| År |
Prisvinner |
| 1901 |
Sully Prudhomme |
| 1902 |
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen |
| 1903 |
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson |
| 1904 |
Frédéric Mistral og José Echegaray y Eizaguirre |
| 1905 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| 1906 |
Giosuè Carducci |
| 1907 |
Rudyard Kipling |
| 1908 |
Rudolf Christoph Eucken |
| 1909 |
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf |
| 1910 |
Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse |
| 1911 |
Count Maurice Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck |
| 1912 |
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann |
| 1913 |
Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1914 |
Ingen |
| 1915 |
Romain Rolland |
| 1916 |
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam |
| 1917 |
Karl Adolph Gjellerup og Henrik Pontoppidan |
| 1918 |
Ingen |
| 1919 |
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler |
| 1920 |
Knut Pedersen Hamsun |
| 1921 |
Anatole France |
| 1922 |
Jacinto Benavente |
| 1923 |
William Butler Yeats |
| 1924 |
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont |
| 1925 |
George Bernard Shaw |
| 1926 |
Grazia Deledda |
| 1927 |
Henri Bergson |
| 1928 |
Sigrid Undset |
| 1929 |
Thomas Mann |
| 1930 |
Sinclair Lewis |
| 1931 |
Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
| 1932 |
John Galsworthy |
| 1933 |
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin |
| 1934 |
Luigi Pirandello |
| 1935 |
Ingen |
| 1936 |
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill |
| 1937 |
Roger Martin du Gard |
| 1938 |
Pearl Buck |
| 1939 |
Frans Eemil Sillanpää |
| 1940 |
Ingen |
| 1941 |
Ingen |
| 1942 |
Ingen |
| 1943 |
Ingen |
| 1944 |
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen |
| 1945 |
Gabriela Mistral |
| 1946 |
Hermann Hesse |
| 1947 |
André Paul Guillaume Gide |
| 1948 |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
| 1949 |
William Faulkner |
| 1950 |
Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell |
| 1951 |
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist |
| 1952 |
François Mauriac |
| 1953 |
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
| 1954 |
Ernest Miller Hemingway |
| 1955 |
Halldór Kiljan Laxness |
| 1956 |
Juan Ramón Jiménez |
| 1957 |
Albert Camus |
| 1958 |
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak |
| 1959 |
Salvatore Quasimodo |
| 1960 |
Saint-John Perse |
| 1961 |
Ivo Andric |
| 1962 |
John Steinbeck |
| 1963 |
Giorgos Seferis |
| 1964 |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1965 |
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
| 1966 |
Shmuel Yosef Agnon og Nelly Sachs |
| 1967 |
Miguel Angel Asturias |
| 1968 |
Yasunari Kawabata |
| 1969 |
Samuel Beckett |
| 1970 |
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
| 1971 |
Pablo Neruda |
| 1972 |
Heinrich Böll |
| 1973 |
Patrick White |
| 1974 |
Eyvind Johnson og Harry Martinson |
| 1975 |
Eugenio Montale |
| 1976 |
Saul Bellow |
| 1977 |
Vicente Aleixandre |
| 1978 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1979 |
Odysseus Elytis |
| 1980 |
Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1981 |
Elias Canetti |
| 1982 |
Gabriel García Márquez |
| 1983 |
William Golding |
| 1984 |
Jaroslav Seifert |
| 1985 |
Claude Simon |
| 1986 |
Wole Soyinka |
| 1987 |
Joseph Brodsky |
| 1988 |
Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1989 |
Camilo José Cela |
| 1990 |
Octavio Paz |
| 1991 |
Nadine Gordimer |
| 1992 |
Derek Walcott |
| 1993 |
Toni Morrison |
| 1994 |
Kenzaburo Oe |
| 1995 |
Seamus Heaney |
| 1996 |
Wislawa Szymborska |
| 1997 |
Dario Fo |
| 1998 |
José Saramago |
| 1999 |
Günter Grass |
| 2000 |
Gao Xingjian |
| 2001 |
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul |
| 2002 |
Imre Kertész |
| 2003 |
John M. Coetzee |
| 2004 |
Elfriede Jelinek |
| 2005 |
Harold Pinter |
| 2006 |
Orhan Pamuk |
| 2007 |
Doris Lessing |
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