| | Doris Lessing (Great Britain) |
| | Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) |
| | Harold Pinter (United Kingdom) |
| | Elfriede Jelinek (Austria) |
| | J.M. Coetzee (South Africa) |
| | Imre Kertesz (Hungary) |
| | V. S. Naipaul (Great Britain) |
| | Gao Xingjian (China) |
| | Gunter Grass (Germany) |
| | José Saramago (Portugal) |
| | Dario Fo (Italy) |
| | Wislawa Szymborska (Poland) |
| | Seamus Heaney (Ireland) |
| | Kenzaburo Oe (Japan) |
| | Toni Morrison (U.S.A.) |
| | Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) |
| | Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) |
| | Octavio Paz (Mexico) |
| | Dr. Camilo José Cela (Spain) |
| | Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) |
| | Joseph Brodsky (U.S.A.) |
| | Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) |
| | Claude Simon (France) |
| | Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia) |
| | William Golding (United Kingdom) |
| | Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) |
| | Elias Canetti (United Kingdom) |
| | Czeslaw Milosz ( Poland/U.S.A.) |
| | Odysseus Elytis (Greece) |
| | Isaac Bashevis Singer (U.S.A.) |
| | Vicente Aleixandre (Spain) |
| | Saul Bellow ( U.S.A.) |
| | Eugenio Montale (Italy) |
| | Eyvind Johnson (Sweden) Harry Martinson (Sweden) |
| | Patrick White (Australia) |
| | Heinrich Böll (Germany) |
| | Pablo Neruda (Chile) |
| | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (U.S.S.R.) |
| | Samuel Beckett (Ireland) |
| | Yasunari Kawabata (Japan) |
| | Miguel A. Asturias (Guatemala) |
| | Shmuel Y. Agnon (Israel) Nelly Sachs (Germany) |
| | Mikhail Sholokhov ( U.S.S.R.) |
| | Jean-Paul Sartre (France - declined) |
| | Giorgos Seferis (Greece) |
| | John Steinbeck ( U.S.A.) |
| | Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia) |
| | Saint-John Perse (France) |
| | Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy) |
| | Boris Pasternak (U.S.S.R.) |
| | Albert Camus (France) |
| | J.R. Jiménez (Spain) |
| | Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland) |
| | Ernest Hemingway (U.S.A.) |
| | Winston Churchill (United Kingdom) |
| | François Mauriac (France) |
| | Pär Lagerkvist (Sweden) |
| | Bertrand Russell (United Kingdom) |
| | William Faulkner (U.S.A.) |
| | T. S. Eliot (United Kingdom) |
| | André Gide (France) |
| | Hermann Hesse (Switzerland) |
| | Gabriela Mistral (Chile) |
| | Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark) |
| | No Award |
| | No Award |
| | No Award |
| | No Award |
| | F.E. Sillanpää (Finland) |
| | Pearl S. Buck (U.S.A.) |
| | Roger Martin du Gard (France) |
| | Eugene O'Neill (U.S.A.) |
| | No Award |
| | Luigi Pirandello (Italy) |
| | Ivan Bunin (U.S.S.R.) |
| | John Galsworthy (United Kingdom) |
| | Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden) |
| | Sinclair Lewis (U.S.A.) |
| | Thomas Mann (Germany) |
| | Sigrid Undset (Norway) |
| | Henri Bergson (France) |
| | Grazia Deledda (Italy) |
| | George Bernard Shaw (United Kingdom) |
| | Wladyslaw Reymont (Poland) |
| | William Butler Yeats (Ireland) |
| | Jacinto Benavente (Spain) |
| | Anatole France (France) |
| | Knut Hamsun (Norway) |
| | Carl Spitteler (Switzerland) |
| | No Award |
| | Karl Gjellerup (Denmark) Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark) |
| | Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden) |
| | Romain Rolland (France) |
| | No Award |
| | Rabindranath Tagore (India) |
| | Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany) |
| | Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium) |
| | Paul von Heyse (Germany) |
| | Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden) |
| | Rudolf Eucken (Germany) |
| | Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom) |
| | Giosue Carducci (Italy) |
| | Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland) |
| | José Echegaray (Spain) Frédéric Mistral (France) |
| | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Norway) |
| | Theodor Mommsen (Germany) |
| | René François Armand (France) |
