Nobel Prize of Literature
| Year | Laureate | Country | Genre(s) |
| 2025 | László Krasznahorkai (b. 1954) | Hungary | novel, short story, essay, screenplay |
| 2024 | Han Kang (b. 1970) | South Korea | novel, poetry |
| Greek Lessons The Vegetarian | |||
| 2023 | Jon Fosse (b. 1959) | Norway | drama, novel, poetry, essay |
| Der andere Name: Heptalogie I-II Ich ist ein anderer: Heptalogie III-V Das ist Alise Ein neuer Name: Heptalogie VI-VII Morgen und Abend Vaim | |||
| 2022 | Annie Ernaux (b. 1940) | France | memoir, novel |
| Die Scham | |||
| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah (b. 1948) | Tanzania, United Kingdom (born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar) | novel, short story, essay |
| 2020 | Louise Glück (1943–2023) | United States | poetry, essay |
| 2019 | Peter Handke (b. 1942) | Austria | novel, short story, drama, essay, translation, screenplay |
| Die Lehre der Sainte-Victoire | |||
| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk (b. 1962) | Poland | novel, short story, poetry, essay, screenplay |
| Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead Empusion: Eine natur(un)heilkundliche Schauergeschichte Flights | |||
| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954) | United Kingdom (born in Japan) | novel, screenplay, short story |
| An Artist of the Floating World Klara and the Sun | |||
| 2016 | Bob Dylan (b. 1941) | United States | poetry, song lyrics |
| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich (b. 1948) | Belarus (born in Soviet Ukraine) | history, essay |
| 2014 | Patrick Modiano (b. 1945) | France | novel, screenplay |
| 2013 | Alice Munro (1931–2024) | Canada | short story |
| 2012 | Mo Yan (b. 1955) | China | novel, short story |
| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015) | Sweden | poetry, translation |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025) | Peru, Spain | novel, short story, essay, drama, memoir |
| 2009 | Herta Müller (b. 1953) | Germany, Romania | novel, short story, poetry, essay |
| Herztier | |||
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (b. 1940) | France, Mauritius | novel, short story, essay, translation |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing (1919–2013) | United Kingdom (born in Iran) | novel, short story, memoir/ autobiography, drama, poetry, essay |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952) | Turkey | novel, screenplay, autobiography, essay |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter (1930–2008) | United Kingdom | drama, screenplay, poetry |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek (b. 1946) | Austria | novel, drama |
| 2003 | John Maxwell Coetzee (b. 1940) | South Africa | novel, essay, translation |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész (1929–2016) | Hungary | novel |
| 2001 | Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932–2018) | United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago | novel, essay |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian (b. 1940) | France, China | novel, drama, essay |
| 1999 | Günter Grass (1927–2015) | Germany (born in Free City of Danzig) | novel, drama, poetry, essay |
| 1998 | José Saramago (1922–2010) | Portugal | novel, drama, poetry |
| 1997 | Dario Fo (1926–2016) | Italy | drama, song lyrics |
| 1996 | Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) | Poland | poetry, essay, translation |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) | Ireland | poetry, drama, translation, essay |
| 1994 | Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) | Japan | novel, short story, essay |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison (1931–2019) | United States | novel, essay |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott (1930–2017) | Saint Lucia | poetry, drama |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) | South Africa | novel, short story, essay, drama |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz (1914–1998) | Mexico | poetry, essay |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela (1916–2002) | Spain | novel, short story, essay, poetry |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) | Egypt | novel, short story |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) | United States, Soviet Union | poetry, essay |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka (b. 1934) | Nigeria | drama, novel, poetry, screenplay |
| 1985 | Claude Simon (1913–2005) | France (born in French Madagascar) | novel, essay |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) | Czechoslovakia (born in Austria-Hungary) | poetry |
| 1983 | William Golding (1911–1993) | United Kingdom | novel, poetry, drama |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) | Colombia | novel, short story, screenplay |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti (1905–1994) | United Kingdom, Bulgaria | novel, drama, memoirs, essay |
| 1980 | Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) | Poland (born in Russian Empire) | poetry, novel, essay |
| 1979 | Odysseas Elytis (1911–1996) | Greece | poetry, essay |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) | Poland, United States | novel, short story, memoir |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984) | Spain | poetry |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow (1915–2005) | United States, Canada | novel, short story |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) | Italy | poetry |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) | Sweden | novel |
| 1974 | Harry Martinson (1904–1978) | Sweden | poetry, novel, drama |
| 1973 | Patrick White (1912–1990) | Australia (born in the United Kingdom) | novel, short story, drama |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll (1917–1985) | West Germany | novel, short story |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) | Chile | poetry |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) | Soviet Union | novel, essay, short story |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) | Ireland | novel, drama, poetry |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) | Japan | novel, short story |
