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This page is new, with the aim toward making it a featured list one of these days. Any suggestions or changes are welcome, as would be any available media (free images of the laureates would be fantastic). Irregulargalaxies 22:28, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
The problem with countries still remains unresolved. There is huge inconsistency between writers. Some of the entries focus on nationality, some on residence, some on ethnicity, some on where a writer was born. It's not the same thing at all to rely on the NobelPrize.org page 'Residence at the time of the award' for this category. Especially because there are more and more globalised writers with complex histories, there needs to be an adequate way to represent them. It is particularly galling, as someone who at least knows something about world literature, to see Czeslaw Milosz, for example, be reduced to an 'American'... BooksJay ( talk) 08:42, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
Why is Czesław Miłosz listed with duo countries of Poland and United States while T.S. Elliot is only listed with United Kingdom? Shouldn't there be some sort of consistency when we're listing cross national laureates? -- Pengutron ( talk) 22:46, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
This was a long-standing issue of contention in the original article ( Nobel Prize in Literature). I believe the countries listed here are those listed on the website by the Nobel foundation, which is probably the most reliable source. Users can look at individual authors for more information about their citizenship/nationality/heritage. Irregulargalaxies ( talk) 01:34, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
George Bernard Shaw is listed incorrectly as being from the United Kingdom. I have now corrected this to Ireland several times, but it keeps changing back. Why?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.239.70.128 ( talk) 14:12, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
why is Nelly Sachs then listed under Germany when the official website says Sweden [1]? -- CK85 ( talk) 15:55, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Austria has had at least three laureates: Canetti,Jelinek, Handke. There may be others. The country list says 2.
Where is that purported list of Laureates per country in the Academy website? I can't find it. All I've found is a list by language. Ds77 ( talk) 16:48, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
Austria has had at least three laureates: Canetti,Jelinek, Handke. There may be others. The country list says 2.
Where is that purported list of Laureates per country in the Academy website? I can't find it. All I've found is a list by language. Ds77 ( talk) 16:48, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
Austria has had at least three laureates: Canetti,Jelinek, Handke. There may be others. The country list says 2.
Where is that purported list of Laureates per country in the Academy website? I can't find it. All I've found is a list by language. Ds77 ( talk) 16:48, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
I know that this list used to include the languages of the laureates. I'm not sure why this was removed, surely it is more relevent than their nationalities, or at least equally so? - Kez ( talk) 19:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
According to Herta Mueller's profile she is of both German and Romanian nationality, shouldn't this be identified on the Nobel Prize for literature listing? Brady Fish ( talk) 15:59, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps add another more recognized currency inside parenthesis since I asume 10 000 000 SEK doesn't say anything to most people? Skether ( talk) 21:16, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
she is born, raised and educated in Romania, graduating in German studies and Romanian literature, and left Romania only when she was already 34 years old. plus, her novels refer to Romania. she is German ethnic of Romania, so I guess it would be politically correct to place Romania instead of Germany, or at least to mention both. citing Germany for Mueller is like citing Israel for a Jewish writer of America, quite inappropriate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.112.87.240 ( talk) 22:30, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
The sort options on this table do not opearte correctly for those entries where there are multiple prize-winners. Presentation is misaligned with the laurette's picture included in the year column and other information then shifted leftward. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.19.31 ( talk) 14:01, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
I added extra years to make the table sortable. It sort fine on year. What I really wanted to do was to sort on country. Unfortunately, it does not sort properly, but I don't understand why. Perhaps somebody with more expertise on wikipedia markup can make it sort properly, that is, all the nobel laurates from the same country together. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.9.208.110 ( talk) 04:03, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I added links for each year to its corresponding "[year] in literature" article and, for country names, to their corresponding national literature article. Now User:Scorpion0422 has removed the links twice (most recent [2]). Let's discuss the matter here and see if we can come to an agreement.
