1901 Sully-Prudhomme (Fransa)
1902 Theodor Mommsen (Almanya)
1903 Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (Norveç)
1904 José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Ispanya)
1904 Frédéric Mistral (Fransa)
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz (Polonya)
1906 Giosuè Carducci (Italya)
1907 Rudyard Kipling (Büyük Britanya)
1908 Rudolf Eucken (Almanya)
1909 Selma Lagerlöf (Isveç)
1910 Paul Heyse (Almanya)
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck (Belçika)
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann (Almanya)
1913 Rabindranath Tagore (Hindistan)
1915 Romain Rolland (Fransa)
1916 Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (Isveç)
1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Danimarka)
1917 Henrik Pontoppidan (Danimarka)
1919 Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (Isviçre)
1920 Knut Pedersen Hamsun (Norveç)
1921 Anatole France (Fransa)
1922 Jacinto Benavente (Ispanya)
1923 William Butler Yeats (Irlanda)
1924 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (Polonya)
1925 George Bernard Shaw (Irlanda)
1926 Grazia Deledda (Italiya)
1927 Henri Bergson (Fransa)
1928 Sigrid Undset (Norveç)
1929 Thomas Mann (Almanya)
1930 Sinclair Lewis (ABD)
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Isveç)
1932 John Galsworthy (Büyük Britanya)
1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Fransa)
1934 Luigi Pirandello (Italya)
1936 Eugene O'Neill (ABD)
1937 Roger Martin du Gard (Fransa)
1938 Pearl S. Buck (ABD)
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finlandiya)
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Danimarka)
1945 Gabriela Mistral (Þili)
1946 Hermann Hesse (Isviçre)
1947 André Paul Guillaume Gide (Fransa)
1948 Thomas Stearns Eliot (Büyük Britanya)
1949 William Faulkner (ABD)
1950 Bertrand Russel (Büyük Britanya)
1951 Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (Isveç)
1952 François Mauriac (Fransa)
1953 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Büyük Britanya)
1954 Ernest Miller Hemingway (ABD)
1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Izlanda)
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez (Ispanya)
1957 Albert Camus (Fransa)
1958 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (SSCB)
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo (Italya)
1960 Saint-John Perse (Fransa)
1961 Ivo Andric (Yugoslavya)
1962 John Steinbeck (ABD)
1963 Giorgos Seferis (Yunanistan)
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (Fransa)
1965 Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (SSCB)
1966 Nelly Sachs (Almanya/Isveç)
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israil)
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala)
1968 Yasunari Kawabata (Japonya)
1969 Samuel Becket (Irlanda)
1970 Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (SSCB)
1971 Pablo Neruda (Þili)
1972 Heinrich Böll (Almanya)
1973 Patrick White (Australia)
1974 Eyvind Johnson (Isveç)
1974 Harry Martinson (Isveç)
1975 Eugenio Montale (Italya)
1976 Saul Bellow (ABD)
1977 Vicente Aleixandre (Ispanya)
1978 Isaac Singer (ABD)
1979 Odysseas Elytis (Yunanistan)
1980 Czeslaw Milosz (Polonya)
1981 Elias Canetti (Bulgaristan/Büyük Britanya)
1982 Gabriel García Márquez (Kolombiya)
1983 William Golding (Büyük Britanya)
1984 Jaroslav Seifert (Çekoslovakya)
1985 Claude Simon (Fransa)
1986 Wole Soyinka (Nijerya)
1987 Iossif A. Brodskij (ABD)
1988 Naguib Mahfouz (Mýsýr)
1989 Camilo José Cela (Ispanya)
1990 Octavio Paz (Meksika)
1991 Nadine Gordimer (Güney Afrika)
1992 Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia)
1993 Toni Morrison (ABD)
1994 Kenzaburo Oe (Japonya)
1995 Seamus J. Heaney (Irlanda)
1996 Wislawa Szymborska (Polonya)
1997 Dario Fo (Itaya)
1998 José Saramago (Portekiz)
1999 Günter Grass (Almanya)
2000 Gao Xingjian (Çin)
2001 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (Trinidad)
2002 Imre Kertész (Macaristan)
2003 John Maxwell Coetzee (Güney Afrika)
2004 Elfriede Jelinek (Avusturya)
2005 Harold Pinter (Büyük Britanya)