2017
Kazuo Ishiguro
2016
Bob Dylan
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
Wisława
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 (sometimes spelled Najib Mahfuz)
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
1966
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
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
1949
William
Faulkner
1948
Thomas
Stearns Eliot
1947
André
Paul Guillaume Gide
1946
Hermann
Hesse
1945
Gabriela
Mistral
1944
Johannes
Vilhelm Jensen
1943 Not
awarded
1942 Not
awarded
1941 Not
awarded
1940 Not
awarded
1939
Frans
Eemil Sillanpää
1938
Pearl
Buck
1937
Roger
Martin du Gard
1936
Eugene
Gladstone O'Neill
1935 Not
awarded
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
(Internet
archive)
1923
William
Butler Yeats
1922
Jacinto
Benavente
1921
Anatole
France
1920
Knut
Pedersen Hamsun
1919 Carl
Friedrich Georg Spitteler (Internet
Archive)
1918 Not
awarded
1917 Karl
Adolph Gjellerup (Internet
Archive)
1917 Henrik
Pontoppidan (Internet
Archive)
1916
Carl
Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
1915
Romain
Rolland
1914 Not
awarded
1913
Rabindranath
Tagore
1912
Gerhart
Johann Robert Hauptmann
1911
Count
Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
1910
Paul
Johann Ludwig von Heyse
1909
Selma
Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
1908
Rudolf
Christoph Eucken
1907
Rudyard
Kipling
1906 Giosuè
Carducci (Internet
Archive)
1905
Henryk
Sienkiewicz
1904 Frédéric
Mistral
(Internet
Archive)
1904
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
1903
Bjørnstjerne
Martinus Bjørnson
1902
Christian
Matthias Theodor Mommsen
1901 René
François Armand Sully Prudhomme (Internet
Archive)