1901 - Sully Prudhomme
1902 - Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904 - Frédéric Mistral
1904 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906 - Giosuè Carducci
1907 - Rudyard Kipling
1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1909 - Selma Lagerlöf
1910 - Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
1911 - Maurice Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
1912 - Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
1913 - Rabindranath Tagore
1914 - non assegnato
1915 - Romain Rolland
1916 - Carl Gustaf Verner Von Heidenstam
1917 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup
1917 - Henrik Pontoppidan
1918 - non assegnato
1919 - Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
1920 - Knut Pedersen Hamsun
1921 - Anatole France
1922 - Jacinto Benavente
1923 - William Butler Yeats
1924 - W?adys?aw Stanis?aw Reymont
1925 - George Bernard Shaw
1926 - Grazia Deledda
1927 - Henri Bergson
1928 - Sigrid Undset
1929 - Thomas Mann
1930 - Sinclair Lewis
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt (postumo)
1932 - John Galsworthy
1933 - Ivan Alekseevic Bunin
1934 - Luigi Pirandello
1935 - non assegnato
1936 - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
1937 - Roger Martin du Gard
1938 - Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1940 - non assegnato
1941 - non assegnato
1942 - non assegnato
1943 - non assegnato
1944 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
1945 - Gabriela Mistral
1946 - Hermann Hesse
1947 - André Gide
1948 - Thomas Stearns Eliot
1949 - William Faulkner
1950 - Bertrand Arthur William Russell
1951 - Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
1952 - François Mauriac
1953 - Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1954 - Ernest Miller Hemingway
1955 - Halldór Laxness
1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957 - Albert Camus
1958 - Boris Leonidovic Pasternak (premio rifiutato)
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo
1960 - Saint-John Perse
1961 - Ivo Andric
1962 - John Steinbeck
1963 - Giorgos Seferis
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre (premio rifiutato)
1965 - Michail Aleksandrovic ?olochov
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1967 - Miguel Ángel Asturias
1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
1969 - Samuel Beckett
1970 - Aleksandr Isaevic Solzenicyn
1971 - Pablo Neruda
1972 - Heinrich Böll
1973 - Patrick White
1974 - Eyvind Johnson
1974 - 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 - Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1988 - Naguib 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 - Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
2002 - Imre Kertész
2003 - John Maxwell 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
2011 - Tomas Tranströmer
2012 - Mo Yan
2014 - Patrick Modiano
2015 - Svjatlana Aleksievic
2016 - Bob Dylan
2017 - Kazuo Ishiguro
2018 - Olga Tokarczuk
2019 - Peter Handke
2020 - Louise Glück