List of Nobel laureates in literature by age

#	Laureate	Date of birth	Date of award	Age upon receiving award	Days lived after receiving award	Date of death	Lifespan
1	Sully Prudhomme	16 March 1839	10 December 1901	62 years, 269 days	2,096 days	6 September 1907	25,010 days (68 years, 174 days)
2	Theodor Mommsen	30 November 1817	10 December 1902	85 years, 10 days	326 days	1 November 1903	31,381 days (85 years, 336 days)
3	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	8 December 1832	10 December 1903	71 years, 2 days	2,329 days	26 April 1910	28,262 days (77 years, 139 days)
4	José Echegaray	19 April 1832	10 December 1904	72 years, 235 days	4,296 days	14 September 1916	30,828 days (84 years, 148 days)
5	Frédéric Mistral	8 September 1830	10 December 1904	74 years, 93 days	3,392 days	25 March 1914	30,513 days (83 years, 198 days)
6	Henryk Sienkiewicz	5 May 1846	10 December 1905	59 years, 219 days	3,993 days	15 November 1916	25,761 days (70 years, 194 days)
7	Giosuè Carducci	27 July 1835	10 December 1906	71 years, 136 days	68 days	16 February 1907	26,136 days (71 years, 204 days)
8	Rudyard Kipling	30 December 1865	10 December 1907	41 years, 345 days	10,266 days	18 January 1936	25,585 days (70 years, 19 days)
9	Rudolf C. Eucken	5 January 1846	10 December 1908	62 years, 340 days	6,488 days	15 September 1926	29,472 days (80 years, 253 days)
10	Selma Lagerlöf	20 November 1858	10 December 1909	51 years, 20 days	11,054 days	16 March 1940	29,701 days (81 years, 117 days)
11	Paul von Heyse	15 March 1830	10 December 1910	80 years, 270 days	1,209 days	2 April 1914	30,698 days (84 years, 18 days)
12	Maurice Maeterlinck	29 August 1862	10 December 1911	49 years, 103 days	13,662 days	6 May 1949	31,661 days (86 years, 250 days)
13	Gerhart Hauptmann	15 November 1862	10 December 1912	50 years, 25 days	12,231 days	6 June 1946	30,518 days (83 years, 203 days)
14	Rabindranath Tagore	7 May 1861	10 December 1913	52 years, 217 days	10,102 days	7 August 1941	29,311 days (80 years, 92 days)
15	Romain Rolland	29 January 1866	10 December 1915	49 years, 315 days	10,613 days	30 December 1944	28,824 days (78 years, 336 days)
16	Verner von Heidenstam	6 July 1859	10 December 1916	57 years, 157 days	8,562 days	20 May 1940	29,538 days (80 years, 319 days)
17	Karl A. Gjellerup	2 June 1857	10 December 1917	60 years, 191 days	672 days	13 October 1919	22,777 days (62 years, 133 days)
18	Henrik Pontoppidan	24 July 1857	10 December 1917	60 years, 139 days	9,385 days	21 August 1943	31,438 days (86 years, 28 days)
19	Carl Spitteler	24 April 1845	10 December 1919	74 years, 230 days	1,846 days	29 December 1924	29,103 days (79 years, 249 days)
20	Knut Hamsun	4 August 1859	10 December 1920	61 years, 128 days	11,393 days	19 February 1952	33,801 days (92 years, 199 days)
21	Anatole France	16 April 1844	10 December 1921	77 years, 238 days	1,037 days	12 October 1924	29,398 days (80 years, 179 days)
22	Jacinto Benavente	12 August 1866	10 December 1922	56 years, 120 days	11,539 days	14 July 1954	32,112 days (87 years, 336 days)
23	William B. Yeats	13 June 1865	10 December 1923	58 years, 180 days	5,528 days	28 January 1939	26,891 days (73 years, 229 days)
24	Władysław Reymont	7 May 1867	10 December 1924	57 years, 217 days	360 days	5 December 1925	21,396 days (58 years, 212 days)
25	George B. Shaw	26 July 1856	10 December 1925	69 years, 137 days	9,093 days	2 November 1950	34,431 days (94 years, 99 days)
