The Prize, Year by Year
The Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2026 laureate is announced on 8 October 2026. Below: the state of this year's prize, every laureate this catalog holds, and the page for each prize year.
2026
Not yet awarded. The Swedish Academy announces at 13:00 Stockholm time on 8 October 2026.
Prize years
- 2026 · announced 8 October
Earlier years are covered by the chronological roster, which lists all 128 laureates this catalog holds, from 1901 to 2025.
The last ten laureates
- 2025 László Krasznahorkai · Satantango
- 2024 Han Kang · The Vegetarian
- 2023 Jon Fosse · Septology
- 2022 Annie Ernaux · The Years
- 2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah · Paradise / Afterlives
- 2020 Louise Glück · Selected Poems (Glück)
- 2019 Peter Handke · Slow Homecoming / The Goalie's Anxiety
- 2018 Olga Tokarczuk · The Books of Jacob / Flights
- 2017 Kazuo Ishiguro · The Remains of the Day
- 2016 Bob Dylan · The Lyrics: 1961-2012
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