

1990s

• 1990Octavio Pazpoet; essayist
• 1991Nadine Gordimer1923–2014
• 1992Derek Walcottpoet; also playwright
• 1993Toni Morrison1931–2019
• 1994Kenzaburō Ōe1935–2023
• 1995Seamus Heaneypoet
• 1996Wisława Szymborskapoet
• 1997Dario Foplaywright
• 1998José Saramago1922–2010
• 1999Günter Grass1927–2015

2000s

• 2000Gao Xingjianb. 1940
• 2001V. S. Naipaul1932–2018
• 2002Imre Kertész1929–2016
• 2003J. M. Coetzeeb. 1940
• 2004Elfriede Jelinekb. 1946
• 2005Harold Pinterplaywright
• 2006Orhan Pamukb. 1952
• 2007Doris Lessing1919–2013
• 2008J. M. G. Le Cléziob. 1940
• 2009Herta Müllerb. 1953

2010s

• 2010Mario Vargas Llosa1936–2025
• 2011Tomas Tranströmerpoet
• 2012Mo Yanb. 1955
• 2013Alice Munro1931–2024
• 2014Patrick Modianob. 1945
• 2015Svetlana Alexievichb. 1948
• 2016Bob Dylansongwriter
• 2017Kazuo Ishigurob. 1954
• 2018Olga Tokarczukb. 1962the 2018 prize was postponed and announced in 2019 alongside the 2019 prize
• 2019Peter Handkeb. 1942

2020s

• 2020Louise Glückpoet
• 2021Abdulrazak Gurnahb. 1948
• 2022Annie Ernauxb. 1940
• 2023Jon Fosseb. 1959
• 2024Han Kangb. 1970
• 2025László Krasznahorkaib. 1954

1960s

• 1969P. H. Newby – Something to Answer For

1970s

• 1970Bernice Rubens – The Elected Member
• 1971In a Free StateV. S. Naipaul
• 1972John Berger – G.
• 1973The Siege of KrishnapurJ. G. Farrell
• 1974The ConservationistNadine Gordimershared with Stanley Middleton's Holiday
• 1974Stanley Middleton – Holidayshared with Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist
• 1975Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – Heat and Dust
• 1976SavilleDavid Storey
• 1977Staying OnPaul Scott
• 1978The Sea, the SeaIris Murdoch
• 1979OffshorePenelope Fitzgerald

1980s

• 1980Rites of PassageWilliam Golding
• 1981Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie
• 1982Schindler's ArkThomas Keneally
• 1983Life & Times of Michael KJ. M. Coetzee
• 1984Hotel du LacAnita Brookner
• 1985The Bone PeopleKeri Hulme
• 1986The Old DevilsKingsley Amis
• 1987Moon TigerPenelope Lively
• 1988Oscar and LucindaPeter Carey
• 1989The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro

1990s

• 1990PossessionA. S. Byatt
• 1991The Famished RoadBen Okri
• 1992The English PatientMichael Ondaatjeshared with Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger
• 1992Sacred HungerBarry Unsworthshared with Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
• 1993Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaRoddy Doyle
• 1994How Late It Was, How LateJames Kelman
• 1995The Ghost RoadPat Barker
• 1996Last OrdersGraham Swift
• 1997The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
• 1998AmsterdamIan McEwan
• 1999DisgraceJ. M. Coetzee

2000s

• 2000The Blind AssassinMargaret Atwood
• 2001True History of the Kelly GangPeter Carey
• 2002Life of PiYann Martel
• 2003Vernon God LittleDBC Pierre
• 2004The Line of BeautyAlan Hollinghurst
• 2005The SeaJohn Banville
• 2006The Inheritance of LossKiran Desai
• 2007The GatheringAnne Enright
• 2008The White TigerAravind Adiga
• 2009Wolf HallHilary Mantel

