| Year |
Author |
Country |
In RSU Library |
| 2011 |
Tomas Transtromer |
Sweden |
Yes |
2010 |
Mario Vargas Llosa |
Peru |
Yes |
| 2009 |
Herta Muller |
Romania/Germany |
Yes |
| 2008 |
J M G Le Clezio |
France and Mauritius |
Yes |
| 2007 |
Doris Lessing |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
| 2006 |
Orhan Pamuk |
Turkey |
Yes |
| 2005 |
Harold Pinter |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
| 2004 |
Elfriede Jelinek |
Austria |
|
| 2003 |
John M. Coetzee |
South Africa |
Yes |
| 2002 |
Imre Kertész |
Hungary |
Yes |
| 2001 |
V S Naipaul |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
| 2000 |
Gao Xingjian |
France |
Yes |
| 1999 |
Günter Grass |
Federal Republic of Germany |
Yes |
| 1998 |
José Saramago |
Portugal |
Yes |
| 1997 |
Dario Fo |
Italy |
Yes |
| 1996 |
Wislawa Szymborska |
Poland |
Yes |
| 1995 |
Seamus Heaney |
Ireland |
Yes |
| 1994 |
Kenzaburo Oe |
Japan |
Yes |
| 1993 |
Toni Morrison |
U S A |
Yes |
| 1992 |
Derek Walcott |
Saint Lucia |
Yes |
| 1991 |
Nadine Gordimer |
South Africa |
Yes |
| 1990 |
Octavio Paz |
Mexico |
Yes |
| 1989 |
Camilo José Cela |
Spain |
Yes |
| 1988 |
Naguib Mahfouz |
Egypt |
Yes |
| 1987 |
Joseph Brodsky |
U S A |
Yes |
| 1986 |
Wole Soyinka |
Nigeria |
Yes |
| 1985 |
Claude Simon |
France |
Yes |
| 1984 |
Jaroslav Seifert |
Czechoslovakia |
Yes |
| 1983 |
William Golding |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
| 1982 |
Gabriel García Márquez |
Colombia |
Yes |
| 1981 |
Elias Canetti |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
| 1980 |
Czeslaw Milosz |
Poland and U S A |
Yes |
| 1979 |
Odysseus Elytis |
Greece |
|
| 1978 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
U S A |
Yes |
| 1977 |
Vicente Aleixandre |
Spain |
Yes |
| 1976 |
Saul Bellow |
U S A |
Yes |
| 1975 |
Eugenio Montale |
Italy |
|
| 1974 |
Eyvind Johnson & Harry Martinson |
Sweden & Sweden |
|
| 1973 |
Patrick White |
Australia |
Yes |
| 1972 |
Heinrich Böll |
Federal Republic of Germany |
Yes |
| 1971 |
Pablo Neruda |
Chile |
Yes |
| 1970 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
USSR |
Yes |
| 1969 |
Samuel Beckett |
Ireland |
Yes |
| 1968 |
Yasunari Kawabata |
Japan |
|
| 1967 |
Miguel Angel Asturias |
Guatemala |
Yes |
| 1966 |
Shmuel Yosef Agnon & Nelly Sachs |
Israel & Sweden |
Yes |
| 1965 |
Mikhail Sholokhov |
USSR |
Yes |
| 1964 |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
France |
Yes |
| 1963 |
Giorgos Seferis |
Greece |
Yes |
| 1962 |
John Steinbeck |
U S A |
Yes |
| 1961 |
Ivo Andric |
Yugoslavia |
Yes |
| 1960 |
Saint-John Perse |
France |
|
| 1959 |
Salvatore Quasimodo |
Italy |
|
| 1958 |
Boris Pasternak |
USSR |
Yes |
| 1957 |
Albert Camus |
France |
Yes |
| 1956 |
Juan Ramón Jiménez |
Spain |
Yes |
| 1955 |
Halldór Kiljan Laxness |
Iceland |
|
| 1954 |
Ernest Hemingway |
U S A |
Yes |
| 1953 |
Winston Churchill |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
| 1952 |
François Mauriac |
France |
Yes |
| 1951 |
Pär Lagerkvist |
Sweden |
Yes |
| 1950 |
Bertrand Russell |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
| 1949 |
William Faulkner |
U S A |
Yes |
| 1948 |
T. S. Eliot |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
| 1947 |
André Gide |
France |
Yes |
| 1946 |
Hermann Hesse |
Switzerland |
Yes |
| 1945 |
Gabriela Mistral |
Chile |
|
| 1944 |
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen |
Denmark |
|
| 1943 |
No Prize was awarded |
|
|
| 1942 |
No Prize was awarded |
|
|
| 1941 |
No Prize was awarded |
|
|
| 1940 |
No Prize was awarded |
|
|
| 1939 |
Frans Eemil Sillanpää |
Finland |
|
| 1938 |
Pearl Buck |
U S A |
Yes |
| 1937 |
Roger Martin du Gard |
France |
|
| 1936 |
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill |
U S A |
Yes |
| 1935 |
No Prize was awarded |
|
|
| 1934 |
Luigi Pirandello |
Italy |
Yes |
| 1933 |
Ivan Bunin |
France |
Yes |
| 1932 |
John Galsworthy |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
| 1931 |
Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
Sweden |
|
| 1930 |
Sinclair Lewis |
U S A |
Yes |
| 1929 |
Thomas Mann |
Germany |
Yes |
| 1928 |
Sigrid Undset |
Norway |
Yes |
| 1927 |
Henri Bergson |
France |
Yes |
| 1926 |
Grazia Deledda |
Italy |
|
| 1925 |
George Bernard Shaw |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
| 1924 |
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont |
Poland |
|
| 1923 |
William Butler Yeats |
Ireland |
Yes |
| 1922 |
Jacinto Benavente |
Spain |
|
| 1921 |
Anatole France |
France |
Yes |
| 1920 |
Knut Hamsun |
Norway |
Yes |
| 1919 |
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler |
Switzerland |
|
| 1918 |
No Prize was awarded |
|
|
| 1917 |
Karl Adolph Gjellerup & Henrik Pontoppidan |
Denmark & Denmark |
|
| 1916 |
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam |
Sweden |
|
| 1915 |
Romain Rolland |
France |
Yes |
| 1914 |
No Prize was Awarded |
|
|
| 1913 |
Rabindranath Tagore |
India |
Yes |
| 1912 |
Gerhart Hauptmann |
Germany |
|
| 1911 |
Maurice Maeterlinck |
Belgium |
Yes |
| 1910 |
Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse |
Germany |
|
| 1909 |
Selma Lagerlöf |
Sweden |
Yes |
| 1908 |
Rudolf Christoph Eucken |
Germany |
|
| 1907 |
Rudyard Kipling |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
| 1906 |
Giosuè Carducci |
Italy |
|
| 1905 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz |
Poland |
Yes |
| 1904 |
Frédéric Mistral & José Echegaray y Eizaguirre |
France & Spain |
|
| 1903 |
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson |
Norway |
|
| 1902 |
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen |
Germany |
|
| 1901 |
Sully Prudhomme |
France |
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