| 1901 | Rene F. A. Sully Prudhomme | France |
| 1902 | Theodore Mommsen | Germany |
| 1903 | Bjornsterne Bjornson | Norway |
| 1904 | Frederic Mistral Jose Echegaray | France Spain |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Poland |
| 1906 | Giosue Carducci | Italy |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | Great Britain |
| 1908 | Rudolf C. Eucken | Germany |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden |
| 1910 | Paul J. L. Heyse | Germany |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | Germany |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | India |
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| 1915 | Romain Rolland | France |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Sweden |
| 1917 | Karl A. Gjellerup Henrik Pontoppidan | Denmark Denmark |
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| 1919 | Carl F. G. Spitteler | Switzerland |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | Norway |
| 1921 | Anatole France | France |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | Spain |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats | Ireland |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw S. Reymont | Poland |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland - Great Britain |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italy |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson | France |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norway |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann | Germany |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | United States |
| 1931 | Erik A. Karlfeldt | Sweden |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy | Great Britain |
| 1933 | Ivan A. Bunin | Soviet Union |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Italy |
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| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill | United States |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | France |
| 1938 | Parl S. Buck | United States |
| 1939 | Frans E. Sillanpää | Finland |
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| 1944 | Johannes V. Jensen | Denmark |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chile |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse | Germany - Switzerland |
| 1947 | André Gide | France |
| 1948 | T. S. Eliot | Great Britain |
| 1949 | William Faulkner | United States |
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | Great Britain |
| 1951 | Pär F. Lagerkvist | Sweden |
| 1952 | Francois Mauriac | France |
| 1953 | Sir Winston Churchill | Great Britain |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | United States |
| 1955 | Halldor K. Laxness | Iceland |
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Spain |
| 1957 | Albert Camus | France |
| 1958 | Boris L. Pasternak (declined) | Soviet Union |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Italy |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | France |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric | Yugoslavia |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck | United States |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis | Greece |
| 1964 | Jean Paul Sartre (declined) | France |
| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | Soviet Union |
| 1966 | Samuel Joseph Agnon Nelly Sachs | Israel Sweden |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias | Guatemala |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japan |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | Ireland |
| 1970 | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn | Soviet Union |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | Chile |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | Germany |
| 1973 | Patrick White | Australia |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson Harry Edmund Martinson | Sweden Sweden |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | Italy |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | United States |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Spain |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | United States |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis | Greek |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz | Poland - United States |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | Bulgaria - Great Britain |
| 1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Columbia - Mexico |
| 1983 | William Golding | Great Britain |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Siefert | Czechoslovakia |
| 1985 | Claude Simon | France |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | Soviet Union - United States |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Egypt |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | Spain |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz | Mexico |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | West Indies |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | United States |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japan |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | Ireland |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | Poland |
| 1997 | Dario Fo | Italy |
| 1998 | José Saramago | Portugal |
| 1999 | Günter Grass | Germany |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | France |
| 2001 | Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul | United Kingdom |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész | Hungary |
| 2003 | Imre Kertész | South Africa |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter | United Kingdom |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing | United Kingdom |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | France |
For More Information:
- History of the Nobel Prizes
- List of the Nobel Prize Winners
- Fast Facts About the Nobel Prizes
- Alfred Nobel's Will