2010s

• 2010The Finkler QuestionHoward Jacobson
• 2011The Sense of an EndingJulian Barnes
• 2012Bring Up the BodiesHilary Mantel
• 2013The LuminariesEleanor Catton
• 2014The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthRichard Flanagan
• 2015A Brief History of Seven KillingsMarlon James
• 2016The SelloutPaul Beatty
• 2017Lincoln in the BardoGeorge Saunders
• 2018MilkmanAnna Burns
• 2019The TestamentsMargaret Atwoodshared with Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other
• 2019Girl, Woman, OtherBernardine Evaristoshared with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments

2020s

• 2020Shuggie BainDouglas Stuart
• 2021The PromiseDamon Galgut
• 2022The Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaShehan Karunatilaka
• 2023Prophet SongPaul Lynch
• 2024OrbitalSamantha Harvey
• 2025FleshDavid Szalay

2010s

• 2016The VegetarianHan Kang
• 2017A Horse Walks into a BarDavid Grossman
• 2018FlightsOlga Tokarczuk
• 2019Celestial BodiesJokha Alharthi

2020s

• 2020Marieke Lucas Rijneveld – The Discomfort of Eveningtr. Michele Hutchison
• 2021At Night All Blood Is BlackDavid Diop
• 2022Tomb of SandGeetanjali Shree
• 2023Time ShelterGeorgi Gospodinov
• 2024KairosJenny Erpenbeck
• 2025Heart Lamp: Selected StoriesBanu Mushtaq

1910s

• 1918Ernest Poole – His Family
• 1919Booth Tarkington – The Magnificent Ambersons

1920s

• 1921The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton
• 1922Booth Tarkington – Alice Adams
• 1923One of OursWilla Cather
• 1924Margaret Wilson – The Able McLaughlins
• 1925Edna Ferber – So Big
• 1926ArrowsmithSinclair Lewis
• 1927Louis Bromfield – Early Autumn
• 1928The Bridge of San Luis ReyThornton Wilder
• 1929Julia Peterkin – Scarlet Sister Mary

1930s

• 1930Oliver La Farge – Laughing Boy
• 1931Margaret Ayer Barnes – Years of Grace
• 1932The Good EarthPearl S. Buck
• 1933T. S. Stribling – The Store
• 1934Caroline Miller – Lamb in His Bosom
• 1935Josephine Winslow Johnson – Now in November
• 1936Harold L. Davis – Honey in the Horn
• 1937Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind
• 1938John Phillips Marquand – The Late George Apley
• 1939Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – The Yearling

1940s

• 1940The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck
• 1942Ellen Glasgow – In This Our Life
• 1943Dragon's TeethUpton Sinclair
• 1944Martin Flavin – Journey in the Dark
• 1945John Hersey – A Bell for Adano
• 1947All the King's MenRobert Penn Warren
• 1948James A. Michener – Tales of the South Pacific
• 1949James Gould Cozzens – Guard of Honor

1950s

• 1950A. B. Guthrie – The Way West
• 1951Conrad Richter – The Town
• 1952Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny
• 1953The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
• 1955A FableWilliam Faulkner
• 1956MacKinlay Kantor – Andersonville
• 1958A Death in the FamilyJames Agee
• 1959Robert Lewis Taylor – The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

1960s

• 1960Allen Drury – Advise and Consent
• 1961To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
• 1962Edwin O'Connor – The Edge of Sadness
• 1963The ReiversWilliam Faulkner
• 1965Shirley Ann Grau – The Keepers of the House
• 1966The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne PorterKatherine Anne Porter
• 1967The FixerBernard Malamud
• 1968The Confessions of Nat TurnerWilliam Styron
• 1969House Made of DawnN. Scott Momaday

1970s

• 1970Jean Stafford – Collected Stories
• 1972Angle of ReposeWallace Stegner
• 1973The Optimist's DaughterEudora Welty
• 1975Michael Shaara – The Killer Angels
• 1976Humboldt's GiftSaul Bellow
• 1978Elbow RoomJames Alan McPherson
• 1979The Stories of John CheeverJohn Cheever