Many articles with lists of literary prizes link to the "[year] in literature" or "[year] in poetry" pages. (For example, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, T. S. Eliot Prize, Cholmondeley Award, The Age Book of the Year.) The idea is that someone interested in what else was produced in that year can easily find out, since those pages tend to have the more prominent books (of all types). By linking to those pages, we help readers who want to understand the context in which the author was writing. This tends to work a lot better for English-language authors, but it's still relevant for helping to understand others. It does absolutely no harm to the article to have the links, which I explained in a short note just above the list.
For articles on national literatures, the reasoning is similar. A French laureate was influenced by and in turn influenced French literature. To understand more about that, a link should be available. This makes the table much more useful. -- JohnWBarber ( talk) 02:49, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Nobel literature prize is an eurocentric prize without any value, please add a criticism paragraph about that matter.
Is it normal Chinese spoken by 1 of 5 humans in earth has only 1 prize
Is it normal Hindi spoken by 1 of 5 humans im earth has only 1 prize
Is it normal Arabic known by 1 of 5 humans in earth and besides that the oldest still used language (3800 years) and the one with richest vocabulary (some 9,5 mln words) has only 1 prize!!!
If Nobel committee want that their prize be taken seriously Chinese should be awarded at least 20 prizes, otherwise they are making themselves funny, discredited and not taken seriously besides all why no AFRICAN LANGUAGE NOR AMERINDIAN NOR AUSTRALIAN language do not have any prize.
Also are those commitee supermen that can juge the books, most of the Nobel winners are second class writers why so giant litterature persons such as Nazim Hikmet, Ahmed Khalid Tawfiq, Morsi Abu Al Abbas, Forugh Farrokhzad and Erener Kendisiker lol have no prizes!!???
Please do include a paragraph about the criticism of that matter!
and thanks
Humanbyrace ( talk) 10:05, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
I did not said that Arabic Hindi and Mandarin are the native tongues of the 3/5 of world people but SPOKEN
Indeed nearly all Chinese know Mandarin (the lingua franca of China) same for Hindi in India and Arabic for muslims (as you know muslims should know some Arabic because Islamic prayers should be done in Arabic)
For age of Arabic, here in Wikipedia the non mutually intelligible (with modern French) medieval' "proto frenchic" Latin slang is assumed to be French so with the same logics I assumed that Ugaritic (closer in phonetics and grammar to modern Arabic than French is close to that medieval Latin slang assumed to be "old french") and same arguing could be said for Sanskrit/Hindi and Avestan/Persian (although the gap between those languages is even greater than French/"old French"
As for richness, I meant the number of words in dictionnary as -for example-the medieval Arabic dicitonary "lisan al arab" contains more than 5,5 mln words ;however according to some Arabic professors this number could be in reality closer to 10 mlns if we also count the dialectic words (as you may know there are more than 40 Arabic dialects which do contain dialectic words that are not included in the dictionnary for example such the now famous Egyptian Arabic Dialectal word "baltajia" (wich descends from Akkadian via Persian via Turkic to Egyptian Arabic) are not included in lisan al arab dictionnary and there are dozens of thousands of such words in the over 40 Arabic dialects and many times there are dialectal words whose stem are present in that dictionnary but that have "new" forms absent from the traditional Arabic forms such as the Egyptian Arabic word "laiba" wich stems from the Arabic stem "l'b" (to play) but has a "new" form "Faila" absent from the dictionnaries
Humanbyrace ( talk) 19:07, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
For some strange reason, a user has taken to delete the column with the language the laureates write/wrote in. That part of the article is as well sourced as anything else. The official size of the Nobel Prize, used as a source for this article, give the name, the country and the language for each laureate. I've assumed good faith this far, but further deletion of the column with language will start to look like vandalism, not a good faith edit. Jeppiz ( talk) 18:55, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
