Daftar penerima Nobel Kesusastraan

ahun Nama Karya yang Diberi Penghargaan
1901 Sully Prudhomme (Prancis)
1902 Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (Jerman)
1903 Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (Swedia-Norwegia)
1904 Frédéric Mistral (Prancis) dan José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Spanyol)
1905 Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (Polandia Kongres)
1906 Giosuè Carducci (Italia)
1907 Joseph Rudyard Kipling (Inggris)
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken (Jerman)
1909 Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (Swedia)
1910 Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (Jerman)
1911 Pangeran Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (Belgia)
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann (Jerman)
1913 Rabindranath Tagore (India)
1914
tidak ada
1915 Romain Rolland (Prancis)
1916 Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (Swedia)
1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Denmark) dan Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark)
1918
tidak ada
1919 Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (Swiss)
1920 Knut Hamsun (Norwegia)
1921 Anatole France (Prancis)
1922 Jacinto Benavente Martínez (Spanyol)
1923 William Butler Yeats (Irlandia)
1924 Władysław Stanisław Reymont (Polandia)
1925 George Bernard Shaw (Irlandia)
1926 Grazia Deledda (Italia)
1927 Henri-Louis Bergson (Prancis)
1928 Sigrid Undset (Norwegia)
1929 Paul Thomas Mann (Republik Weimar)
1930 Harry Sinclair Lewis (AS)
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Swedia)
1932 John Galsworthy (Inggris)
1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Uni Soviet)
1934 Luigi Pirandello (Italia)
1936 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (AS)
1937 Roger Martin du Gard (Prancis)
1938 Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (AS)
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finlandia)
1940
tidak ada
1941
1942
1943
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Denmark)
1945 Gabriela Mistral (Chili)
1946 Hermann Hesse (Swiss-Jerman)
1947 André Paul Guillaume Gide (Prancis)
1948 Thomas Stearns Eliot (AS)
1949 William Cuthbert Faulkner (AS)
1950 Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell (Inggris)
1951 Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (Swedia)
1952 François Charles Mauriac (Prancis)
1953 Winston Churchill (Inggris)
1954 Ernest Miller Hemingway (AS)
1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Islandia)
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (Spanyol)
1957 Albert Camus (Prancis)
1958 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Борис Леонидович Пастернак) (Uni Soviet)
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo (Italia)
1960 Saint-John Perse (Prancis)
1961 Ivo Andrić (Yugoslavia)
1962 John Ernst Steinbeck (AS)
1963 Giorgos Seferis (Yunani)
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (Prancis), menolak
1965 Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Михаил Александрович Шолохов) (Uni Soviet)
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel) dan Nelly Sachs (Jerman-Swedia)
1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (Guatemala)
1968 Kawabata Yasunari (Jepang)
1969 Samuel Barclay Beckett (Irlandia)
1970 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын) (Uni Soviet)
1971 Pablo Neruda (Chili)
1972 Heinrich Theodor Böll (Jerman Barat)
1973 Patrick Victor Martindale White (Australia)
1974 Eyvind Johnson (Swedia) dan Harry Edmund Martinson (Swedia)
1975 Eugenio Montale (Italia)
1976 Saul Bellow (Kanada/AS)
1977 Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (Spanyol)
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (AS)
1979 Odysseas Elytis (Yunani)
1980 Czesław Miłosz (Polandia/AS)
1981 Elias Canetti (Inggris)
1982 Gabriel García Márquez (Kolombia)
1983 Sir William Gerald Golding (Inggris)
1984 Jaroslav Seifert (Cekoslowakia)
1985 Claude Simon (Prancis)
1986 Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (Nigeria)
1987 Joseph Brodsky (Rusia/AS)
1988 Naguib Mahfouz (Mesir)
1989 Camilo José Cela Trulock (Spanyol)
1990 Octavio Paz Lozano (Meksiko)
1991 Nadine Gordimer (AfSel)
1992 Derek Alton Walcott (St. Lucia)
1993 Toni Morrison (AS)
1994 Kenzaburo Oe (大江 健三郎)(Jepang)
1995 Seamus Justin Heaney (Irlandia)
1996 Wisława Szymborska (Polandia)
1997 Dario Fo (Italia)
1998 José de Sousa Saramago (Portugal)
1999 Günter Grass (Jerman)
2000 Gao Xingjian (高行健) (Prancis)
2001 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (Inggris)
2002 Imre Kertész (Hongaria)
2003 John Maxwell Coetzee (Afrika Selatan)
2004 Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2005 Harold Pinter (Inggris)
2006 Ferit Orhan Pamuk (Turki)
2007 Doris Lessing (Inggris)
2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (Prancis