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The honors board

Prizes

404 winners across 6 major prizes: complete rolls of honor, year by year; entries with a live atlas page are linked, the rest are historical record.

Nobel Prize in LiteratureBooker PrizeInternational Booker PrizePulitzer Prize for FictionNational Book Award for FictionWomen's Prize for Fiction

Nobel Prize in Literature

Awarded annually since 1901 to a body of work rather than a single book.

1901–2025

Year span

122

Winners

80

In the atlas

2010s

▸Show 106 earlier winners (1901–2009)

1990s

1980s

1970s

1960s

1950s

1940s

1920s

1910s

1900s

Booker Prize

Awarded annually since 1969 to the year's best novel originally published in English.

1969–2025

Year span

60

Winners

55

In the atlas

▸Show 43 earlier winners (1969–2009)

1970s

1960s

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

International Booker Prize

Awarded annually since 2016 to a single work of fiction translated into English.

2016–2025

Year span

10

Winners

9

In the atlas

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Awarded annually since 1918 to a distinguished novel by an American author.

1918–2025

Year span

99

Winners

68

In the atlas

▸Show 83 earlier winners (1918–2009)

1960s

1950s

1940s

1930s

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

1920s

1910s

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

National Book Award for Fiction

Awarded annually since 1950 to an outstanding American novel.

1950–2025

Year span

83

Winners

77

In the atlas

▸Show 67 earlier winners (1950–2009)

1970s

1950s

Women's Prize for Fiction

Awarded annually since 1996 (as the Orange Prize until 2013) to the year's best novel written in English by a woman anywhere in the world.

1996–2025

Year span

30

Winners

30

In the atlas

▸Show 14 earlier winners (1996–2009)