Year | Author |
|---|
| 2009 |
Herta Muller |
| 2008 |
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio |
| 2007 |
Doris Lessing |
| 2006 |
Orhan Pamuk |
| 2005 |
Harold Pinter |
| 2004 |
Elphriede Jelinek |
| 2003 |
John Maxwell Coetzee |
| 2002 | Imre Kertesz |
| 2001 | V.S. Naipaul |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian |
| 1999 | Gunter Grass |
| 1998 | Jose Saramago |
| 1997 | Dario Fo |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz |
| 1989 | Camilo Josh Cela |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka |
| 1985 | Claude Simon |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert |
| 1983 | Sir William Golding |
| 1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale |
| 1974
(Tie) | Eyvind Johnson |
| Harry Martinson |
| 1973 | Patrick White |
| 1972 | Heinrich Boll |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias |
| 1966
(Tie) | Shmuel Yosef Agnon |
| Nelly Sachs |
| 1965 | Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck |
| 1961 | Ivo Andriic |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo |
| 1958 | Boris Leonidovich Pasternak |
| 1957 | Albert Camus |
| 1956 | Juan Ramon Jimenez |
| 1955 | Halldor Kiljan Laxness |
| 1954 | Ernest Miller Hemingway |
| 1953 | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
| 1952 | Francois Mauriac |
| 1951 | Par Fabian Lagerkvist |
| 1950 | Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell |
| 1949 | William Faulkner |
| 1948 | Thomas Stearns Eliot |
| 1947 | Andre Paul Guillaume Gide |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral |
| 1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen |
| 1943-1940 | No Prizes Awarded |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpaa |
| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck |
| 1937 | Roger Martin Du Gard |
| 1936 | Eugene Gladstone O'Neill |
| 1935 | No Prizes Awarded |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello |
| 1933 | Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente |
| 1921 | Anatole France |
| 1920 | Knut Pedersen Hamsun |
| 1919 | Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler |
| 1918 | No Prize Awarded |
| 1917 (Tie) |
Karl Adolph Gjellerup |
| Henrik Pontoppidan |
| 1916 | Carl Gustaf Verner Von Heidenstam |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland |
| 1914 | No Prize Awarded |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1912 | Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann |
| 1911 | Count Maurice Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck |
| 1910 | Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse |
| 1909 | Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerloef |
| 1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling |
| 1906 | Giosue Carducci |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| 1904 (Tie) |
Frederic Mistral |
| Jose Echegaray Y Eizaguirre |
| 1903 | Bjornstjerne Martinus Bjornson |
| 1902 | Christian Mattias Theodor Mommsen |
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme |
