Male : Industrialist who created a Dynamite empire (his fortune was estimated at £2m on his death) and created the Nobel Prizes in 1901 (there are five prizes in all - Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine & Peace). In 1998 each Prize was worth £600,000 (although they amount varies from year to year)

Nationality : Swedish Place of Birth : Stockholm

Date of Birth : 1833 Date of Death : 1896 Age : 63

NOBEL PRIZE for LITERATURE
(Awarded by the Swedish Academy for a writer's contribution to literature, language and society)
1901 : Sully Prudhomme
1902 : Theodor Mommsen
1903 : Bjornstjerne Bjornson
1904 : Frederic Mistral & Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre
1905 : Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906 : Giosue Carducci
1907 : Rudyard Kipling
1908 : Rudolf Eucken
1909 : Selma Lagerlof
1910 : Paul von Heyse

1911 Maurice Maeterlinck
1912 : Gerhart Hauptmann
1913 : Rabindranath Tagore
1914 : NO AWARD
1915 : Romain Rolland
1916 : Verner von Heidenstam
1917 : Karl Gjellerup & Henrik Pontoppidan
1918 : Erik Axel Karlfeldt (declined)
1919 : Carl Spitteler

1920 : Knut Hamsun
1921 : Anatole France
1922 : Jacinto Benavente y Martinez
1923 : William Butler Yeats
1924 : Wladyslaw Reymont
1925 : George Bernard Shaw
1926 : Grazia Deledda
1927 : Henri Bergson
1928 : Sigrid Undset
1929 : Thomas Mann
1930 : Sinclair Lewis

1931 : Erik Axel Karlfeldt (posthumous)
1932 : John Galsworthy
1933 : Ivan Bunin
1934 : Luigi Pirandello
1935 : NO AWARD
1936 : Eugene O'Neill
1937 : Roger Martin du Gard
1938 : Pearl Buck
1939 : Frans Eemil Sillanpaa
1940-1943 : NO AWARD

1944 : Johannes V Jensen
1945 : Gabriele Mistral
1946 : Hermann Hesse
1947 : Andre Gide
1948 : T S Eliot
1949 : William Faulkner
1950 : Bertrand Russell
1951 : Par Fabian Lagerkvist
1952 : Francois Mauriac
1953 : Sir Winston Churchill
1954 : Ernest Hemingway
1955 : Halldor Laxness
1956 : Juan Ramon Jimenez
1957 : Albert Camus
1958 : Boris Pasternak (obliged to decline the award)
1959 : Salvatore Quasimodo

1960 : Saint-John Pearse
1961 : Ivo Andric
1962 : John Steinbeck
1963 : George Seferis (pseud of Giorgos Seferiadis)
1964 : John Paul Sartre (declined the 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 (Pseud of Odysseus Alepoudhelis)

1980 : Czeslaw Milosz
1981 : Elias Canetti
1982 : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1983 : Sir William Golding
1984 : Jaroslav Siefert
1985 : Claude Simon
1986 : Wole Soyinka
1987 : Joseph Brodsky
1988 : Naguib Mahfouz
1989 : Camilo Jose Cela

1990 : Octavio Paz
1991 : Nadine Gordimer
1992 : Derek Walcott
1993 : Toni Morrison
1994 : Kenzaburo Oe
1995 : Seamus Heaney
1996 : Wuslawa Szymborska
1997 : Dario Fo
1998 : Jose Saramago
1999 : Gunter Grass
2000 : Gao Xingijan
2001 : V S Naipaul
2002 : Imre Kertesz [the prize was worth £639.000]
2003 : J M Coetzee [the prize was worth £780.000]
2004 : Elfriede Jelinek [the prize was worth £800.000]

READING
H E Pauli : Alfred Nobel - Dynamite King, Architect of Peace (1947 Nicholson & Watson)
100 Years with Nobel Laureates : 100 Articles by 100 Laureates exclusively for
Encyclopaedia Britannica (2001 Encyclopaedia Britannica)