2015 — Svetlana Alexievich
2014 — Patrick Modiano
2013 — Alice Munro
2012 — Mo Yan
2011 — Tomas Tranströmer
2010 — Mario Vargas Llosa
2009 — Herta Müller
2008 — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2007 — Doris Lessing
2006 — Orhan Pamuk
2005 — Harold Pinter
2004 — Elfriede Jelinek
2003 — J.M. Coetzee
2002 — Imre Kertész
2001 — V.S. Naipaul
2000 — Gao Xingjian
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 — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1969 — Samuel Beckett
1968 — Yasunari Kawabata
1967 — Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 — Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965 — Mikhail Sholokhov
1964 — Jean-Paul Sartre
1963 — Giorgos Seferis
1962 — John Steinbeck
1961 — Ivo Andric
1960 — Saint-John Perse
1959 — Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 — Boris Pasternak
1957 — Albert Camus
1956 — Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955 — Halldór Laxness
1954 — Ernest Hemingway
1953 — Winston Churchill
1952 — François Mauriac
1951 — Pär Lagerkvist
1950 — Bertrand Russell
1949 — William Faulkner
1948 — T.S. Eliot
1947 — André Gide
1946 — Hermann Hesse
1945 — Gabriela Mistral
1944 — Johannes V. Jensen
1943 — No Prize
1942 — No Prize
1941 — No Prize
1940 — No Prize
1939 — Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938 — Pearl Buck
1937 — Roger Martin du Gard
1936 — Eugene O’Neill
1935 — No Prize
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
1925 — George Bernard Shaw
1924 — Wladyslaw Remont
1923 — William Butler Yeats
1922 — Jacinto Benavente
1921 — Anatole France
1920 — Knut Hamsun
1919 — Carl Spitteler
1918 — No Prize
1917 — Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 — Verner von Heidenstam
1915 — Romain Rolland
1914 — No Prize
1913 — Rabindranath Tagore
1912 — Gerhart Hauptmann
1911 — Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 — Paul Heyse
1909 — Selma Lagerlöf
1908 — Rudolf Eucken
1907 — Rudyard Kipling
1906 — Giosuè Carducci
1905 — Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 — Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1903 — Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1902 — Theodor Mommsen
1901 — Sully Prudhomme
