| Year |
Winner |
Nationality |
| 2001 |
Naipul, V.S (1932 - ) |
Great Britain (born Trinidad) |
| 2000 |
Xingjian, Gao (1940 - ) |
China |
| 1999 |
Grass, Gunter (1927 - ) |
German |
| 1998 |
Saramago, José (1922 - ) |
Portugal |
| 1997 |
Fo, Dario (1926 - ) |
Italy |
| 1996 |
Szymborska, Wislawa (1923 - ) |
Poland |
| 1995 |
Heaney, Seamus (1939 - ) |
Ireland |
| 1994 |
Oe, Kenzaburo (1935 - ) |
Japan |
| 1993 |
Morrison, Toni (1931 - ) |
U.S.A. |
| 1992 |
Walcott, Derek (1930 - ) |
Saint Lucia |
| 1991 |
Gordimer, Nadine (1923 -
) |
South Africa |
| 1990 |
Paz, Octavio (1914 - 1998) |
Mexico |
| 1989 |
Cela, Camilo José (1916 - ) |
Spain |
| 1988 |
Mahfouz, Naguib (1911 - ) |
Egypt |
| 1987 |
Brodsky, Joseph (1940 - 1996) |
U.S.A. |
| 1986 |
Soyinka, Wole (1934 - ) |
Nigeria |
| 1985 |
Simon, Claude (1913 - ) |
France |
| 1984 |
Seifert, Jaroslav (1901 - 1986) |
Czechoslovakia |
| 1983 |
Golding, William (1911 - 1993) |
Great Britain |
| 1982 |
García Márquez, Gabriel (1928 - ) |
Colombia |
| 1981 |
Canetti, Elias (1905 - 1994) |
Great Britain |
| 1980 |
Milosz, Czeslaw (1911 - ) |
U.S.A. |
| 1979 |
Elytis, Odysseus (1911 - 1996) |
Greece |
| 1978 |
Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904 - 1991) |
U.S.A. |
| 1977 |
Aleixandre, Vicente (1898 - 1984) |
Spain |
| 1976 |
Bellow, Saul (1915 - ) |
U.S.A. |
| 1975 |
Montale, Eugenio (1896 - 1981) |
Italy |
| 1974 |
Johnson, Eyvind (1900 - 1976) |
Sweden |
| 1974 |
Martinson, Harry (1904 - 1978) |
Sweden |
| 1973 |
White, Patrick (1912 - 1990) |
Australia |
| 1972 |
Böll, Heinrich (1917 - 1985) |
Federal Republic Of Germany |
| 1971 |
Neruda, Pablo (1904 - 1973) |
Chile |
| 1970 |
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich (1918 - ) |
USSR |
| 1969 |
Beckett, Samuel (1906 - 1989) |
Ireland |
| 1968 |
Kawabata, Yasunari (1899 - 1972) |
Japan |
| 1967 |
Asturias, Miguel Angel (1899 - 1974) |
Guatemala |
| 1966 |
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (1888 - 1970) |
Israel |
| 1966 |
Sachs, Nelly (1891 - 1970) |
Sweden |
| 1965 |
Sholokhov, Michail Aleksandrovich (1905 - 1984) |
USSR |
| 1964 |
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905 - 1980) |
France |
| 1963 |
Seferis, Giorgos (1900 - 1971) |
Greece |
| 1962 |
Steinbeck, John (1902 - 1968) |
U.S.A. |
| 1961 |
Andric, Ivo (1892 - 1975) |
Yugoslavia |
| 1960 |
Perse, Saint-John (1887 - 1975) |
France |
| 1959 |
Quasimodo, Salvatore (1901 - 1968) |
Italy |
| 1958 |
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich (1890 - 1960) |
USSR |
| 1957 |
Camus, Albert (1913 - 1960) |
France |
| 1956 |
Jiménez, Juan Ramón (1881 - 1958) |
Spain |
| 1955 |
Laxness, Halldór Kiljan (1902 - 1998) |
Iceland |
| 1954 |
Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899 - 1961) |
U.S.A. |
| 1953 |
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (1874 - 1965) |
Great Britain |
| 1952 |
Mauriac, François (1885 - 1970) |
