# List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors which, according to the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the benefactor of the prize, has produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction". It is one of the five Nobel Prizes which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.
Every year, the Swedish Academy sends out requests regularly for nominations of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Members of the Academy, members of literature academies and societies, professors of literature and language, former Nobel literature laureates, and the presidents of writers' organizations are all allowed to nominate a candidate. Nomination of oneself is not permitted. Despite the yearly invitations for nominations, there have been some years wherein the prize was not conferred due to particular reasons (1914, 1918, 1935) and due to the outbreak of World War II (1940–1943). Besides the prize has been delayed for a year seven times (1915, 1919, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1936, 1949).
Records of nominations are strictly kept secret for 50 years until they are made publicly available. Currently, the nominations submitted from 1901 to 1974 are available. Between those two years there have been 853 writers coming from different parts of the world nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 72 of which were awarded the prize including Albert Schweitzer who was awarded by Nobel Peace Prize on 1953. 19 more writers from these nominees were awarded after 1974 including Elie Wiesel who was awarded by Nobel Peace Prize on 1986. Only 81 women had been nominated for the prize starting with Malwida von Meysenburg who was nominated once for the year 1901 and 8 of them have been awarded after all. Only one literary society has been nominated, the Pali Text Society for the year 1916. Of the 853 revealed nominated writers, only the following are currently living:
* for 1967, the Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko (born 1930)
* for 1969, the Finnish author Hannu Salama (born 1936)
* for 1973, the Indian poet Indira Devi Dhanrajgir (born 1930) and Indian writer Pratap Narayan Tandon (born 1935).
* for 1974, the Chinese poet Chen Minghua (born 1950).
Though the following list consists of notable literary figures deemed worthy of the prize, there have been some celebrated writers who were not considered nor even nominated such as Anton Chekhov, Jules Verne, Robert Hugh Benson, Franz Kafka, Fernando Pessoa, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexander Blok, Marcel Proust, Joseph Conrad, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico García Lorca, Lu Xun, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Edmund Husserl, Antonio Machado, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Christopher Dawson, Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Simone Weil, Willa Cather, George Orwell, Galaktion Tabidze, Edith Hamilton, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Langston Hughes, Manuel Bandeira, Jack Kerouac, Nancy Mitford, Rosario Castellanos, Hannah Arendt and Agatha Christie.

## Nominees by their first nomination
### 1901–1909

* 1901
* 1902
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* 1906
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* 1908
* 1909
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
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| | Sully Prudhomme | 16 March 1839 Paris, France | 6 September 1907 Châtenay-Malabry, Paris, France | 1901 | Awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Frédéric Mistral | 8 September 1830 Maillane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France | 25 March 1914 Maillane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France | 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904 | Shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature with José Echegaray. |
| | Henryk Sienkiewicz | 5 May 1846 Wola Okrzejska, Gmina Krzywda, Poland | 15 November 1916 Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland | 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905 | Awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | René Vallery-Radot | 1 October 1853 Paris, France | 24 January 1933 Paris, France | 1901 | |
| | Edmond Rostand | 1 April 1868 Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France | 2 December 1918 Paris, France | 1901 | |
| | Julius Gersdorff | 15 June 1849 Szczecin, Poland | 7 November 1907 Weimar, Thuringia, Germany | 1901 | Nominated by Carl Heinrich Döring (1834–1916) the only time. |
| | Oscar le Pin | 23 June 1838 Saint Petersburg, Russia | 16 November 1912 Geneva, Switzerland | 1901 | Nominated by P. L. Bonnaviat (?) the only time. |
| | Louis Ducros | 27 December 1846 Nîmes, France | 1927 Strasbourg, France | 1901 | Nominated by Michel Clerc (1857–1931) the only time . |
| | Carl Gustaf Estlander | 31 January 1834 Kristinestad, Finland | 28 August 1910 Helsinki, Finland | 1901 | Nominated by Johan Gustaf Frosterus (1826–1901) the only time. |
| | Auguste Sabatier | 22 October 1839 Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche, France | 12 April 1901 Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France | 1901 | Nominated by Gabriel Monod (1844–1912) the only time. Died before his only chance to be awarded. |
| | Paul Duproix | 14 August 1851 Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire, France | 24 January 1912 Geneva, Switzerland | 1901 | Nominated by Émile Redard (1848–1913) the only time. |
| | Charles Borgeaud | 15 August 1861 Le Sentier, Vaud, Switzerland | 6 October 1940 Onex, Switzerland | 1901 | |
| | Charles Renouvier | 1 January 1815 Montpellier, Hérault, France | 1 September 1903 Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France | 1901 | Nominated by Antoine Benoist (1846–1922) the only time. |
| | Giacomo Stampa | — | — | 1901 | Nominated by Ármin Vámbéry (1832–1913) the only time. |
| | Ossip Lourié | 28 January 1868 Dubroŭna, Belarus | 2 July 1955 Paris, France | 1901 | Nominated by Kristian Birch-Reichenwald Aars (1868–1917) the only time. |
| | João da Câmara | 27 December 1852 Lisbon, Portugal | 2 January 1908 Lisbon, Portugal | 1901 | Nominated by Joaquim José Coelho de Carvalho (1855–1934) the only time. |
| | Malwida von Meysenbug | 28 October 1816 Kassel, Hesse, Germany | 23 April 1903 Rome, Italy | 1901 | Nominated by Gabriel Monod (1844–1912) the only time through Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910). |
| | Émile Zola | 2 April 1840 Paris, France | 29 September 1902 Paris, France | 1901, 1902 | Nominated by Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907) each time. |
| | Ferenc Kemény | 17 July 1860 Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, Serbia | 21 November 1944 Budapest, Hungary | 1901, 1902 | |
| | Gaston Paris | 9 August 1839 Avenay-Val-d'Or, Marne, France | 5 March 1903 Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1901, 1902, 1903 | Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) each time. |
| | Gaspar Núñez de Arce | 4 August 1834 Valladolid, Spain | 9 June 1903 Madrid, Spain | 1901, 1902, 1903 | |
| | Alexander Baumgartner | 27 June 1841 St. Gallen, Switzerland | 5 October 1910 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg | 1901, 1902, 1903 | Nominated by Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (1842–1911) each time. |
| | Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol | 23 March 1847 Iași, Romania | 27 February 1920 Bucharest, Romania | 1901, 1909 | Nominated by Ion Găvănescu (1859–1949) each time. |
| | Antonio Fogazzaro | 25 March 1842 Vicenza, Italy | 7 March 1911 Vicenza, Italy | 1901, 1902, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911 | |
| | Paul Sabatier | 3 August 1858 Saint-Michel-de-Chabrillanoux, Ardèche, France | 4 March 1928 Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France | 1901, 1902, 1903, 1924, 1925 | Nominated by Carl Bildt (1850–1931) each time. |
| 1902 ||||||
| | Theodor Mommsen | 30 November 1817 Garding, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | 1 November 1903 Berlin, Germany | 1902 | Awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | 8 December 1832 Kvikne, Norway | 26 April 1910 Paris, France | 1902, 1903 | Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | José Echegaray | 19 April 1832 Madrid, Spain | 14 September 1916 Madrid, Spain | 1902, 1903, 1904 | Shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature with Frédéric Mistral. |
| | Giosuè Carducci | 27 July 1835 Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy | 16 February 1907 Bologna, Italy | 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906 | Awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Gerhart Hauptmann | 15 November 1862 Szczawno-Zdrój, Wałbrzych, Poland | 6 June 1946 Jelenia Góra, Poland | 1902, 1906, 1912 | Awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | William Butler Yeats | 13 June 1865 Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland | 28 January 1939 Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1902, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1921, 1922, 1923 | Awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Anatoly Koni | 28 January 1844 Saint Petersburg, Russia | 17 September 1927 Saint Petersburg, Russia | 1902 | Nominated by Anton Karlovich Wulfert (1843–1918) the only time. |
| | Ventura Fernández López | 14 July 1866 Bárcena de Pie de Concha, Cantabria, Spain | 17 November 1944 Toledo, Spain | 1902 | Nominated by Emmanuel Casado Salas (?) the only time. |
| | Carl Weitbrecht | 8 December 1847 Althengstett, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 10 June 1904 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1902 | Nominated by Hermann Fischer (1851–1920) the only time. |
| | Hartmann Grisar | 22 September 1845 Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany | 25 February 1932 Innsbruck, Austria | 1902 | Nominated by Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (1842–1911) the only time. |
| | Herbert Spencer | 27 April 1820 Derby, Derbyshire, England | 8 December 1903 Brighton, East Sussex, England | 1902 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Bernard Bosanquet | 14 June 1848 Alnwick, Northumberland, England | 8 February 1923 London, England | 1902 | Nominated by William Macneile Dixon (1866–1946) the only time. |
| | Marcel Barrière | 3 November 1860 Limoux, Aude, France | 18 February 1954 Paris, France | 1902 | Nominated by Émile Faguet (1847–1916) the only time. |
| | Gustav Falke | 11 January 1853 Lübeck, Germany | 8 February 1916 Marburg, Hesse, Germany | 1902 | Nominated by August Sauer (1855–1926) the only time. |
| | Archibald Robertson | 29 June 1853 Sywell, Northamptonshire, England | 29 January 1931 Oxford, England | 1902 | Nominated by John Wesley Hales (1836–1914) the only time. |
| | Henrik Ibsen | 20 March 1828 Skien, Telemark, Norway | 23 May 1906 Oslo, Norway | 1902, 1903, 1904 | |
| | Houston Stewart Chamberlain | 9 September 1855 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | 9 January 1927 Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany | 1902, 1906 | |
| | Leo Tolstoy | 9 September 1828 Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Oblast, Russia | 20 November 1910 Astapovo, Russia | 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | George Meredith | 12 February 1828 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | 18 May 1909 Box Hill, Surrey, England | 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907 | |
| | Lewis Morris | 23 January 1833 Carmarthen, Wales | 12 November 1907 Penbryn, Ceredigion, Wales | 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907 | |
| | Theodor Zahn | 10 October 1838 Moers, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 5 March 1933 Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany | 1902, 1904, 1908 | Nominated by Lars Dahle (1843–1925) each time. |
| | Charles Wagner | 3 January 1852 Vibersviller, Moselle, France | 12 May 1918 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France | 1902, 1903, 1909 | |
| | John Morley | 24 December 1838 Blackburn, Lancashire, England | 23 September 1923 London, England | 1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913 | |
| | Juhani Aho | 11 September 1861 Lapinlahti, Finland | 8 August 1921 Helsinki, Finland | 1902, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 | |
| | Arne Garborg | 25 January 1851 Jæren, Norway | 14 January 1924 Asker, Norway | 1902, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921 | |
| 1903 ||||||
| | Rudyard Kipling | 30 December 1865 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | 18 January 1936 London, England | 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907 | Awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Maurice Maeterlinck | 29 August 1862 Ghent, Belgium | 6 May 1949 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1903, 1904, 1909, 1910, 1911 | Awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | François Coppée | 26 January 1842 Paris, France | 23 May 1908 Paris, France | 1903 | Nominated by Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) the only time. |
| | Carl Friedrich Glasenapp | 3 October 1847 Riga, Latvia | 14 April 1915 Riga, Latvia | 1903 | |
| | Robert Langton Douglas | 1 March 1864 Lavenham, Cheshire, England | 14 August 1951 Fiesole, Florence Italy | 1903, 1904 | |
| | Albert Sorel | 13 August 1842 Honfleur, Calvados, France | 29 June 1906 Paris, France | 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906 | |
| | Iwan Gilkin | 7 January 1858 Brussels, Belgium | 28 September 1924 Brussels, Belgium | 1903, 1909 | |
| | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 5 April 1837 London, England | 10 April 1909 London, England | 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 | |
| | Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo | 3 November 1856 Santander, Cantabria, Spain | 19 May 1912 Santander, Cantabria, Spain | 1903, 1905, 1907, 1910 | |
| | Georg Brandes | 4 February 1842 Copenhagen, Denmark | 19 February 1927 Copenhagen, Denmark | 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| 1904 ||||||
| | Selma Lagerlöf | 20 November 1858 Värmland, Sweden | 16 March 1940 Värmland, Sweden | 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 | Awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Anatole France | 16 April 1844 Paris, France | 12 October 1924 Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, Indre-et-Loire, France | 1904, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1921 | Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Émilie Lerou | 18 May 1855 Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France | 11 June 1935 Paris, France | 1904 | Nominated by Jules Claretie (1840–1913) the only time. |
| | Demetrios Bernardakis | 3 December 1833 Mitilini, Greece | 12 January 1907 Mitilini, Greece | 1904, 1905 | Nominated by Athanasios Bernardakis (1844–1912) each time. |
| | Jaroslav Vrchlický | 17 February 1853 Louny, Czech Republic | 9 September 1912 Domazlice, Czech Republic | 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912 | |
| | William Chapman | 13 December 1850 Beauceville, Quebec, Canada | 23 February 1917 Ottawa, Canada | 1904, 1910, 1912, 1917 | |
| 1905 ||||||
| | Eliza Orzeszkowa | 6 June 1841 Mil'kovshchina, Belarus | 18 May 1910 Grodno, Belarus | 1905 | |
| | Godfrey Sweven | 5 May 1845 Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland | 18 January 1935 Christchurch, New Zealand | 1905 | John Macmillan Brown has only been nominated under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven. |
| 1906 ||||||
| | Louis Franck | 28 November 1868 Antwerp, Belgium | 31 December 1937 Wijnegem, Belgium | 1906 | Nominated by Ernest Nys (1851–1920) the only time. |
| | Gaston Boissier | 15 August 1823 Nîmes, Gard, France | 10 June 1908 Viroflay, Yvelines, France | 1906 | Nominated by Jacobus Johannaes Hartmann (1851–1924) the only time. |
| | William J. Neidig | April 1870 Iowa, United States | 1955 Henry, Ohio, United States | 1906 | Nominated by Henry Burrowes Lathrop (1867-1936) the only time. |
| | Max Bewer | 19 January 1861 Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 13 October 1921 Meißen, Saxony, Germany | 1906 | |
| | Pedro Pablo Figueroa | 25 December 1857 Copiapó, Chile | 4 January 1909 Santiago, Chile | 1906 | Nominated by Leonardo Eliz (1861–1939) the only time. |
| | Max Haushofer Jr. | 23 April 1840 Munich, Germany | 10 April 1907 Bolzano, Italy | 1906 | Nominated by Emil Milan (1859–1917) the only time. |
| | William Booth | 10 April 1829 Nottingham, England | 20 August 1912 London, England | 1906 | Nominated by Otto Classen (1868–1939) the only time. |
| | Joseph Viktor Widmann | 20 February 1842 Brno, Czechia | 6 November 1911 Bern, Switzerland | 1906, 1908 | |
| | George Lansing Raymond | 3 September 1839 Chicago, Illinois, United States | 11 July 1929 Washington D.C., United States | 1906, 1907, 1908 | |
| | Angelo de Gubernatis | 7 April 1840 Turin, Italy | 26 February 1913 Rome, Italy | 1906, 1907, 1909 | |
| | Borden Parker Bowne | 14 January 1847 Monmouth, New Jersey, United States | 1 April 1910 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 1906, 1907, 1909 | |
| 1907 ||||||
| | João Bonança | ca. 1836 Lagos, Portugal | 13 April 1924 Lisbon, Portugal | 1907 | Nominated by Teófilo Braga (1843–1924) the only time. |
| | Holger Drachmann | 9 October 1846 Copenhagen, Denmark | 14 January 1908 Hornbæk, Denmark | 1907 | Nominated by Harald Høffding (1843–1931) the only time. |
| | Ian Maclaren | 3 November 1850 Manningtree, Essex, England | 6 May 1907 Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States | 1907 | Nominated by Waldemar Rudin (1833–1921) the only time. Died before his only chance to be awarded. |
| | Andrés Manjón | 30 November 1846 Sargentes de la Lora, Burgos, Spain | 10 July 1923 Granada, Spain | 1907 | Nominated by Angel Sanchez Rubio Ibanez (1852–1910) the only time. |
| | Eduardo Benot | 26 November 1822 Cádiz, Spain | 27 July 1907 Madrid, Spain | 1907 | Nominated by Daniel Cortázar Larrubia (1844–1927) the only time. Died before his only chance to be awarded. |
| | Mark Twain | 30 November 1835 Florida, Missouri, United States | 21 April 1910 Redding, Connecticut, United States | 1907, 1908 | |
| | Georgios Souris | 2 February 1853 Ermoupoli, Greece | 26 August 1919 Athens, Greece | 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912 | |
| | Àngel Guimerà | 6 May 1835 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain | 18 July 1924 Barcelona, Spain | 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923 | |
| | Paul Bourget | 2 September 1852 Amiens, Somme, France | 25 December 1935 Paris, France | 1907, 1909, 1914, 1915, 1928 | |
| 1908 ||||||
| | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | 5 January 1846 Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany | 15 September 1926 Jena, Thuringia, Germany | 1908 | Nominated by Vitalis Norström (1856–1916) the only time and awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Julio Calcaño | 4 December 1840 Caracas, Venezuela | 18 August 1918 Caracas, Venezuela | 1908 | Nominated by José María Manrique (1846-1907) the only time. |
| | Alfred L. Hutchinson | 1859 Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States | August 1930 Weyauwega, Wisconsin, United States | 1908 | Nominated by Luther Lamphere Wright (1856–1922). |
| | Edmondo De Amicis | 21 October 1846 Oneglia, Imperia, Italy | 11 March 1908 Bordighera, Imperia, Italy | 1908 | Died before his only chance to be awarded. |
| | Adolf von Harnack | 7 May 1851 Tartu, Estonia | 10 June 1930 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1908, 1916 | |
| | Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche | 10 July 1846 Lützen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany | 8 November 1935 Weimar, Thuringia, Germany | 1908, 1916, 1917, 1923 | |
| 1909 ||||||
| | Verner von Heidenstam | 6 July 1859 Olshammar, Askersund, Sweden | 20 May 1940 Övralid, Östergötland, Sweden | 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916 | Awarded the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé | 25 February 1848 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 29 March 1910 Paris, France | 1909 | Nominated by Albert Vandal (1853–1910) the only time. |
| | Martin Greif | June 18, 1839 Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany | April 1, 1911 Kufstein, Tyrol, Austria | 1909, 1910, 1911 | |
| | Francesco D'Ovidio | 5 December 1849 Campobasso, Italy | 24 November 1925 Naples, Italy | 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912 | Nominated by Ernesto Monaci (1844–1918) each time. |
| | Ernest Lavisse | 17 December 1842 Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne, France | 18 August 1922 Paris, France | 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913 | |
| | Salvador Rueda | 3 December 1857 Macharaviaya, Málaga, Spain | 1 April 1933 Málaga, Spain | 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915 | |
| | Émile Verhaeren | 21 May 1855 Sint-Amands, Antwerp, Belgium | 27 November 1916 Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France | 1909, 1912, 1915, 1916 | |

### 1910–1919

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* 1911
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* 1917
* 1918
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| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 1910 ||||||
| | Paul Heyse | 13 March 1830 Berlin, Germany | 2 April 1914 Munich, Germany | 1910 | Awarded the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Gustav Warneck | 6 March 1834 Naumburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany | 26 December 1910 Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany | 1910 | |
| | Wilhelm Benignus | 17 February 1861 Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 5 June 1930 Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States | 1910 | Nominated by Marion Dexter Learned (1857–1917) the only time. |
| | Alfred Fouillée | 18 October 1838 Erdre-en-Anjou, Maine-et-Loire, France | 16 June 1912 Lyon, France | 1910 | Nominated by Carl David af Wirsén (1842–1912) the only time. |
| | Édouard Rod | 31 March 1857 Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland | 29 January 1910 Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1910 | Nominated by Edmond Rossier (1865–1945) the only time. Died before his chance to be considered. |
| | William Dean Howells | 1 March 1837 Martins Ferry, Ohio, United States | 11 May 1920 New York City, United States | 1910 | Nominated by Brander Matthews (1852–1929) the only time. |
| | Robert Bridges | 23 October 1844 Walmer, Kent, England | 21 April 1930 Boars Hill, Oxfordshire, England | 1910 | Nominated by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) the only time. |
| | Andrew Lang | 31 March 1844 Selkirk, Scotland | 20 July 1912 Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | 1910 | Nominated by Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) the only time. |
| | Molly Elliot Seawell | 23 October 1860 Gloucester, Virginia, United States | 15 November 1916 Washington, D.C., United States | 1910, 1911 | Nominated by Charles W. Kent (1860–1917) each time. |
| | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | 13 September 1830 Troubky-Zdislavice, Kroměříž, Czech Republic | 12 March 1916 Vienna, Austria | 1910, 1911 | Nominated by Emil Reich (1854–1910) each time. |
| | Pierre Loti | 14 January 1850 Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France | 20 June 1923 Hendaye, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France | 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913 | |
| | Thomas Hardy | 2 June 1840 Stinsford, Dorset, England | 11 January 1928 Dorchester, Dorset, England | 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927 | |
| 1911 ||||||
| | Karl Adolph Gjellerup | 2 June 1857 Roholte, Faxe, Denmark | 13 October 1919 Dresden, Germany | 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917 | Shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Henrik Pontoppidan |
| | George Bernard Shaw | 26 July 1856 Dublin, Ireland | 2 November 1950 Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England | 1911, 1912, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1926 | Awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926. |
| | Albert de Mun | 28 February 1841 Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, Seine-et-Marne, France | 6 October 1914 Bordeaux, Gironde, France | 1911 | Nominated by René Bazin (1853–1932) the only time. |
| | Gustaf Fröding | 22 August 1860 Alster, Karlstad, Sweden | 8 February 1911 Stockholm, Sweden | 1911 | Died before his only chance to be awarded. |
| | August Strindberg | 22 January 1849 Stockholm, Sweden | 14 May 1912 Stockholm, Sweden | 1911 | Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) the only time. |
| | Rafael Altamira y Crevea | 10 February 1866 Alicante, Spain | 1 June 1951 Mexico City, Mexico | 1911, 1912 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Henry James | 15 April 1843 New York City, United States | 28 February 1916 London, England | 1911, 1912, 1916 | |
| | Harald Høffding | 11 March 1843 Copenhagen, Denmark | 2 July 1931 Copenhagen, Denmark | 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916 | |
| | Peter Rosegger | 31 July 1843 Krieglach, Styria, Austria | 26 June 1918 Krieglach, Styria, Austria | 1911, 1913, 1918 | |
| | Ernst von der Recke | 14 August 1848 Copenhagen, Denmark | 2 December 1933 Ålsgårde, Zealand, Denmark | 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1930 | |
| | Karl Schönherr | 24 February 1867 Axams, Tyrol, Austria | 15 March 1943 Vienna, Austria | 1911, 1912, 1933, 1938 | |
| 1912 ||||||
| | Carl Spitteler | 24 April 1845 Liestal, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland | 29 December 1924 Lucerne, Switzerland | 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 | Awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. |
| | Henri Bergson | 18 October 1859 Paris, France | 4 January 1941 Paris, France | 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1921, 1928 | Awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. |
| | Pencho Slaveykov | 27 April 1866 Tryavna, Gabrovo, Bulgaria | 10 June 1912 Brunate, Como, Italy | 1912 | Nominated by Alfred Jensen (1859–1921) the only time. Died before his chance to be considered. |
| | Sven Hedin | 19 February 1865 Stockholm, Sweden | 26 November 1952 Stockholm, Sweden | 1912, 1913 | Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) only. |
| | Jean-Henri Fabre | 21 December 1823 Saint-Léons, Aveyron, France | 11 October 1915 Sérignan-du-Comtat, Vaucluse, France | 1912, 1914 | |
| | Salvatore Farina | 10 January 1846 Sorso, Sassari, Italy | 15 December 1918 Milan, Italy | 1912, 1913, 1914 | |
| | Benito Pérez Galdós | 10 May 1843 Las Palmas, Spain | 4 January 1920 Madrid, Spain | 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916 | |
| | Adolf Frey | 18 February 1855 Küttigen, Aargau, Switzerland | 12 February 1920 Zürich, Switzerland | 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920 | Nominated jointly with Carl Spitteler by Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919) each time. |
