Nobel Prize Laureates
Further information: Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to German language authors thirteen times (as of 2009), or the third most often after English and French language authors (with 27 and 14 laureates, respectively).
| Thomas Mann |
Hermann Hesse |
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- 1902 Theodor Mommsen
- 1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- 1910 Paul Heyse
- 1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
- 1919 Carl Spitteler
- 1929 Thomas Mann
- 1946 Hermann Hesse
- 1966 Nelly Sachs
- 1972 Heinrich Böll
- 1981 Elias Canetti
- 1999 Günter Grass
- 2004 Elfriede Jelinek
- 2009 Herta Müller
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