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Poets Laureate and Prizes

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Poets Laureate and Prizes

Poets Laureate

Ben Jonson	1619–37
Sir William D'Avenant	1638–?

Official Holders

John Dryden	1668–89
Thomas Shadwell	1689–92
Nahum Tate	1692–1715
Nicholas Rowe	1715–18
Laurence Eusden	1718–30
Colley Cibber	1730–57
William Whitehead	1757–85
Thomas Warton	1785–90
Henry James Pye	1790–1813
Robert Southey	1813–43
William Wordsworth	1843–50
Alfred Tennyson	1850–92
Alfred Austin	1896–1913
Robert Bridges	1913–30
John Masefield	1930–67
Cecil Day-Lewis	1968–72
Sir John Betjeman	1972–84
Ted Hughes	1984–98
Andrew Motion	1999–

Nobel Prize for Literature

1901	René-François-Armand-Sully Prudhomme
1902	Theodor Mommsen
1903	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904	José Echegaray/ Frédéric Mistral
1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906	Giosuè Carducci
1907	Rudyard Kipling
1908	Rudolf Eucken
1909	Selma Lagerlöf
1910	Paul Heyse
1911	Maurice Maeterlinck
1912	Gerhart Hauptmann
1913	Rabindranath Tagore
1914	No award
1915	Romain Rolland
1916	Verner von Heidenstam
1917	Karl Gellerup/ Henrick Pontoppidan
1918	No award
1919	Carl Spitteler
1920	Knut Hamsun
1921	Anatole France
1922	Jacinto Benavente y Martínez
1923	W. B. Yeats
1924	Władysław Reymont
1925	G. B. Shaw
1926	Grazia Deledda
1927	Henri Bergson
1928	Sigrid Undset
1929	Thomas Mann
1930	Sinclair Lewis
1931	Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1932	John Galsworthy
1933	Ivan Bunin
1934	Luigi Pirandello
1935	No award
1936	Eugene O'Neill
1937	Roger Martin du Gard
1938	Pearl S. Buck
1939	F. E. Sillanpää
1940–3	No awards
1944	Johannes V. Jensen
1945	Gabriela Mistral
1946	Herman Hesse
1947	André Gide
1948	T. S. Eliot
1949	William Faulkner
1950	Bertrand Russell
1951	Pär Lagerkvist
1952	François Mauriac
1953	Winston S. Churchill
1954	Ernest Hemingway
1955	Halldór Laxness
1956	Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957	Albert Camus
1958	Boris Pasternak
1959	Salvatore Quasimodo
1960	Saint-John Perse
1961	Ivo Andrić
1962	John Steinbeck
1963	George Seferis
1964	Jean-Paul Sartre
1965	Mikhail Sholokhov
1966	S. Y. Agnon/ Nelly Sachs
1967	Miguel Ángel Asturias
1968	Yasunari Kawabata
1969	Samuel Beckett
1970	Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1971	Pablo Neruda
1972	Heinrich Böll
1973	Patrick White
1974	Eyvind Johnson/ Harry Martinson
1975	Eugenio Montale
1976	Saul Bellow
1977	Vicente Aleixandre
1978	Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979	Odysseus Elytis
1980	Czesław Milosz
1981	Elias Canetti
1982	Gabriel García Márquez
1983	William Golding
1984	Jaroslav Seifert
1985	Claude Simon
1986	Wole Soyinka
1987	Joseph Brodsky
1988	Naguib Mahfouz
1989	Camilo José Cela
1990	Octavio Paz
1991	Nadine Gordimer
1992	Derek Walcott
1993	Toni Morrison
1994	Kenzaburo Oë
1995	Seamus Heaney
1996	Wisława Szymborska
1997	Dario Fo
1998	José Saramago
1999	Günter Grass
2000	Gao Xingjian
2001	Sir V. S. Naipaul
2002	Imre Kertesz

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

1918	Ernest Poole, His Family
1919	Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
1920	No award
1921	Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
1922	Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams
1923	Willa Cather, One of Ours
1924	Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins
1925	Edna Ferber, So Big
1926	Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith
1927	Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn
1928	Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1929	Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary
1930	Oliver LaFarge, Laughing Boy
1931	Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace
1932	Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
1933	T. S. Stribling, The Store
1934	Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom
1935	Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November
1936	Harold L. Davis, Honey in the Horn
1937	Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
1938	John Phillips Marquand, The Late George Apley
1939	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
1940	John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
1941	No award
1942	Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life
1943	Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth
1944	Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
1945	John Hersey, A Bell for Adano
1946	No award
1947	Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
1948	James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific
1949	James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honour
1950	A. B. Guthrie jr., The Way West
1951	Conrad Richter, The Town
1952	Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
1953	Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
1954	No award
1955	William Faulkner, A Fable
1956	Mackinley Kanter, Andersonville
1957	No award
1958	James Agee, A Death in the Family
1959	Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jamie McPheeters
1960	Allen Drury, Advise and Consent
1961	Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
1962	Edwin O'Connor, The Edge of Sadness
1963	William Faulkner, The Reivers
1964	No award
1965	Shirley Ann Grau, The Keepers of the House
1966	Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1967	Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
1968	William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
1969	N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn
1970	Jean Stafford, Collected Stories
1971	No award
1972	Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
1973	Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
1974	No award
1975	Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
1976	Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift
1977	No award
1978	James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room
1979	John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
1980	Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
1981	John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
1982	John Updike, Rabbit is Rich
1983	Alice Walker, The Color Purple
1984	William Kennedy, Ironweed
1985	Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs
1986	Larry McMurty, Lonesome Dove
1987	Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis
1988	Toni Morrison, Beloved
1989	Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons
1990	Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1991	John Updike, Rabbit at Rest
1992	Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
1993	Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
1994	E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
1995	Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
1996	Richard Ford, Independence Day
1997	Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler
1998	Philip Roth, American Pastoral
1999	Michael Cunningham, The Hours
2000	Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
2001	Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2002	Richard Russo, Empire Falls

Man Booker Prize for Fiction^*

* Formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction, this became the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2002.
1969	P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For
1970	Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
1971	V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
1972	John Berger, G
1973	J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
1974	Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
	Stanley Middleton, Holiday
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
1976	David Storey, Saville
1977	Paul Scott, Staying On
1978	Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
1980	William Golding, Rites of Passage
1981	Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
1982	Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
1983	J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K
1984	Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
1985	Keri Hulme, The Bone People
1986	Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
1987	Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
1988	Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
1990	A. S. Byatt, Possession
1991	Ben Okri, The Famished Road
1992	Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
	Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
1993	Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994	James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late
1995	Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
1996	Graham Swift, Last Orders
1997	Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
1998	Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
1999	J. M. Coetzee Disgrace
2000	Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
2001	Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
2002	Yann Martel, The Life of Pi

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