| 2002 |
Imre Kertesz |
| 2001 |
VS 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 Jose Cela |
| 1988 |
Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1987 |
Joseph Brodsky |
| 1986 |
Wole Soyinka |
| 1985 |
Claude Simon |
| 1984 |
Jaroslav Seifert |
| 1983 |
William Golding |
| 1982 |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 1981 |
Elias Canetti |
| 1980 |
Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1979 |
Odysseus Elytis |
| 1978 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1977 |
Vicente Alexandre |
| 1976 |
Saul Bellow |
| 1975 |
Eugenio Montale |
| 1974 |
Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson |
| 1973 |
PatrickWhite |
| 1972 |
Heinrich Boll |
| 1971 |
Pablo Neruda |
| 1970 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| 1969 |
Samuel Beckett |
| 1968 |
KawabataYasunari |
| 1967 |
Miguel Angel Asturias |
| 1966 |
ShmuelYosef Agnon, Nelly |
| 1965 |
Mikhail Sholokhov |
| 1964 |
Jean-Paul Sartre (declined) |
| 1963 |
George Seferis |
| 1962 |
John Steinbeck |
| 1961 |
lvo Andric |
| 1960 |
Saint-Jean Perse |
| 1959 |
Salvatore Quasimodo |
| 1958 |
Boris Pasternak |
| 1957 |
Albert Camus |
| 1956 |
Juan Ramon Jimenez |
| 1955 |
Halldor Laxness |
| 1954 |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 1953 |
Sir Winston Churchill |
| 1952 |
Francois Mauriac |
| 1951 |
Par Lagerkvist |
| 1950 |
Bertrand Russell |
| 1949 |
William Faulkner |
| 1948 |
T S Eliot |
| 1947 |
Andre Gide |
| 1946 |
Hermann Hesse |
| 1945 |
Gabriela Mistral |
| 1944 |
JohannesVilhelmJensen |
| 1943 |
No award |
| 1942 |
No award |
| 1941 |
No award |
| 1940 |
No award |
| 1939 |
Frans Emil Sillanpaa |
| 1938 |
Pearl Buck |
| 1937 |
Roger Martin du Gard |
| 1936 |
Eugene O'Neill |
| 1935 |
No award |
| 1934 |
Luigi Pirandello |
| 1933 |
Ivan Bunin |
| 1932 |
John Galsworthy |
| 1931 |
Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
| 1930 |
Sinclair Lewis |
| 1929 |
Thomas Mann |
| 1928 |
Sigrid Undset |
| 1927 |
Henri Bergson |
| 1926 |
Grazia Deledda Madesani |
| 1925 |
George Bernard Shaw |
| 1924 |
Wladslaw Reymont |
| 1923 |
William ButlerYeats |
| 1922 |
Jacinto Benavente y Martinez |
| 1921 |
Anatole France |
| 1920 |
Knut Hamsun |
| 1919 |
Carl Spitteler |
| 1918 |
No award |
| 1917 |
Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan |
| 1916 |
Verner von Heidenstam |
| 1915 |
Romain Rolland |
| 1914 |
No award |
| 1913 |
RabindranathTagore |
| 1912 |
Gerhart Hauptmann |
| 1911 |
Maurice Maeterlinck |
| 1910 |
Paul von Heyse |
| 1909 |
Selma Lagerlof |
| 1908 |
Rudolf Eucken |
| 1907 |
Rudyard Kipling |
| 1906 |
Giosue Carducci |
| 1905 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| 1904 |
Frederic Mistral, Jose |
| 1903 |
Bjornstjerne Bjornson |
| 1902 |
Theodor Mommsen |
| 1901 |
Sully Prudhomme |
