Nobel Prize for Literature: Women make up only 14.7% of the 122 winners; remember winners

This Thursday (8), the Nobel Prize awards another prize to the "person who, in the field of literature, has produced the most notable work in an ideal direction", as described by Alfred Nobel, responsible for the institution of the award, in his will.

Created in 1901, 118 Nobel Prizes for Literature were awarded. But since then, only 18 women out of dozens of men. Women represent 14.7% of the 122 winners between 1901 and 2025. (In some years, two authors shared the prize).

The list includes the award's oldest laureate, writer Doris Lessing, who received the Nobel Prize at the age of 87, in 2007. With more than 50 novels released, Doris died in 2013, at the age of 94.