There seems to be constant contention about the winner's nationalities. Some of the discussion refers to the Nobel website as the source being used, but I can't see any mention of nationalities there. What is the link to the source? Greenman ( talk) 21:56, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
I put the source of Llosa's interview after the Nobel, although it's in Spanish, he is clear about it. He has 2 nationalities, Peruvian and Spanish, as he was born in Peru and most of his books were written and published in Spain, where he has lived most of his life. 88.1.7.172 ( talk) 04:09, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
William Butler Yeats was from the Irish Free State when he won his Nobel in 1923. All latter Irish winners were from the Republic of Ireland. It's not gonna do any harm to show those accuracies. GoodDay ( talk) 23:00, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
A cleanup tag was added to the article with the comment "nationality or country, decide can't have 2". This seems to stem from the assumption that one can only have one country. However, the authors listed with more than one country have lived and written in one country, and later moved to another and coninued to work there. You're not bound to stay in one place for your entire life, and placing e.g. Ivan Bunin in either France or Russia, but only on of them, would simply not be true. We're not talking about place of birth here, and two countires listed are not one "country" and one "nationality". I'll remove the tag. / Julle ( talk) 09:47, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Why does " In 2012, the prize was awarded to Mo Yan of China" appear in the lead? ★ ★ Retro Lord ★★ 09:27, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
There is no a detail regarding the appropriate use (organization etc.) of flag icons at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons. I don't think that an important detail on the list. The Nobel Committee's official web page has nothing to do with Wikipedia. As far as I know, Wikipedia rules valid in other languages:
Furthermore, please look at other (non-org.) awards at the Featured lists:
It seems that the column of countries is inconsistent. Why Henryk Sienkiewicz is from Poland in 1905 when there was no Poland at that point of the time? 5.134.65.136 ( talk) 12:26, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
I think the column should be renamed to "Nationality" instead of "Country". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.96.204.163 ( talk) 15:57, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Two laureates, Jimenez and Aleixandre, are listed under "Country" as "Spanish State", which links to "Francoist Spain", while Echegaray, Benavente, and Cela are just "Spain". Why? Yes, the Francoist regime was in power when Jimenez won in 1956 (thought he wrote the work for which he won under the Bourbons and left Spain in 1916, and is acknowledged as being "domiciled in Puerto Rico" in his entry at nobel.org) and, inconsistently, when Aleixandre wrote, but *not* when he won. For that matter, Cela wrote most of his work while living in Francoist Spain. How about, for example "Fascist Italy", for Pirandello? How is Francoist Spain particularly different (n.b. no apologia for that regime particularly intended, but neither is it IMHO so uniquely awful as to deserve the special treatment in the list). I plan to edit Jimenez and Aleixandre's entries soon just to plain "Spain" if nobody responds here soonish. 142.129.255.114 ( talk) 07:25, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
.... Following is the entire RfC discussion. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 16:48, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
I would like to propose the creation of a new column in this list which will contain a characteristic work of each laureate, at the example of Pritzker Architecture Prize.-- The Theosophist ( talk) 17:32, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
"Nobel laureates by country" section tells: One Nobel laureate is classified as stateless (Ivan Bunin, 1933).
Therefore it is odd that the table of laureates has his county as France. So, is he classified as "stateless" or not? If I understand correctly, the infos should match each other.
