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2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, France.
• 2007: Doris Lessing, Britain.
• 2006: Orhan Pamuk, Turkey.
• 2005: Harold Pinter, Britain.
• 2004: Elfriede Jelinek, Austria.
• 2003: J.M. Coetzee, South Africa.
• 2002: Imre Kertesz, Hungary.
• 2001: V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born Briton.
• 2000: Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French.
• 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, United States.
• 1992: Derek Walcott, St. Lucia.
• 1991: Nadine Gordimer, South Africa.
• 1990: Octavio Paz, Mexico.
• 1989: Camilo Jose Cela, Spain.
• 1988: Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt.
• 1987: Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born American.
• 1986: Wole Soyinka, Nigeria.
• 1985: Claude Simon, France.
• 1984: Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia.
• 1983: William Golding, Britain.
• 1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia.
• 1981: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born Briton.
• 1980: Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born American.
• 1979: Odysseus Elytis, Greece.
• 1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American.
• 1977: Vicente Aleixandre, Spain.
• 1976: Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American.
• 1975: Eugenio Montale, Italy.
• 1974: Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson, Sweden.
• 1973: Patrick White, British-born Australian.
• 1972: Heinrich Boell, West Germany.
• 1971: Pablo Neruda, Chile.
• 1970: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia.
• 1969: Samuel Beckett, Ireland.
• 1968: Yasunari Kawabata, Japan.
• 1967: Miguel A. Asturias, Guatemala.
• 1966: Shmuel Y. Agnon, Polish-born Israeli, and Nelly Sachs, German-born Swede.
• 1965: Mikhail Sholokhov, Russia.
• 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre, France (declined award).
• 1963: Giorgos Seferis, Turkish-born Greek.
• 1962: John Steinbeck, United States.
• 1961: Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia.
• 1960: Saint-John Perse, Guadeloupe-born French.
