The Nobel Prize in Literature is presented yearly by the Swedish Academy to writer for outstanding contributions in the field of literature. It is one of the five Nobel awards started by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. This award is governed by the Nobel Foundation and awarded by a committee that comprises five members selected by the Swedish Academy. The first Nobel Prize in Literature was presented in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme of France. Each winners receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years. Fourteen women have won the Nobel Award in Literature, more than any other Nobel Awards with the exception of the Nobel Peace Prize. There have been four examples in which the award was presented to two people in year 1904, 1917, 1966 and 1974. There have been seven years in which the Nobel Award in Literature was not presented in year 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940-1943. The country with the most winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature in France with 16, followed by the United States with 12 and the United Kingdom with 11. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

List of Nobel laureates in Literature–