| Question |
Answer |
| 1901 |
Sully Prudhomme (first winner) France French |
| 1907 |
Rudyard Kipling United Kingdom English |
| 1909 |
Selma Lagerlￃﾶf Sweden Swedish |
| 1913 |
Rabindranath Tagore India Bengali |
| 1921 |
Anatole France France French |
| 1923 |
William Butler Yeats Ireland English |
| 1925 |
George Bernard Shaw Ireland English |
| 1929 |
Thomas Mann Germany German |
| 1930 |
Sinclair Lewis United States English |
| 1932 |
John Galsworthy United Kingdom English |
| 1934 |
Luigi Pirandello Italy Italian |
| 1936 |
Eugene O'Neill United States English |
| 1938 |
Pearl S. Buck United States English |
| 1946 |
Hermann Hesse Switzerland German |
| 1947 |
Andrￃﾩ Gide France French |
| 1948 |
T. S. Eliot U.S. / U. K. English |
| 1949 |
William Faulkner United States English |
| 1950 |
Bertrand Russell United Kingdom English |
| 1953 |
Sir Winston Churchill United Kingdom English |
| 1954 |
Ernest Hemingway United States English |
| 1957 |
Albert Camus France French |
| 1958 |
Boris Pasternak (declined it) Russia Russian |
| 1959 |
Salvatore Quasimodo Italy Italian |
| 1962 |
John Steinbeck United States English |
| 1964 |
Jean |
| 1965 |
Michail Sholokhov Russia Russian |
| 1968 |
Yasunari Kawabata Japan Japanese |
| 1969 |
Samuel Beckett Ireland English/French |
| 1970 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russia Russian |
| 1971 |
Pablo Neruda Chile Spanish |
| 1976 |
Saul Bellow Canada/United States English |
| 1978 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer Poland/United States Yiddish |
| 1982 |
Gabriel Garcￃﾭa Mￃﾡrquez Colombia Spanish |
| 1983 |
William Golding United Kingdom English |
| 1986 |
Wole Soyinka Nigeria English |
| 1988 |
Naguib Mahfouz Egypt Arabic |
| 1990 |
Octavio Paz Mexico Spanish |
| 1991 |
Nadine Gordimer South Africa English |
| 1993 |
Toni Morrison United States English |
| 1994 |
Kenzaburo Oe Japan Japanese |
| 1995 |
Seamus Heaney Ireland English |
| 1999 |
Gￃﾼnter Grass Germany German |
| 2001 |
V. S. Naipaul Trinidad & Tobago/UK English |
| 2003 |
John Maxwell Coetzee South Africa English |
| 2005 |
Harold Pinter United Kingdom English |
| 2007 |
Doris Lessing United Kingdom English |
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