Većinom se dodjeljuje za cjelokupan rad knjizevnika ali 9 knjizevnika je dobilo nagradu za specificno dijelo

Evo spisak knjizevnika i njihova specificna djela za koje su dobili Nobelovu Nagradu.
Awarded for a particular literary work

Compared to the other Literature Laureates who have been awarded for their career as a whole, nine Literature Laureates have been specifically awarded for a particular literary work.

Mikhail Sholokhov in 1965
„for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people”

Ernest Hemingway in 1954
„for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”

Roger Martin Du Gard in 1937
„for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel-cycle Les Thibault”

John Galsworthy in 1932
„for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga”

Thomas Mann in 1929
„principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature”

Wladyslaw Reymont in 1924
„for his great national epic, The Peasants”

Knut Hamsun in 1920
„for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil”

Carl Spitteler in 1919
„in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring”

Theodor Mommsen in 1902
„the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A history of Rome”

Svi ostali nobelovci su bili nagradjenji za njihov sveobuhvatan rad a to mzoes da pogledas poredano po godinama na sljedecem linku:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/

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