Editing German literature (section)

==Nobel Prize laureates==
{{further|Nobel Prize in Literature}}

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to German-language authors fourteen times (as of 2020), tying with French-language authors, or the second most often after English-language authors (with 32).

The following writers are from Germany unless stated otherwise:
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! align=center |[[Thomas Mann]]<br /><small>(1875–1955)</small>
! align=center |[[Hermann Hesse]]<br /><small>(1877–1962)</small>
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| align=left | [[File:Thomas Mann 1929.jpg|106px]] || align=left | [[File:Hermann Hesse 1927 Photo Gret Widmann.jpg|110px]]
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*1902 [[Theodor Mommsen]]
*1908 [[Rudolf Christoph Eucken]]
*1910 [[Paul Heyse]]
*1912 [[Gerhart Hauptmann]]
*1919 [[Carl Spitteler]] (Swiss)
*1929 [[Thomas Mann]]
*1946 [[Hermann Hesse]]
*1966 [[Nelly Sachs]]
*1972 [[Heinrich Böll]]
*1981 [[Elias Canetti]] (Bulgarian, later British)
*1999 [[Günter Grass]]
*2004 [[Elfriede Jelinek]] (Austrian)
*2009 [[Herta Müller]] (Romanian by birth, later naturalized in West Germany)
*2019 [[Peter Handke]] (Austrian)