| Year | Picture | Name | Nationality | Languages | Genres | Refs |
| 1963 |  | Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) | United Kingdom | English | Philosophy, essay | |
| 1965 |  | Max Frisch (1911–1991) | Switzerland | German | Drama, novel, philosophy | |
| 1967 |  | André Schwarz-Bart (1928–2006) | France | French | Novel | |
| 1969 |  | Ignazio Silone (1900–1978) | Italy | Italian | Novel, short story, essay | |
| 1971 |  | Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) | Argentina | Spanish | Short story, poetry, essay, philosophy, literary criticism, translation | |
| 1973 |  | Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994) | Romania / France | French | Drama, novel | |
| 1975 |  | Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) | France | French | Philosophy, novel, drama | |
| 1977 |  | Octavio Paz (1914–1998) | Mexico | Spanish | Poetry, essay | |
| 1979 |  | Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) | Russia / United Kingdom | English | Philosophy, essay | |
| 1981 |  | Graham Greene (1904–1991) | United Kingdom | English | Novel, short story, autobiography, drama, essay, screenplay | |
| 1983 |  | Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932–2018) | Trinidad and Tobago / United Kingdom | English | Novel, short story, essay | |
| 1985 |  | Milan Kundera (1929–2023) | Czechoslovakia / France | Czech / French | Novel, short story, poetry, essay, drama | |
| 1987 |  | John Maxwell Coetzee (b. 1940) | South Africa / Australia | English | Novel, essay, translation | |
| 1989 |  | Ernesto Sabato (1911–2011) | Argentina | Spanish | Novel, essay | |
| 1991 |  | Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) | Poland | Polish | Poetry, essay, drama | |
| 1993 |  | Stefan Heym (1913–2001) | Germany | German / English | Novel, short story, autobiography, essay | |
| 1995 |  | Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025) | Peru / Spain | Spanish | Novel, short story, essay, drama, memoirs | |
| 1997 |  | Jorge Semprún (1923–2011) | Spain | French / Spanish | Novel, essay | |
| 1999 |  | Don DeLillo (b. 1936) | United States | English | Novel, short story, drama, screenplay, essay | |
| 2001 |  | Susan Sontag (1933–2004) | United States | English | Short story, novel, drama, essay | |
| 2003 |  | Arthur Miller (1915–2005) | United States | English | Drama, screenplay, essay | |
| 2005 |  | António Lobo Antunes (b. 1942) | Portugal | Portuguese | Novel | |
| 2007 |  | Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009) | Poland | Polish | Philosophy, history | |
| 2009 |  | Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) | Japan | Japanese | Novel, short story | |
| 2011 |  | Ian McEwan (b. 1948) | United Kingdom | English | Novel, short story, drama, screenplay | [2] |
| 2013 |  | Antonio Muñoz Molina (b. 1956) | Spain | Spanish | Novel | [3] |
| 2015 |  | Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) | Albania | Albanian | Novel, short story, poetry, essay, drama, screenplay | [4] |
| 2017 |  | Karl Ove Knausgaard (b. 1968) | Norway | Norwegian | Novel, autobiography | [5] |
| 2019 |  | Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) | United States | English | Novel, short story, drama, essay, memoirs, poetry | |
| 2021 |  | Julian Barnes (b. 1946) | United Kingdom | English | Novel, essay, memoirs, short story | [6] |
| 2025 |
 |
Michel Houellebecq
(b. 1956) |
France |
French |
novel, poetry, essay |
[7] |