93.106.7.43 (
talk) 04:56, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
The column is called "Country" which I interpret as meaning "Citizenship". Shaw was born in the United Kingdom, lived in the United Kingdom and died in the United Kingdom. I do not know if he also held Irish citizenship, but, whatever his fatherland might have been, he primarily was a citizen/subject/national of the United Kingdom.-- The Traditionalist ( talk) 11:16, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
I have changed the country and flag for Rabindranath Tagore to " British Raj ( India)" to match the historically accurate labels of the other laureates. It does not appear to have been discussed before, so I have made the change. If there was already a discussion and consensus about this topic, feel free to revert. Fishal ( talk) 23:06, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
The list states incorrectly that the Prize was not awarded in 1918. It was awarded to Erik Axel Karlfeldt who declined to accept it, just like Jean Paul Sartre and Boris Pasternak. He was awarded the Prize once again in 1931, posthumously. -- Jidu Boite ( talk) 08:23, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Sienkiewicz's country appears as "Poland (Russian Empire)". I believe the author would be appalled by such a statement. I propose a change that would acknowledge the complexity of the situation - that he considered himself a Pole, but at the time the polish territories were annexed by three neighboring countries including the Russian Empire. 31.0.79.114 ( talk) 14:25, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Should there be more women/equal amount of both genders winning the prize? Espngeek ( talk) 17:33, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
By chance, I noticed that under the section "Nobel laureates by country," the article states that there has been 119 nobel prize winners (from 1901 through 2022). By today, shouldn't this be 122? (99 in the 20th century and 23 in the 21st century). Furthermore, the list of winners by country adds up to 129, so there must be a miscounting somewhere+ AlexanderSokolDk ( talk) 07:41, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
A map of birthplaces was added recently. A couple points for discussion:
To the larger point, I don't think this adds anything significant to the article. The country/nationality of the authors is listed individually and also as a summary list. A birthplace map essentially regurgitates most of that same information, but adding potential confusion for authors who were born in a different location from where they primarily lived or are associated with their work (eg, Simon, Undset, Bellow, etc). Even with all of that, the maps increase the article size without adding significant information.
I'm appreciative of the effort, but suggest that it be removed. Opening this section for discussion, however. Irregulargalaxies ( talk) 17:03, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
Zm 114.29.224.151 ( talk) 09:09, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
I've made [[19xx Nobel Prize in Literature]]
link to the table here for 5 years which don't have their own articles, and added extra anchors so each links to the right row of the table. This means that the next/last year links go to the table when there isn't an article instead of being red links.
The year isn't a link (as it would only link back to itself), but it should become one if one of these is turned into an article. Aoeuidhtns ( talk) 13:50, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
There hasn't been a Nobel Prize for Literature for 2024, so Jacob Elson (whoever that is) hasn't won it. 40.132.68.49 ( talk) 19:39, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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This page is new, with the aim toward making it a featured list one of these days. Any suggestions or changes are welcome, as would be any available media (free images of the laureates would be fantastic). Irregulargalaxies 22:28, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
The problem with countries still remains unresolved. There is huge inconsistency between writers. Some of the entries focus on nationality, some on residence, some on ethnicity, some on where a writer was born. It's not the same thing at all to rely on the NobelPrize.org page 'Residence at the time of the award' for this category. Especially because there are more and more globalised writers with complex histories, there needs to be an adequate way to represent them. It is particularly galling, as someone who at least knows something about world literature, to see Czeslaw Milosz, for example, be reduced to an 'American'... BooksJay ( talk) 08:42, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
Why is Czesław Miłosz listed with duo countries of Poland and United States while T.S. Elliot is only listed with United Kingdom? Shouldn't there be some sort of consistency when we're listing cross national laureates? -- Pengutron ( talk) 22:46, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
This was a long-standing issue of contention in the original article ( Nobel Prize in Literature). I believe the countries listed here are those listed on the website by the Nobel foundation, which is probably the most reliable source. Users can look at individual authors for more information about their citizenship/nationality/heritage. Irregulargalaxies ( talk) 01:34, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
George Bernard Shaw is listed incorrectly as being from the United Kingdom. I have now corrected this to Ireland several times, but it keeps changing back. Why?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.239.70.128 ( talk) 14:12, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
why is Nelly Sachs then listed under Germany when the official website says Sweden [1]? -- CK85 ( talk) 15:55, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Austria has had at least three laureates: Canetti,Jelinek, Handke. There may be others. The country list says 2.
Where is that purported list of Laureates per country in the Academy website? I can't find it. All I've found is a list by language. Ds77 ( talk) 16:48, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
Austria has had at least three laureates: Canetti,Jelinek, Handke. There may be others. The country list says 2.
Where is that purported list of Laureates per country in the Academy website? I can't find it. All I've found is a list by language. Ds77 ( talk) 16:48, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
Austria has had at least three laureates: Canetti,Jelinek, Handke. There may be others. The country list says 2.
