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1107 Pearl Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302

Email: info@boulderbookstore.com
Phone: 303-447-2074
Fax: 303-447-3946
Toll free 1-800-244-4651

Normal Hours: (Subject to change for holidays) All hours are Mountain Time (GMT -7:00)

  • Monday - Friday
    10 am - 10 pm
  • Saturday 9 am - 10 pm
  • Sunday 10 am - 8 pm

Summer and Holiday Hours (typically Memorial day to Labor day and Thanksgiving to Christmas)

  • Monday - Thursday
    10 am - 10 pm
  • Friday 10 am - 11 pm
  • Saturday 9 am - 11 pm
  • Sunday 10 am - 9 pm

Where to Park When Visiting Us
We provide meter tokens and free parking validation for city lots to our customers. The Spruce Street parking structure is located directly north of the store. There is a short-term meter lot at Broadway and Spruce. Other lots and structures are located at 1100 Walnut, 1400 Walnut (by the RTD), and 1500 Pearl. There is free street parking in local neighborhoods for two to three hours, depending on the neighborhood. On weekends, parking is unlimited in most neighborhoods, but do check the street signs when you park for possible exceptions. We also encourage alternative transportation modes.
Call Go Boulder at 303-441-3266 or go on-line at www.ci.boulder.co.us/goboulder to get HOP and SKIP maps and schedules and other information.

Nobel Prize for Literature

The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded annually to an individual who has made an outstanding literary contribution.


  • 2004 Elfriede Jelinek, Austria
  • 2003 J.M. Coetzee, South Africa
  • 2002 Imre Kertesz, Hungary
  • 2001 Sir V. S. Naipaul, Great Britain
  • 2000 Gao Xingjian, China
  • 1999 Gunter Grass, Germany
  • 1998 Jose Saramango, Portugal
  • 1997 Dario Fo, Italy
  • 1996 Wislawa Szymborska, Poland
  • 1995 Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland
  • 1994 Kenzaburo Oe, Japan
  • 1993 Toni Morrison, U.S.
  • 1992 Derek Walcott, Caribbean
  • 1991 Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
  • 1990 Octavio Paz, Mexico
  • 1989 Camilo Jose Cela, Spain
  • 1988 Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
  • 1987 Joseph Brodsky, U.S.
  • 1986 Wole Soyinka, Nigeria
  • 1985 Claude Simon, France
  • 1984 Jaroslav Siefert, Czechoslovakia
  • 1983 William Golding, England
  • 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Columbia
  • 1981 Elias Canetti, Bulgaria
  • 1980 Czelaw Milosz, U.S.
  • 1979 Odysseus Elytis, Greece
  • 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer, U.S.
  • 1977 Vincente Aleixandre, Spain
  • 1976 Saul Bellow, U.S.
  • 1975 Eugenio Montale, Italy
  • 1974 Harry Martinson, Sweden and
             Eyvind Johnson, Sweden
  • 1973 Patrick White, Australia
  • 1972 Heinrich Boll, Germany
  • 1971 Pablo Neruda, Chile
  • 1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, U.S.S.R.
  • 1969 Samuel Beckett, France
  • 1968 Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
  • 1967 Mingual Angel Asturias, Guatamela
  • 1966 Nelly Sachs, Sweden and
             Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israel
  • 1965 Mikhail Sholokhov, U.S.S.R.
  • 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre, France (Declined)
  • 1963 Giorgios Seferis (Serferiades), Greece
  • 1962 John Steinbeck, U.S.
  • 1961 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia
  • 1960 St-John Perse, France
            (Alexis St. Leger Leger)
  • 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy
  • 1958 Boris Pasternak, U.S.S.R. (Declined)
  • 1957 Albert Camus, France
  • 1956 Juan Ramon Himenez, Spain
  • 1955 Halldor Kijan Laxness, Iceland
  • 1954 Ernest Hemingway, U.S.
  • 1953 Sir Winston Churchill, England
  • 1952 Francois Mauriac, France
  • 1951 Par Lagerkvist, Sweden
  • 1950 Bertrand Russell, England
  • 1949 William Faulkner, U.S.
  • 1948 T.S. Eliot, England
  • 1947 Andre Gide, France
  • 1946 Herman Hesse, Switzerland
  • 1945 Gabriela Mistral, Chile
  • 1944 (No Award)
  • 1943 (No Award)
  • 1942 (No Award)
  • 1941 Johannes V. Jensen, Denmark
  • 1940 (No Award)
  • 1939 Frans Eemil Sallanpaa, Finland
  • 1938 Pearl S. Buck, U.S.
  • 1937 Roger Martin Du Gard, France
  • 1936 Eugene O'Neill, U.S.
  • 1935 (No Award)
  • 1934 Luigi Pirandello, Italy
  • 1933 Ivan G. Bunin, U.S.S.R.
  • 1932 John Galsworthy, England
  • 1931 Erick A. Karlfeldt, Sweden
  • 1930 Sinclair Lewis, U.S.
  • 1929 Thomas Mann, Germany
  • 1928 Sigrid Undset, Norway
  • 1927 Henri Bergson, France
  • 1926 Grazia Deledda, Italy
  • 1925 George Bernard Shaw, England
  • 1924 Wladyslaw Reymont, Poland
  • 1923 William Butler Yeats, Ireland
  • 1922 Jacinto Benavente, Spain
  • 1921 Anatole France, France
  • 1920 Knut Hamson, Norway
  • 1919 Carl Spitteler, Switzerland
  • 1918 (No Award)
  • 1917 Henrick Pontoppidan, Denmark and
             Karl Gjellerup, Denmark
  • 1916 Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden
  • 1915 Romain Rolland, France
  • 1914 (No Award)
  • 1913 Rabindranath Tagore, India
  • 1912 Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany
  • 1911 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium
  • 1910 Paul Von Heyse, Germany
  • 1909 Selman Lagerlof, Sweden
  • 1908 Rudolf Euken, Germany
  • 1907 Rudyard Kipling, England
  • 1906 Giosue Carducci, Italy
  • 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland
  • 1904 Jose Echegaray, Spain and
           Frederic Mistral, France
  • 1903 Bjornsterne Bjornson, Norway
  • 1902 Theodor Mommsen, Germany

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