2007

Doris Lessing

2006

Orhan Pamuk

2005

Harold Pinter

2004

Elfriede Jelinek

2003

J.M. Coetzee

2002

Imre Kertesz

2001

Sir V.S. Naipaul

2000

Xingjian Gao

1999

Günter Grass

1998

José 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 José Cela

1988

Naguib Mahfouz

1987

Joseph Brodsky

1986

Wole Soyinka

1985

Claude Simon

1984

Jaroslav Seifert

1983

William Golding

1982

Gabriel García Márquez

1981

Elias Canetti

1980

Czeslaw Milosz

1979

Odysseus Elytis

1978

Isaac Bashevis Singer

1977

Vicente Aleixandre

1976

Saul Bellow

1975

Eugenio Montale

1974

Eyvind Johnson

Harry Martinson

1973

Patrick White

1972

Heinrich Böll

1971

Pablo Neruda

1970

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

1969

Samuel Beckett

1968

Yasunari Kawabata

1967

Miguel Angel Asturias

1966

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Nelly Sachs

1965

Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

1964

Jean-Paul Sartre

1963

Giorgos Seferis

1962

John Steinbeck

1961

Ivo Andric

1960

Saint-John Perse

1959

Salvatore Quasimodo

1958

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

1957

Albert Camus

1956

Juan Ramón Jiménez

1955

Halldór Kiljan Laxness

1954

Ernest Miller Hemingway

1953

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

1952

François Mauriac

1951

Pär Fabian Lagerkvist

1950

Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell

1949

William Faulkner

1948

Thomas Stearns Eliot

1947

André Paul Guillaume Gide

1946

Hermann Hesse

1945

Gabriela Mistral

1944

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

1943

No award given.

1942

No award given.

1941

No award given.

1940

No award given.

1939

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

1938

Pearl Buck

1937

Roger Martin du Gard

1936

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

1935

No award given.

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 award given.

1917

Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Henrik Pontoppidan

1916

Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam

1915

Romain Rolland

1914

No award given.

1913

Rabindranath Tagore

1912

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann

1911

Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck

1910

Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse

1909

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf

1908

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

1907

Rudyard Kipling

1906

Giosuè Carducci

1905

Henryk Sienkiewicz

1904

Frédéric Mistral

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre

1903

Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson

1902

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen

1901

Sully Prudhomme