Laureates
- Bjornstjerne Bjornson
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Rudyard Kipling
- Selma Lagerlof
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Knut Hamsun
- Anatole France
- William Butler Yeats
- George Bernard Shaw
- Grazia Deledda
- Henri Bergson
- Sigrid Undset
- Thomas Mann
- Sinclair Lewis
- John Galsworthy
- Ivan Bunin
- Luigi Pirandello
- Eugene O'Neill
- Pearl S. Buck
- Gabriela Mistral
- Hermann Hesse
- Andre Gide
- T. S. Eliot
- William Faulkner
- Bertrand Russell
- Par Lagerkvist
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Ernest Hemingway
- Halldor Laxness
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
- Albert Camus
- Boris Pasternak
- Salvatore Quasimodo
- Saint John Perse
- Ivo Andric
- John Steinbeck
- Jean Paul Sartre
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
- Miguel Asturias
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Samuel Beckett
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Pablo Neruda
- Heinrich Boll
- Patrick White
- Eugenio Montale
- Saul Bellow
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Elias Canetti
- Gabriel Marquez
- William Golding
- Jaroslav Seifert
- Claude Simon
- Joseph Brodsky
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Camilo Jose Cela
- Octavio Paz
- Nadine Gordimer
- Derek Walcott
- Toni Morrison
- Kenzaburo Oe
- Seamus Heaney
- Wislawa Szymborska
- Dario Fo
- Jose Saramago
- Gunter Grass
- Gao Xingjian
- Imre Kertesz
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Harold Pinter
- Orhan Pamuk