2003 John Maxwell 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 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 1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1938 Pearl Buck 1937 Roger Martin du Gard 1936 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 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 1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan 1916 Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam 1915 Romain Rolland 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 Giosué Carducci 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz 1904 Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre 1903 Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson 1902 Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen 1901 Sully Prudhomme