26	Grazia Deledda	27 September 1871	10 December 1926	55 years, 74 days	3,536 days	15 August 1936	23,698 days (64 years, 323 days)
27	Henri Bergson	18 October 1859	10 December 1927	68 years, 53 days	4,774 days	4 January 1941	29,663 days (81 years, 78 days)
28	Sigrid Undset	20 May 1882	10 December 1928	46 years, 204 days	7,487 days	10 June 1949	24,492 days (67 years, 21 days)
29	Thomas Mann	6 June 1875	10 December 1929	54 years, 187 days	9,376 days	12 August 1955	29,286 days (80 years, 67 days)
30	Sinclair Lewis	7 February 1885	10 December 1930	45 years, 306 days	7,336 days	10 January 1951	24,077 days (65 years, 337 days)
31	Erik A. Karlfeldt	20 July 1864	10 December 1931	N/A[1]	N/A	8 April 1931	24,367 days (66 years, 262 days)
32	John Galsworthy	14 August 1867	10 December 1932	65 years, 118 days	52 days	31 January 1933	23,911 days (65 years, 170 days)
33	Ivan Bunin	22 October 1870	10 December 1933	63 years, 49 days	7,273 days	8 November 1953	30,332 days (83 years, 17 days)
34	Luigi Pirandello	28 June 1867	10 December 1934	67 years, 165 days	731 days	10 December 1936	25,367 days (69 years, 165 days)
35	Eugene O'Neill	16 October 1888	10 December 1936	48 years, 55 days	6,196 days	27 November 1953	23,782 days (65 years, 42 days)
36	Roger du Gard	23 March 1881	10 December 1937	56 years, 262 days	7,560 days	22 August 1958	28,275 days (77 years, 152 days)
37	Pearl S. Buck	26 June 1892	10 December 1938	46 years, 167 days	12,505 days	6 March 1973	29,472 days (80 years, 253 days)
38	Frans E. Sillanpää	16 September 1888	10 December 1939	51 years, 85 days	8,942 days	3 June 1964	27,653 days (75 years, 261 days)
39	Johannes V. Jensen	20 January 1873	10 December 1944	71 years, 325 days	2,176 days	25 November 1950	28,432 days (77 years, 309 days)
40	Gabriela Mistral	7 April 1889	10 December 1945	56 years, 247 days	4,049 days	10 January 1957	24,749 days (67 years, 278 days)
41	Hermann Hesse	2 July 1877	10 December 1946	69 years, 161 days	5,721 days	9 August 1962	31,083 days (85 years, 38 days)
42	André Gide	22 November 1869	10 December 1947	78 years, 18 days	1,167 days	19 February 1951	29,673 days (81 years, 89 days)
43	T.S. Eliot	26 September 1888	10 December 1948	60 years, 75 days	5,869 days	4 January 1965	27,858 days (76 years, 100 days)
44	William Faulkner	25 September 1897	10 December 1949	52 years, 76 days	4,591 days	6 July 1962	23,659 days (64 years, 284 days)
45	Bertrand Russell	18 May 1872	10 December 1950	78 years, 206 days	6,994 days	2 February 1970	35,688 days (97 years, 260 days)
46	Pär Lagerkvist	23 May 1891	10 December 1951	60 years, 201 days	8,249 days	11 July 1974	30,364 days (83 years, 49 days)
47	François Mauriac	11 October 1885	10 December 1952	67 years, 60 days	6,474 days	1 September 1970	31,005 days (84 years, 325 days)
48	Winston Churchill	30 November 1874	10 December 1953	79 years, 10 days	4,063 days	24 January 1965	32,927 days (90 years, 55 days)
49	Ernest Hemingway	21 July 1899	10 December 1954	55 years, 142 days	2,396 days	2 July 1961	22,626 days (61 years, 346 days)
50	Halldór Laxness	23 April 1902	10 December 1955	53 years, 231 days	15,401 days	8 February 1998	34,990 days (95 years, 291 days)
51	Juan R. Jiménez	24 December 1881	10 December 1956	74 years, 352 days	535 days	29 May 1958	27,914 days (76 years, 156 days)
52	Albert Camus	7 November 1913	10 December 1957	44 years, 33 days	755 days	4 January 1960	16,859 days (46 years, 58 days)
