Year        Author          Country        Famous Work
 

1999     Günter Grass        Germany            The Tin Drum
 

1998     José Saramago      Portugal           Baltasar and Blimnda
                                                            (1982)
                                                                                                                  
1997     Dario Fo              Italy             Non si paga! Non si paga!
                                                          (1974)

1996     Wislawa Szymborska  Poland          Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts:
                                                         Seventy Poems (1981)

1995     Seamus Heaney        Ireland         North (1979)
                                                     The Haw Lantern (1987)

1994     Kenzaburo Oe         Japan           A Personal Matter (1964)

1993     Toni Morrison         United States     Beloved (1988)

1992     Derek Walcott       West India        Omeros (1990)

1991     Nadine Gordimer      South Africa    A Guest of Honour (1970);
                                                           A Soldier's Embrace (1980).

1990    Octavio Paz            Mexico           The Labyrinth of Solitude
                                                                  (1959)

1989    Camilo José Cela        Spain           Journey to Alcarria (1964)

1988    Naguib Mahfouz        Egypt           Children of Gebelawi (1959)

1987    Joseph Brodsky (Iosif
         Alexandrovich Brodsky,  United States   A Part of Speech (1980);
                                                        Less Than One Selected
                                                            Essays (1987)

1986    Wole Soyinka             Nigeria          The Interpreters (1969);
                                                        The Man Died (1972);
                                                        Myth, Literature and the
                                                        African World (1975)

1985    Claude-Eugene-Henri    France          Les Georgiques (1981)
                 Simon

1984    Jaroslav Seifert       Czechoslovakia    All the Beauty in the
                                                            World (1981)

 1983    William Golding       United Kingdom    Lord of the Flies (1954)
 

1982     Gabriel García Márquez    Columbia-Mexico   One Hundred Years of
                                                                Solitude (1970);
                                                              The Autumn of thePatriarch
                                                                        (1976)

 1981   Elias Canetti            United Kingdom         Crowds and Power (1960)
 

1980    Czeslaw Milosz             Poland                The Captive Mind (1953)

 1979   Odysseus Elytis
         (Odysseus  Alepoudhelis)    Greece              The Axion Esti (1959)
 

 1978   Isaac Bashevis Singer     United States        Yentl, The Yeshivah Boy
                                                                           (1978)

1977   Vincente Aleixandre           Spain               Destruction or Love
                                                                       (1933)

1976   Saul Bellow              United States            Humboldt's Gift (1975)

1975   Eugenio Montale             Italy                       Xenia (1972)

1974   Eyvind Johnson
         Harry Martinson           Sweden                Favel ensam (1968)
                                                               Natur (1934)

1973   Patrick White            Australia              The Tree of Man (1955)

1972   Heinrich Böll              Germany               Billiards at Half-Past
                                                                 Nine (1958)

1971   Pablo Neruda             Chile                   The Captain's Verses (1952);
                                                              La Barcarola (1967)

1970   Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn     USSR             The First Circle (1968)

1969   Samuel Beckett            Ireland          Waiting for Godot (1953)

1968   Yasunari Kawabata         Japan              Snow Country (1947)

1967   Miguel Angel Asturias      Guatemala          Viento fuerte (1950); El
                                                             papa verde (1954); Los
                                                             ojos de los enterrados (1960)

1966  Shmuel Yosef Agnon
           Nelly Sachs            Israel/Sweden        Agunot (1908)
                                                            Flucht und Verwandlung (1959)

1965    Mikhail Sholokhov        USSR                And Quiet Flows the Don
                                                            & The Don Flows Home to
                                                                the Sea (1940)

 1964   Jean-Paul Sartre*         France               L'étre et le néant (1943)

1963    Giorgios Seferis (Giorgios
           Seferiades,                   Greece            Mythistorema (1935)

1962   John Steinbeck          United States          The Grapes of Wrath
                                                                        (1939)

1961   Ivo Andric                  Yugoslavia             Gospodica (1945)

1960  Saint-John Perse
        (Marie-René-Auguste-Alexis
        Saint-Léger Léger)          France               Exil (1942)

1959   Salvatore Quasimodo         Italy                Nuove Poesie (1942)
                                                               The Selected Writings of
                                                               Salvatore Quasimodo (1960)

1958    Boris Pasternak*           USSR                  Doctor Zhivago (1957)

1957    Albert Camus              France                 L'Étranger (1942)

1956    Juan Ramón Jiménez        Spain                 La estación total (1946)
 

1955     Halldór Kiljan Laxness     Iceland                The Light of the World
                                                                       (1937-1940)

1954    Ernest Hemingway          United States        The Old Man and the Sea
                                                                          (1952)

1953    Winston Churchill          United Kingdom         While England Slept
                                                                          (1938)