| | Hans E. Kinck | 11 October 1865 Øksfjord, Loppa, Norway | 13 October 1926 Oslo, Norway | 1912, 1919, 1920, 1926 | |
| | James George Frazer | 1 January 1854 Glasgow, Scotland | 7 May 1941 Cambridge, England | 1912, 1926, 1928, 1935 | |
| 1913 ||||||
| | Rabindranath Tagore | 7 May 1861 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 7 August 1941 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 1913 | Nominated by Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944) the only time and awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Henrik Pontoppidan | 24 July 1857 Fredericia, Denmark | 21 August 1943 Charlottenlund, Copenhagen, Denmark | 1913, 1916, 1917 | Shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Karl Adolph Gjellerup. |
| | Grazia Deledda | 28 September 1871 Nuoro, Italy | 15 August 1936 Rome, Italy | 1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927 | Awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927. |
| | Edward Dowden | 3 May 1843 Cork, Ireland | 4 April 1913 Dublin, Ireland | 1913 | Nominated by James Lindsay (1852–1923) the only time. Died before his chance to be considered. |
| | John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury | 30 April 1834 London, England | 28 May 1913 Broadstairs, Kent, England | 1913 | Nominated by Hans Hildebrand (1842–1913) the only time. Died before his chance to be considered. |
| | Francis Welles | 21 April 1887 Richmond, London, England | 29 Aug 1956 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England | 1913 | Nominated by Carveth Read (1848–1931) the only time. |
| | Émile Faguet | 17 December 1847 La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée, France | 7 June 1916 Paris, France | 1913, 1914 | |
| | Jakob Knudsen | 14 September 1858 Rødding, Denmark | 21 January 1917 Birkerød, Rudersdal, Denmark | 1913, 1916 | |
| | Edmond Picard | 15 December 1836 Brussels, Belgium | 19 February 1924 Namur, Belgium | 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917 | |
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| | Antonio Serra Morant | 17 December 1866 Alicante, Spain | 7 August 1939 Madrid, Spain | 1914 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Josef Svatopluk Machar | 29 February 1864 Kolín, Czech Republic | 17 March 1942 Prague, Czechia | 1914, 1915 | |
| | René François Nicolas Marie Bazin | 26 December 1853 Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France | 20 July 1932 Paris, France | 1914, 1915 | |
| | Dora Melegari | 27 June 1849 Lausanne, Switzerland | 31 July 1924 Rome, Italy | 1914, 1923 | |
| | Willem Kloos | 6 May 1859 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3 March 1938 The Hague, Netherlands | 1914, 1915, 1925, 1926, 1928 | |
| | Dmitry Merezhkovsky | 2 August 1865 Saint Petersburg, Russia | 9 December 1941 Paris, France | 1914, 1915, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 | |
| | Vilhelm Grønbech | 14 June 1873 Allinge-Sandvig, Denmark | 21 April 1948 Helsingør, Denmark | 1914, 1915, 1927, 1928, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944 | |
| 1915 ||||||
| | Romain Rolland | 29 January 1866 Clamecy, Nièvre, France | 30 December 1944 Vézelay, Yonne, France | 1915, 1916 | Awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. |
| | Charles Montagu Doughty | 19 August 1843 Saxmundham, Suffolk, England | 20 January 1926 Sissinghurst, Kent, England | 1915 | Nominated by Herbert Warren (1853–1930) the only time. |
| | Ferdinand Avenarius | 20 December 1856 Berlin, Germany | 22 September 1923 Kampen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | 1915, 1921 | |
| 1916 ||||||
| | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | 20 July 1864 Avesta, Sweden | 8 April 1931 Stockholm, Sweden | 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1929, 1931 | Posthumously awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Rabindranath Datta | 1 October 1883 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 6 July 1917 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 1916 | |
| | Ivan Franko | 27 August 1856 Lviv, Ukraine | 28 May 1916 Lviv, Ukraine | 1916 | Died before his only chance to be awarded. |
| | Gunnar Heiberg | 18 November 1857 Oslo, Norway | 22 February 1929 Oslo, Norway | 1916 | Nominated by Jens Thiis (1870–1942) the only time. |
| | Troels Troels-Lund | 5 September 1840 Copenhagen, Denmark | 12 February 1921 Copenhagen, Denmark | 1916 | Nominated by Frits Läffler (1847–1921) the only time. |
| | The Pāli Text Society | founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids | founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids | 1916 | Nominated by Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843–1922) the only time. |
| | Otokar Březina | 13 September 1868 Počátky, Pelhřimov, Czech Republic | 25 March 1929 Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou, Třebíč, Czech Republic | 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1925, 1928, 1929 | |
| | Henrik Schück | 2 November 1855 Stockholm, Sweden | 3 October 1947 Uppsala, Sweden | 1916, 1929 | |
| | Per Hallström | 29 September 1866 Stockholm, Sweden | 18 February 1960 Nacka, Sweden | 1916, 1919, 1931 | |
| 1917 ||||||
| | Ivan Vazov | 9 July 1850 Sopot, Bulgaria | 22 September 1921 Sofia, Bulgaria | 1917 | Nominated by Ivan Shishmanov (1862–1928) the only time. |
| | Otto Ernst Schmidt ("Otto Ernst") | 7 October 1862 Hamburg, Germany | 5 March 1926 Hamburg, Germany | 1917 | Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time. |
| | Jeppe Aakjær | 10 September 1866 Aakjaer, Denmark | 22 April 1930 Roslev, Skive, Denmark | 1917 | Nominated by Christen Collin (1857–1926) the only time. |
| | Johan Bojer | 6 March 1872 Orkdal, Norway | 3 July 1959 Oslo, Norway | 1917, 1925, 1929, 1932 | |
| | Olaf Bull | 10 November 1883 Oslo, Norway | 29 June 1933 Oslo, Norway | 1917, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932 | |
| | Bertel Gripenberg | 19 September 1878 Saint Petersburg, Russia | 6 May 1947 Sävsjö, Sweden | 1917, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1937 | |
| 1918 ||||||
| | Knut Hamsun | 4 August 1859 Lom, Norway | 19 February 1952 Grimstad, Norway | 1918, 1920 | Awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Alois Jirásek | 23 August 1851 Hronov, Náchod, Czech Republic | 12 March 1930 Prague, Czech Republic | 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1930 | |
| | Gustav Frenssen | 19 October 1863 Barlt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | 11 April 1945 Barlt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | 1918 | Nominated jointly with Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) by Bengt Hesselman (1875–1952) the only time. |
| | Maxim Gorky | 28 March 1868 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia | 18 June 1936 Moscow Oblast, Russia | 1918, 1923, 1928, 1933 | |
| | Gunnar Gunnarsson | 18 May 1889 Fljótsdalur, Iceland | 21 November 1975 Reykjavík, Iceland | 1918, 1921, 1922, 1955, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1969 | |
| 1919 ||||||
| | Władysław Reymont | 7 May 1867 Kobiele Wielkie, Radomsko, Poland | 5 December 1925 Warsaw, Poland | 1919, 1920, 1922, 1924 | Awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | John Galsworthy | 14 August 1867 Kingston upon Thames, England | 31 January 1933 London, England | 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1931, 1932 | Awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Ebenezer Howard | 29 January 1850 London, England | 1 May 1928 Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England | 1919, 1920 | Nominated by Christen Collin (1857–1926) each time. |
| | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | 1 February 1874 Vienna, Austria | 15 July 1929 Vienna, Austria | 1919, 1924, 1926, 1927 | |
| | Arno Holz | 26 April 1863 Ketrzyn, Poland | 26 October 1929 Berlin, Germany | 1919, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929 | |

### 1920–1929

* 1920
* 1921
* 1922
* 1923
* 1924
* 1925
* 1926
* 1927
* 1928
* 1929
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 1920 ||||||
| | Wilbur Cortez Abbott | 28 December 1869 Kokomo, Indiana, United States | 3 February 1947 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 1920 | Nominated by Dana Carleton Munro (1866–1933) the only time |
| 1921 ||||||
| | Jacinto Benavente | 12 August 1866 Madrid, Spain | 14 July 1954 Madrid, Spain | 1921, 1922 | Awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Émile Boutroux | 28 July 1845 Montrouge, Seine, France | 22 November 1921 Paris, France | 1921 | Nominated by Harald Hjärne (1848–1922) the one time. |
| | Jean Revel | 22 September 1848 Conteville, Eure, France | 4 May 1925 Conteville, Eure, France | 1921 | |
| | Stefan Żeromski | 14 October 1864 Strawczyn, Kielce, Poland | 20 November 1925 Warsaw, Poland | 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924 | |
| | Herbert George Wells | 21 September 1866 Bromley, London, England | 31 August 1946 London, England | 1921, 1932, 1935, 1946 | |
| 1922 ||||||
| | Sigrid Undset | 20 May 1882 Kalundborg, Denmark | 10 June 1949 Lillehammer, Norway | 1922, 1925, 1926, 1928 | Awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Darrell Figgis | 17 September 1882 Dublin, Ireland | 27 October 1925 Islington, London, England | 1922 | Nominated by Thomas Rudmose-Brown (1878–1942) the only time |
| | Georg von Below | 19 January 1858 Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia | 20 October 1927 Badenweiler, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1922 | Nominated by Hermann Bächtold (1882–1934) the only time. |
| | Israel Zangwill | 21 January 1864 London, England | 1 August 1926 Midhurst, West Sussex, England | 1922 | Nominated by Adolf Noreen (1854–1925) the only time. |
| | Michael Sadleir | 25 December 1888 Oxford, England | 13 December 1957 London, England | 1922 | Nominated by Nobel Committee the only time |
| | Matilde Serao | 7 March 1856 Patras, Greece | 25 July 1927 Naples, Italy | 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 | |
| | Roberto Bracco | 10 November 1861 Naples, Italy | 2020 April 1943 Sorrento, Naples, Italy | 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 | |
| | Ludwig von Pastor | 31 January 1854 Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 30 September 1928 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria | 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929 | |
| | William Ralph Inge | 6 June 6, 1860 Crayke, Yorkshire, England | 26 February 26, 1954 Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England | 1922, 1923, 1929 | Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) each time. |
| | Paul Ernst | 7 March 1866 Elbingerode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany | 13 May 1933 Sankt Georgen an der Stiefing, Styria, Austria | 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933 | |
| 1923 ||||||
| | Ivan Bunin | 22 October 1870 Voronezh, Russia | 8 November 1953 Paris, France | 1923, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933 | Awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Konstantin Balmont | 15 June 1867 Shuya, Ivanovo, Russia | 23 December 1942 Paris, France | 1923 | Nominated by Romain Rolland (1866–1944) the one time |
| | Hermann Türck | 13 March 1856 Mayovka, Kaliningrad, Russia | 30 April 1933 Weimar, Thuringia, Germany | 1923, 1924 | |
| | Einar H. Kvaran | 6 December 1859 Vallanes, Fljótsdalshérað, Iceland | 21 May 1938 Reykjavík, Iceland | 1923, 1924 | Nominated by Valtýr Guðmundsson (1860–1928) each time. |
| | Guglielmo Ferrero | 21 July 1871 Portici, Naples Italy | 3 August 1942 Mont Pèlerin, Vaud, Switzerland | 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1933 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| 1924 ||||||
| | Thomas Mann | 6 June 1875 Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | 21 August 1955 Zürich, Switzerland | 1924, 1928, 1929, 1948 | Awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Max Neuburger | 8 December 1868 Vienna, Austria | 15 March 1955 Vienna, Austria | 1924 | Nominated by Adolf Fonahn (1873–1940) the only time. |
| | Olav Duun | 21 November 1876 Namsos, Norway | 13 September 1939 Holmestrand, Norway | 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 | |
| 1925 ||||||
| | Johannes V. Jensen | 20 January 1873 Farsø, Vesthimmerland, Denmark | 25 November 1950 Copenhagen, Denmark | 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 | Awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Giovanni Schembari | 31 October 1894 Ragusa, Italy | November or December 1959 Hillside, Illinois, United States | 1925 | Nominated by Achille Loria (1857–1943) the only time |
| | Paul Elmer More | 12 December 1864 St. Louis, Missouri, United States | 9 March 1937 Princeton, New Jersey, United States | 1925 | Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) the only time. |
| | Paul Raynal | 25 July 1885 Narbonne, Aude, France | 18 August 1971 Paris, France | 1925, 1926 | Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) each time. |
| | Ferenc Herczeg | 22 September 1863 Vršac, Vojvodina, Serbia | 24 February 1954 Budapest, Hungary | 1925, 1926, 1927 | |
| | Rudolf Maria Holzapfel | 26 April 1874 Kraków, Poland | 8 February 1930 Muri bei Bern, Bern, Switzerland | 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929 | |
| 1926 ||||||
| | Arnold Bennett | 27 May 1867 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England | 27 March 1931 London, England | 1926 | Nominated by Gerard De Geer (1858–1943) the only time. |
| | Pyotr Krasnov | 22 September 1869 Saint Petersburg, Russia | 16 January 1947 Moscow, Russia | 1926 | Nominated by Vladimir Andreevich Frantsev (1867–1942) the only time. |
