Aquests són els guanyadors del Premi Nobel de Literatura al llarg de la seva història. Alguns anys va quedar desert i durant les dues guerres mundials no sempre es va concedir.

2006 Orhan Pamuk

2005 Harold Pinter
2004 Elfriede Jelinek
2003 John M. Coetzee
2002 Imre Kertész
2001 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
2000 Gao Xingjian
1999 Günter Grass
1998 José Saramago
1997 Dario Fo
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1995 Seamus Heaney
1994 Kenzaburo Oe
1993 Tony Morrisson
1992 Derek Walcott
1991 Nadine Gordimer
1990 Octavio Paz
1989 Camilo José Cela
1988 Naguib Mahfúz
1987 Joseph Brodskij
1986 Wole Soyinka
1985 Claude Simon
1984 Jaroslaw Seifert
1983 Sir William Golding
1982 Gabriel Garcia Márquez
1981 Elias Canetti
1980 Czeslaw Milosz
1979 Odysseu Elitis
1978 Isaac. B. Singer
1977 Vicente Aleixandre
1976 Saul Bellow

1975 Eugenio Montale
1974 Harry Martinson i Eyvind Johnson
1973 Patrick White
1972 Heinrich Böll
1971 Pablo Neruda
1970 Aleksandr I. Solzenicyn
1969 Samuel Becket
1968 Yasunari Kawabata
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 Shmuel J. Agnon i Nelly Sachs
1965 Mikhail A. Solokhov
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (rebutja el premi)
1963 Giorgo Seferis
1962 John Steinbeck
1961 Ivo Andric
1960 Saint-John Perse
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 Boris Pasternak
1957 Albert Camus
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955 Halldor K. Laxness
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1953 Winston Churchill
1952 François Mauriac
1951 Par Fabian Lagerkvist

1950 Bertrand Russell
1949 William Faulkner
1948 Thomas Stearus Eliot
1947 Andre Gide
1946 Hermann Hesse
1945 Gabriela Mistral
1944 Johannes V. Jensen
1943
1942
1941
1940
1939 Frans E. Sillampää
1938 Pearl S. Buck
1937 Roger Martin du Gard
1936 Eugène O´Neill
1935
1934 Luigi Pirandello
1933 Ivan Bunin
1932 John Galsworthy
1931 Erik A. Karkfeldt
1930 Sinclair Lewis
1929 Thomas Mann
1928 Sigrid Undset
1927 Henri Bergson
1926 Grazia Deledda

1925 George Bernard Shaw
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
1923 William B. Yeats
1922 Jacinto Benavente
1921 Anatole France
1920 Knut Hamsun
1919 Carl Spitteler
1918
1917 Karl Gjellerup i Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 Verner von Heidenstam
1915 Romain Rolland
1914
1913 Rabindranath Tagore
1912 Gerhart Hauptman
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 Paul Heyse
1909 Selma Lagerlö
1908 Rudolf Eucken
1907 Rudyard Kipling
1906 Giosue Carducci
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 Fredéric Mistral i Jose Echegaray
1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson
1902 Theodor Mommsen
1901 Rene Sully-Prodhomme