1980s

• 1980The Executioner's SongNorman Mailer
• 1981A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole
• 1982Rabbit Is RichJohn Updike
• 1983The Color PurpleAlice Walker
• 1984IronweedWilliam Kennedy
• 1985Foreign AffairsAlison Lurie
• 1986Lonesome DoveLarry McMurtry
• 1987A Summons to MemphisPeter Taylor
• 1988BelovedToni Morrison
• 1989Breathing LessonsAnne Tyler

1990s

• 1990The Mambo Kings Play Songs of LoveOscar Hijuelos
• 1991Rabbit at RestJohn Updike
• 1992A Thousand AcresJane Smiley
• 1993A Good Scent from a Strange MountainRobert Olen Butler
• 1994The Shipping NewsE. Annie Proulx
• 1995The Stone DiariesCarol Shields
• 1996Independence DayRichard Ford
• 1997Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American DreamerSteven Millhauser
• 1998American PastoralPhilip Roth
• 1999The HoursMichael Cunningham

2000s

• 2000Interpreter of MaladiesJhumpa Lahiri
• 2001The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayMichael Chabon
• 2002Empire FallsRichard Russo
• 2003MiddlesexJeffrey Eugenides
• 2004The Known WorldEdward P. Jones
• 2005GileadMarilynne Robinson
• 2006MarchGeraldine Brooks
• 2007The RoadCormac McCarthy
• 2008The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot Díaz
• 2009Olive KitteridgeElizabeth Strout

2010s

• 2010TinkersPaul Harding
• 2011A Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer Egan
• 2013The Orphan Master's SonAdam Johnson
• 2014The GoldfinchDonna Tartt
• 2015All the Light We Cannot SeeAnthony Doerr
• 2016The SympathizerViet Thanh Nguyen
• 2017The Underground RailroadColson Whitehead
• 2018LessAndrew Sean Greer
• 2019The OverstoryRichard Powers

2020s

• 2020The Nickel BoysColson Whitehead
• 2021The Night WatchmanLouise Erdrich
• 2022The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous FamilyJoshua Cohen
• 2023Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolvershared with Hernan Diaz's Trust
• 2023TrustHernán Diazshared with Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead
• 2024Night WatchJayne Anne Phillips
• 2025JamesPercival Everett

1950s

• 1950Nelson Algren – The Man with the Golden Arm
• 1951Collected Stories of William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner
• 1952James Jones – From Here to Eternity
• 1953Invisible ManRalph Ellison
• 1954The Adventures of Augie MarchSaul Bellow
• 1955A FableWilliam Faulkner
• 1956John O'Hara – Ten North Frederick
• 1957The Field of VisionWright Morris
• 1958The Wapshot ChronicleJohn Cheever
• 1959The Magic BarrelBernard Malamud

1960s

• 1960Goodbye, ColumbusPhilip Roth
• 1961Conrad Richter – The Waters of Kronos
• 1962The MoviegoerWalker Percy
• 1963J. F. Powers – Morte d'Urban
• 1964The CentaurJohn Updike
• 1965HerzogSaul Bellow
• 1966The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne PorterKatherine Anne Porter
• 1967The FixerBernard Malamud
• 1968The Eighth DayThornton Wilder
• 1969StepsJerzy Kosiński

1970s

• 1970themJoyce Carol Oates
• 1971Mr. Sammler's PlanetSaul Bellow
• 1972The Complete StoriesFlannery O'Connor
• 1973ChimeraJohn Barthshared with John Williams's Augustus
• 1973AugustusJohn Williamsshared with John Barth's Chimera
• 1974Gravity's RainbowThomas Pynchonshared with Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Crown of Feathers
• 1974A Crown of Feathers and Other StoriesIsaac Bashevis Singershared with Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
• 1975Dog SoldiersRobert Stoneshared with Thomas Williams's The Hair of Harold Roux
• 1975Thomas Williams – The Hair of Harold Rouxshared with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers
• 1976J RWilliam Gaddis
• 1977The Spectator BirdWallace Stegner
• 1978Blood TieMary Lee Settle
• 1979Going After CacciatoTim O'Brien

