AND WHAT ABOUT MY CUBA…? / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

2010 — Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru

2009 — Herta Mueller, Romania and Germany

2008 — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, France and Mauritius

2007 — Doris Lessing, United Kingdom

2006 — Orhan Pamuk, Turkey

2005 — Harold Pinter, United Kingdom

2004 — Elfriede Jelinek, Austria

2003 — J. M. Coetzee, South Africa

2002 — Imre Kertesz, Hungary

2001 — V. S. Naipaul, United Kingdom

2000 — Gao Xingjian, France

1999 — Gunter Grass, Germany

1998 — Jose Saramago, Portugal

1997 — Dario Fo, Italy

1996 — Wislawa Szymborska, Poland

1995 — Seamus Heaney, Ireland

1994 — Kenzaburo Oe, Japan

1993 — Toni Morrison, United States

1992 — Derek Walcott, Saint Lucia

1991 — Nadine Gordimer, South Africa

1990 — Octavio Paz, Mexico

1989 — Camilo Jose Cela, Spain

1988 — Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt

1987 — Joseph Brodsky, United States

1986 — Wole Soyinka, Nigeria

1985 — Claude Simon, France

1984 — Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia

1983 — William Golding, United Kingdom

1982 — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia

1981 — Elias Canetti, United Kingdom

1980 — Czeslaw Milosz, Poland and United States

1979 — Odysseus Elytis, Greece

1978 — Isaac Bashevis Singer, United States

1977 — Vicente Aleixandre, Spain

1976 — Saul Bellow, United States

1975 — Eugenio Montale, Italy

1974 — Eyvind Johnson, Sweden; Harry Martinson, Sweden

1973 — Patrick White, Australia

1972 — Heinrich Boll, Germany

1971 — Pablo Neruda, Chile

1970 — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet Union

1969 — Samuel Beckett, Ireland

1968 — Yasunari Kawabata, Japan

1967 — Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala

1966 — Shmuel Agnon, Israel; Nelly Sachs, Sweden

1965 — Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Union

1964 — Jean-Paul Sartre, France

1963 — Giorgos Seferis, Greece

1962 — John Steinbeck, United States

1961 — Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia

1960 — Saint-John Perse, France

1959 — Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy

1958 — Boris Pasternak, Soviet Union

1957 — Albert Camus, France

1956 — Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spain

1955 — Halldor Laxness, Iceland

1954 — Ernest Hemingway, United States

1953 — Winston Churchill, United Kingdom

1952 — Francois Mauriac, France

1951 — Par Lagerkvist, Sweden

1950 — Bertrand Russell, United Kingdom

1949 — William Faulkner, United States

1948 — T.S. Eliot, United Kingdom

1947 — Andre Gide, France

1946 — Hermann Hesse, Switzerland

1945 — Gabriela Mistral, Chile

1944 — Johannes V. Jensen, Denmark

1943 — No prize awarded

1942 — No prize awarded

1941 — No prize awarded

1940 — No prize awarded

1939 — Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finland

1938 — Pearl Buck, United States

1937 — Roger Martin du Gard, France

1936 — Eugene O’Neill, United States

1935 — No prize awarded

1934 — Luigi Pirandello, Italy

1933 — Ivan Bunin, stateless domicile in France

1932 — John Galsworthy, United Kingdom

1931 — Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sweden

1930 — Sinclair Lewis, United States

1929 — Thomas Mann, Germany

1928 — Sigrid Undset, Norway

1927 — Henri Bergson, France

1926 — Grazia Deledda, Italy

1925 — George Bernard Shaw, United Kingdom

1924 — Wladyslaw Reymont, Poland

1923 — William Butler Yeats, Ireland

1922 — Jacinto Benavente, Spain

1921 — Anatole France, France

1920 — Knut Hamsun, Norway

1919 — Carl Spitteler, Switzerland

1918 — No prize awarded

1917 — Karl Gjellerup, Denmark; Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark

1916 — Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden

1915 — Romain Rolland, France

1914 — No prize awarded

1913 — Rabindranath Tagore, India

1912 — Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany

1911 — Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium

1910 — Paul Heyse, Germany

1909 — Selma Lagerlof, Sweden

1908 — Rudolf Eucken, Germany

1907 — Rudyard Kipling, United Kingdom

1906 — Giosue Carducci, Italy

1905 — Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland

1904 — Frederic Mistral, France; Jose Echegaray, Spain

1903 — Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norway

1902 — Theodor Mommsen, Germany

1901 — Sully Prudhomme, France

And not one of them from Cuba!

October 10, 2010