2010 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru 1936

2009 Herta Muller, Allemagne 1953

2008 Jean-Marie Le Clézio , France 1940

2007 Doris Lessing, Great Britain 1919

2006 Orhan Pamuk Turkey 1952

2005 Harold Pinter England 1930

2004 Elfriede Jelinek Austria 1946

2003 J.M. Coetzee South Africa 1940

2002 Imre Kertész Hungary 1929

2001 V.S. Naipaul Sir England 1932

2000 Gao Xingjian France 1940

1999 Günter Grass Germany 1927

1998 José Saramago Portugal 1922

1997 Dario Fo Italy 1926

1996 Wislawa Szymborska Poland 1923

1995 Seamus Heaney Ireland 1939

1994 Kenzaburo Oe Japan 1935

1993 Toni Morrison USA 1931

1992 Derek Walcott Saint Lucy 1930

1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa 1923

1990 Octavio Paz Mexico 1914-1998

1989 Camilo José Cela Spain 1916-2002

1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypt 1911

1987 Joseph Brodsky USA 1940-1996

1986 Wole Soyinka Nigeria 1934 Premier africain à obtenir le prix

1985 Claude Simon France 1913-2005

1984 Jaroslav Seifert Czechoslovakia 1901-1986

1983 William Golding Sir England 1911-1993

1982 Gabriel García Márquez Columbia 1928

1981 Elias Canetti England 1905-1994

1980 Czeslaw Milosz Poland-USA 1911-2004

1979 Odysseus Elytis Greece 1911-1996

1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer USA 1904-1991

1977 Vicente Aleixandre Spain 1898-1984

1976 Saul Bellow USA 1915-2005

1975 Eugenio Montale Italy 1896-1981

1974 Eyvind Johnson Sweden 1900-1976 Harry Martinson Suède 1904-1978

1973 Patrick White Australia 1912-1990

1972 Heinrich Böll West Germany 1917-1985

1971 Pablo Neruda Chili 1904-1973

1970 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn USSR 1918

1969 Samuel Beckett Ireland 1906-1989

1968 Yasunari Kawabata Japan 1899-1972

1967 Miguel Angel Asturias Guatemala 1899-1974

1966 Samuel Agnon Israel 1888-1970 Nelly Sachs Sweden 1891-1970

1965 Mikhail Sholokhov USSR 1905-1984

1964 Jean-Paul Sartre France 1905-1980

1963 Giorgos Seferis Greece 1900-1971

1962 John Steinbeck USA 1902-1968

1961 Ivo Andric Yougoslavia 1892-1975

1960 Saint-John Perse France 1887-1975

1959 Salvatore Quasimodo Italy 1901-1968

1958 Boris Pasternak USSR 1890-1960

1957 Albert Camus France 1913-1960

1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez Spain 1881-1958

1955 Halldór Laxness Iceland 1902-1998

1954 Ernest Hemingway USA 1899-1961

1953 Winston Churchill United Kingdom1874-1965

1952 François Mauriac France 1885-1970

1951 Pär Lagerkvist Sweden 1891-1974

1950 Bertrand Russell United Kingdom1872-1970

1949 William Faulkner USA 1897-1962

1948 T.S. Eliot United Kingdom 1888-1965

1947 André Gide France 1869-1951

1946 Hermann Hesse Switzerland 1877-1962

1945 Gabriela Mistral Chili 1889-1957

1944 Johannes V. Jensen Denmark 1873-1950

1943 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1942 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1941 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1940 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää Finland 1888-1964

1938 Pearl Buck USA 1892-1973

1937 Roger Martin du Gard France 1881-1958

1936 Eugene O'Neill USA 1888-1953

1935 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1934 Luigi Pirandello Italy 1867-1936

1933 Ivan Bunin (stateless domicile in France) 1870-1953

1932 John Galsworthy United-Kingdom 1867-1933

1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt Sweden 1864-1931

1930 Sinclair Lewis USA 1885-1951

1929 Thomas Mann Germany 1875-1955

1928 Sigrid Undset Norway 1882-1949

1927 Henri Bergson France 1859-1941

1926 Grazia Deledda Italy 1871-1936

1925 George Bernard Shaw United-Kingdom 1856-1950

1924 Wladyslaw Reymont Poland 1867-1925

1923 William Butler Yeats Ireland 1865-1939

1922 Jacinto Benavente Spain 1866-1954

1921 Anatole France France 1844-1924

1920 Knut Hamsun Norway 1859-1952

1919 Carl Spitteler Switzerland 1845-1924

1918 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1917 Karl Gjellerup Denmark 1857-1919 Henrik Pontoppidan Danemark 1857-1943

1916 Verner von Heidenstam Sweden 1859-1940

1915 Romain Rolland France 1866-1944

1914 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1913 Rabindranath Tagore India 1861-1941

1912 Gerhart Hauptmann Germany 1862-1946

1911 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgium 1862-1949

1910 Paul Heyse Germany 1830-1914

1909 Selma Lagerlöf Sweden 1858-1940

1908 Rudolf Eucken Germany 1846-1926

1907 Rudyard Kipling United-Kingdom 1865-1936

1906 Giosuè Carducci Italy 1835-1907

1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland 1846-1916

1904 Frédéric Mistral France 1830-1914 José Echegaray Espagne 1832-1916

1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Norway 1832-1910

1902 Theodor Mommsen Germany 1817-1903

1901 Sully Prudhomme France 1839-1907