| Year | Laureates |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson |
| 1973 | Patrick White |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias |
| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs |
| 1965 | Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric |
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