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Nobel Literature Laureates
English Language
There have been twenty-one laureates who wrote in the English language. Note: There are three United States Literature Laureates who did not write in the English language
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| Laureate | Year | Country | Genre |
| V. S. Naipaul | 2001 | Britain | Fiction |
| Seamus Heaney | 1995 | Ireland | Poetry |
| Toni Morrison | 1993 | United States | Fiction |
| Derek Walcott | 1992 | St Lucia | Poetry |
| Nadine Gordimer | 1991 | South Africa | Fiction |
| Wole Soyinka | 1986 | Nigeria | Drama |
| William Golding | 1983 | Great Britain | Fiction |
| Saul Bellow | 1976 | United States | Fiction |
| Patrick White | 1973 | Australia | Fiction |
| Samuel Beckett | 1969 | Ireland | Fiction |
| John Steinbeck | 1962 | United States | Fiction |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1954 | United States | Fiction |
| Winston Churchill | 1953 | Great Britain | History |
| Bertrand Russell | 1950 | Great Britain | Philosophy |
| William Faulkner | 1949 | United States | Fiction |
| T. S. Eliot | 1948 | Great Britain | Poetry |
| Pearl Buck | 1938 | United States | Fiction |
| Eugene O'Neill | 1936 | United States | Drama |
| John Galsworthy | 1932 | Great Britain | Fiction |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1930 | United States | Fiction |
| George Bernard Shaw | 1925 | Ireland | Drama |
| William Butler Yeats | 1923 | Irish Free State | Poetry |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1907 | Great Britain | Fiction |
Note: There are three United States Literature Laureates who did not write in the English language.
Isaac Bashevis Singer 1978 Fiction, works in Yiddish
Czeslaw Milosz 1980 Poetry, Polish language works
Joseph Brodsky 1987 Poetry, Russian language works
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