| | Sofía Casanova | 30 September 1861 Culleredo, A Coruña, Spain | 16 January 1958 Poznań, Poland | 1926 | |
| | Vicente Huidobro | 10 January 1893 Santiago, Chile | 2 January 1948 Catagena, San Antonio, Chile | 1926 | Nominated by Enrique Nercasseau Morán (1854–1925) the only time. |
| | Avetis Aharonian | 9 January 1866 Iğdır, Türkiye | 20 March 1948 Paris, France | 1926 | Nominated by Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) the only time. |
| | Edvard Westermarck | 20 November 1862 Helsinki, Finland | 3 September 1939 Tenala, Uusimaa, Finland | 1926, 1927 | |
| | Ada Negri | 3 February 1870 Lodi, Italy | 11 January 1945 Milan, Italy | 1926, 1927 | |
| | Juan Zorrilla de San Martín | 28 December 1855 Montevideo, Uruguay | 3 November 1931 Montevideo, Uruguay | 1926, 1928 | |
| | Karl Kraus | 28 April 1874 Jicin, Czech Republic | 12 June 1936 Vienna, Austria | 1926, 1928, 1930 | |
| | Georg Bonne | 12 August 1859 Hamburg, Germany | 1 May 1945 Hamburg, Germany | 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | J.-H. Rosny aîné | 17 February 1856 Brussels, Belgium | 11 February 1940 Paris, France | 1926, 1928, 1933 | |
| | Josip Kosor | 27 January 1879 Drniš, Šibenik-Knin, Croatia | 23 January 1961 Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik-Neretva, Croatia | 1926, 1927, 1939 | |
| | Kostis Palamas | 13 January 1859 Patras, Greece | 27 February 1943 Athens, Greece | 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940 | |
| | Johannes Jørgensen | 6 November 1866 Svendborg, Denmark | 29 May 1956 Svendborg, Denmark | 1926, 1932, 1942, 1950 | |
| | Concha Espina de la Serna | 15 April 1869 Santander, Cantabria, Spain | 19 May 1955 Madrid, Spain | 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1952, 1954 | |
| | Paul Claudel | 6 August 1868 Villeneuve-sur-Fère, Aisne, France | 23 February 1955 Paris, France | 1926, 1937, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1955 | |
| 1927 ||||||
| | Cesare Pascarella | 28 April 1858 Rome, Italy | 9 May 1940 Rome, Italy | 1927 | |
| | Eduard Meyer | 25 January 1855 Hamburg, Germany | 31 August 1930 Berlin, Germany | 1927 | Nominated by Georg Wittrock (1876–1957) the only time. |
| | Samuel Parsons Scott | 8 July 1846 Hillsboro, Ohio, United States | 30 May 1929 Hillsboro, Ohio, United States | 1927 | Nominated by Edgar Ewing Brandon (1865–1957) the only time. |
| | Edith Wharton | 24 January 1862 New York, United States | 11 August 1937 Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France | 1927, 1928, 1930 | |
| | Édouard Estaunié | 4 February 1862 Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France | 2 April 1942 Paris, France | 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 | Nominated by Erik Staaff (1867–1936) each time. |
| | Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer | 30 December 1878 Budapest, Hungary | 12 April 1962 Munich, Bavaria, Germany | 1927, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 | |
| 1928 ||||||
| | Armando Palacio Valdés | 4 October 1853 Entrialgo, Asturias, Spain | 29 January 1938 Madrid, Spain | 1928 | |
| | Blanca de los Ríos | 15 August 1859 Seville, Spain | 13 April 1956 Madrid, Spain | 1928 | |
| | Edith Howes | 29 August 1872 London, England | 9 July 1954 Dunedin, New Zealand | 1928 | Nominated by Francis Prendeville Wilson (1874–?) the only time. |
| | Theodor Däubler | 17 August 1876 Trieste, Italy | 14 June 1934 Sankt Blasien, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1928 | Nominated by Oskar Walzel (1864–1944) the only time. |
| | Frederik van Eeden | 3 April 1860 Haarlem, Netherlands | 16 June 1932 Bussum, Netherlands | 1928 | Nominated by Gerard Brom (1882–1959) the only time. |
| | Alf Larsen | 22 July 1885 Tjøme, Vestfold, Norway | 12 December 1967 Tjøme, Vestfold, Norway | 1928 | Nominated by Alexander Seippel (1851–1938) the only time. |
| | Anna de Noailles | 15 November 1876 Paris, France | 30 April 1933 Paris, France | 1928 | Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) the only time. |
| | Ivan Grozev | 23 June 1872 Sofia, Bulgaria | 10 January 1957 London, England | 1928, 1929 | Nominated by Mikhail Arnaudov (1878–1978) each time. |
| | Hans Driesch | 28 October 1867 Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany | 17 April 1941 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany | 1928, 1930, 1932 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Rudolf Hans Bartsch | 11 February 1873 Graz, Styria, Austria | 7 February 1952 Graz, Styria, Austria | 1928, 1929, 1930, 1933 | |
| | Rufino Blanco Fombona | 17 June 1874 Caracas, Venezuela | 16 October 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1935 | |
| | Felix Timmermans | 5 July 1886 Lier, Antwerp, Belgium | 24 January 1947 Lier, Antwerp, Belgium | 1928, 1940, 1941 | |
| | Ricarda Huch | 18 July 1864 Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany | 17 November 1947 Kronberg im Taunus, Hesse, Germany | 1928, 1935, 1937, 1946 | |
| 1929 ||||||
| | Cale Young Rice | 11 December 1872 Dixon, Kentucky, United States | 24 January 1943 Louisville, Kentucky, United States | 1929 | Nominated by Edward Franklin Farquhar (1883–1960) the only time. |
| | Knud Rasmussen | 7 June 1879 Ilulissat, Avannaata, Greenland | 21 December 1933 Copenhagen, Denmark | 1929 | Nominated by William Thalbitzer (1873–1958) the only time. |
| | Stefan George | 12 July 1868 Bingen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany | 4 December 1933 Minusio, Ticino, Switzerland | 1929, 1931 | |
| | Edwin Arlington Robinson | 22 December 1869 Head Tide, Maine, United States | 6 April 1935 New York, United States | 1929, 1930, 1932, 1934 | Nominated by Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) each time. |
| | Benedetto Croce | 25 February 1866 Pescasseroli, L'Aquila, Italy | 20 November 1952 Naples, Italy | 1929, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952 | |
| | Thornton Wilder | 1897 April 1897 Madison, Wisconsin, United States | 7 December 1975 Hamden, Connecticut, United States | 1929, 1949, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 | |

### 1930–1939

* 1930
* 1931
* 1932
* 1933
* 1934
* 1935
* 1936
* 1937
* 1938
* 1939
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 1930 ||||||
| | Sinclair Lewis | 7 February 1885 Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States | 10 January 1951 Rome, Italy | 1930 | Nominated by Henrik Schück (1855–1947) the only time and awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | 16 September 1888 Hämeenkyrö, Pirkanmaa, Finland | 3 June 1964 Helsinki, Finland | 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 | Awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo | September 19, 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela | 20 June 1959 Caracas, Venezuela | 1930 | Nominated by Manuel María Villalobos (1858–1929) the only time. |
| | Manfred Kyber | 1 March 1880 Riga, Latvia | 10 March 1933 Löwenstein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1930 | |
| | Arvid Järnefelt | 16 November 1861 Saint Petersburg, Russia | 27 December 1932 Helsinki, Finland | 1930 | Nominated by Oiva Tuulio (1878–1941) the only time. |
| | Yrjö Hirn | 7 December 1870 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland | 23 February 1952 Helsinki, Finland | 1930 | Nominated by Olaf Homén (1879–1949) the only time. |
| | Theodore Dreiser | 27 August 1871 Terre Haute, Indiana, United States | 28 December 1945 Hollywood, California, United States | 1930 | Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) the only time. |
| | Edgar Lee Masters | 23 August 1868 Garnett, Kansas, United States | 5 March 1950 Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, United States | 1930 | Nominated by Martin Lamm (1880–1950) the only time. |
| | Nathanael Jünger | 23 October 1871 Hamburg, Germany | 29 September 1941 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany | 1930, 1931 | Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) each time. |
| | Anton Wildgans | 17 April 1881 Vienna, Austria | 3 May 1932 Mödling, Lower Austria, Austria | 1930, 1931, 1932 | |
| | Paul Valéry | 30 October 1871 Sète, Hérault, France | 20 July 1945 Paris, France | 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945 | |
| | Lion Feuchtwanger | 7 July 1884 Munich, Bavaria, Germany | 21 December 1958 Los Angeles, California, United States | 1930, 1955, 1956, 1957 | |
| | Rudolf Kassner | 11 September 1873 Velké Pavlovice, Břeclav, Czech Republic | 1 April 1959 Sierre, Valais, Switzerland | 1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1959 | |
| 1931 ||||||
| | Hermann Hesse | 2 July 1877 Calw, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 9 August 1962 Collina d'Oro, Ticino, Switzerland | 1931, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1946 | Awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Laura Mestre Hevia | 6 April 1867 Havana, Cuba | 11 January 1944 Havana, Cuba | 1931 | Nominated by Juan Miguel Dihigo Mestre (1866–1952) the only time. |
| | Francis Jammes | 2 December 1868 Tournay, Hautes-Pyrénées, France | 1 November 1938 Hasparren, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France | 1931 | Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) the only time. |
| | Ole Edvart Rølvaag | 22 April 1876 Dønna, Nordland, Norway | 5 November 1931 Northfield, Minnesota, United States | 1931 | Nominated by Laurence M. Larson (1868–1938) the only time. |
| | Erich Maria Remarque | 22 June 1898 Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany | 25 September 1970 Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland | 1931 | Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Ivan Shmelyov | 3 October 1873 Moscow, Russia | 24 June 1950 Paris, France | 1931, 1932 | |
| | Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić | 18 April 1874 Ogulin, Karlovac, Croatia | 21 September 1938 Zagreb, Croatia | 1931, 1935, 1937, 1938 | |
| | Ramón Pérez de Ayala | 9 August 1880 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain | 5 August 1962 Madrid, Spain | 1931, 1934, 1947 | |
| | Martin Andersen Nexø | 26 June 1869 Christianshavn, Copenhagen, Denmark | 1 June 1954 Dresden, Saxony, Germany | 1931, 1950 | |
| | Ramón Menéndez Pidal | 13 March 1869 A Coruña, Spain | 14 November 1968 Madrid, Spain | 1931, 1932, 1934, 1938, 1939, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 | Menéndez Pidal earns the highest record as the most nominated person for the Nobel Prize in Literature but never won the prize. He was nominated 151 times. |
| 1932 ||||||
| | Michael Blümelhuber | 23 September 1865 Unterhimmel-Christkindl, Upper Austria, Austria | 29 January 1936 Steyr, Austria | 1932 | Nominated by Oswald Redlich (1858–1944) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Francesco Orestano | 14 April 1873 Alia, Palermo, Italy | 20 August 1945 Rome, Italy | 1932 | Nominated by Pietro Bonfante (1864–1932) the only time. |
| | Axel Munthe | 31 October 1857 Oskarshamn, Kalmar, Sweden | 11 February 1949 Stockholm, Sweden | 1932 | Nominated by Rolf Lagerborg (1874–1959) the only time. |
| | Percival Elgood | 3 July 1863 Marlborough, Wiltshire, England | 20 December 1941 Cairo, Egypt | 1932 | Nominated by Arthur James Grant (1862–1948) the only time. |
| | Grigol Robakidze | 28 October 1880 Sviri, Imereti, Georgia | 19 November 1962 Geneva, Switzerland | 1932 | Nominated by Richard Meckelein (1880–1948) the only time. |
| | Karel Čapek | 9 January 1890 Malé Svatoňovice, Trutnov, Czech Republic | 25 December 1938 Prague, Czech Republic | 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938 | |
| | Vilhelm Ekelund | 14 October 1880 Stehag, Eslöv, Sweden | 3 September 1949 Saltsjöbaden, Nacka, Sweden | 1932, 1941 | |
| | Manuel Gálvez | 6 May 1882 Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina | 14 November 1962 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1932, 1933, 1934, 1951, 1952 | |
| | Upton Sinclair | 20 September 1878 Baltimore, Maryland, United States | 25 November 1968 Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States | 1932, 1933, 1934, 1965 | |
| 1933 ||||||
| | Henrique Coelho Neto | 21 February 1864 Caxias, Maranhão, Brazil | 28 November 1934 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1933 | |
| | Max Beerbohm | 24 August 1872 London, England | 20 May 1956 Rapallo, Genoa, Italy | 1933 | Nominated by Tancred Borenius (1885–1948) the only time. |
| | Hayim Nahman Bialik | 9 January 1873 Zhytomyr, Ukraine | 4 July 1934 Vienna, Austria | 1933, 1934 | Nominated by Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) each time. |
| | Ernest Roguin | 27 May 1851 Yverdon-les-Bains, Vaud, Switzerland | 5 May 1939 Lausanne, Switzerland | 1933, 1934 | Nominated by Edmond Rossier (1865–1945) each time. |
| | Joseph Bédier | 28 January 1864 Paris, France | 29 August 1938 Le Grand-Serre, Drôme, France | 1933, 1934 | Nominated by Henrik Schück (1855–1947) each time. |
| | Hermann Stehr | 16 February 1864 Bystrzyca Klodzka, Kłodzko, Poland | 11 September 1940 Szklarska Poręba, Karkonosze, Poland | 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936 | |
| | António Correia de Oliveira | 30 July 1878 São Pedro do Sul, Viseu, Portugal | 20 February 1960 Esposende, Braga, Portugal | 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942 | |
| | Carlos María Ocantos | 24 August 1860 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 29 March 1949 Madrid, Spain | 1933, 1943 | |
| | José Ortega y Gasset | 9 May 1883 Madrid, Spain | 18 October 1955 Madrid, Spain | 1933, 1951 | |
| | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 5 September 1888 Thiruttani, Tamil Nadu, India | 17 April 1975 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 | 2nd President of India (1962 – 1967). Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| 1934 ||||||
| | Luigi Pirandello | 28 June 1867 Agrigento, Italy | 10 December 1936 Rome, Italy | 1934 | Nominated by Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) the only time and awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Eugene O’Neill | 16 October 1888 New York, United States | 27 November 1953 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 1934, 1935, 1936 | Awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1937. |
| | Roger Martin du Gard | 23 March 1881 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France | 22 August 1958 Belforêt-en-Perche, Orne, France | 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 | Awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Francisco García Calderón Rey | 8 April 1883 Valparaíso, Chile | 1 July 1953 Lima, Peru | 1934 | |
| | Ventura García Calderón | 23 February 1886 Paris, France | 27 October 1959 Paris, France | 1934 | |
| | Ole Hallesby | 5 August 1879 Aremark, Østfold, Norway | 11 November 1961 Oslo, Norway | 1934 | Nominated jointly by Olai Skulerud (1881–1963) the only time. |
| | Ewald Sundberg | 8 October 1886 Kristiansand, Norway | 12 April 1967 Kristiansand Norway | 1934 | Nominated jointly by Olai Skulerud (1881–1963) the only time. |
| | Hans Henrik Holm | 18 January 1896 Oslo, Norway | 27 September 1980 Oslo, Norway | 1934 | Nominated by Alexander Seippel (1851–1938) the only time. |
| | Franz Karl Ginzkey | 8 September 1871 Pula, Istria, Croatia | 11 April 1963 Vienna, Austria | 1934, 1935 | |
| | Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński | 14 September 1859 Uman, Cherkasy, Ukraine | 8 May 1944 Schondorf, Bavaria, Germany | 1934, 1935 | |
| | Jarl Hemmer | 18 September 1893 Vaasa, Finland | 6 December 1944 Porvoo, Finland | 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 | |
| | Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício | 19 April 1884 Lisbon, Portugal | 3 November 1947 Lisbon, Portugal | 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947 | |
| | Jean Schlumberger | 26 May 1877 Guebwiller, Haut-Rhin, France | 25 October 1968 Paris, France | 1934, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1964 | |
| 1935 ||||||
| | James Cousins | 22 July 1873 Belfast, Northern Ireland | 20 February 1956 Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India | 1935 | Nominated by Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) the only time. |
| | Sven Erik Lönborg | 15 March 1871 Motala, Östergötland, Sweden | 11 April 1959 Uppsala, Sweden | 1935 | Nominated by Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) the only time. |
| | Émile Mâle | 2 June 1862 Commentry, Allier, France | 6 October 1954 Fontaine-Chaalis, Oise, France | 1935 | Nominated by Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) the only time. |
| | Guðmundur Kamban | 8 June 1888 Reykjavík, Iceland | 5 May 1945 Copenhagen, Denmark | 1935 | Nominated by Bengt Hesselman (1875–1952) the only time. |
| | Violet Clifton | 2 November 1883 Rome, Italy | 20 November 1961 Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England | 1935 | Nominated by Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) the only time. |
| | Elise Richter | 2 March 1865 Vienna, Austria | 23 June 1943 Terezín, Litoměřice, Czech Republic | 1935 | |
| | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 29 May 1874 Kensington, London, England | 14 June 1936 Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England | 1935 | Nominated by Torsten Fogelqvist (1880–1941) the only time. |
| | Dezső Szabó | 10 June 1879 Cluj-Napoca, Romania | 13 January 1945 Budapest, Hungary | 1935 | Nominated by Björn Collinder (1894–1983) the only time. |
| | Víctor Manuel Rendón | 5 December 1859 Guayaquil, Ecuador | 9 October 1940 Guayaquil, Ecuador | 1935 | Nominated by Celiano Monge Navarrete (1856–1940) the only time. |
| | Edvarts Virza | 27 December 1883 Jelgava, Latvia | 1 March 1940 Riga, Latvia | 1935, 1936 | |
| | Miguel de Unamuno | 29 September 1864 Bilbao, Biscay, Spain | 31 December 1936 Salamanca, Spain | 1935, 1936 | |
| | Shaul Tchernichovsky | 20 August 1875 Kiev, Ukraine | 14 October 1943 Jerusalem, Israel | 1935, 1937 | Nominated by Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) each time. |
| | John Masefield | 1 June 1878 Ledbury, Herefordshire, England | 12 May 1967 Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England | 1935, 1937 | Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) each time. |
| | Jules Romains | 26 August 1885 Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, Haute-Loire, France | 14 August 1972 Paris, France | 1935, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1963, 1966 | |
| 1936 ||||||
| | Asis Domet | 25 June 1890 Cairo, Egypt | 27 June 1943 Berlin, Germany | 1936 | Nominated by G. E. Khoury (?) the only time. |
| | Hari Mohan Banerjee | — | 3 September 1960 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 1936 | Nominated by Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar (1875–1950) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti | 10 January 1871 Vienna, Austria | 8 April 1955 Linz, Upper Austria, Austria | 1936 | |
| | Sigmund Freud | 6 May 1856 Příbor, Nový Jičín, Czech Republic | 23 September 1939 Hampstead, London, England | 1936 | Nominated by Romain Rolland (1866–1944) the only time and nominated for Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine too. |
| | Alfred Edward Evershed | 22 April 1870 Littlehampton, Sussex, England | 31 May 1941 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | 1936 | Nominated by Elias Edward Miller (1878–1937) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Ludwig Klages | 10 December 1872 Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany | 29 July 1956 Kilchberg, Zürich, Switzerland | 1936, 1937 | Nominated by Wilhelm Pinder (1878–1947) each time. |
| | Cécile Tormay | 8 October 1875 Budapest, Hungary | 2 April 1937 Gyöngyös, Heves, Hungary | 1936, 1937 | |
| | Hans Fallada | 21 July 1893 Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany | 5 February 1947 Berlin, Germany | 1936, 1939 | |
| | Arvid Mörne | 6 May 1876 Kuopio, Finland | 15 June 1946 Kauniainen, Espoo, Finland | 1936, 1945, 1946 | |
| | Georges Duhamel | 30 June 1884 Paris, France | 13 April 1966 Valmondois, Val-d'Oise, France | 1936, 1937, 1940, 1942, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1961 | |
| 1937 ||||||
| | Maurice Magre | 2 March 1877 Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France | 11 December 1941 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1937 | |
| | Jules Payot | 10 April 1859 Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France | 30 January 1940 Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France | 1937 | Nominated by Alfred Baudrillart (1859–1942) the only time. |
| | Arnold Schering | 2 April 1877 Wrocław, Poland | 7 March 1941 Berlin, Germany | 1937 | Nominated by Ilmari Krohn (1867–1960) the only time. |
| | Maria Jotuni | 9 April 1880 Kuopio, Finland | 30 September 1943 Helsinki, Finland | 1937 | Nominated by Viljo Tarkiainen (1879–1951) the only time. |
| | Albert Verwey | 15 May 1865 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8 March 1937 Noordwijk, Netherlands | 1937 | Died before the only chance to be rewarded. |
| | William Burchell Bashyr-Pickard | 31 July 1889 London, England | 25 January 1973 Hertford, Hertfordshire, England | 1937 | Nominated by Arthur Bernard Cook (1868–1952) the only time. |
| | Valdemar Rørdam | 23 September 1872 Fakse, Zealand, Denmark | 13 July 1946 Holbæk, Denmark | 1937, 1938 | |
| | Bijay Chandra Majumdar | 27 October 1861 Khanakul, Faridpur, Bangladesh | 30 December 1942 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 1937, 1939 | |
| | Sally Salminen | 25 April 1906 Vårdö, Åland, Finland | 18 July 1976 Copenhagen, Denmark | 1937, 1938, 1939 | |
| | Maila Talvio | 17 October 1871 Hartola, Finland | 6 January 1951 Helsinki, Finland | 1937, 1939, 1947 | |
| | René Béhaine | 17 June 1880 Vervins, Aisne, France | 2 January 1966 Villefranche-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1944 1948, 1965 | |
| | Johan Falkberget | 30 September 1879 Røros, Norway | 5 April 1967 Røros, Norway | 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965 | |
| | Stijn Streuvels | 3 October 1871 Heule, Kortrijk, Belgium | 15 August 1969 Anzegem, Belgium | 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1969 | |
| | Jean Giono | 30 March 1895 Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France | 9 October 1970 Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France | 1937, 1952, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 | |
| 1938 ||||||
| | Pearl Buck | 26 June 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States | 6 March 1973 Danby, Vermont, United States | 1938 | Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Robert Ritchie Racey | 3 May 1873 Québec City, Canada | 15 September 1956 Paris, Ontario, Canada | 1938 | Nominated by Arthur Leonard Phelps (1887–1970) the only time. |
| | Mohammad Khan (prob. Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938)) | — | — | 1938 | Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time. |
| | Margaret Mitchell | 8 November 1900 Atlanta, Georgia, United States | 16 August 1949 Atlanta, Georgia, United States | 1938 | Nominated by Sven Hedin (1865–1952) the only time. |
| | Arthur van Schendel | 5 March 1874 Jakarta, Indonesia | 11 September 1946 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1938 | |
| | Veikko Antero Koskenniemi | 8 July 1885 Oulu, Finland | 4 August 1962 Turku, Finland | 1938 | Nominated by Aapeli Saarisalo (1896–1986) the only time. |
| | Sanjib Chaudhuri | — | — | 1938, 1939 | Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Mark Aldanov | 7 November 1886 Kiev, Ukraine | 24 February 1957 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957 | |
| | Henriette Charasson | 13 February 1884 Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France | 29 May 1972 Châteauroux, Indre, France | 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1957 | |
| | Herman Teirlinck | 24 February 1879 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels, Belgium | 4 February 1967 Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium | 1938, 1954, 1957, 1960 | |
| | Aldous Huxley | 26 July 1894 Godalming, Surrey, England | 22 November 1963 Los Angeles, California, United States | 1938, 1939, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963 | |
| 1939 ||||||
| | Flávio de Carvalho | 10 August 1899 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 4 June 1973 São Paulo, Brazil | 1939 | Nominated by Paul Vanorden Shaw (1898–1970) the only time. |
| | Egidio Poblete Escudero | 7 November 1868 Los Andes, Chile | 18 October 1940 Valparaíso, Chile | 1939 | Nominated by Miguel Luís Amunátegui Reyes (1862–1949) the only time. |
| | Ethel Florence Richardson | 3 January 1870 East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 20 March 1946 Hastings, East Sussex, England | 1939 | Nominated by Sten Bodvar Liljegren (1885–1984) the only time. |
| | Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel | 6 November 1870 Liverpool, England | 5 February 1963 London, England | 1939 | Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time. |
| | Hugh Walpole | 13 March 1884 Auckland, New Zealand | 1 June 1941 Keswick, Cumbria, England | 1939 | Nominated by Sten Bodvar Liljegren (1885–1984) the only time. |
| | Johan Huizinga | 7 December 1872 Groningen, Netherlands | 1 February 1945 De Steeg, Rheden, Netherlands | 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1953, 1944, 1945 | |
| | Henriette Roland Holst | 24 December 1869 Noordwijk, South Holland, Netherlands | 21 November 1952 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1939, 1950, 1952 | |
| | Eugène Baie | 3 August 1874 Anderlecht, Belgium | 10 September 1964 Anderlecht, Belgium | 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956 | |
| | Hu Shih | 17 December 1891 Shanghai, China | 24 February 1962 Taipei, Taiwan | 1939, 1957 | |
| | Maria Dąbrowska | 6 October 1889 Russów, Kalisz, Poland | 19 May 1965 Warsaw, Poland | 1939, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965 | |

### 1940–1949

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* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944
* 1945
* 1946
* 1947
* 1948
* 1949
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 1940 ||||||
| | Gabriela Mistral | 7 April 1889 Vicuña, Elqui, Chile | 10 January 1957 Hempstead, New York, United States | 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 | Awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Alfonso Strafile | c. 1872 Cerignola, Italy | — | 1940 | Nominated by Domenico Vittorini (1892–1958) the only time. |
| | Gösta Albert Carlberg | 23 September 1909 Norrköping, Sweden | 13 March 1973 Stockholm, Sweden | 1940 | Nominated by Einar Tegen (1884–1965) the only time. |
| | Bert Bailey | 11 June 1868 Auckland, New Zealand | 30 March 1953 Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia | 1940 | Nominated by Georges Rency (1875–1951) the only time. |
| | Edmund Blunden | 1 November 1896 London, England | 20 January 1974 Long Melford, Suffolk, England | 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 | Nominated by Heinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904-1980) each time. |
| | Carl Sandburg | 6 January 1878 Galesburg, Illinois, United States | 22 July 1967 Flat Rock, North Carolina, United States | 1940, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1959 | |
