(13% du total mondial)
Liste des bénéficiaires du prix Nobel de littérature qui ont été, ou qui sont juifs (ou de demi-ascendance juive, voir note). Les pourcentages indiqués ci-dessus correspondent aux noms qui apparaissent explicitement sur la liste ci-dessous.
- Paul von Heyse #,1 (1910)
- Henri Bergson# (1927)
- Boris Pasternak# (1958)
- Shmuel Agnon# (1966)
- Nelly Sachs# (1966)
- Saul Bellow# (1976)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer# (1978)
- Elias Canetti# (1981)
- Joseph Brodsky# (1987)
- Nadine Gordimer# (1991)
- Imre Kertész 2 (2002)
- Elfriede Jelinek 3 (2004)
- Harold Pinter 4 (2005)
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NOTES
# Encyclopaedia Judaica (1997 CD ROM edition).
1. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1910/heyse-autobio.html.
2. See http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2002/kertesz-bio.html.
3. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. In a 1998 interview, Jelinek stated "Mein Vater war auch Jude"; see
http://www.hagalil.com/archiv/98/12/jellinek.htm andhttp://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2004/bio-bibl.html.
4. See http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/bio-bibl.html. In Conversations with Pinter, by Mel Gussow (Grove, New York, 1996, p.103), Pinter describes his mother and father as "very solid, very respectable, Jewish, lower middle class people."