 1952    François Mauriac          France                 Les Chemins de la mer
                                                                          (1939)

1951     Pär Lagerkvist            Sweden                 Barabbas (1950)

1950    Bertrand Russell        United Kingdom            The ABC of Relativity
                                                                 (1925); What I Believe
                                                                 (1925); A History of
                                                                  Western Philosophy
                                                                         (1945)

1949   William Faulkner         United States             The Sound and the Fury
                                                                  (1929); Sanctuary (1931);
                                                                  The Hamlet (1940);
                                                                  Intruder in the Dust
                                                                         (1948)

1948   Thomas Stearns Eliot     United Kingdom           The Waste Land (1922)
 

1947   Andre-Paul-Guillaume Gide    France                Les Faux-Monnayeurs
                                                                      (1926)

1946   Hermann Hesse            Switzerland                Siddharta (1922)

1945   Gabriela Mistral (Lucila
         Godoy Alcayaga)               Chile                    Tala (1938)

1944   Johannes V. Jensen         Denmark                 Myter (1907-1944)

1943   No Award
 

1942   No Award

1941   No Award

1940   No Award
 

1939   Frans Eemil Sillanpää       Finland                    Meek Heritage (1919)

1938   Pearl S. Buck (Pearl
         Sydenstricker Walsh)     United States             The Good Earth (1931)

1937   Roger Martin du Gard       France                    Vieille France (1933)

1936   Eugene O'Neill               United States            Beyond the Horizon
                                                                  (1918); Anna Christie
                                                                  (1920); Strange Interlude
                                                                  (1926-1927)

1935   No Award
 

1934   Luigi Pirandello                Italy                    Amori senza amore (1894)

1933   Ivan G. Bunin                 Russia                    Gospodin iz San-Frantsisko
                                                                        (1916)

1932   John Galsworthy            United Kingdom            The Forsyte Saga
                                                                      (1906-1921)

1931   Erik A. Karlfeldt**           Sweden                   Flora och Pomona (1906)

1930   Sinclair Lewis               United States              Main Street (1920);
                                                                    Arrowsmith (1926)

1929   Thomas Mann                 Germany                   Der Zauberberg (1924)

1928   Sigrid Undset                Norway                    Splinten av trollspeilet
                                                                      (1917)

1927   Henri-Louis Bergson          France                    Le Rire (1900)

1926   Grazia Deledda                Italy                    Racconti Sardi (1893)

1925   George Bernard Shaw        Ireland                    Pygmalion (1912)

1924   Wladyslaw S. Reymont        Poland                   Chlopi (1902-1909)

1923   William Butler Yeats          Ireland                  The Wind among the
                                                                      Reeds (1899)

1922  Jacinto Benavente y Martinez   Spain                   La malquerida (1913)

1921  Anatole France (Jacques
      -Anatole-François Thibault)       France                 La Petit Pierre (1918)

1920   Knut Hamsun (Knut Pedersen)   Norway                 Victoria (1898)

1919   Carl F. G. Spitteler
        (aka Carl Felix Tandem)        Switzerland              Imago (1906)

1918   No Award

1917   Karl A. Gjellerup
         Henrik Pontoppidan              Denmark             En Idealist (1878)/ Skyer
                                                                          (1890)

1916  Verner von Heidenstam           Sweden              Vallfart och Vandringsar
                                                                      (1888)

1915  Romain Rolland                    France                Jean Christophe
                                                                      (1904-1912)

1914  No Award

1913  Rabindranath Tagore             India                    Gora (1910)

1912  Gerhart Hauptmann             Germany                Vor Sonnenaufgang (1889)

1911  Maurice Maeterlinck            Belgium                  La Princesse Maleine
                                                                          (1899)

1910   Paul von Heyse                 Germany                 Meraner Novellen (1867)

1909   Selma Lagerlöf                 Sweden                 Antikrists Mirakler
                                                                          (1897)

1908   Rudolf Eucken                  Germany                 Philosophie der
                                                                      Geschichte (1907)

1907   Rudyard Kipling               United Kingdom          The Jungle Book (1894)

1906   Giosuè Carducci                   Italy                 Rime e ritme (1899)

1905   Henryk Sienkiewicz              Poland                  Quo Vadis? (1896)

1904   Frédéric Mistral / José
         Echegaray y Eizaguirre        France/Spain          Nerto (1884)/El loco Diós
                                                                              (1900)

1903  Björnstjerne Björnson            Norway                Digte og sange (1870)

1902  Theodor Mommsen               Germany                Römisches Strafrecht
                                                                          (1899)

1901  René F. A. Sully Prudhomme     France                La Bonheur (1888)
 

 *Declined Award
 **Awarded post humously after declining the award in 1918
 
 

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