Dobitnici Nobelove nagrade za knjievnost

1901Sully Prudhomme (France)

1902Theodor Mommsen (Germany)

1903Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson (Norway)

1904Frdric Mistral (France) J. E. Eizaguirre (Spain)

1905Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland)

1906Giosu Carducci (Italy)

1907Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom)

1908Rudolf C. Eucken (Germany)

1909Selma O.L. Lagerlf (Sweden)

1910Paul von Heyse (Germany

1911Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)

1912Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany)

1913Sir Rabindranath Tagore (India)

1914Not awarded

1915Romain Rolland (France)

1916Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden)

1917Karl Gjellerup i Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark)

1918Not awarded

1919Carl Spitteler (Switzerland)

1920Knut Hamsun (Norway)

1921Anatole France (France)

1922Jacinto Benavente y Martinez (Spain)

1923William Butler Yeats (Ireland)

1924Wladyslaw S. Reymont (Poland)

1925George Bernard Shaw (United Kingdom)

1926Grazia Deledda (Italy)

1927Henri Louis Bergson (France)

1928Sigrid Undset (Norway)

1929Thomas Mann (Germany)

1930

Sinclair Lewis (United States)

1931Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden)

1932John Galsworthy (United Kingdom)

1933Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (SSSR)

1934Luigi Pirandello (Italy)

1935Not awarded

1936Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (United States)

1937Roger Martin du Gard (France)

1938Pearl Buck (Sydenstricker) (United States)

1939Frans Eemil Sillanp (Finland)

1940 - 1943 Not awarded

1944Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark)

1945Gabriela Mistral (Chile)

1946Hermann Hesse (Switzerland)

1947Andr Gide (France)

1948

T. S. Eliot (United Kingdom)

1949William Faulkner (United States)

1950Bertrand A.W. Russell (United Kingdom)

1951Pr F. Lagerkvist (Sweden)

1952Franois Mauriac (France)

1953Sir Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)

1954Ernest Hemingway (United States)

1955Halldr Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)

1956Juan Ramn Jimnez (Spain)

1957Albert Camus (France)

1958Boris L. Pasternak* (SSSR)

1959Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy)

1960Saint-John Perse (France)

1961Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia)

1962John Ernst Steinbeck (United States)

1963

George Seferis (Greece)

1964Jean-Paul Sartre* (France)

1965Mikhail A. Sholokhov (SSSR)

1966S. Y. H. Agnon (Israel) N. S. (Germany-Sweden)

1967Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala)

1968Kawabata Yasunari (Japan)

1969Samuel Beckett (Ireland)

1970Aleksandr I. Solzhenitzyn (SSSR)

1971Pablo Neruda (Chile)

1972Heinrich Bll (West Germany)

1973Patrick V.M. White (Australia)

1974Eyvind Johnson i Harry Martinson (Sweden)

1975Eugenio Montale (Italy)

1976Saul Bellow (United States)

1977Vicente Aleixandre (Spain)

1978Isaac Bashevis Singer (United States)

1979Odysseus Elytis (Greece)1980Czeslaw Milosz (Poland-United States)

1981Elias Canetti (United Kingdom)

1982Gabriel Garca Mrquez (Columbia)

1983William Golding (United Kingdom)

1984Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia)

1985Claude Simon (France)

1986Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)

1987Joseph Brodsky (United States)

1988Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)

1989Camilo Jos Cela (Spain)

1990Octavio Paz (Mexico)

1991Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)

1992Derek W. Walcott (St. Lucia)

1993Toni Morrison (United States)

1994

Oe Kenzaburo (Japan)

1995Seamus Heaney (Ireland)

1996Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)

1997Dario Fo (Italy)

1998Jos Saramago (Portugal)

1999Gnter Grass (Germany)

2000Gao Xingjian (China)

2001Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (United Kingdom)

2002Imre Kertsz (Hungary)

2003.John Maxwell Coetzee