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From http://nobelprize.org/

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women from different corners of the globe for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. It all started when Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite and a mulitmillionaire by his 40's).wrote his last will and testament in 1895, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment of the Nobel Prize.

The Swedish Academy is reponsible for the choice of the Nobel Laureates in Literature. The Academy is composed of 18 members whose tenure is for life. Known as De Aderton (The Eighteen), current members of the Academy are distinguished Swedish writers, linguists, literary scholars, historians and a prominent jurist. Its working body is the Nobel Committee, elected from among its members for a three-year term. The first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901 wa 150,000 kroner.

In 2006 the Nobel Prize for Literature will be 10,000,000.00 kroner.

Check out a list of the winners and see how many of these authors you have read!

2005 - Harold Pinter

2004 - Elfriede Jelinek

2003 - J.M. Coetzee

2002 - Imre Kertész

2001 - V.S. Naipaul

2000 - Gao Xingjian

1999 - Günter Grass

1998 - José Saramago

1997 - Dario Fo

1996 - Wislawa Szymborska

1995 - Seamus Heaney

1994 - Kenzaburo Oe

1993 - Toni Morrison

1992 - Derek Walcott

1991 - Nadine Gordimer

1990 - Octavio Paz

1989 - Camilo José Cela

1988 - Naguib Mahfouz

1987 - Joseph Brodsky

1986 - Wole Soyinka

1985 - Claude Simon

1984 - Jaroslav Seifert

1983 - William Golding

1982 - Gabriel García Márquez

1981 - Elias Canetti

1980 - Czeslaw Milosz

1979 - Odysseus Elytis

1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer

1977 - Vicente Aleixandre

1976 - Saul Bellow

1975 - Eugenio Montale

1974 - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson

1973 - Patrick White

1972 - Heinrich Böll

1971 - Pablo Neruda

1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

1969 - Samuel Beckett

1968 - Yasunari Kawabata

1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias

1966 - Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs

1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov

1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre

1963 - Giorgos Seferis

1962 - John Steinbeck

1961 - Ivo Andric

1960 - Saint-John Perse

1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo

1958 - Boris Pasternak

1957 - Albert Camus

1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez

1955 - Halldór Laxness

1954 - Ernest Hemingway

1953 - Winston Churchill

1952 - François Mauriac

1951 - Pär Lagerkvist

1950 - Bertrand Russell

1949 - William Faulkner

1948 - T.S. Eliot

1947 - André Gide

1946 - Hermann Hesse

1945 - Gabriela Mistral

1944 - Johannes V. Jensen

1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää

1938 - Pearl Buck

1937 - Roger Martin du Gard

1936 - Eugene O'Neill

1935 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1934 - Luigi Pirandello

1933 - Ivan Bunin

1932 - John Galsworthy

1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt

1930 - Sinclair Lewis

1929 - Thomas Mann

1928 - Sigrid Undset

1927 - Henri Bergson

1926 - Grazia Deledda

1925 - George Bernard Shaw

1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont

1923 - William Butler Yeats

1922 - Jacinto Benavente

1921 - Anatole France

1920 - Knut Hamsun

1919 - Carl Spitteler

1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1917 - Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan

1916 - Verner von Heidenstam

1915 - Romain Rolland

1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1913 - Rabindranath Tagore

1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann

1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck

1910 - Paul Heyse

1909 - Selma Lagerlöf

1908 - Rudolf Eucken

1907 - Rudyard Kipling

1906 - Giosuè Carducci

1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz

1904 - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray

1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

1902 - Theodor Mommsen

1901 - Sully Prudhomme

Nobel Prize in Literature?! Check the link.

The Nobel prize for literature.

try wikipedia. Nobel prize for Lit is a prize to recognise the significant contributions made by certain people in the lit field i think.

Alfred Noble was a great scientist who invented Dynamite which is explosive it is used in the war/battles so he earned much because of this invention he was worried due to this destructive invention and ofcourse he thought of doing some remedy so he gave the money to govt and it was used to give as a noble prize

do you know the noble prize is given for all the field but not for maths if u can find it

read about Noble and his invention to know about him

type nobel prize into your search bar

nobel invented TNT and when he died he granted the money