Previous Nobel women literature winners

Here is a list of the 10 women winners of the Nobel Literature Prize, awarded on Thursday to Austrian writer and poet Elfriede Jelinek "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power".

Here is a list of the 10 women winners of the Nobel Literature Prize, awarded on Thursday to Austrian writer and poet Elfriede Jelinek "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power".

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2004: Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
1996: Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1993: Toni Morrison (United States)
1991: Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1966: Nelly Sachs (Sweden), with Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel)
1945: Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
1938: Pearl Buck (United States)
1928: Sigrid Undset (Norway)
1926: Grazia Deledda (Italy)
1909: Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerloef (Sweden)