2014 : Patrick Modiano, France
2013 : Alice Munro, Canada.
2012 : Mo Yan, China.
2011 : Tomas Transtromer, Sweden.
2010 : Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru.
2009 : Herta Mueller, Germany.
2008 : Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, France.
2007 : Doris Lessing, Britain.
2006 : Orhan Pamuk, Turkey.
2005 : Harold Pinter, Britain.
2004 : Elfriede Jelinek, Austria.
2003 : J.M. Coetzee, South Africa.
2002 : Imre Kertesz, Hungary.
2001 : V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born Briton.
2000 : Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French.
1999 : Guenter Grass, Germany.
1998 : Jose Saramago, Portugal.
1997 : Dario Fo, Italy.
1996 : Wislawa Szymborska, Poland.
1995 : Seamus Heaney, Ireland.
1994 : Kenzaburo Oe, Japan.
1993 : Toni Morrison, United States.
1992 : Derek Walcott, St. Lucia.
1991 : Nadine Gordimer, South Africa.
1990 : Octavio Paz, Mexico.
1989 : Camilo Jose Cela, Spain.
1988 : Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt.
1987 : Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born American.
1986 : Wole Soyinka, Nigeria.
1985 : Claude Simon, France.
1984 : Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia.
1983 : William Golding, Britain.
1982 : Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia.
1981 : Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born Briton.
1980 : Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born American.
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