1980s

• 1980Sophie's ChoiceWilliam Styron
• 1980The World According to GarpJohn Irvingpaperback award
• 1981Plains Song: For Female VoicesWright Morris
• 1981The Stories of John CheeverJohn Cheeverpaperback award
• 1982Rabbit Is RichJohn Updike
• 1982So Long, See You TomorrowWilliam Maxwellpaperback award
• 1983The Color PurpleAlice Walker
• 1983The Collected Stories of Eudora WeltyEudora Weltypaperback award
• 1984Victory Over Japan: A Book of StoriesEllen Gilchrist
• 1985White NoiseDon DeLillo
• 1986World's FairE. L. Doctorow
• 1987Paco's StoryLarry Heinemann
• 1988Paris TroutPete Dexter
• 1989SpartinaJohn Casey

1990s

• 1990Middle PassageCharles Johnson
• 1991MatingNorman Rush
• 1992All the Pretty HorsesCormac McCarthy
• 1993The Shipping NewsE. Annie Proulx
• 1994A Frolic of His OwnWilliam Gaddis
• 1995Sabbath's TheaterPhilip Roth
• 1996Ship Fever and Other StoriesAndrea Barrett
• 1997Cold MountainCharles Frazier
• 1998Charming BillyAlice McDermott
• 1999WaitingHa Jin

2000s

• 2000In AmericaSusan Sontag
• 2001The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen
• 2002Three JunesJulia Glass
• 2003The Great FireShirley Hazzard
• 2004The News from ParaguayLily Tuck
• 2005Europe CentralWilliam T. Vollmann
• 2006The Echo MakerRichard Powers
• 2007Tree of SmokeDenis Johnson
• 2008Shadow CountryPeter Matthiessen
• 2009Let the Great World SpinColum McCann

2010s

• 2010Lord of MisruleJaimy Gordon
• 2011Salvage the BonesJesmyn Ward
• 2012The Round HouseLouise Erdrich
• 2013The Good Lord BirdJames McBride
• 2014RedeploymentPhil Klay
• 2015Fortune SmilesAdam Johnson
• 2016The Underground RailroadColson Whitehead
• 2017Sing, Unburied, SingJesmyn Ward
• 2018The FriendSigrid Nunez
• 2019Trust ExerciseSusan Choi

2020s

• 2020Interior ChinatownCharles Yu
• 2021Hell of a BookJason Mott
• 2022The Rabbit HutchTess Gunty
• 2023BlackoutsJustin Torres
• 2024JamesPercival Everett
• 2025The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)Rabih Alameddine

1990s

• 1996A Spell of WinterHelen Dunmore
• 1997Fugitive PiecesAnne Michaels
• 1998Larry's PartyCarol Shields
• 1999A Crime in the NeighborhoodSuzanne Berne

2000s

• 2000When I Lived in Modern TimesLinda Grant
• 2001The Idea of PerfectionKate Grenville
• 2002Bel CantoAnn Patchett
• 2003PropertyValerie Martin
• 2004Small IslandAndrea Levy
• 2005We Need to Talk About KevinLionel Shriver
• 2006On BeautyZadie Smith
• 2007Half of a Yellow SunChimamanda Ngozi Adichielater named the Women's Prize's 'Winner of Winners' for its 25th anniversary
• 2008The Road HomeRose Tremain
• 2009HomeMarilynne Robinson

2010s

• 2010The LacunaBarbara Kingsolver
• 2011The Tiger's WifeTéa Obreht
• 2012The Song of AchillesMadeline Miller
• 2013May We Be ForgivenA. M. Homes
• 2014A Girl Is a Half-formed ThingEimear McBride
• 2015How to Be BothAli Smith
• 2016The Glorious HeresiesLisa McInerney
• 2017The PowerNaomi Alderman
• 2018Home FireKamila Shamsie
• 2019An American MarriageTayari Jones

2020s

• 2020HamnetMaggie O'Farrell
• 2021PiranesiSusanna Clarke
• 2022The Book of Form and EmptinessRuth Ozeki
• 2023Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver
• 2024Brotherless NightV. V. Ganeshananthan
• 2025The SafekeepYael van der Wouden