2010 — Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
2009 — Herta Mueller, Romania and Germany
2008 — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, France and Mauritius
2007 — Doris Lessing, United Kingdom
2006 — Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
2005 — Harold Pinter, United Kingdom
2004 — Elfriede Jelinek, Austria
2003 — J. M. Coetzee, South Africa
2002 — Imre Kertesz, Hungary
2001 — V. S. Naipaul, United Kingdom
2000 — Gao Xingjian, France
1999 — Gunter 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, Saint Lucia
1991 — Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
1990 — Octavio Paz, Mexico
1989 — Camilo Jose Cela, Spain
1988 — Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
1987 — Joseph Brodsky, United States
1986 — Wole Soyinka, Nigeria
1985 — Claude Simon, France
1984 — Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia
1983 — William Golding, United Kingdom
1982 — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia
1981 — Elias Canetti, United Kingdom
1980 — Czeslaw Milosz, Poland and United States
1979 — Odysseus Elytis, Greece
1978 — Isaac Bashevis Singer, United States
1977 — Vicente Aleixandre, Spain
1976 — Saul Bellow, United States
1975 — Eugenio Montale, Italy
1974 — Eyvind Johnson, Sweden; Harry Martinson, Sweden
1973 — Patrick White, Australia
1972 — Heinrich Boll, Germany
1971 — Pablo Neruda, Chile
1970 — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet Union
1969 — Samuel Beckett, Ireland
1968 — Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
1967 — Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala
1966 — Shmuel Agnon, Israel; Nelly Sachs, Sweden
1965 — Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Union
1964 — Jean-Paul Sartre, France
1963 — Giorgos Seferis, Greece
1962 — John Steinbeck, United States
1961 — Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia
1960 — Saint-John Perse, France
1959 — Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy
1958 — Boris Pasternak, Soviet Union
1957 — Albert Camus, France
1956 — Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spain
1955 — Halldor Laxness, Iceland
1954 — Ernest Hemingway, United States
1953 — Winston Churchill, United Kingdom
1952 — Francois Mauriac, France
1951 — Par Lagerkvist, Sweden
1950 — Bertrand Russell, United Kingdom
1949 — William Faulkner, United States
1948 — T.S. Eliot, United Kingdom
1947 — Andre Gide, France
1946 — Hermann Hesse, Switzerland
1945 — Gabriela Mistral, Chile
1944 — Johannes V. Jensen, Denmark
1943 — No prize awarded
1942 — No prize awarded
1941 — No prize awarded
1940 — No prize awarded
1939 — Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finland
1938 — Pearl Buck, United States
1937 — Roger Martin du Gard, France
1936 — Eugene O’Neill, United States
1935 — No prize awarded
1934 — Luigi Pirandello, Italy
1933 — Ivan Bunin, stateless domicile in France
1932 — John Galsworthy, United Kingdom
1931 — Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sweden
1930 — Sinclair Lewis, United States
1929 — Thomas Mann, Germany
1928 — Sigrid Undset, Norway
1927 — Henri Bergson, France
1926 — Grazia Deledda, Italy
1925 — George Bernard Shaw, United Kingdom
1924 — Wladyslaw Reymont, Poland
1923 — William Butler Yeats, Ireland
1922 — Jacinto Benavente, Spain
1921 — Anatole France, France
1920 — Knut Hamsun, Norway
1919 — Carl Spitteler, Switzerland
1918 — No prize awarded
1917 — Karl Gjellerup, Denmark; Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark
1916 — Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden
1915 — Romain Rolland, France
1914 — No prize awarded
1913 — Rabindranath Tagore, India
1912 — Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany
1911 — Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium
1910 — Paul Heyse, Germany
1909 — Selma Lagerlof, Sweden
1908 — Rudolf Eucken, Germany
1907 — Rudyard Kipling, United Kingdom
1906 — Giosue Carducci, Italy
1905 — Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland
1904 — Frederic Mistral, France; Jose Echegaray, Spain
1903 — Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norway
1902 — Theodor Mommsen, Germany
1901 — Sully Prudhomme, France
And not one of them from Cuba!
October 10, 2010