2005: Harold Pinter (Britain)
2004: Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2003: J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
2002: Imre Kertesz (Hungary)
2001: V.S. Naipaul (Britain)
2000: Gao Xingjian (France)
1999: Guenter Grass (Germany)
1998: Jose Saramago (Portugal)
1997: Dario Fo (Italy)
1996: Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1995: Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
1994: Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
1993: Toni Morrison (USA)
1992: Derek Walcott (St Lucia)
1991: Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1990: Octavio Paz (Mexico)
1989: Camilo José Cela (Spain)
1988: Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
1987: Joseph Brodsky (USA)
1986: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
