| A | B |
|---|
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme (Rene Francois Armand) |
| 1902 | Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen |
| 1903 | Bjornstjerne Martinus Bjornson |
| 1904 | Frederic Mistral and Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| 1906 | Giosue Carducci |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling |
| 1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken |
| 1909 | Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof |
| 1910 | Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse |
| 1911 | Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck |
| 1912 | Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1914 | NONE |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland |
| 1916 | Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam |
| 1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan |
| 1918 | NONE |
| 1919 | Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler |
| 1920 | Knut Pedersen Hamsun |
| 1921 | Anatole France |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (Reyment) |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda (Grazia Madesani nee 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 | NONE |
| 1936 | Eugene Gladstone O'Neill |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard |
| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpaa |
| 1940 | NONE |
| 1941 | NONE |
| 1942 | NONE |
| 1943 | NONE |
| 1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse |
| 1947 | Andre Paul Guillaume Gide |
| 1948 | Thomas Stearns Eliot |
| 1949 | William Faulkner |
| 1950 | Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell |
| 1951 | Par Fabian Lagerkvist |
| 1952 | Francois Mauriac |
| 1953 | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
| 1954 | Ernest Miller Hemingway |
| 1955 | Halldor Kiljan Laxness |
| 1956 | Juan Ramon Jimenez |
| 1957 | Albert Camus |
| 1958 | Boris Leonidovich Pasternak |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse (Alexis Leger) |
| 1961 | Ivo Andri'c |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis (Seferiadis) |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1965 | Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda |
| 1972 | Heinrich Boll |
| 1973 | Patrick White |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis (Alepoudhelis) |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti |
| 1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 1983 | Sir William Golding |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert |
| 1985 | Claude Simon |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1989 | Camilo Jose Cela |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford) |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska |
| 1997 | Dario Fo |
| 1998 | Jose Saramago |
| 1999 | Gunter Grass |