53	Boris Pasternak[2]	10 February 1890	10 December 1958	68 years, 303 days	537 days	30 May 1960	25,676 days (70 years, 110 days)
54	Salvatore Quasimodo	20 August 1901	10 December 1959	58 years, 112 days	3,109 days	14 June 1968	24,405 days (66 years, 299 days)
55	Saint-John Perse	31 May 1887	10 December 1960	73 years, 193 days	5,397 days	20 September 1975	32,253 days (88 years, 112 days)
56	Ivo Andrić	9 October 1892	10 December 1961	69 years, 62 days	4,841 days	13 March 1975	30,104 days (82 years, 155 days)
57	John Steinbeck	27 February 1902	10 December 1962	60 years, 286 days	2,202 days	20 December 1968	24,403 days (66 years, 297 days)
58	Giorgos Seferis	13 March 1900	10 December 1963	63 years, 272 days	2,841 days	20 September 1971	26,123 days (71 years, 191 days)
59	Jean-Paul Sartre[3]	21 June 1905	10 December 1964	59 years, 172 days	5,605 days	15 April 1980	27,327 days (74 years, 299 days)
60	Mikhail A. Sholokhov	24 May 1905	10 December 1965	60 years, 200 days	6,647 days	21 February 1984	28,762 days (78 years, 273 days)
61	Shmuel Y. Agnon	17 July 1888	10 December 1966	78 years, 146 days	1,165 days	17 February 1970	29,799 days (81 years, 215 days)
62	Nelly Sachs	10 December 1891	10 December 1966	75 years, 0 days	1,249 days	12 May 1970	28,642 days (78 years, 153 days)
63	Miguel Á. Asturias	19 October 1899	10 December 1967	68 years, 52 days	2,373 days	9 June 1974	27,261 days (74 years, 233 days)
64	Yasunari Kawabata	14 June 1899	10 December 1968	69 years, 179 days	1,223 days	16 April 1972	26,604 days (72 years, 307 days)
65	Samuel Beckett	13 April 1906	10 December 1969	63 years, 241 days	7,317 days	22 December 1989	30,569 days (83 years, 253 days)
66	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	11 December 1918	10 December 1970	51 years, 364 days	13,751 days	3 August 2008	32,743 days (89 years, 236 days)
67	Pablo Neruda	12 July 1904	10 December 1971	67 years, 151 days	653 days	23 September 1973	25,275 days (69 years, 73 days)
68	Heinrich Böll	21 December 1917	10 December 1972	54 years, 355 days	4,601 days	16 July 1985	24,679 days (67 years, 207 days)
69	Patrick White	28 May 1912	10 December 1973	61 years, 196 days	6,138 days	30 September 1990	28,614 days (78 years, 125 days)
70	Eyvind Johnson	29 July 1900	10 December 1974	74 years, 134 days	624 days	25 August 1976	27,786 days (76 years, 27 days)
71	Harry Martinson	6 May 1904	10 December 1974	70 years, 218 days	1,159 days	11 February 1978	26,944 days (73 years, 281 days)
72	Eugenio Montale	12 October 1896	10 December 1975	79 years, 59 days	2,103 days	12 September 1981	31,015 days (84 years, 335 days)
73	Saul Bellow	10 June 1915	10 December 1976	61 years, 183 days	10,343 days	5 April 2005	32,807 days (89 years, 299 days)
74	Vicente Aleixandre	26 April 1898	10 December 1977	79 years, 228 days	2,560 days	13 December 1984	31,642 days (86 years, 231 days)
75	Isaac B. Singer	21 November 1902	10 December 1978	76 years, 19 days	4,609 days	24 July 1991	32,387 days (88 years, 245 days)
76	Odysseas Elytis	2 November 1911	10 December 1979	68 years, 38 days	5,943 days	18 March 1996	30,818 days (84 years, 137 days)
77	Czesław Miłosz	30 June 1911	10 December 1980	69 years, 163 days	8,648 days	14 August 2004	34,014 days (93 years, 45 days)
78	Elias Canetti	25 July 1905	10 December 1981	76 years, 138 days	4,630 days	14 August 1994	32,527 days (89 years, 20 days)
