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French Nobel Prize in Literature Winners

For most of the 20th century, French authors had more Literature Nobel Prizes than those of any other nation. The following French or French language authors have won a Nobel Prize in Literature:

  • 1901 - Sully Prudhomme (The first Nobel Prize in literature)
  • 1904 - Frédéric Mistral (wrote in Occitan)
  • 1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian)
  • 1915 - Romain Rolland
  • 1921 - Anatole France
  • 1927 - Henri Bergson
  • 1937 - Roger Martin du Gard
  • 1947 - André Gide
  • 1952 - François Mauriac
  • 1957 - Albert Camus
  • 1960 - Saint-John Perse
  • 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize)
  • 1969 - Samuel Beckett (Irish, wrote in English and French)
  • 1985 - Claude Simon
  • 2000 - Gao Xingjian (writes in Chinese)
  • 2008 - J.M.G. Le Clézio

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