1901 Sully Prudhomme
1902 Theodor Mommsen
1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson
1904 Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906 Giosuè Carducci
1907 Rudyard Kipling
1908 Rudolf Eucken
1909 Selma Lagerlöf +
1910 Paul Heyse
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck (ett enaktsdrama, visserligen, men det var riktigt bra) +
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
1913 Rabindranath Tagore
1914 Inget pris utdelades
1915 Romain Rolland +
1916 Verner von Heidenstam (bara enstaka dikter) +
1917 Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1918 Inget pris utdelades
1919 Carl Spitteler
1920 Knut Hamsun +
1921 Anatole France
1922 Jacinto Benavente
1923 William Butler Yeats + (bara enskilda verk, men "Stolen Child" är bäst!)
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
1925 George Bernard Shaw
1926 Grazia Deledda
1927 Henri Bergson
1928 Sigrid Undset +
1929 Thomas Mann +
1930 Sinclair Lewis
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1932 John Galsworthy
1933 Ivan Bunin
1934 Luigi Pirandello
1935 Inget pris utdelades
1936 Eugene O'Neill +
1937 Roger Martin du Gard
1938 Pearl Buck
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1940 Inget pris utdelades
1941 Inget pris utdelades
1942 Inget pris utdelades
1943 Inget pris utdelades
1944 Johannes V. Jensen
1945 Gabriela Mistral +
1946 Hermann Hesse +
1947 André Gide
1948 T.S. Eliot
1949 William Faulkner +
1950 Bertrand Russell
1951 Pär Lagerkvist +
1952 Francois Mauriac
1953 Winston Churchill
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957 Albert Camus +
1958 Boris Pasternak
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1960 Saint-John Perse
1961 Ivo Andric
1962 John Steinbeck +
1963 Giorgos Seferis
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre +
1965 Michail Sjolochov
1966 Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias
1968 Yasunari Kawabata
1969 Samuel Beckett
1970 Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
1971 Pablo Neruda
1972 Heinrich Böll +
1973 Patrick White
1974 Eyvind Johnson +, Harry Martinson
1975 Eugenio Montale
1976 Saul Bellow
1977 Vicente Aleixandre
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979 Odysseus Elytis
1980 Czeslaw Milosz
1981 Elias Canetti
1982 Gabriel García Márquez +
1983 William Golding
1984 Jaroslav Seifert
1985 Claude Simon
1986 Wole Soyinka
1987 Joseph Brodsky
1988 Naquib Mahfouz
1989 Camilo José Cela
1990 Octavio Paz
1991 Nadine Gordimer +
1992 Derek Walcott
1993 Toni Morrison +
1994 Kenzaburo Oe
1995 Seamus Heaney +
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1997 Dario Fo
1998 José Saramago +
1999 Günter Grass
2000 Gao Xingjian
2001 V.S. Naipaul
2002 Imre Kertész +
2003 J.M. Coetzee +
2004 Elfriede Jelinek
2005 Harold Pinter
2006 Orhan Pamuk +
2007 Doris Lessing +
2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio +
2009 Herta Müller +
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa
