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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