The Nobel Prize in Literature winners of the 1980s
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Czesław Miłosz · Elias Canetti · Gabriel García Márquez. (Updated Apr 26, 2026.)
The ten writers awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1980 to 1989, including Gabriel García Márquez and Camilo José Cela.
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Top 10
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Czesław Miłosz
Poland, 1980. Poet in exile, author of The Captive Mind.
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Elias Canetti
United Kingdom, 1981. Author of Auto-da-Fé and Crowds and Power.
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Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia, 1982. One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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William Golding
United Kingdom, 1983. Lord of the Flies.
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Jaroslav Seifert
Czechoslovakia, 1984. Poet of Prague.
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Claude Simon
France, 1985. A nouveau roman figure, author of The Flanders Road.
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Wole Soyinka
Nigeria, 1986. The first African to receive it.
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Joseph Brodsky
United States, 1987. A poet expelled from the USSR.
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Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt, 1988. The Cairo Trilogy.
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Camilo José Cela
Spain, 1989. The Family of Pascual Duarte and The Hive.
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Comments (4)
Wole Soyinka, el primer africano.
Naguib Mahfuz, el primer Nobel árabe.
García Márquez en 1982, el Nobel más celebrado en América Latina.
Cela cerrando la década, Nobel en 1989.