Nobel Laureates in Literature

I have a long-term goal to try to read at least something of everyone that has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (118 persons so far).

Here are some statistics about what I read apart from Nobel laureates. I also used to keep a Swedish blog called Du är vad du läser ("You are What You Read") about books in general.

Status of my reading

Year	Country	Name	Born-Dead	Age awarded	Years winner	Average age
1901		Sully Prudhomme	1839-1907	62	6	62
1902		Theodor Mommsen	1817-1903	85	1	73
1903		Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	1832-1910	71	7	72
1904		Frédéric Mistral	1830-1914	74	10	73
1904		José Echegaray	1833-1916	71	12	72
1905		Henryk Sienkiewicz	1846-1916	59	11	70
1906		Giosuè Carducci	1835-1907	71	1	70
1907		Rudyard Kipling	1865-1936	42	29	66
1908		Rudolf Eucken	1846-1926	62	18	66
1909		Selma Lagerlöf	1858-1940	51	31	64
1910		Paul Heyse	1830-1914	80	4	66
1911		Maurice Maeterlinck	1862-1949	49	38	64
1912		Gerhart Hauptmann	1862-1946	50	34	63
1913		Rabindranath Tagore	1861-1941	52	28	62
1915		Romain Rolland	1866-1944	49	29	61
1916		Verner von Heidenstam	1859-1940	57	24	61
1917		Karl Gjellerup	1857-1919	60	2	61
1917		Henrik Pontoppidan	1857-1943	60	26	61
1919		Carl Spitteler	1845-1924	74	5	62
1920		Knut Hamsun	1859-1952	61	32	62
1921		Anatole France	1844-1924	77	3	62
1922		Jacinto Benavente	1866-1954	56	32	62
1923		William Butler Yeats	1865-1939	58	16	62
1924		Wladyslaw Reymont	1867-1925	57	1	62
1925		George Bernard Shaw	1856-1950	69	25	62
1926		Grazia Deledda	1871-1936	55	10	62
1927		Henri Bergson	1859-1927	68	0	62
1928		Sigrid Undset	1882-1949	46	21	61
1929		Thomas Mann	1875-1955	54	26	61
1930		Sinclair Lewis	1885-1951	45	21	60
1931		Erik Axel Karlfeldt	1864-1931	67	0	61
1932		John Galsworthy	1867-1933	65	1	61
1933		Ivan Bunin	1870-1953	63	20	61
1934		Luigi Pirandello	1867-1936	67	2	61
1936		Eugene O'Neill	1888-1953	48	17	61
1937		Roger Martin du Gard	1881-1958	56	21	60
1938		Pearl Buck	1892-1973	46	35	60
1939		Frans Eemil Sillanpää	1888-1964	51	25	60
1944		Johannes V. Jensen	1873-1950	71	6	60
1945		Gabriela Mistral	1889-1957	56	12	60
1946		Hermann Hesse	1877-1962	69	16	60
1947		André Gide	1869-1951	78	4	61
1948		Thomas Stearns Eliot	1888-1965	60	17	60
1949		William Faulkner	1897-1962	52	13	60
1950		Bertrand Russell	1872-1970	78	20	61
1951		Pär Lagerkvist	1891-1974	60	23	61
1952		François Mauriac	1885-1970	67	18	61
1953		Winston Churchill	1874-1965	79	12	61
1954		Ernest Hemingway	1899-1961	55	7	61
1955		Halldór Kiljan Laxness	1902-1998	53	43	61
1956		Juan Ramón Jiménez	1881-1958	75	2	61
1957		Albert Camus	1913-1960	44	3	61
1958		Boris Pasternak	1890-1960	68	2	61
1959		Salvatore Quasimodo	1901-1968	58	9	61