79	Gabriel García Márquez	6 March 1927	10 December 1982	55 years, 279 days	10,205 days		30,573 days (83 years, 257 days)
80	William Golding	19 September 1911	10 December 1983	72 years, 82 days	3,479 days	19 June 1993	29,859 days (81 years, 273 days)
81	Jaroslav Seifert	23 September 1901	10 December 1984	83 years, 78 days	396 days	10 January 1986	30,790 days (84 years, 109 days)
82	Claude Simon	10 October 1913	10 December 1985	72 years, 61 days	7,148 days	6 July 2005	33,507 days (91 years, 269 days)
83	Wole Soyinka	13 July 1934	10 December 1986	52 years, 150 days	8,744 days		27,887 days (76 years, 128 days)
84	Joseph Brodsky	24 May 1940	10 December 1987	47 years, 200 days	2,971 days	28 January 1996	20,337 days (55 years, 249 days)
85	Naguib Mahfouz	11 December 1911	10 December 1988	76 years, 365 days	6,472 days	30 August 2006	34,596 days (94 years, 262 days)
86	Camilo J. Cela	11 May 1916	10 December 1989	73 years, 213 days	4,421 days	17 January 2002	31,297 days (85 years, 251 days)
87	Octavio Paz	31 March 1914	10 December 1990	76 years, 254 days	2,687 days	19 April 1998	30,700 days (84 years, 19 days)
88	Nadine Gordimer	20 November 1923	10 December 1991	68 years, 20 days	6,918 days		31,775 days (86 years, 363 days)
89	Derek Walcott	23 January 1930	10 December 1992	62 years, 322 days	6,552 days		29,519 days (80 years, 299 days)
90	Toni Morrison	18 February 1931	10 December 1993	62 years, 295 days	6,187 days		29,128 days (79 years, 273 days)
91	Kenzaburō Ōe	31 January 1935	10 December 1994	59 years, 313 days	5,822 days		27,685 days (75 years, 291 days)
92	Seamus Heaney	13 April 1939	10 December 1995	56 years, 241 days	5,457 days		26,152 days (71 years, 219 days)
93	Wisława Szymborska	2 July 1923	10 December 1996	73 years, 161 days	5,091 days		31,916 days (87 years, 139 days)
94	Dario Fo	24 March 1926	10 December 1997	71 years, 261 days	4,726 days		30,920 days (84 years, 239 days)
95	José Saramago	16 November 1922	10 December 1998	76 years, 24 days	4,208 days	18 June 2010	31,991 days (87 years, 214 days)
96	Günter Grass	16 October 1927	10 December 1999	72 years, 55 days	3,996 days		30,349 days (83 years, 33 days)
97	Gao Xingjian	4 January 1940	10 December 2000	60 years, 341 days	3,630 days		25,886 days (70 years, 318 days)
98	V.S. Naipaul	17 August 1932	10 December 2001	69 years, 115 days	3,265 days		28,582 days (78 years, 93 days)
99	Imre Kertész	9 November 1929	10 December 2002	73 years, 31 days	2,900 days		29,594 days (81 years, 9 days)
100	J.M. Coetzee	9 February 1940	10 December 2003	63 years, 304 days	2,535 days		25,850 days (70 years, 282 days)
101	Elfriede Jelinek	20 October 1946	10 December 2004	58 years, 51 days	2,169 days		23,405 days (64 years, 29 days)
102	Harold Pinter	10 October 1930	10 December 2005	75 years, 61 days	1,110 days	24 December 2008	28,565 days (78 years, 75 days)
103	Orhan Pamuk	7 June 1952	10 December 2006	54 years, 186 days	1,439 days		21,348 days (58 years, 164 days)
104	Doris Lessing	22 October 1919	10 December 2007	88 years, 49 days	1,074 days		33,265 days (91 years, 27 days)
105	J.M.G. Le Clézio	13 April 1940	10 December 2008	68 years, 241 days	708 days		25,786 days (70 years, 219 days)
106	Herta Müller	17 August 1953	10 December 2009	56 years, 115 days	343 days		20,912 days (57 years, 93 days)
107	Mario Vargas Llosa	28 March 1936	10 December 2010	74 years, 257 days	To be awarded		27,263 days (74 years, 235 days)