Survey
Survey time period
1901 to 2011
Object of investigation
Literature Nobel Prizes by nationality
Region
Worldwide
Macroregion
Trans-Continental only (with GER)
Type
distribution/proportion
Category
other
Relevance
4
Release
Published by
nobelprize.org
Release date
October 2011
Cataloging
Tags
books, Herta Müller, Literature Nobel Prize, Nations, Nobel, Nobel Literature Prize, Nobel prize, novel, reading, reading books, Research, science, Tomas Tranströmer
Further information
In addition to those nations listed in the statistic, writers from Australia, Belgium, Egypt, Finland, Guatemala, India, Iceland, Israel, Yugoslavia, Colombia, Nigeria, Portugal, Austria, Saint Lucia, Czechoslovakia and Hungary each were awarded one Nobel Prize of Literature Since its founding in 1901, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded 107 Nobel Prizes of Literature. The national allocation of the winners was made on the basis of information provided by the Nobel Foundation.
* One of the winners was Ivan Bunin, who lived as a stateless exile in France at the time of the award ceremony. It should be noted that a Nobel Prize can be awarded to more than one person per year. In such cases, the statistic counted all winners, since every one of them is a Nobel Laureate.
** The winner of 2010, the writer Mario Vargas Llosa possessed both Peruvian and Spanish citizenships, but was considered here only for Peru.