| | Lin Yutang | 10 October 1895 Banzai, Fujian, China | 26 March 1976 Hong Kong | 1940, 1950, 1970, 1972, 1973 | |
| 1941 ||||||
| | Manoel Cyrillo Wanderley | — | — | 1941 | Nominated by Francisco de Aquino Correia, S.D.B. (1885–1956) the only time. |
| | Ruth Comfort Young | 21 July 1882 San Francisco, California, United States | 18 February 1954 Los Gatos, California, United States | 1941 | |
| | Branislav Petronijević | 25 March 1875 Sovljak, Ub, Serbia | 4 March 1954 Belgrade, Serbia | 1941, 1947 | |
| 1942 ||||||
| | Sigfrid Siwertz | 24 January 1882 Stockholm, Sweden | 26 November 1970 Stockholm, Sweden | 1942 | Nominated by Carl Olaf Bøggild-Andersen (1898–1967) the only time. |
| | Teixeira de Pascoaes | 2 November 1877 Amarante, Porto, Portugal | 14 December 1952 Amarante, Porto, Portugal | 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948 | Nominated by João António Mascarenhas Júdice (1898–1957) each time. |
| | Nikolai Berdyaev | 18 March 1874 Obukhiv, Kyiv, Ukraine | 24 March 1948 Clamart, Paris, France | 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948 | Nominated by Alf Nyman (1884–1968) each time. |
| | Charles Langbridge Morgan | 22 January 1894 Bromley, London, England | 6 February 1958 London, England | 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 | |
| | Enrique Larreta | 4 March 1875 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 6 July 1961 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1950 | |
| | Hans Carossa | 15 December 1878 Bad Tölz, Bavaria, Germany | 12 September 1956 Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany | 1942, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1955, 1956 | |
| 1943 ||||||
| | John Steinbeck | 27 February 1902 Salinas, California, United States | 20 December 1968 New York City, United States | 1943, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 | Awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Sri Aurobindo | 15 August 1872 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 5 December 1950 Pondicherry, Puducherry, India | 1943 | Nominated by Francis Younghusband (1863–1942) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Franz Werfel | 10 September 1890 Prague, Czechia | 26 August 1945 Beverly Hills, California, United States | 1943, 1945 | |
| | Franz Hellens | 8 September 1881 Brussels, Belgium | 20 January 1972 Brussels, Belgium | 1943, 1948, 1958, 1954 | |
| | Elisaveta Bagryana | 16 April 1893 Sofia, Bulgaria | 23 March 1991 Sofia, Bulgaria | 1943, 1944, 1945, 1969 | |
| 1944 ||||||
| | Abol-Gassem E’tessam Zadeh | — | — | 1944 | Nominated by Issa Sepahbodi (1896–?) the only time. |
| | Luis Nueda y Santiago | 1883 Madrid, Spain | 1952 Madrid, Spain | 1944 | Nominated by Julio Casares (1877–1964) the only time. |
| | Charles Ferdinand Ramuz | 24 September 1878 Lausanne, Switzerland | 23 May 1947 Pully, Vaud, Switzerland | 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947 | |
| | Arnulf Øverland | 27 April 1889 Kristiansund, Norway | 25 March 1968 Oslo, Norway | 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1965, 1966, 1967 | |
| 1945 ||||||
| | Thomas Sterns Eliot | 26 September 1888 St. Louis, Missouri, United States | 4 January 1965 Kensington, London, England | 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948 | Awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Yiorgos Theotokas | 27 April 1906 Istanbul, Türkiye | 30 October 1966 Athens, Greece | 1945 | Nominated by Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) the only time. |
| | Armando Alvares Pedroso | 29 June 1907 Havana, Cuba | 9 September 1990 Dade City, Florida, United States | 1945 | |
| | Edward Morgan Forster | 1 January 1879 Marylebone, London, England | 7 June 1970 Coventry, England | 1945, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 | |
| | Marie Under | 27 March 1883 Tallinn, Estonia | 25 September 1980 Stockholm, Sweden | 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1946 ||||||
| | André Gide | 22 November 1869 Paris, France | 19 February 1951 Paris, France | 1946, 1947 | Awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | François Mauriac | 11 October 1885 Bordeaux, Gironde, France | 1 September 1970 Paris, France | 1946, 1949, 1950, 1952 | Awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Winston Churchill | 30 November 1874 Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England | 24 January 1965 Kensington, London, England | 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940–45, 1951–55). Awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Boris Pasternak | 10 February 1890 Moscow, Russia | 30 May 1960 Moscow, Russia | 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1957, 1958 | Awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Herbert John Clifford Grierson | 16 January 1866 Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland | 19 February 1960 Cambridge, England | 1946 | Nominated by William James Entwistle (1895–1952) the only time. |
| | Sholem Asch | 1 November 1880 Kutno, Poland | 10 July 1957 London, England | 1946, 1947 | Nominated by Walter Arthur Berendsohn (1884–1984) each time. |
| | Angelos Sikelianos | 28 March 1884 Lefkada, Greece | 19 June 1951 Athens, Greece | 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951 | |
| | Tarjei Vesaas | 20 August 1897 Vinje, Telemark, Norway | 15 March 1970 Oslo, Norway | 1946, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 | |
| | Ignazio Silone | 1 May 1900 Pescina, L'Aquila, Italy | 22 August 1978 Geneva, Switzerland | 1946, 1947, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969, 1974 | |
| 1947 ||||||
| | Pär Lagerkvist | 23 May 1891 Växjö, Sweden | 11 July 1974 Lidingö, Sweden | 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951 | Awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Ernest Hemingway | 21 July 1899 Oak Park, Illinois, United States | 2 July 1961 Ketchum, Idaho, United States | 1947, 1950, 1953, 1954 | Awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Mikhail Sholokhov | 24 May 1905 Vyoshenskaya, Rostov, Russia | 21 February 1984 Vyoshenskaya, Rostov, Russia | 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 | Awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature., |
| | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | 8 August 1887 Buchach, Ternopil, Ukraine | 17 February 1970 Jerusalem, Israel | 1947, 1948, 1951, 1965, 1966 | Shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Nelly Sachs |
| | Bernard O'Dowd | 11 April 1866 Beaufort, Victoria, Australia | 1 September 1953 Melbourne, Australia | 1947 | |
| | Horace Kallen | 11 August 1882 Bierutów, Oleśnica, Poland | 16 February 1974 Palm Beach, Florida, United States | 1947 | Nominated by Louise Rosenblatt (1904–2005) the only time. |
| | Gregorios Xenopoulos | 9 December 1867 Istanbul, Türkiye | 14 January 1951 Athens, Greece | 1947 | Nominated by Iōannēs Kalitsounakēs (1878–1966) the only time. |
| | Toyohiko Kagawa | 10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan | 23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan | 1947, 1948 | Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Georgios Drosinis | 9 December 1859 Plaka, Athens, Greece | 3 January 1951 Kifisia, Athens, Greece | 1947, 1948 | |
| | Nikos Kazantzakis | 18 February 1883 Heraklion, Greece | 26 October 1957 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957 | |
| | André Malraux | 3 November 1901 Paris, France | 23 November 1976 Créteil, Paris, France | 1947, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1948 ||||||
| | Halldór Laxness | 23 April 1902 Reykjavík, Iceland | 8 February 1998 Reykjavík, Iceland | 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 | Awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | 28 January 1873 Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, France | 3 August 1954 Paris, France | 1948 | Nominated by Claude Farrère (1876–1957) the only time. |
| | Dorothy Canfield Fisher | 17 February 1879 Lawrence, Kansas, United States | 9 November 1958 Arlington, Vermont, United States | 1948, 1949 | Nominated by David Baumgardt (1890–1963) each time. |
| | George Santayana | 16 December 1863 Madrid, Spain | 26 September 1952 Rome, Italy | 1948, 1949 | |
| | Zalman Shneur | 11 February 1887 Shklow, Mogilev, Belarus | 20 February 1959 New York City, United States | 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957 | |
| | George Macauley Trevelyan | 16 February 1876 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England | 21 July 1962 Cambridge, England | 1948, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960 | |
| | Riccardo Bacchelli | 19 April 1891 Bologna, Italy | 8 October 1985 Monza, Monza e Brianza, Italy | 1948, 1949, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1949 ||||||
| | Albert Camus | 7 November 1913 Dréan, El Taref, Algeria | 4 January 1960 Villeblevin, Yonne, France | 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957 | Awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Jacinto Grau | 6 April 1877 Barcelona, Spain | 14 August 1958 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1949 | Nominated by Hjalmar Gullberg (1898–1961) the only time. |
| | Reinaldo Temprano Azcona | 1911 Pajares de la Lampreana, Zamora, Spain | 1954 Spain | 1949 | Nominated by Emilio Alarcos García (1895–1986) the only time. |
| | Leonid Leonov | 31 May 1899 Moscow, Russia | 8 August 1994 Moscow, Russia | 1949, 1950 | Nominated by Valentin Kiparsky (1904–1983) each time. |
| | Enrique González Martínez | 13 April 1871 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico | 19 February 1952 Mexico City, Mexico | 1949, 1952 | |
| | Alfonso Reyes | 17 May 1889 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico | 27 December 1959 Mexico City, Mexico | 1949, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959 | |
| | Seán O'Casey | 30 March 1880 Dublin, Ireland | 18 September 1964 Torquay, Devon, England | 1949, 1950, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963 | |
| | Taha Hussein | 15 November 1889 Maghagha, Minya, Egypt | 28 October 1973 Cairo, Egypt | 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973 | |
| | Alberto Moravia | 28 November 1907 Rome, Italy | 26 September 1990 Rome, Italy | 1949, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |

### 1950–1959

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* 1951
* 1952
* 1953
* 1954
* 1955
* 1956
* 1957
* 1958
* 1959
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 1950 ||||||
| | William Faulkner | 25 September 1897 New Albany, Mississippi, United States | 6 July 1962 Byhalia, Mississippi, United States | 1950 | Nominated by Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland (1884–1965) the only time and awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. |
| | Bertrand Russell | 18 May 1872 Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales | 2 February 1970 Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales | 1950 | Nominated by Eugen Tigerstedt (1907–1979) the only time, awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Edward Plunkett | 24 July 1878 London, England | 25 October 1957 Dublin, Ireland | 1950 | |
| | Leopold Staff | 4 November 1878 Lviv, Ukraine | 31 May 1957 Skarżysko-Kamienna, Skarżysko, Poland | 1950 | Nominated by Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) the only time. |
| | Thomas Head Raddall | 13 November 1903 Hythe, Kent, England | 1 April 1994 Liverpool, England | 1950 | Nominated by Will Richard Bird (1891–1984) the only time. |
| | Albert Steffen | 10 December 1884 Wynau, Bern, Switzerland | 13 July 1963 Dornach, Solothurn, Switzerland | 1950 | Nominated by Kersti Bergroth (1886–1975) the only time. |
| | John Dewey | 20 October 1859 Burlington, Vermont, United States | 1 June 1952 New York City, United States | 1950 | Nominated by Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) the only time. |
| | Hermann Broch | 1 November 1886 Vienna, Austria | 30 May 1951 New Haven, Connecticut, United States | 1950 | |
| | Júlio Dantas | 19 May 1876 Lagos, Faro, Portugal | 25 May 1962 Lisbon, Portugal | 1950, 1951 | |
| | Alfred Noyes | 16 September 1880 Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England | 25 June 1958 Isle of Wight, England | 1950, 1951 | |
| | Jakobus Cornelis Bloem | 10 May 1887 Oudshoorn, South Holland, Netherlands | 10 August 1966 Kalenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands | 1950, 1952 | |
| | Arnold Joseph Toynbee | 14 April 1889 London, England | 22 October 1975 York, England | 1950, 1957 | |
| | Karl Jaspers | 23 February 1883 Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany | 26 February 1969 Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland | 1950, 1960 | |
| | Karen Blixen | 17 April 1885 Rungsted, Hørsholm, Denmark | 7 September 1962 Rungsted, Hørsholm, Denmark | 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 | |
| | Robert Frost | 26 March 1874 San Francisco, California, United States | 29 January 1963 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 | |
| | Gertrud von Le Fort | 11 October 1876 Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 1 November 1971 Oberstdorf, Bavaria, Germany | 1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963 | |
| | Martin Buber | 8 February 1878 Vienna, Austria | 13 June 1965 Jerusalem, Israel | 1950, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Simon Vestdijk | 17 October 1898 Harlingen, Netherlands | 23 March 1971 Utrecht, Netherlands | 1950, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 | |
| | Mika Waltari | 19 September 1908 Helsinki, Finland | 26 August 1979 Helsinki, Finland | 1950, 1951, 1952, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971 | |
