| 1901 |
Sully Prudhomme (France) |
| 1902 |
Theodor Mommsen (Germany)
|
| 1903 |
Björnstjerne Björnson (Norway) |
| 1904 |
Frédéric Mistral (France)
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Spain) |
| 1905 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland) |
| 1906 |
Giosuè Carducci (Italy) |
| 1907 |
Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom)
|
| 1908 |
Rudolf C. Eucken (Germany)
|
| 1909 |
Selma O.L. Lagerlöf (Sweden)
|
| 1910 |
Paul von Heyse (Germany) |
| 1911 |
Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium) |
| 1912 |
Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany)
|
| 1913 |
Sir Rabindranath Tagore (India) |
| 1914 |
Not awarded |
| 1915 |
Romain Rolland (France) |
| 1916 |
Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden) |
| 1917 |
Karl Gjellerup (Denmark)
Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark) |
| 1918 |
Not awarded |
| 1919 |
Carl Spitteler (Switzerland) |
| 1920 |
Knut Hamsun (Norway) |
| 1921 |
Anatole France (France) |
| 1922 |
Jacinto Benavente y Martinez (Spain) |
| 1923 |
William Butler Yeats (Ireland) |
| 1924 |
Władysław S. Reymont (Poland) |
| 1925 |
George Bernard Shaw (United Kingdom) |
| 1926 |
Grazia Deledda (Italy) |
| 1927 |
Henri Louis Bergson (France) |
| 1928 |
Sigrid Undset (Norway) |
| 1929 |
Thomas Mann (Germany) |
| 1930 |
Sinclair Lewis (United States)
|
| 1931 |
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden) |
| 1932 |
John Galsworthy (United Kingdom) |
| 1933 |
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics) |
| 1934 |
Luigi Pirandello (Italy) |
| 1935 |
Not awarded |
| 1936 |
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (United States)
|
| 1937 |
Roger Martin du Gard (France) |
| 1938 |
Pearl Buck (Sydenstricker) (United States)
|
| 1939 |
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finland) |
| 1940 |
Not awarded |
| 1941 |
Not awarded |
| 1942 |
Not awarded |
| 1943 |
Not awarded |
| 1944 |
Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark)
|
| 1945 |
Gabriela Mistral (Chile) |
| 1946 |
Hermann Hesse (Switzerland)
|
| 1947 |
André Gide (France) |
| 1948 |
T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot (United Kingdom)
|
| 1949 |
William Faulkner (United States) |
| 1950 |
Bertrand A.W. Russell (United Kingdom)
|
| 1951 |
Pär F. Lagerkvist (Sweden)
|
| 1952 |
François Mauriac (France)
|
| 1953 |
Sir Winston Churchill (United Kingdom) |
| 1954 |
Ernest Hemingway (United States) |
| 1955 |
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland) |
| 1956 |
Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain)
|
| 1957 |
Albert Camus (France) |
| 1958 |
Boris L. Pasternak* (Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics) |
| 1959 |
Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy) |
| 1960 |
Saint-John Perse (France)
|
| 1961 |
Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia) |
| 1962 |
John Ernst Steinbeck (United States)
|
| 1963 |
George Seferis (Greece) |
| 1964 |
Jean-Paul Sartre* (France)
|
| 1965 |
Mikhail A. Sholokhov (Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics) |
| 1966 |
Shmuel Yosef H. Agnon (Israel)
Nelly Sachs (Germany-Sweden) |
| 1967 |
Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala) |
| 1968 |
Kawabata Yasunari (Japan)
|
| 1969 |
Samuel Beckett (Ireland) |
| 1970 |
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitzyn (Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics) |
| 1971 |
Pablo Neruda (Chile) |
| 1972 |
Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1973 |
Patrick V.M. White (Australia) |
| 1974 |
Eyvind Johnson (Sweden)
Harry Martinson (Sweden) |
| 1975 |
Eugenio Montale (Italy) |
| 1976 |
Saul Bellow (United States)
|
| 1977 |
Vicente Aleixandre (Spain) |
| 1978 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer (United States)
|
| 1979 |
Odysseus Elytis (Greece) |
| 1980 |
Czeslaw Miłosz (Poland-United States) |
| 1981 |
Elias Canetti (United Kingdom) |
| 1982 |
Gabriel García Márquez (Columbia) |
| 1983 |
William Golding (United Kingdom) |
| 1984 |
Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia) |
| 1985 |
Claude Simon (France) |
| 1986 |
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) |
| 1987 |
Joseph Brodsky (United States) |
| 1988 |
Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) |
| 1989 |
Camilo José Cela (Spain) |
| 1990 |
Octavio Paz (Mexico) |
| 1991 |
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) |
| 1992 |
Derek W. Walcott (St. Lucia) |
| 1993 |
Toni Morrison (United States) |
| 1994 |
Oe Kenzaburo (Japan) |
| 1995 |
Seamus Heaney (Ireland) |
| 1996 |
Wislawa Szymborska (Poland) |
| 1997 |
Dario Fo (Italy) |
| 1998 |
José Saramago (Portugal) |
| 1999 |
Günter Grass (Germany) |
| 2000 |
Gao Xingjian (China) |
| 2001 |
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (United Kingdom) |
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