Where is that purported list of Laureates per country in the Academy website? I can't find it. All I've found is a list by language. Ds77 ( talk) 16:48, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
I know that this list used to include the languages of the laureates. I'm not sure why this was removed, surely it is more relevent than their nationalities, or at least equally so? - Kez ( talk) 19:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
According to Herta Mueller's profile she is of both German and Romanian nationality, shouldn't this be identified on the Nobel Prize for literature listing? Brady Fish ( talk) 15:59, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps add another more recognized currency inside parenthesis since I asume 10 000 000 SEK doesn't say anything to most people? Skether ( talk) 21:16, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
she is born, raised and educated in Romania, graduating in German studies and Romanian literature, and left Romania only when she was already 34 years old. plus, her novels refer to Romania. she is German ethnic of Romania, so I guess it would be politically correct to place Romania instead of Germany, or at least to mention both. citing Germany for Mueller is like citing Israel for a Jewish writer of America, quite inappropriate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.112.87.240 ( talk) 22:30, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
The sort options on this table do not opearte correctly for those entries where there are multiple prize-winners. Presentation is misaligned with the laurette's picture included in the year column and other information then shifted leftward. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.19.31 ( talk) 14:01, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
I added extra years to make the table sortable. It sort fine on year. What I really wanted to do was to sort on country. Unfortunately, it does not sort properly, but I don't understand why. Perhaps somebody with more expertise on wikipedia markup can make it sort properly, that is, all the nobel laurates from the same country together. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.9.208.110 ( talk) 04:03, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I added links for each year to its corresponding "[year] in literature" article and, for country names, to their corresponding national literature article. Now User:Scorpion0422 has removed the links twice (most recent [2]). Let's discuss the matter here and see if we can come to an agreement.
Many articles with lists of literary prizes link to the "[year] in literature" or "[year] in poetry" pages. (For example, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, T. S. Eliot Prize, Cholmondeley Award, The Age Book of the Year.) The idea is that someone interested in what else was produced in that year can easily find out, since those pages tend to have the more prominent books (of all types). By linking to those pages, we help readers who want to understand the context in which the author was writing. This tends to work a lot better for English-language authors, but it's still relevant for helping to understand others. It does absolutely no harm to the article to have the links, which I explained in a short note just above the list.
For articles on national literatures, the reasoning is similar. A French laureate was influenced by and in turn influenced French literature. To understand more about that, a link should be available. This makes the table much more useful. -- JohnWBarber ( talk) 02:49, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Nobel literature prize is an eurocentric prize without any value, please add a criticism paragraph about that matter.
Is it normal Chinese spoken by 1 of 5 humans in earth has only 1 prize
Is it normal Hindi spoken by 1 of 5 humans im earth has only 1 prize
Is it normal Arabic known by 1 of 5 humans in earth and besides that the oldest still used language (3800 years) and the one with richest vocabulary (some 9,5 mln words) has only 1 prize!!!
If Nobel committee want that their prize be taken seriously Chinese should be awarded at least 20 prizes, otherwise they are making themselves funny, discredited and not taken seriously besides all why no AFRICAN LANGUAGE NOR AMERINDIAN NOR AUSTRALIAN language do not have any prize.
Also are those commitee supermen that can juge the books, most of the Nobel winners are second class writers why so giant litterature persons such as Nazim Hikmet, Ahmed Khalid Tawfiq, Morsi Abu Al Abbas, Forugh Farrokhzad and Erener Kendisiker lol have no prizes!!???