| | Robert Graves | 24 July 1895 Wimbledon, London, England | 7 December 1985 Deià, Islas Baleares, Spain | 1950, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Graham Greene | 2 October 1904 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England | 3 April 1991 Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland | 1950, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1951 ||||||
| | Ezequiel Martínez Estrada | 14 September 1895 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 4 November 1964 Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1951 | |
| | Sotíris Skípis | c. 1881 Athens, Greece | 29 September 1952 Rognac, Bouches-du-Rhône, France | 1951 | Nominated by an unnamed nominator the only time. |
| | Katharine Susannah Prichard | 4 December 1883 Levuka, Lomaiviti, Fiji | 2 October 1969 Greenmount, Western Australia, Australia | 1951 | Nominated by Leavitt Olds Wright (1891–1980) the only time. |
| | María Enriqueta Camarillo | 19 February 1872 Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico | 13 February 1968 Mexico City, Mexico | 1951 | |
| | Rómulo Gallegos | 2 August 1884 Caracas, Venezuela | 5 April 1969 Caracas, Venezuela | 1951, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967 | President of Venezuela (1948) |
| | José Maria Ferreira de Castro | 24 May 1898 Ossela, Aveiro, Portugal | 29 June 1974 Porto, Portugal | 1951, 1952, 1969, 1970, 1973 | |
| 1952 ||||||
| | Juan Ramón Jiménez | 24 December 1881 Moguer, Huelva, Spain | 29 May 1958 San Juan, Puerto Rico | 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 | Awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Albert Schweitzer | 14 January 1875 Kaysersberg-Vignoble, Haut-Rhin, France | 4 September 1965 Lambarene, Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon | 1952 | Nominated by Nils Ahnlund (1889–1957) the only time and awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. |
| | John Dover Wilson | 13 July 1881 Mortlake, London, England | 15 January 1969 Balerno, Edinburgh, Scotland | 1952 | Nominated by Charles Jasper Sisson (1885–1966) the only time. |
| | Charles Plisnier | 13 December 1896 Ghlin, Hainaut, Belgium | 17 July 1952 Brussels, Belgium | 1952 | Died before the only chance to be rewarded. |
| | Paul Vialar | 18 September 1898 Saint-Denis, Paris, France | 8 January 1996 Vaucresson, Paris, France | 1952 | |
| | Louis Artus | 10 January 1870 Paris, France | 11 May 1960 Paris, France | 1952 | |
| | Van Wyck Brooks | 16 February 1886 Plainfield, New Jersey, United States | 2 May 1963 Bridgewater, Connecticut, United States | 1952 | |
| | Charlie Chaplin | 16 April 1889 London, United Kingdom | 25 December 1977 Corsier-sur-Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland | 1952 | |
| | Walter de la Mare | April 25, 1873 Charlton, London, England | June 22, 1956 Twickenham, London, England | 1952, 1953 | Nominated by Harry Martinson (1904–1978) each time. |
| | Julien Benda | December 26, 1867 Paris, France | June 7, 1956 Fontenay-aux-Roses, Paris, France | 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 | |
| | Werner Bergengruen | September 16, 1892 Riga, Latvia | September 4, 1964 Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg Germany | 1952, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1963 | |
| | Salvador de Madariaga | 23 July 1886 A Coruña, Spain | 14 December 1978 Locano, Ticino, Switzerland | 1952, 1963, 1971, 1973, 1974 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| 1953 ||||||
| | Gottfried Benn | 2 May 1886 Putlitz, Brandenburg, Germany | 7 July 1956 Berlin, Germany | 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 | |
| | Max Mell | 10 November 1882 Maribor, Slovenia | 12 December 1971 Vienna, Austria | 1953, 1954, 1960, 1962 | |
| | Alberto Hidalgo Lobato | 23 May 1897 Arequipa, Peru | 12 November 1967 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1953, 1966, 1968 | |
| 1954 ||||||
| | Jaroslav Seifert | 23 September 1901 Prague, Czechia | 10 January 1986 Prague, Czechia | 1954, 1968, 1969, 1974 | Awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Ricardo Rojas | 16 September 1882 San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina | 29 July 1957 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1954 | |
| | Gustave Vanzype | 10 June 1869 Brussels, Belgium | 12 September 1955 Brussels, Belgium | 1954 | Nominated by Gustave Charlier (1885–1959) the only time. |
| | Georgios Vouyouklatis | 1903 Greece | 1956 Paris, France | 1954 | |
| | Carl Jung | 26 July 1875 Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland | 6 June 1961 Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland | 1954 | Nominated by Ernst Alker (1895–1972) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine too. |
| 1955 ||||||
| | Saint-John Perse | 31 May 1887 Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe | 20 September 1975 Hyères, Var, France | 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 | Awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Giorgos Seferis | 13 March 1900 Urla, İzmir, Turkey | 20 September 1971 Athens, Greece | 1955, 1961, 1962, 1963 | Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Eugenio Montale | 12 October 1896 Genoa, Italy | 12 September 1981 Milan, Italy | 1955, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | Won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Igor Gouzenko | 13 January 1919 Dmitrov, Moscow, Russia | 28 June 1982 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 1955 | |
| | Gustav Suits | 18 November 1883 Võnnu, Tartu, Estonia | 23 May 1956 Stockholm, Sweden | 1955 | Nominated by William Kleesmann Matthews (1901–1958) the only time. |
| | Reinhold Schneider | 13 May 1903 Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 6 April 1958 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1955 | Nominated by Eduard von Jan (1885–1971) the only time. |
| | Ernst Robert Curtius | 14 April 1886 Thann, Haut-Rhin, France | 19 April 1956 Rome, Italy | 1955 | Nominated by Max Vasmer (1886–1962) the only time. |
| | Carlos Vaz Ferreira | 15 October 1872 Montevideo, Uruguay | 3 January 1958 Montevideo, Uruguay | 1955 | |
| | Arthur Bryant | 18 February 1899 Dersingham, Norfolk, England | 22 January 1985 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England | 1955 | Nominated by Eric Reginald Vincent (1894–1978) the only time. |
| | Giovanni Papini | 9 January 1881 Florence, Italy | 8 July 1956 Florence, Italy | 1955 | Nominated by Henri de Ziégler (1885–1970) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Fernando González Ochoa | 24 April 1895 Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia | 16 February 1964 Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia | 1955 | |
| | Edith Sitwell | 7 September 1887 Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England | 9 December 1964 London, England | 1955, 1958, 1959 | |
| | Adriaan Roland Holst | 23 May 1888 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5 August 1976 Bergen, North Holland, Netherlands | 1955, 1961 | |
| | William Somerset Maugham | 25 January 1874 Paris, France | 16 December 1965 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1955, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965 | |
| | Leslie Poles Hartley | 30 December 1895 Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England | 13 December 1972 London, England | 1955, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966 | |
| | Henri Bosco | 16 November 1888 Avignon, Vaucluse, France | 4 May 1976 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1955, 1956, 1965, 1966, 1968 | |
| | Giuseppe Ungaretti | 8 February 1888 Alexandria, Egypt | 1 June 1970 Milan, Italy | 1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970 | |
| | Ezra Pound | 30 October 1885 Hailey, Idaho, United States | 1 November 1972 Venice, Italy | 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972 | |
| 1956 ||||||
| | Pablo Neruda | 12 July 1904 Parral, Linares, Chile | 23 September 1973 Santiago, Chile | 1956, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 | Awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Marthe Bibesco | 28 January 1886 Bucharest, Romania | 28 November 1973 Paris, France | 1956 | |
| | Bertolt Brecht | 10 February 1898 Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany | 14 August 1956 East Berlin, Germany | 1956 | Nominated by André Bonnard (1888–1959) the only time. Died before the only chance to be rewarded. |
| | Francesco Chiesa | 5 July 1871 Sagno, Ticino, Switzerland | 13 June 1973 Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland | 1956 | |
| | Melpo Axioti | 15 July 1905 Athens, Greece | 22 May 1973 Athens, Greece | 1956 | Nominated by André Bonnard (1888–1959) the only time. |
| | Elizabeth Goudge | 24 April 1900 Wells, Somerset, England | 1 April 1984 Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire, England | 1956, 1959 | Nominated by Edmond Privat (1889–1962) the only time. |
| | Jules Supervielle | 16 January 1884 Montevideo, Uruguay | 17 May 1960 Paris, France | 1956, 1957, 1960 | |
| | Gonzague de Reynold | 15 July 1880 Cressier, Fribourg, Switzerland | 9 April 1970 Fribourg, Switzerland | 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 | |
| | Armand Godoy | 1 April 1880 Havana, Cuba | 11 March 1964 Lausanne, Switzerland | 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961 | |
| | Vasco Pratolini | 19 October 1913 Florence, Italy | 12 January 1991 Rome, Italy | 1956, 1959, 1963 | Nominated by Paul Renucci (1915–1976) each time. |
| | Christopher Fry | 18 December 1907 Bristol, England | 30 June 2005 Chichester, West Sussex, England | 1956, 1959, 1960, 1964 | |
| | Jean Guitton | 18 August 1901 Saint-Étienne, Loire, France | 21 March 1999 Paris, France | 1956, 1965 | Nominated by Édouard Delebecque (1910–1990) each time. |
| | Marcel Pagnol | 28 February 1895 Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône, France | 18 April 1974 Paris, France | 1956, 1959, 1966 | |
| | Ernst Jünger | 29 March 1895 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 17 February 1998 Riedlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1956, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 | |
| | Henry de Montherlant | 20 April 1895 Paris, France | 21 September 1972 Paris, France | 1956, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971 | |
| | Gabriel Marcel | 7 December 1889 Paris, France | 8 October 1973 Paris, France | 1956, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1972 | |
| | Jorge Luis Borges | 24 August 1899 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 14 June 1986 Geneva, Switzerland | 1956, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1957 ||||||
| | Jean-Paul Sartre | 21 June 1905 Paris, France | 15 April 1980 Paris, France | 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 | Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but declined the prize. |
| | Samuel Beckett | 13 April 1906 Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland | 22 December 1989 Paris, France | 1957, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 | Awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Lennox Robinson | 4 October 1886 Douglas, County Cork, Ireland | 15 October 1958 Dublin, Ireland | 1957 | |
| | Valery Larbaud | 29 August 1881 Vichy, Allier, France | 2 February 1957 Vichy, Allier, France | 1957 | Nominated by Pierre Costil (1901–1968) the only time. Died before the only chance to be rewarded. |
| | Knuth Becker | 21 January 1891 Hjørring, Denmark | 30 October 1974 Vår, Aalborg, Denmark | 1957 | Nominated by Sven Clausen (1893–1961) the only time. |
| | Jan Parandowski | 11 May 1895 Lviv, Ukraine | 26 September 1978 Warsaw, Poland | 1957, 1959 | |
| | Frank Thiess | 13 March 1890 Ikšķile, Ogre, Latvia | 22 December 1977 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | 1957, 1962 | |
| | Carlo Levi | 29 November 1902 Turin, Italy | 4 January 1975 Rome, Italy | 1957, 1966 | |
| | Mircea Eliade | 13 March 1907 Bucharest, Romania | 22 April 1986 Chicago, Illinois, United States | 1957, 1968 | |
| | Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz | 20 February 1894 Kalnyk, Vinnytsia, Ukraine | 2 March 1980 Warsaw, Poland | 1957, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1969 | |
| | Väinö Linna | 20 December 1920 Urjala, Finland | 21 April 1992 Kangasala, Finland | 1957, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | André Chamson | 6 June 1900 Nîmes, Gard, France | 9 November 1983 Paris, France | 1957, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1958 ||||||
| | Salvatore Quasimodo | 20 August 1901 Modica, Ragusa, Italy | 14 June 1968 Naples, Italy | 1958, 1959 | Awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Ivo Andrić | 10 October 1892 Travnik, Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 13 March 1975 Belgrade, Serbia | 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 | Awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Elio Vittorini | 23 July 1908 Syracuse, Italy | 12 February 1966 Milan, Italy | 1958 | Nominated by Stuart Pratt Atkins (1914–2000) the only time. |
| | James Gould Cozzens | 19 August 1903 Chicago, Illinois, United States | 9 August 1978 Stuart, Florida, United States | 1958 | Nominated by Gordon S. Haight (1901–1985) the only time. |
| | John Hersey | 17 June 1914 Tianjin, China | 24 March 1993 Key West, Florida, United States | 1958 | Nominated by Helen Rose Hull (1888–1971) the only time. |
| | Fernand Baldensperger | 4 May 1871 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Vosges, France | 24 February 1958 Paris, France | 1958 | Nominated by Alan Carey Taylor (1905–1975) the only time. Died before the only chance to be rewarded. |
