| Year | Laureates |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian |
| 1999 | Günter Grass |
| 1998 | José Saramago |
| 1997 | Dario Fo |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka |
| 1985 | Claude Simon |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert |
| 1983 | William Golding |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti |
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