Varasemad Nobeli auhinna saajad
- 1998 José Saramago
- 1997 Dario Fo
- 1996 Wislawa Szymborska
- 1995 Seamus Heaney
- 1994 Kenzaburo Oe
- 1993 Toni Morrison
- 1992 Derek Walcott
- 1991 Nadine Gordimer
- 1990 Octavio Paz
- 1989 Camilo José Cela
- 1988 Naguib Mahfouz
- 1987 Joseph Brodsky
- 1986 Wole Soyinka
- 1985 Claude Simon
- 1984 Jaroslav Seifert
- 1983 William Golding
- 1982 Gabriel Garcķa Mįrquez
- 1981 Elias Canetti
- 1980 Czeslaw Milosz
- 1979 Odysseus Elytis
- 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1977 Vicente Aleixandre
- 1976 Saul Bellow
- 1975 Eugenio Montale
- 1974 Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
- 1973 Patrick White
- 1972 Heinrich Böll
- 1971 Pablo Neruda
- 1970 Alexandr Sol·enitsõn
- 1969 Samuel Beckett
- 1968 Yasunari Kawabata
- 1967 Miguel Angel Asturias
- 1966 ¦muel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
- 1965 Mikhail Sholokhov
- 1964 JeanPaul Sartre
- 1963 Giorgos Seferis
- 1962 John Steinbeck
- 1961 Ivo Andric
- 1960 SaintJohn Perse
- 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
- 1958 Boris Pasternak
- 1957 Albert Camus
- 1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez
- 1955 Halldór Laxness
- 1954 Ernest Hemingway
- 1953 Winston Churchill
- 1952 Franēois Mauriac
- 1951 Pär Lagerkvist
- 1950 Bertrand Russell
- 1949 William Faulkner
- 1948 T.S. Eliot
- 1947 André Gide
- 1946 Hermann Hesse
- 1945 Gabriela Mistral
- 1944 Johannes V. Jensen
- 1943
- 1942
- 1941
- 1940
- 1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
- 1938 Pearl Buck
- 1937 Roger Martin du Gard
- 1936 Eugene O'Neill
- 1935
- 1934 Luigi Pirandello
- 1933 Ivan Bunin
- 1932 John Galsworthy
- 1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
- 1930 Sinclair Lewis
- 1929 Thomas Mann
- 1928 Sigrid Undset
- 1927 Henri Bergson
- 1926 Grazia Deledda
- 1925 George Bernard Shaw
- 1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
- 1923 William Butler Yeats
- 1922 Jacinto Benavente
- 1921 Anatole France
- 1920 Knut Hamsun
- 1919 Carl Spitteler
- 1918
- 1917 Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
- 1916 Verner von Heidenstam
- 1915 Romain Rolland
- 1914
- 1913 Rabindranath Tagore
- 1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
- 1911 Maurice Maeterlinck
- 1910 Paul Heyse
- 1909 Selma Lagerlöf
- 1908 Rudolf Eucken
- 1907 Rudyard Kipling
- 1906 Giosuč Carducci
- 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
- 1904 Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
- 1903 Bjųrnstjerne Bjųrnson
- 1902 Theodor Mommsen
- 1901 Sully Prudhomme