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

1998 José Saramago

1996 Wislawa Szymborska

1995 Seamus Heaney

1994 Kenzaburo Oe

1993 Toni Morrison

1992 Derek Walcott

1991 Nadine Gordimer

1988 Naguib Mahfouz

1986 Wole Soyinka

1982 Gabriel García Márquez

1981 Elias Canetti

1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer

1974 Harry Martinson och Eyvind Johnson

1972 Heinrich Böll

1969 Samuel Beckett

1968 Yasunari Kawabata

1966 Nelly Sachs

1958 Boris Pasternak

1957 Albert Camus

1955 Halldór Laxness

1953 Winston Churchill

1951 Pär Lagerkvist

1948 T S Eliot

1947 André Gide

1946 Hermann Hesse

1938 Pearl Buck

1932 John Galsworthy

1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt

1929 Thomas Mann

1928 Sigrid Undset

1925 George Bernard Shaw

1923 W B Yeats

1920 Knut Hamsun

1909 Selma Lagerlöf

1907 Rudyard Kipling

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