2013
Alice Ann Munro (Canada)
2012
Mo Yan (China)
2011
Tomas Tranströmer
Alice Ann Munro (Canada)
2012
Mo Yan (China)
2011
Tomas Tranströmer
2010
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
2009
Herta Müller
Herta Müller
2008
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2007
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
2006
Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk
2005
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
2004
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek
2003
John M. Coetzee
John M. Coetzee
2002
Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész
2001
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
2000
Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian
1999
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
1998
José Saramago
José Saramago
1997
Dario Fo
Dario Fo
1996
Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska
1995
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
1994
Kenzaburo Oe
Kenzaburo Oe
1993
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
1992
Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott
1991
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
1990
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
1989
Camilo José Cela
Camilo José Cela
1988
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz
1987
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
1986
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
1985
Claude Simon
Claude Simon
1984
Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert
1983
William Golding
William Golding
1982
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
1981
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti
1980
Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz
1979
Odysseus Elytis
Odysseus Elytis
1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977
Vicente Aleixandre
Vicente Aleixandre
1976
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
1975
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
1974
Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
1973
Patrick White
Patrick White
1972
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Böll
1971
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
1970
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
1969
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
1968
Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
1967
Miguel Angel Asturias
Miguel Angel Asturias
1966
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
1964
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
1963
Giorgos Seferis
Giorgos Seferis
1962
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
1961
Ivo Andric
Ivo Andric
1960
Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse
1959
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
1958
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
1957
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
1956
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955
Halldór Kiljan Laxness
Halldór Kiljan Laxness
1954
Ernest Miller Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway
1953
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1952
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
1951
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
1950
Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
1949
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
1948
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot
1947
André Paul Guillaume Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide
1946
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
1945
Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral
1944
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
1943
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1942
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1941
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1940
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1939
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938
Pearl Buck
Pearl Buck
1937
Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard
1936
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
1935
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1934
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
1933
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
1932
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy
1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis
1929
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
1928
Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset
1927
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
1926
Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda
1925
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
1924
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
1923
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats
1922
Jacinto Benavente
Jacinto Benavente
1921
Anatole France
Anatole France
1920
Knut Pedersen Hamsun
Knut Pedersen Hamsun
1919
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
1918
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
1915
Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland
1914
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1913
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
1912
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
1911
Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
1910
Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
1909
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
1908
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1907
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
1906
Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Carducci
1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904
Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
1903
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
1902
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
1901
Sully Prudhomme
Sully Prudhomme