# The Nobel Prize in Literature winners of the 1960s

The writers awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1960 to 1969, including Sartre, who declined it.

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## Top 11

1. **Saint-John Perse** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — France, 1960. Poet and diplomat, author of Anabasis.
2. **Ivo Andrić** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yugoslavia, 1961. The Bridge on the Drina.
3. **John Steinbeck** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United States, 1962. The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden.
4. **Giorgos Seferis** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Greece, 1963. The first Greek winner.
5. **Jean-Paul Sartre** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — France, 1964. He declined the prize.
6. **Mikhail Sholokhov** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — USSR, 1965. And Quiet Flows the Don.
7. **Shmuel Yosef Agnon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Israel, 1966 (shared). He wrote in Hebrew.
8. **Nelly Sachs** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sweden, 1966 (shared). A German-born poet who wrote about the Holocaust.
9. **Miguel Ángel Asturias** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Guatemala, 1967. El Señor Presidente.
10. **Yasunari Kawabata** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Japan, 1968. The first Japanese winner, author of Snow Country.
11. **Samuel Beckett** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ireland, 1969. Waiting for Godot.

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