1960		Saint-John Perse	1887-1975	73	15	61
1961		Ivo Andric	1892-1975	69	14	61
1962		John Steinbeck	1902-1968	60	6	61
1963		Giorgos Seferis	1900-1971	63	8	61
1964		Jean-Paul Sartre	1905-1980	59	16	61
1965		Michail Sholokhov	1905-1984	60	19	61
1966		Samuel Agnon	1888-1970	78	4	61
1966		Nelly Sachs	1891-1970	75	4	62
1967		Miguel Ángel Asturias	1899-1974	68	7	62
1968		Yasunari Kawabata	1899-1972	69	4	62
1969		Samuel Beckett	1906-1989	63	20	62
1970		Alexander Solzhenitsyn	1918-2008	52	38	62
1971		Pablo Neruda	1904-1973	67	2	62
1972		Heinrich Böll	1917-1985	55	13	62
1973		Patrick White	1912-1990	61	17	62
1974		Eyvind Johnson	1900-1976	74	2	62
1974		Harry Martinson	1904-1978	70	4	62
1975		Eugenio Montale	1896-1981	79	6	62
1976		Saul Bellow	1915-2005	61	29	62
1977		Vicente Aleixandre	1898-1984	79	7	62
1978		Isaac Bashevis Singer	1902-1991	76	13	62
1979		Odysseus Elytis	1911-1996	68	17	63
1980		Czeslaw Milosz	1911-2004	69	24	63
1981		Elias Canetti	1905-1994	76	13	63
1982		Gabriel García Márquez	1928-2014	54	32	63
1983		William Golding	1911-1993	72	10	63
1984		Jaroslav Seifert	1901-1986	83	2	63
1985		Claude Simon	1913-2005	72	20	63
1986		Wole Soyinka	1934-	52	36+	63
1987		Joseph Brodsky	1940-1996	47	9	63
1988		Naguib Mahfouz	1911-2006	77	18	63
1989		Camilo José Cela	1916-2002	73	13	63
1990		Octavio Paz	1914-1998	76	8	63
1991		Nadine Gordimer	1923-2014	68	23	63
1992		Derek Walcott	1930-2017	62	25	63
1993		Toni Morrison	1931-2019	62	26	63
1994		Kenzaburo Oe	1935-	59	28+	63
1995		Seamus Heaney	1939-2013	56	18	63
1996		Wislawa Szymborska	1923-2012	73	16	63
1997		Dario Fo	1926-2016	71	19	63
1998		José Saramago	1922-2010	76	12	63
1999		Günter Grass	1927-2015	72	16	63
2000		Gao Xingjian	1940-	60	22+	63
2001		V. S. Naipaul	1932-2018	69	17	63
2002		Imre Kertész	1929-2016	73	14	64
2003		John Maxwell Coetzee	1940-	63	19+	64
2004		Elfriede Jelinek	1946-	58	18+	63
2005		Harold Pinter	1930-2008	75	3	64
2006		Orhan Pamuk	1952-	54	16+	64
2007		Doris Lessing	1919-2013	88	6	64
2008		Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio	1940-	68	14+	64
2009		Herta Müller	1953-	56	13+	64
2010		Mario Vargas Llosa	1936-	74	12+	64
2011		Tomas Tranströmer	1931-2015	80	4	64
2012		Mo Yan	1955-	57	10+	64
2013		Alice Munro	1931-	82	9+	64
2014		Patrick Modiano	1945-	69	8+	64
2015		Svetlana Aleksijevitj	1948-	67	7+	64
2016		Bob Dylan	1941-	75	6+	64
2017		Kazuo Ishiguro	1954-	63	5+	64
2018		Olga Tokarczuk	1962-	56	4+	64
2019		Peter Handke	1942-	77	3+	64
2020		Louise Glück	1943-	77	2+	64
2021		Abdulrazak Gurnah	1948-	73	1+	64

Youngest winner: Rudyard Kipling (42 years)
Oldest winner: Doris Lessing (88 years)
Longest time as a laureate: Halldór Kiljan Laxness (43 years)