The Mookse and the Gripes discussion

2017 -- ??
2016 -- Bob Dylan
2015 -- Svetlana Alexievich
2014 -- Patrick Modiano
2013 -- Alice Munro
2012 -- Mo Yan
2011 -- Tomas Tranströmer
2010 -- Mario Vargas Llosa
2009 -- Herta Müller
2008 -- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2007 -- Doris Lessing
2006 -- Orhan Pamuk
2005 -- Harold Pinter
2004 -- Elfriede Jelinek
2003 -- J.M. Coetzee
2002 -- Imre Kertész
2001 -- V.S. Naipaul
2000 -- Gao Xingjian
1999 -- Günter Grass
1998 -- José Saramago
1997 -- Dario Fo
1996 -- Wislawa Szymborska
1995 -- Seamus Heaney
1994 -- Kenzaburo Oe
1993 -- Toni Morrison
1992 -- Derek Walcott
1991 -- Nadine Gordimer
1990 -- Octavio Paz
1989 -- Camilo José Cela
1988 -- Naguib Mahfouz
1987 -- Joseph Brodsky
1986 -- Wole Soyinka
1985 -- Claude Simon
1984 -- Jaroslav Seifert
1983 -- William Golding
1982 -- Gabriel García Márquez
1981 -- Elias Canetti
1980 -- Czeslaw Milosz
1979 -- Odysseus Elytis
1978 -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977 -- Vicente Aleixandre
1976 -- Saul Bellow
1975 -- Eugenio Montale
1974 -- Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
1973 -- Patrick White
1972 -- Heinrich Böll
1971 -- Pablo Neruda
1970 -- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1969 -- Samuel Beckett
1968 -- Yasunari Kawabata
1967 -- Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 -- Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965 -- Mikhail Sholokhov
1964 -- Jean-Paul Sartre
1963 -- Giorgos Seferis
1962 -- John Steinbeck
1961 -- Ivo Andric
1960 -- Saint-John Perse
1959 -- Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 -- Boris Pasternak
1957 -- Albert Camus
1956 -- Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955 -- Halldór Laxness
1954 -- Ernest Hemingway
1953 -- Winston Churchill
1952 -- François Mauriac
1951 -- Pär Lagerkvist
1950 -- Bertrand Russell
1949 -- William Faulkner
1948 -- T.S. Eliot
1947 -- André Gide
1946 -- Hermann Hesse
1945 -- Gabriela Mistral
1944 -- Johannes V. Jensen
1943 -- No Prize
1942 -- No Prize
1941 -- No Prize
1940 -- No Prize
1939 -- Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938 -- Pearl Buck
1937 -- Roger Martin du Gard
1936 -- Eugene O'Neill
1935 -- No Prize
1934 -- Luigi Pirandello
1933 -- Ivan Bunin
1932 -- John Galsworthy
1931 -- Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930 -- Sinclair Lewis
1929 -- Thomas Mann
1928 -- Sigrid Undset
1927 -- Henri Bergson
1926 -- Grazia Deledda
1925 -- George Bernard Shaw
1924 -- Wladyslaw Remont
1923 -- William Butler Yeats
1922 -- Jacinto Benavente
1921 -- Anatole France
1920 -- Knut Hamsun
1919 -- Carl Spitteler
1918 -- No Prize
1917 -- Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 -- Verner von Heidenstam
1915 -- Romain Rolland
1914 -- No Prize
1913 -- Rabindranath Tagore
1912 -- Gerhart Hauptmann
1911 -- Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 -- Paul Heyse
1909 -- Selma Lagerlöf
1908 -- Rudolf Eucken
1907 -- Rudyard Kipling
1906 -- Giosuè Carducci
1905 -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 -- Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1903 -- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1902 -- Theodor Mommsen
1901 -- Sully Prudhomme

Trevor wrote: "2015 -- Svetlana Alexievich
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And in 2016 the prize wasn't awarded but was instead replaced by the Nobel Prize for Popular Music.