2002
Imre Kertész (Hungary) 2001
V.S. Naipaul (England) 2000
Gao Xingjian (China) 1999
Günter Grass (Germany) 1998
José Saramago (Portugal) 1997
Dario Fo (Italy) 1996
Wislawa Szymborska (Poland) 1995
Seamus Heaney (Ireland) 1994
Kenzaburo Oe (Japan) 1993
Toni Morrison (U.S.) 1992
Derek Walcott (St. Lucia, West Indies) 1991
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) 1990
Octavio Paz (Mexico) 1989
Camilo Jose Cela (Spain) 1988
Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) 1987
Joseph Brodsky (U.S.) 1986
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) 1985
Claude Simon (France) 1984
Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia) 1983
William Golding (Great Britain) 1982
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia) 1981
Elias Canetti (Great Britain) 1980
Czeslaw Milosz (U.S. and Poland) 1979
Odysseus Elytis (pen name of Odysseus Alepoudhelis) (Greece) 1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer (U.S.) 1977
Vicente Aleixandre (Spain) 1976
Saul Bellow (U.S.) 1975
Eugenio Montale (Italy) 1974
Eyvind Johnson (Sweden) 1973
Patrick White (Australia) 1972
Heinrich Boell (W. Germany) 1971
Pablo Neruda (Chile) 1970
Alexandr Solzhjenitsyn (USSR) 1969
Samuel Beckett (Ireland) 1968
Yasunari Kawabata (Japan) 1967
Miguel A. Asturias (Guatemala) 1966
Shmuel Y. Agnon (Israel) Nelly Sachs (Sweden) 1965
Michail A. Sholokhov (USSR) 1964
Jean-Paul Sartre (France) 1963
Giorgos Seferis (pen name of Giorgos Seferiadis) (Greece) 1962
John Steinbeck (U.S.) 1961
Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia) 1960
Saint-John Perse (pen name of Alexis Leger) (France) 1959
Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy) 1958
Boris L. Pasternak (USSR) 1957
Albert Camus (France) 1956
Juan Ramon Jimenez (Spain) 1955
Halldor Kiljan Laxness (Iceland) 1954
Ernest M. Hemingway (U.S.) 1953
Sir Winston L.S. Churchill (Great Britain) 1952
Francois Mauriac (France) 1951
Par Fabian Lagerkvist (Sweden) 1950
Earl Russell (Bertrand Arthur William) (Great Britain) 1949
William Faulkner United States 1948
T. S. Eliot Great Britain 1947
André Gide France 1946
Hermann Hesse Switzerland 1945
Gabriela Mistral Chile 1944
Johannes V. Jensen Denmark 1943
No award 1942
No award 1941
No award 1940
No award 1939
Frans E. Sillanpää Finland 1938
Pearl S. Buck United States 1937
Roger Martin de Gard France 1936
Eugene O'Neill United States 1935
No award 1934
Luigi Pirandello Italy 1933
Ivan A. Bunin France 1932
John Galsworthy Great Britain 1931
Erik A. Karlfeldt Sweden 1930
Sinclair Lewis United States 1929
Thomas Mann Germany 1928
Sigrid Undset Norway 1927
Henri Bergson France 1926
Grazia Deledda Italy 1925
George Bernard Shaw Great Britain 1924
Wladyslaw S. Reymont Poland 1923
William Butler Yeats Ireland 1922
Jacinto Benavente y Martinez Spain 1921
Anatole France France 1920
Knut Hamsun Norway 1919
Carl F. G. Spitteler Switzerland 1918
No award 1917
Karl A. Gjellerup Denmark 1916
Verner von Heidenstamm Sweden 1915
Romain Rolland France 1914
No award 1913
Rabindranath Tagore India 1912
Gerhart Hauptmann Germany 1911
Maurice Maeterlinck Belgium 1910
Paul J. L. Heyse Germany 1909
Selma Lagerlöf Sweden 1908
Rudolph C. Eueken Germany 1907
Rudyard Kipling Great Britain 1906
Giosue Carducci Italy 1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland 1904
José Echegaray Spain 1904
Frederic Mistral France 1903
Bjornsterne Björnson Norway 1902
Theodor Mommsen Germany 1901
René F. A. Sully-Prudhomme France
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