| Year | Author | Famous for |
|---|
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme | Parnassian poetry |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen | History of Rome |
| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Synnöve Solbakken |
| 1904 | José Echegaray | El gran Galeoto |
| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral | MIRÈIO |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Quo vadis |
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci | Rime Nuove (New Rhymes) , Odi Barbare (Barbarian Odes) |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | Jungle Books |
| 1908 | Rudolf Eucken | The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | The Wonderful Adventures of Nils | |
| 1910 | Paul Heyse | Children of the World | |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | The Blue Bird |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | Die Weber |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | Gitanjali |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland | Le Théâtre du peuple |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Karolinerna |
| 1917 | Henrik Pontoppidan | Lucky Peter |
| 1917 | Karl Gjellerup | The German Student |
| 1919 | Carl Spitteler | Olympian Spring |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | Growth of the Soil |
| 1921 | Anatole France | The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | The Bonds of Interest |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats | The Wild Swans at Coole |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw Reymont | Chłopi |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Arms and the Man |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | Anime Oneste |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson | The Two Sources of Morality and Religion |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Kristin Lavransdatter |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann | Buddenbrooks |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | Arrowsmith |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Arcadia Borealis |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga |
| 1933 | Ivan Bunin | The Gentleman from San Francisco |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Lumie di Sicilia |
| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill | Anna Christie |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | Les Thibault |
| 1938 | Pearl Buck | The Good Earth |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | People in the Summer Night |
| 1944 | Johannes V. Jensen | Poems 1906 |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Piececitos de Niño |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse | Siddhartha |
| 1947 | André Gide | Fruits of the Earth |
| 1948 | T.S. Eliot | The Waste Land |
| 1949 | William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury |
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | A History of Western Philosophy |
| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | Fruits of the Earth |
| 1952 | François Mauriac | Thérèse |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill | The Second World War |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea |
| 1955 | Halldór Laxness | Independent People |
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Platero and I |
| 1957 | Albert Camus | The Plague | |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago | |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Giorno Dopo Giorno |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | Exile |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric | Anxieties |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis | Turning Point |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre | Nausea |
| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | And Quiet Flows the Don |
| 1966 | Nelly Sachs | Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel |
| 1966 | Shmuel Agnon | The Bridal Canopy |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias | The President |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Snow Country |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot |
| 1970 | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | Canto General |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | Billiards at Half-past Nine |
| 1973 | Patrick White | Riders in the Chariot |
| 1974 | Harry Martinson | Aniara |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson | Here is Your Life! |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | Occasions |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Shadow of Paradise |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Gimpel the Fool |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis | Worthy It Is |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz | The Captive Mind |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | Crowds and Power |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| 1983 | William Golding | Lord of the Flies |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | The Plague Column |
| 1985 | Claude Simon | The Flanders Road |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | The Bacchae of Euripides |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | Love Song |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Chitchat on the Nile |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | The Hive |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz | Collected Poems, 1957–1987 |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | Omeros |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | Beloved |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | A Personal Matter |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | The Spirit Level |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | Some Like Poetry |
| 1997 | Dario Fo | Archangels Don't Play Pinball |
| 1998 | José Saramago | Baltasar and Blimunda |
| 1999 | Günter Grass | The Tin Drum |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | One Man's Bible |
| 2001 | V. S. Naipaul | In a Free State |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész | Fatelessness |
| 2003 | J. M. Coetzee | Disgrace |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | The Piano Teacher |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter | The Birthday Party |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | The Black Book |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing | The Grass is Singing |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | The Interrogation |
| 2009 | Herta Müller | The Land of Green Plums |
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