Women make up half of mankind, but only 16 of the 117 Nobel Literature Prize laureates. Here is a list of the women who have won the prestigious honour since it was first awarded in 1901. 2020 - Louise Gluck (US) 2018 - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) 2015 - Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) 2013 - Alice Munro (Canada) 2009 - Herta Mueller (Germany) 2007 - Doris Lessing (Britain) 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek (Austria) 1996 - Wislawa Szymborska (Poland) 1993 - Toni Morrison (United States) 1991 - Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) 1966 - Nelly Sachs (Sweden), with Shmuel Agnon of Israel 1945 - Gabriela Mistral (Chile) 1938 - Pearl Buck (United States) 1928 - Sigrid Undset (Norway) 1926 - Grazia Deledda (Italy) 1909 - Selma Lagerlof (Sweden) po/dl