Please do include a paragraph about the criticism of that matter!
and thanks
Humanbyrace ( talk) 10:05, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
I did not said that Arabic Hindi and Mandarin are the native tongues of the 3/5 of world people but SPOKEN
Indeed nearly all Chinese know Mandarin (the lingua franca of China) same for Hindi in India and Arabic for muslims (as you know muslims should know some Arabic because Islamic prayers should be done in Arabic)
For age of Arabic, here in Wikipedia the non mutually intelligible (with modern French) medieval' "proto frenchic" Latin slang is assumed to be French so with the same logics I assumed that Ugaritic (closer in phonetics and grammar to modern Arabic than French is close to that medieval Latin slang assumed to be "old french") and same arguing could be said for Sanskrit/Hindi and Avestan/Persian (although the gap between those languages is even greater than French/"old French"
As for richness, I meant the number of words in dictionnary as -for example-the medieval Arabic dicitonary "lisan al arab" contains more than 5,5 mln words ;however according to some Arabic professors this number could be in reality closer to 10 mlns if we also count the dialectic words (as you may know there are more than 40 Arabic dialects which do contain dialectic words that are not included in the dictionnary for example such the now famous Egyptian Arabic Dialectal word "baltajia" (wich descends from Akkadian via Persian via Turkic to Egyptian Arabic) are not included in lisan al arab dictionnary and there are dozens of thousands of such words in the over 40 Arabic dialects and many times there are dialectal words whose stem are present in that dictionnary but that have "new" forms absent from the traditional Arabic forms such as the Egyptian Arabic word "laiba" wich stems from the Arabic stem "l'b" (to play) but has a "new" form "Faila" absent from the dictionnaries
Humanbyrace ( talk) 19:07, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
For some strange reason, a user has taken to delete the column with the language the laureates write/wrote in. That part of the article is as well sourced as anything else. The official size of the Nobel Prize, used as a source for this article, give the name, the country and the language for each laureate. I've assumed good faith this far, but further deletion of the column with language will start to look like vandalism, not a good faith edit. Jeppiz ( talk) 18:55, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
There seems to be constant contention about the winner's nationalities. Some of the discussion refers to the Nobel website as the source being used, but I can't see any mention of nationalities there. What is the link to the source? Greenman ( talk) 21:56, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
I put the source of Llosa's interview after the Nobel, although it's in Spanish, he is clear about it. He has 2 nationalities, Peruvian and Spanish, as he was born in Peru and most of his books were written and published in Spain, where he has lived most of his life. 88.1.7.172 ( talk) 04:09, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
William Butler Yeats was from the Irish Free State when he won his Nobel in 1923. All latter Irish winners were from the Republic of Ireland. It's not gonna do any harm to show those accuracies. GoodDay ( talk) 23:00, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
A cleanup tag was added to the article with the comment "nationality or country, decide can't have 2". This seems to stem from the assumption that one can only have one country. However, the authors listed with more than one country have lived and written in one country, and later moved to another and coninued to work there. You're not bound to stay in one place for your entire life, and placing e.g. Ivan Bunin in either France or Russia, but only on of them, would simply not be true. We're not talking about place of birth here, and two countires listed are not one "country" and one "nationality". I'll remove the tag. / Julle ( talk) 09:47, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Why does " In 2012, the prize was awarded to Mo Yan of China" appear in the lead? ★ ★ Retro Lord ★★ 09:27, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
There is no a detail regarding the appropriate use (organization etc.) of flag icons at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons. I don't think that an important detail on the list. The Nobel Committee's official web page has nothing to do with Wikipedia. As far as I know, Wikipedia rules valid in other languages:
Furthermore, please look at other (non-org.) awards at the Featured lists:
It seems that the column of countries is inconsistent. Why Henryk Sienkiewicz is from Poland in 1905 when there was no Poland at that point of the time? 5.134.65.136 ( talk) 12:26, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
I think the column should be renamed to "Nationality" instead of "Country". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.96.204.163 ( talk) 15:57, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Two laureates, Jimenez and Aleixandre, are listed under "Country" as "Spanish State", which links to "Francoist Spain", while Echegaray, Benavente, and Cela are just "Spain". Why? Yes, the Francoist regime was in power when Jimenez won in 1956 (thought he wrote the work for which he won under the Bourbons and left Spain in 1916, and is acknowledged as being "domiciled in Puerto Rico" in his entry at nobel.org) and, inconsistently, when Aleixandre wrote, but *not* when he won. For that matter, Cela wrote most of his work while living in Francoist Spain. How about, for example "Fascist Italy", for Pirandello? How is Francoist Spain particularly different (n.b. no apologia for that regime particularly intended, but neither is it IMHO so uniquely awful as to deserve the special treatment in the list). I plan to edit Jimenez and Aleixandre's entries soon just to plain "Spain" if nobody responds here soonish. 142.129.255.114 ( talk) 07:25, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
.... Following is the entire RfC discussion. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 16:48, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
I would like to propose the creation of a new column in this list which will contain a characteristic work of each laureate, at the example of Pritzker Architecture Prize.-- The Theosophist ( talk) 17:32, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
"Nobel laureates by country" section tells: One Nobel laureate is classified as stateless (Ivan Bunin, 1933).
