French Nobel Prize in Literature winners For most of the 20th century, French authors had more Literature Nobel Prizes than those of any other nation. The following French or French language authors have won a Nobel Prize in Literature: 1901 – Sully Prudhomme (The first Nobel Prize in literature) 1904 – Frédéric Mistral (wrote in Occitan) 1911 – Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian) 1915 – Romain Rolland 1921 – Anatole France 1927 – Henri Bergson 1937 – Roger Martin du Gard 1947 – André Gide 1952 – François Mauriac 1957 – Albert Camus 1960 – Saint-John Perse 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize) 1969 – Samuel Beckett (Irish, wrote in English and French) 1985 – Claude Simon 2000 – Gao Xingjian (writes in Chinese) 2008 – J.M.G. Le Clézio
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