1998 Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84
1998 Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95
1997 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo
1996 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69
1995 Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
1994 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe
1993 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
1990 Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
1988 Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize
1988 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz
1987 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky
1985 French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature
1985 Gerard Schmook, Flemish literature historian/custodian, dies at 86
1982 Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies
1980 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
1976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1976 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow
1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1970 Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian, dies at 94
1967 Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian, dies at 58
1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1959 Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian, dies
1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1956 Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70
1954 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature
1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
1954 Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80
1953 Douwe Kalma, Fries literature/christian-socialist, dies at 57
1953 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature critic, dies at 80
1953 Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66
1953 Georgia approves U.S. 1st literature censorship board
1951 Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75
1950 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
1948 T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
1947 PC Hooft prize forms for literature
1944 Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian, dies
1944 Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65
1943 Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42
1940 Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48
1938 Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1937 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71
1936 Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
1935 Lodewijk Scharpe, Flemish literature historian, dies at 65
1930 Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
1926 August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70
1926 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature
1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
1918 Henry Adams, U.S. literature historian (Esther), dies at 80
1918 Jack Morpurgo, American Literature scholar, Leeds University
1917 Gerrit Borgers, literature
1915 Hans [Henri A] Gomperts, Dutch literature, Duck on Attic
1915 Alfred Kazin, U.S. writer/literature critic, Inmost Leaf
1909 [Hans JM] Fernand Lodewick, literature historian
1909 Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian
1909 Rene Etiemble, French literature historian, Parlez-vous Franglais
1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
1906 John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language and literature
1902 Gerard P M Knuvelder, Dutch literature historian, Vocation, Kitty
1900 Korneel Goossens, Flemish literature/art historian
1900 James Sutherland, English literature scholar/actor, Rob Roy 1953
1899 George Calinescu, Romania, literature, Enigma Otilei
1899 Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer, Nobel Literature 1968
1897 Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature, About the Laugh
1893 Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature, dies at 86
1892 Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer
1887 Francis Bull, Norway, writer, Norsk literature historian
1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73
1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73
1886 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45
1886 Ernst R. Curtius, German literature historian
1885 Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian/critic
1881 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73
1878 Paul Hazard, French literature historian
1875 Desiderius A. Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian
1873 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
1872 Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies
1871 Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/president of Romania
1869 Lodewijk Scharpe, Flemish literature historian
1865 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian, Motion
1859 Karl Bleibtreu, German author, Revolution of Literature
1855 Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian
1855 August Sauer, Austria literature historian, Euphorion
1854 Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies
1848 Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies
1841 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian
1840 John H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker, dies at 77
1813 Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian, Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti
1807 Cornelis E van Koetsveld, vicar/literature
1807 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet and literature critic
1756 Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literature, Disease of Scientists
1711 Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies
1684 Ludvig Baron Holberg, founder, Danish and Norwegian literature
1644 Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar/literature, David's holy saint graduals
1604 Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58
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