# The Nobel Prize in Literature winners of the 1970s

The writers awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1970 to 1979, from Solzhenitsyn to Elytis.

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- Aug 24, 2021 · Maxim Sokolov
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## Top 11

1. **Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — USSR, 1970. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago.
2. **Pablo Neruda** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chile, 1971. Twenty Love Poems and Canto General.
3. **Heinrich Böll** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — West Germany, 1972. The Clown.
4. **Patrick White** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Australia, 1973. Voss and The Tree of Man.
5. **Eyvind Johnson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sweden, 1974 (shared). A novelist of the Swedish working class.
6. **Harry Martinson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sweden, 1974 (shared). Aniara, an epic poem about a spaceship.
7. **Eugenio Montale** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Italy, 1975. Poet of Cuttlefish Bones.
8. **Saul Bellow** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United States, 1976. Herzog and The Adventures of Augie March.
9. **Vicente Aleixandre** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spain, 1977. A poet of the Generation of '27.
10. **Isaac Bashevis Singer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United States, 1978. He wrote in Yiddish.
11. **Odysseas Elytis** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Greece, 1979. The poem Axion Esti.

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