Literary Fiction

Nobel Prize in Literature Winners: The Complete List

Once a year, from a quiet room in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy chooses one writer out of all the languages on earth and asks the world to turn and look. A century of those choices is the nearest thing we have to a map of world literature.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners: The Complete List

Once a year a committee in New York names the finest American novel of the year and prints a single title where a whole literature might go. A century of those choices, read together, is one of the most revealing documents American letters possesses.

Close-up of a circular Puliitzer Prize embossed gold foil medallion pressed into the dark linen cover of a book.