France |
| 1951 |
Lagerkvist, Pär Fabian (1891 - 1974) |
Sweden |
| 1950 |
Russell, Earl (1872 - 1970) |
Great Britain |
| 1949 |
Faulkner, William (1897 - 1962) |
U.S.A. |
| 1948 |
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888 - 1965) |
Great Britain |
| 1947 |
Gide, André Paul Guillaume (1869 - 1951) |
France |
| 1946 |
Hesse, Hermann (1877 - 1962) |
Switzerland |
| 1945 |
Mistral, Gabriela (1889 - 1957) |
Chile |
| 1944 |
Jensen, Johannes Vilhelm (1873 - 1950) |
Denmark |
| 1943 |
No Award |
|
| 1942 |
No Award |
|
| 1941 |
No Award |
|
| 1940 |
No Award |
|
| 1939 |
Sillanpää, Frans Eemil (1888 - 1964) |
Finland |
| 1938 |
Buck, Pearl (1892 - 1973) |
U.S.A. |
| 1937 |
Martin Du Gard, Roger (1881 - 1958) |
France |
| 1936 |
O'neill, Eugene Gladstone (1888 - 1953) |
U.S.A. |
| 1935 |
No Award |
|
| 1934 |
Pirandello, Luigi (1867 - 1936) |
Italy |
| 1933 |
Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich (1870 - 1953) |
France |
| 1932 |
Galsworthy, John (1867 - 1933) |
Great Britain |
| 1931 |
Karlfeldt, Erik Axel (1864 - 1931) |
Sweden |
| 1930 |
Lewis, Sinclair (1885 - 1951) |
U.S.A. |
| 1929 |
Mann, Thomas (1875 - 1955) |
Germany |
| 1928 |
Undset, Sigrid (1882 - 1949) |
Norway |
| 1927 |
Bergson, Henri (1859 - 1941) |
France |
| 1926 |
Deledda, Grazia (1871 - 1936) |
Italy |
| 1925 |
Shaw, George Bernard (1856 - 1950) |
Great Britain |
| 1924 |
Reymont, Wladyslaw Stanislaw (1867 - 1925) |
Poland |
| 1923 |
Yeats, William Butler (1865 - 1939) |
Ireland |
| 1922 |
Benavente, Jacinto (1866 - 1954) |
Spain |
| 1921 |
Anatole France (1844 - 1924) |
France |
| 1920 |
Hamsun, Knut Pedersen (1859 - 1952) |
Norway |
| 1919 |
Spitteler, Carl Friedrich Georg (1845 - 1924) |
Switzerland |
| 1918 |
No Award |
|
| 1917 |
Gjellerup, Karl Adolph (1857 - 1919) |
Denmark |
| 1917 |
Pontoppidan, Henrik (1857 - 1943) |
Denmark |
| 1916 |
Von Heidenstam, Carl Gustaf Verner (1859 - 1940) |
Sweden |
| 1915 |
Rolland, Romain (1866 - 1944) |
France |
| 1914 |
No Award |
|
| 1913 |
Tagore, Rabindranath (1861 - 1941) |
India |
| 1912 |
Hauptmann, Gerhart Johann Robert (1862 - 1946) |
Germany |
| 1911 |
Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862 - 1949) |
Belgium |
| 1910 |
Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwigg (1830 - 1914) |
Germany |
| 1909 |
Lagerlöf, Selma Ottilia Lovisa (1858 - 1940) |
Sweden |
| 1908 |
Eucken, Rudolf Christoph (1846 - 1926) |
Germany |
| 1907 |
Kipling, Rudyard (1865 - 1936) |
Great Britain |
| 1906 |
Carducci, Giosuè (1835 - 1907) |
Italy |
| 1905 |
Sienkiewicz, Henryk (1846 - 1916) |
Poland |
| 1904 |
Mistral, Frédéric (1830 - 1914) |
France |
| 1904 |
Echegaray Y Ezaguirre, Jose (1832 - 1916) |
Spain |
| 1903 |
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Martinus (1832 - 1910) |
Norway |
| 1902 |
Mommsen, Christian Matthias Theodor (1817 - 1903) |
Germany |
| 1901 |
Prudhomme, Sully (1839 - 1907) |
France |
