(The names of 28 laureates who write in English are hyperlinked to entries in Answers.com).
1901 Sully Prudhomme (France)
1902
Theodor Mommsen (
1903
Björnstjerne Björnson
(
1904 Frédéric Mistral (France) / José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Spain)
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland)
1906 Giosuè Carducci (Italy)
1907 Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom)
1908 Rudolf C. Eucken (Germany)
1909 Selma O.L. Lagerlöf (Sweden)
1910 Paul von Heyse (Germany)
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)
1912
Gerhart Hauptmann (
1913 Sir Rabindranath Tagore
(India) [poet, philosopher]
1914 Not awarded
1915 Roman Rolland (
1916 Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden)
1917 Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark)
1918 Not awarded
1920
Knut Hamsun (
1921 Anatole France (France)
1922 Jacinto Benavente y Martinez (Spain)
1923 William Butler Yeats
(Ireland) [poet, playwright]
1925 George Bernard Shaw
(United Kingdom) [playwright, critic]
1927
Henri Louis Bergson (
1928
Sigrid Undset (
1930 Sinclair Lewis (United States)
1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (
1932 John Galsworthy (United
Kingdom)
1933
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (
1934
Luigi Pirandello (
1935 Not awarded
1936 Eugene Gladstone
O'Neill (United States) [playwright]
1937 Roger Martin du Gard (France)
1938 Pearl Buck (Sydenstricker) (United
States)
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finland)
1940 Not awarded
1941 Not awarded
1942 Not awarded
1943 Not awarded
1944
Johannes V. Jensen (
1945 Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
1946 Hermann Hesse (Switzerland)
1947
André Gide (
1948 T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot (United
Kingdom) [poet, critic]
1949 William Faulkner (United
States)
1950 Bertrand A.W. Russell (United
Kingdom) [mathematician, philosopher]
1951 Pär F. Lagerkvist (Sweden)
1952 François Mauriac (France)
1953 Sir Winston Churchill
(United Kingdom)
1954 Ernest Hemingway (United
States)
1955
Halldór Kiljan
Laxness (
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain)
1957
Albert Camus (
1958 Boris L. Pasternak (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) [Prize declined]
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy)
1960 Saint-John Perse (France)
1962 John Ernst Steinbeck
(United States)
1963
George Seferis (
1964
Jean-Paul Sartre (
1965
Mikhail A. Sholokhov (
1966
Shmuel Yosef H.
Agnon (
1967
Miguel Angel Asturias (
1968
Kawabata Yasunari (
1969 Samuel Beckett (Ireland) [playwright, novelist and poet]
1970
Aleksandr
1971 Pablo Neruda (Chile)
1972 Heinrich Böll (West Germany)
1973 Patrick V.M. White (Australia) / Harry Martinson (
1975
Eugenio Montale (
1976 Saul Bellow (United States)
1977
Vicente Aleixandre (
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer
(United States)
1979
Odysseus Elytis (
1980
Czeslaw Milosz (
1981
Elias Canetti (United Kingdom)
1982
Gabriel García Márquez
(
1983 William Golding (United
Kingdom)
1984
Jaroslav Seifert (
1985
Claude Simon (
1986 Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) [playwright, poet]
1987 Joseph Brodsky (United States) [poet, translator]
1988 Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
1989 Camilo José Cela (Spain)
1990 Octavio Paz (Mexico)
1991 Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1993 Toni Morrison (United States)
1994 Oe Kenzaburo (Japan)
1995 Seamus Heaney (Ireland) [poet]
1996
Wislawa Szymborska (
1997 Dario Fo (Italy)
1998 José Saramago (Portugal)
1999 Günter Grass (Germany)
2000 Gao Xingjian (China-France)
2001 Vidiadhar
Surajprasad Naipaul (United Kingdom)
2002 Imre Kertész (Hungary)
2003 John Maxwell Coetzee
(South Africa)
2004
Elfriede Jelinek (
2005 Harold Pinter (United Kingdom) [playwright]
2006
Orhan Pamuk (
2007 Doris Lessing (United Kingdom)
(Ke Ping [Ed.]. 2007)