Therefore it is odd that the table of laureates has his county as France. So, is he classified as "stateless" or not? If I understand correctly, the infos should match each other.
93.106.7.43 (
talk) 04:56, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
The column is called "Country" which I interpret as meaning "Citizenship". Shaw was born in the United Kingdom, lived in the United Kingdom and died in the United Kingdom. I do not know if he also held Irish citizenship, but, whatever his fatherland might have been, he primarily was a citizen/subject/national of the United Kingdom.-- The Traditionalist ( talk) 11:16, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
I have changed the country and flag for Rabindranath Tagore to " British Raj ( India)" to match the historically accurate labels of the other laureates. It does not appear to have been discussed before, so I have made the change. If there was already a discussion and consensus about this topic, feel free to revert. Fishal ( talk) 23:06, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
The list states incorrectly that the Prize was not awarded in 1918. It was awarded to Erik Axel Karlfeldt who declined to accept it, just like Jean Paul Sartre and Boris Pasternak. He was awarded the Prize once again in 1931, posthumously. -- Jidu Boite ( talk) 08:23, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Sienkiewicz's country appears as "Poland (Russian Empire)". I believe the author would be appalled by such a statement. I propose a change that would acknowledge the complexity of the situation - that he considered himself a Pole, but at the time the polish territories were annexed by three neighboring countries including the Russian Empire. 31.0.79.114 ( talk) 14:25, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Should there be more women/equal amount of both genders winning the prize? Espngeek ( talk) 17:33, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
By chance, I noticed that under the section "Nobel laureates by country," the article states that there has been 119 nobel prize winners (from 1901 through 2022). By today, shouldn't this be 122? (99 in the 20th century and 23 in the 21st century). Furthermore, the list of winners by country adds up to 129, so there must be a miscounting somewhere+ AlexanderSokolDk ( talk) 07:41, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
A map of birthplaces was added recently. A couple points for discussion:
To the larger point, I don't think this adds anything significant to the article. The country/nationality of the authors is listed individually and also as a summary list. A birthplace map essentially regurgitates most of that same information, but adding potential confusion for authors who were born in a different location from where they primarily lived or are associated with their work (eg, Simon, Undset, Bellow, etc). Even with all of that, the maps increase the article size without adding significant information.
I'm appreciative of the effort, but suggest that it be removed. Opening this section for discussion, however. Irregulargalaxies ( talk) 17:03, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
Zm 114.29.224.151 ( talk) 09:09, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
I've made [[19xx Nobel Prize in Literature]]
link to the table here for 5 years which don't have their own articles, and added extra anchors so each links to the right row of the table. This means that the next/last year links go to the table when there isn't an article instead of being red links.
The year isn't a link (as it would only link back to itself), but it should become one if one of these is turned into an article. Aoeuidhtns ( talk) 13:50, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
There hasn't been a Nobel Prize for Literature for 2024, so Jacob Elson (whoever that is) hasn't won it. 40.132.68.49 ( talk) 19:39, 12 January 2024 (UTC)