1962 The Moviegoer Walker Percy
1963 Morte d’Urban J. F. Powers
1964 The Centaur John Updike
1965 Herzog Saul Bellow
1966 The Collected Stories Katherine Anne Porter
1967 The Fixer Bernard Malamud
1968 The Eighth Day Thornton Wilder
1969 Steps Jerzy Kosinski
1970 Them Joyce Carol Oates
1971 Mr Sammler’s Planet Saul Bellow
1972 The Complete Stories Flannery O’Connor
1973 Chimera John Barth
1974 Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon A Crown of Feathers Isaac Bashevis Singer
1975 Dog Soldiers Robert Stone The Hair of Harold Roux Thomas Williams
1976 J.R. William Gaddis
1977 The Spectator Bird Wallace Stegner
1978 Blood Ties Mary Lee Settle
1979 Going After Cacciato Tim O’Brien
1980 Sophie’s Choice William Styron
1981 Plains Song Wright Morris
1982 Rabbit is Rich John Updike
1983 The Color Purple Alice Walker
1984 Victory over Japan Ellen Gilchrist
1985 White Noise Don DeLillo
1986 World’s Fair E. L. Doctorow
1987 Paco’s Story Larry Heinemann
1988 Paris Trout Pete Dexter
1989 Spartina John Casey
1990 Middle Passage Charles Johnson
1991 Mating Norman Rush
1992 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
1993 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
1994 A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis
1995 Sabbath’s Theater Philip Roth
1996 Ship Fever and Other Stories Andrea Barrett
1997 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
1998 Charming Billy Alice McDermott
1999 Waiting Ha Jin
2000 In America Susan Sontag
2001 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
2002 Three Junes Julia Glass
2003 The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard
2004 The News From Paraguay Lily Tuck
2005 Europe Central William Vollmann
2006 The Echo Maker Richard Powers
2007 Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson
2008 Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen
2009 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann
2010 Lord of Misrule Jaimy Gordon
NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Awarded by the Swedish Academy for a writer’s contribution to literature, language and society.
1950 Bertrand Russell
1951 Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
1952 François Mauriac
1953 Sir Winston Churchill
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1955 Halldór Laxness
1956 Juan Ramon Jimenez
1957 Albert Camus
1958 Boris Pasternak (obliged to decline award)
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1960 Saint-John Perse
1961 Ivo Andrić
1962 John Steinbeck
1963 George Seferis (pseudonym of Giorgos Seferiadis)
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (declined award)
1965 Michail Sholokhov
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Nelly Sachs
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias
1968 Kawabata Yasunari
1969 Samuel Beckett
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1971 Pablo Neruda
1972 Heinrich Boll
1973 Patrick White
1974 Eyvind Johnson; Harry Martinson
1975 Eugenio Montale
1976 Saul Bellow
1977 Vicente Aleixandre
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979 Odysseus Elytis (pseudonym of Odysseus Alepoudhelis)
1980 Czeslaw Milosz
1981 Elias Canetti
1982 Gabriel García Márquez
1983 Sir William Golding
1984 Jaroslav Siefert
1985 Claude Simon
1986 Wole Soyinka
1987 Joseph Brodsky
1988 Naguib Mahfouz
1989 Camilo José Cela
1990 Octavio Paz
1991 Nadine Gordimer
1992 Derek Walcott
1993 Toni Morrison
1994 Kenzaburo Oë
1995 Seamus Heaney
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1997 Dario Fo
1998 José Saramago
1999 Günter Grass
2000 Gao Xingjian
2001 V. S. Naipaul
2002 Imre Ketersz
2003 J. M. Coetzee
2004 Elfriede Jelinek
2005 Harold Pinter
2006 Orhan Pamuk
2007 Doris Lessing
2008 Jean-Marie Gustavo Le Clezio
2009 Herta Muller
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa
PRIX FEMINA ÉTRANGER
French literary prize awarded by an all-women jury of twelve, to novels written in a.foreign language. No restrictions on nationality. Books can be translations from any language.
1985 Life and Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee
1986 Bathsheba Torgny Lindgren
1987 Monkeys Susan Minot
1988 The Black Box Amos Oz
1989 The Truth about Lorin Jones Alison Lurie
1990 The Lost Morning Vergilio Ferreira
1991 The Great World David Malouf
1992 Talking it Over Julian Barnes
1993 A Child in Time Ian McEwan
1994 Restoration Rose Tremain
1995 Decanted Red Jeroen Brouwers
1996 Tomorrow in the Battle, Think on Me Javier Marias
1997 The Fallen City Jia Pingwa
1998 Full Moon Antonio Munoz Molina
1999 The White Buddha Hitonari Tsuji
2000 My Brother Jamaica Kincaid
2001 The Long Falling Keith Ridgway
2002 God’s Mountain Erri De Luca
2003 The Door Magda Szabo
2004 The Speckled People Hugo Hamilton
2005 The Falls Joyce Carol Oates
2006 The Story of Chicago May Nuala O’Faolain