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 : The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1942 : The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1941 : The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1940 : The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1939 : Frans Eemil Sillanpää

1938 : Pearl Buck

1937 : Roger Martin du Gard

1936 : Eugene O'Neill

1935 : The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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 Reymont

1923 : William Butler Yeats

1922 : Jacinto Benavente

1921 : Anatole France

1920 : Knut Hamsun

1919 : Carl Spitteler

1918 : The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1917 : Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan

1916 : Verner von Heidenstam

1915 : Romain Rolland

1914 : The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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