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Year


Winners
1901 Prudhomme, Sully
1902 Mommsen, Christian Matthias Theodor
1903 Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Martinus
1904   Mistral, Frédéric - Eizaguirre, José Echegaray Y
1905   Sienkiewicz, Henryk
1906   Carducci, Giosuè
1907   Kipling, Rudyard  
1908   Eucken, Rudolf Christoph
1909   Lagerlöf, Selma Ottilia Lovisa
1910   Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig
1911   Maeterlinck, Count Maurice (Mooris)
1912   Hauptmann, Gerhart Johann Robert
1913   Tagore, Rabindranath
1914 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1915   Rolland, Romain
1916 Heidenstam, Carl Gustaf Verner von
1917   Gjellerup, Karl Adolph - Pontoppidan, Henrik
1918   The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1919   Spitteler, Carl Friedrich Georg
1920   Hamsun, Knut Pedersen  
1921   France, Anatole
1922  Benavente, Jacinto  
1923   Yeats, William Butler 
1924   Reymont, Wladyslaw Stanislaw
1925   Shaw, George Bernard
1926  Deledda, Grazia  
1927   Bergson, Henri
1928   Undset, Sigrid  
1929   Mann, Thomas
1930   Lewis, Sinclair
1931   Karlfeldt, Erik Axel
1932   Galsworthy, John  
1933   Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich
1934 Pirandello, Luigi  
1935 The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1936   O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone
1937   Gard, Roger Martin du  
1938   Buck, Pearl
1939 Sillanpää, Frans Eemil  
1940 The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1941 The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1942 The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1943 The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1944   Jensen, Johannes Vilhelm
1945   Mistral, Gabriela  
1946   Hesse, Hermann
1947   Gide, André Paul Guillaume
1948   Eliot, Thomas Stearns    
1949  Faulkner, William
1950   Russell, Earl (Bertrand Arthur William)
1951   Lagerkvist, Pär Fabian  
1952   Mauriac, François
1953   Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
1954   Hemingway, Ernest Miller
1955   Laxness, Halldór Kiljan
1956   Jiménez, Juan Ramón
1957   Camus, Albert
1958   Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich
1959   Quasimodo, Salvatore
1960   Perse, Saint-John
1961   Andric, Ivo
1962   Steinbeck, John
1963   Seferis, Giorgos
1964   Sartre, Jean-Paul
1965   Sholokhov, Michail Aleksandrovich
1966   Agnon, Shmuel Yosef - Sachs, Nelly
1967   Asturias, Miguel Angel
1968   Kawabata, Yasunari
1969   Beckett, Samuel
1970   Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich
1971   Neruda, Pablo
1972   Böll, Heinrich
1973   White, Patrick
1974   Johnson, Eyvind - Martinson, Harry
1975   Montale, Eugenio
1976   Bellow, Saul
1977   Aleixandre, Vicente
1978   Singer, Isaac Bashevis
1979   Elytis, Odysseus
1980   Milosz, Czeslaw
1981   Canetti, Elias
1982   Márquez, Gabriel García
1983   Golding, William
1984   Seifert, Jaroslav
1985   Simon, Claude
1986   Soyinka, Wole
1987   Brodsky, Joseph
1988   Mahfouz, Naguib
1989   Cela, Camilo José
1990   Paz, Octavio
1991   Gordimer, Nadine
1992   Walcott, Derek
1993   Morrison, Toni
1994   Oe, Kenzaburo
1995  Heaney, Seamus
1996  Szymborska, Wislawa
1997 Fo, Dario
1998 Saramago, José
2000 Xingjian, Gao
2001 Naipaul, V.S. 
2002 Kertész, Imre