1902 Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen ALE
1903 Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson NOR
1904 Frédéric Mistral FRA / José Echegaray y Eizaguirre ESP
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz POL
1906 Giosuè Carducci ITA
1907 Rudyard Kipling ING
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken ALE
1909 Selma Lagerlöf SUE
1910 Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse ALE
1911 Maurice Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck BEL
1912 Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann ALE
1913 Rabindranath Tagore IND
1914 No se concedió
1915 Romain Rolland FRA
1916 Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam SUE
1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup DIN / Henrik Pontoppidan DIN
1918 No se concedió
1919 Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler SUI
1920 Knut Pedersen Hamsun NOR
1921 Anatole France FRA
1922 Jacinto Benavente ESP
1923 William Butler Yeats IRL
1924 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont POL
1925 George Bernard Shaw IRL
1926 Grazia Deledda ITA
1927 Henri Bergson FRA
1928 Sigrid Undset NOR
1929 Thomas Mann ALE
1930 Sinclair Lewis USA
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt SUE
1932 John Galsworthy ING
1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin RUS
1934 Luigi Pirandello ITA
1935 No se concedió
1936 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill USA
1937 Roger Martin du Gard FRA
1938 Pearl Buck USA
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää FIN
1940 No se concedió
1941 No se concedió
1942 No se concedió
1943 No se concedió
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen DIN
1945 Gabriela Mistral CHI
1946 Hermann Hesse ALE
1947 André Paul Guillaume Gide FRA
1948 Thomas Stearns Eliot ING
1949 William Faulkner USA
1950 Bertrand Arthur William Russell ING
1951 Pär Fabian Lagerkvist SUE
1952 François Mauriac FRA
1953 Winston Churchill ING
1954 Ernest Miller Hemingway USA
1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness ISL
1956 Juan Ramon Jiménez ESP
1957 Albert Camus FRA
1958 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak RUS
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo ITA
1960 Saint-John Perse FRA
1961 Ivo Andric YUG
1962 John Steinbeck USA
1963 Giorgos Seferis GRE
1964 Jean Paul Sartre FRA
1965 Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov RUS
1966 Samuel Yosef Agnon ISR / Nelly Sachs ALE
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias GUA
1968 Yasunari Kawabata JAP
1969 Samuel Beckett IRL
1970 Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn RUS
1971 Pablo Neruda CHI
1972 Heinrich Böll ALE
1973 Patrick White AUS
1974 Eyvind Johnson SUE / Harry Martinson SUE
1975 Eugenio Montale ITA
1976 Saul Bellow USA
1977 Vicente Aleixandre ESP
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer USA
1979 Odysseus Elytis GRE
1980 Czeslaw Milosz POL
1981 Elias Canetti ING
1982 Gabriel García Márquez COL
1983 William Golding ING
1984 Jaroslav Seifert CHE
1985 Claude Simon FRA
1986 Wole Soyinka NIG
1987 Joseph Brodsky USA
1988 Naguib Mahfouz EGI
1989 Camilo José Cela ESP
1990 Octavio Paz MEX
1991 Nadine Gordimer SUD
1992 Derek Walcott SLU
1993 Toni Morrison USA
1994 Kenzaburo Oe JAP
1995 Seamus Heaney IRL
1996 Wislawa Szymborska POL
1997 Dario Fo ITA
1998 José Saramago POR
1999 Günter Grass ALE
2000 Gao Xingjian CHI
2001 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul ING
2002 Imre Kertész HUN
2003 John Maxwell Coetzee SUD
2004 Elfriede Jelinek OST
2005 Harold Pinter ING
2006 Orhan Pamuk TUR
2007 Doris Lessing ING
2008 Jean Marie Le Clézio FRA
2009 Herta Müller RUM
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa PER
2011 Tomas Tranströmer SUE
2012 Mo Yan CHI
2013 Alice Munro CAN
2014 Patrick Modiano FRA
2015 Svetlana Aleksiévich UCR
2016 Bob Dylan USA
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro JAP
2018 Olga Tokarczuk POL
2019 Peter Handke AUS
2020 Louise Glück USA
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah TAN
2022 Annie Ernaux FRA
2023 Jon Fosse NOR