| 1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974) | Guatemala | novel, poetry |
| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970) | Israel (born in Austria-Hungary) | novel, short story |
| 1966 | Nelly Sachs (1891–1970) | West Germany, Sweden | poetry, drama |
| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984) | Soviet Union | novel |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) | France | philosophy, novel, drama, essay, short story, screenplay |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971) | Greece (born in the Ottoman Empire) | poetry, essay, memoir |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck (1902–1968) | United States | novel, short story, screenplay |
| 1961 | Ivo Andrić (1892–1975) | Yugoslavia (born in Austria-Hungary) | novel, short story |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse (1887–1975) | France (born in Guadeloupe) | poetry |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) | Italy | poetry |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) | Soviet Union | novel, poetry, translation |
| 1957 | Albert Camus (1913–1960) | France (born in French Algeria) | novel, short story, drama, philosophy, essay |
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) | Spain | poetry, novel |
| 1955 | Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) | Iceland | novel, short story, drama, poetry |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) | United States | novel, short story, screenplay |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill (1874–1965) | United Kingdom | history, essay, memoir |
| 1952 | François Mauriac (1885–1970) | France | novel, short story |
| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974) | Sweden | poetry, novel, short story, drama |
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) | United Kingdom | philosophy, essay |
| 1949 | William Faulkner (1897–1962) | United States | novel, short story |
| 1948 | Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) | United Kingdom (born in the United States) | poetry, essay, drama |
| 1947 | André Gide (1869–1951) | France | novel, essay, drama, memoir |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) | Germany, Switzerland | novel, poetry |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) | Chile | poetry |
| 1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873–1950) | Denmark | novel, short story |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964) | Finland | novel |
| 1938 | Pearl Buck (1892–1973) | United States | novel, biography |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958) | France | novel |
| 1936 | Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953) | United States | drama |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) | Italy | drama, novel, short story |
| 1933 | Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) | Stateless (born in Russian Empire) | short story, poetry, novel |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy (1867–1933) | United Kingdom | novel |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931) | Sweden | poetry |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) | United States | novel, short story, drama |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann (1875–1955) | Germany | novel, short story, essay |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) | Norway, Denmark | novel |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson (1859–1941) | France | philosophy |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) | Italy | poetry, novel |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) | United Kingdom, Ireland | drama, essay |
| 1924 | Władysław Reymont (1867–1925) | Poland | novel |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) | Ireland | poetry |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954) | Spain | drama |
| 1921 | Anatole France (1844–1924) | France | novel, poetry |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) | Norway | novel |
| 1919 | Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) | Switzerland | poetry |
| 1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857–1919) | Denmark | poetry |
| 1917 | Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943) | Denmark | novel |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940) | Sweden | poetry, novel |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland (1866–1944) | France | novel |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) | India (British Raj) | poetry, novel, drama, short story, essay, translation |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946) | Germany | drama, novel |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) | Belgium | drama, poetry, essay |
| 1910 | Paul von Heyse (1830–1914) | Germany | poetry, drama, novel, short story |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) | Sweden | novel, short story |
| 1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846–1926) | Germany | philosophy |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) | United Kingdom | novel, short story, poetry |
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) | Italy | poetry |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) | Poland | novel |
| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) | France | poetry, philology |
| 1904 | José Echegaray (1832–1916) | Spain | drama |
| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910) | Norway | poetry, novel, drama |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) | Germany | history, law |
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) | France | poetry, essay |
Karl Möller 