Literature quiz
Nobel Prize in Literature winners since 1980
Forty six laureates, one for every year from 1980 to 2025. Each row shows the year; surnames are enough and accents are optional.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 46 answers
- Limit
- 9:00
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 46
- Time limit
- 9:00
- Order
- Any order
- Matching
- Case and accents ignored
- Type an answer; it files itself the moment it matches.
- One answer can fill several slots.
- Give up at any time to see what you missed.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Name every Nobel Prize in Literature laureate since 1980.
| Year | Laureate |
|---|---|
| 1980 | Not found yet |
| 1981 | Not found yet |
| 1982 | Not found yet |
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| Year | Laureate |
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| 2003 | Not found yet |
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| 2024 | Not found yet |
| 2025 | Not found yet |
About this quiz
There has been exactly one literature laureate for every year from 1980 to 2025. Across its whole history the prize has been awarded 118 times to 122 laureates.
- No literature prize since 1980 has been shared; the last shared one was in 1974.
- Sully Prudhomme won the first literature prize, in 1901.
- Winston Churchill won the prize in 1953 and Bertrand Russell in 1950.
- The prize was not awarded in seven years, all of them during the two world wars or in 1935.
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