| | Elizabeth Bowen | 7 June 1899 Dublin, Ireland | 22 February 1973 London, England | 1958 | Nominated by Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) the only time. |
| | John Cowper Powys | 8 October 1872 Shirley, Derbyshire, England | 17 June 1963 Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd Wales | 1958, 1959, 1962 | |
| | Rudolf Alexander Schröder | 26 January 1878 Bremen, Germany | 22 August 1962 Bad Wiessee, Bavaria, Germany | 1958, 1960, 1962 | |
| | Maurice Bowra | 8 April 1898 Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China | 4 July 1971 Oxford, England | 1958, 1961, 1965 | |
| | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 24 July 1886 Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan | 30 July 1965 Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan | 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 | |
| | Lionel Trilling | 4 July 1905 Queens, New York, United States | 5 November 1975 New York City, United States | 1958, 1963, 1965 | |
| | Robert Penn Warren | 24 April 1905 Guthrie, Kentucky, United States | 15 September 1989 Stratton, Vermont, United States | 1958, 1965, 1967 | |
| | Junzaburō Nishiwaki | 20 January 1894 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan | 5 June 1982 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan | 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 | |
| | Tennessee Williams | 26 March 1911 Columbus, Mississippi, United States | 25 February 1983 New York City, United States | 1958, 1971 | |
| | Georges Simenon | 13 February 1903 Liège, Belgium | 4 September 1989 Lausanne, Switzerland | 1958, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1974 | |
| | Miroslav Krleža | 7 July 1893 Zagreb, Croatia | 29 December 1981 Zagreb, Croatia | 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1959 ||||||
| | Ernest Claes | 24 October 1885 Zichem, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Belgium | 2 September 1968 Ixelles, Belgium | 1959 | Nominated by W. F. Mainland (?) the only time. |
| | Sachidananda Routray | 13 May 1916 Gurujang, Odisha, India | 21 August 2004 Cuttack, Odisha, India | 1959 | Nominated by Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968) the only time. |
| | Osbert Sitwell | 6 December 1892 London, England | 4 May 1969 Florence, Italy | 1959 | Nominated jointly with Edith Sitwell by Alexander Gillies (1907–1982) the only time. |
| | Sacheverell Sitwell | 15 November 1897 Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England | 1 October 1988 Towcester, Northamptonshire, England | 1959 | Nominated jointly with Edith Sitwell by Alexander Gillies (1907–1982) the only time. |
| | Charles Mauron | 27 June 1899 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France | 4 December 1966 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France | 1959 | Nominated by Charles Rostaing (1904–1999) the only time. |
| | Mario Roques | 1 July 1875 Callao, Peru | 8 March 1961 Paris, France | 1959, 1960 | Nominated by Ida-Marie Frandon (1907–1997) each time. |
| | Martin Heidegger | 26 September 1889 Meßkirch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 26 May 1976 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1959, 1960 | |
| | Stefan Andres | 26 June 1906 Trittenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany | 29 June 1970 Rome, Italy | 1959, 1963 | |
| | Juana de Ibarbourou | 8 March 1892 Melo, Cerro Largo, Uruguay | 15 July 1979 Montevideo, Uruguay | 1959, 1960, 1963 | |
| | Heimito von Doderer | 5 September 1896 Vienna, Austria | 23 December 1966 Vienna Austria | 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964 | |
| | María Raquel Adler | c. 1900 Argentine Sea | 28 July 1974 Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1959, 1965 | |
| | Miguel Torga | 12 August 1907 São Martinho de Anta, Sabrosa, Portugal | 17 January 1995 Coimbra, Portugal | 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966 | |
| | Arnold Zweig | 10 November 1887 Głogów, Poland | 26 November 1968 East Berlin, Germany | 1959, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Hans Egon Holthusen | 15 April 1913 Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | 21 January 1997 Munich, Germany | 1959, 1968 | |
| | Étienne Gilson | 13 June 1884 Paris, France | 19 September 1978 Auxerre, Yonne, France | 1959, 1964, 1969 | |
| | Louis Aragon | 3 October 1897 Paris, France | 24 December 1982 Paris, France | 1959, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972 | |
| | Anna Seghers | 19 November 1900 Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany | 1 June 1983 East Berlin, Germany | 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972 | |
| | Frank Raymond Leavis | 14 July 1895 Cambridge, England | 14 April 1978 Cambridge, England | 1959, 1962, 1973 | |
| | Julien Gracq | 27 July 1910 Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Maine-et-Loire, France | 22 December 2007 Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France | 1959, 1960, 1961, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Max Frisch | 15 May 1911 Zürich, Switzerland | 4 April 1991 Zürich, Switzerland | 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |

### 1960–1969

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* 1961
* 1962
* 1963
* 1964
* 1965
* 1966
* 1967
* 1968
* 1969
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 1960 ||||||
| | Heinrich Böll | 21 December 1917 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 16 July 1985 Kreuzau, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 | Awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Wesley LaViolette | 4 January 1894 St. James, Minnesota, United States | 29 July 1978 Escondido, California, United States | 1960 | Nominated by Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (1909–1992) the only time. |
| | Karl Heinrich Waggerl | 10 December 1897 Bad Gastein, Salzburg, Austria | 4 November 1973 Schwarzach im Pongau, Salzburg, Austria | 1960 | Nominated by Friedrich Wild (1888–1966) the only time. |
| | Aquilino Ribeiro | 13 September 1885 Sernancelhe, Viseu, Portugal | 27 May 1963 Lisbon, Portugal | 1960 | |
| | Wilhelm Lehmann | 4 May 1882 Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela | 17 November 1968 Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | 1960 | Nominated by Friedrich Sengle (1909–1994) the only time. |
| | Marie Noël | 16 February 1883 Auxerre, Yonne, France | 23 December 1967 Auxerre, Yonne, France | 1960 | Nominated by Maurice Bémol (1900–1961) the only time. |
| | Jean Price-Mars | 15 October 1876 Grande Rivière du Nord, Nord, Haiti | 1 March 1969 Petion-Ville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti | 1960 | |
| | James Thurber | 8 December 1894 Columbus, Ohio, United States | 2 November 1961 New York City, United States | 1960 | |
| | Franz Theodor Csokor | 6 September 1885 Vienna, Austria | 5 January 1969 Vienna, Austria | 1960, 1962 | |
| | Stratis Myrivilis | 30 June 1890 Lesbos, Greece | 19 July 1969 Athens, Greece | 1960, 1962, 1963 | |
| | Elias Venezis | 4 March 1904 Ayvalık, Balıkesir, Türkiye | 3 August 1974 Athens, Greece | 1960, 1963 | |
| | Aksel Sandemose | 19 March 1899 Nykobing Mors, Denmark | 6 August 1965 Copenhagen, Denmark | 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 | |
| | John Boyton Priestley | 13 September 1894 Bradford, West Yorkshire, England | 14 August 1984 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England | 1960, 1964, 1966 | |
| | René Char | 14 June 1907 L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Vaucluse, France | 19 February 1988 Paris, France | 1960, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973 | |
| 1961 ||||||
| | Yasunari Kawabata | 14 June 1899 Osaka, Japan | 16 April 1972 Kanagawa, Japan | 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 | Awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Michel de Ghelderode | 3 April 1898 Ixelles, Belgium | 1 April 1962 Brussels, Belgium | 1961 | Nominated by Eric Bentley (1916–2020) the only time. |
| | Cora Sandel | 20 December 1880 Oslo, Norway | 3 April 1974 Uppsala, Sweden | 1961 | Nominated by Harald Ofstad (1920–1994) the only time. |
| | Gaston Bachelard | 27 June 1884 Bar-sur-Aube, Aube, France | 16 October 16, 1962 Paris, France | 1961 | Nominated by Georges May (1920–2003) the only time. |
| | Giulia Scappino Murena | 1902 Ferrara, Italy | 1982 Bologna, Italy | 1961, 1962 | Nominated by Alfredo Galletti (1872–1962) each time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Arthur Waley | 19 August 1889 Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England | 27 June 1966 London, England | 1961, 1962, 1964 | |
| | Jean Anouilh | 23 June 1910 Bordeaux, Gironde, France | 3 October 1987 Lausanne, Switzerland | 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968 | |
| | Pierre Jean Jouve | 11 October 1887 Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France | 8 January 1976 Paris, France | 1961, 1964, 1968, 1969 | |
| | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien | 3 January 1892 Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa | 2 September 1973 Bournemouth, Dorset, England | 1961, 1967, 1969 | |
| | Edmund Wilson | 8 May 1895 Red Bank, New Jersey, United States | 12 June 1972 Talcottville, New York, United States | 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 | |
| | Lawrence Durrell | 27 February 1912 Jalandhar, Punjab, India | 7 November 1990 Sommières, Gard, France | 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971 | |
| | Charles Percy Snow | 15 October 1905 Leicester, Leicestershire, England | 1 July 1980 London, England | 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1971 | |
| | Wystan Hugh Auden | 21 February 1907 York, Yorkshire, England | 29 September 1973 Vienna, Austria | 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 | |
| | Simone de Beauvoir | 9 January 1908 Paris, France | 14 April 1986 Paris, France | 1961, 1969, 1973 | |
| | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | 5 January 1921 Konolfingen, Bern, Switzerland | 14 December 1990 Neuchâtel, Switzerland | 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1962 ||||||
| | Eyvind Johnson | 29 July 1900 Svartbjörnsbyn, Boden, Sweden | 25 August 1976 Stockholm, Sweden | 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | Shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson. |
| | Boris Zaytsev | 10 February 1881 Oryol, Russia | 22 January 1972 Paris, France | 1962 | Nominated by Rostislav Pletnv (1903–1985) the only time. |
| | Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto | 6 February 1897 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England | 21 January 1982 Bristol, England | 1962 | Nominated by William Beare (1933–2019) the only time. |
| | André Schwarz-Bart | 23 May 1928 Metz, Moselle, France | 30 September 2006 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe | 1962 | Nominated by Ingerid Dal (1895–1985) the only time. |
| | Hans Erich Nossack | 30 January 1901 Hamburg, Germany | 2 November 1977 Hamburg, Germany | 1962 | Nominated by Josef Math (?) the only time. |
| | Manfred Georg Andreas Hausmann | 10 September 1898 Kassel, Hesse, Germany | 6 August 1986 Bremen, Germany | 1962 | Nominated by Heinrich Dörrie (1911–1983) the only time. |
| | Ronald Syme | 11 March 1903 Eltham, South Taranaki, New Zealand | 4 September 1989 Oxford, England | 1962 | Nominated by Albrecht Dihle (1923–2020) the only time. |
| | Pietro Ubaldi | 18 August 1886 Foligno, Perugia Italy | 29 February 1972 São Paulo, Brazil | 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 | |
| | Josep Carner | 9 February 1884 Barcelona, Spain | 4 June 1970 Brussels, Belgium | 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1970 | |
| | Roman Jakobson | 10 October 1896 Moscow, Russia | 18 July 1982 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | 1962, 1971, 1972 | |
| | Erich Kästner | 23 February 1899 Dresden, Saxony, Germany | 29 July 1974 Munich, Germany | 1962, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 | |
| | Vilhelm Moberg | 20 August 1898 Algutsboda, Sweden | 8 August 1973 Väddö, Sweden | 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 | |
| | Carl Zuckmayer | 27 December 1896 Nackenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany | 18 January 1977 Saas Fee, Valais, Switzerland | 1962, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973 | |
| | William Heinesen | 15 January 1900 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands | 12 March 1991 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands | 1962, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Jorge Guillén | 18 January 1893 Valladolid, Spain | 6 February 1984 Málaga, Spain | 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1963 ||||||
| | Nelly Sachs | 10 December 1891 Berlin, Germany | 12 May 1970 Stockholm, Sweden | 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 | Shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Shmuel Yosef Agnon. |
| | Ingeborg Bachmann | 25 June 1926 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Carinthia, Austria | 17 October 1973 Rome, Italy | 1963 | Nominated by Harald Patzer (1910–2005) the only time. |
| | Emilio Cecchi | 14 July 1884 Florence, Italy | 5 September 1966 Rome, Italy | 1963 | Nominated by Howard Rosario Marraro (1897–1972) the only time. |
| | Jean Cocteau | 5 July 1889 Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, France | 11 October 1963 Milly-la-Forêt, Essonne, France | 1963 | Nominated by Léon Cellier (1911–1976) the only time. |
| | Ingemar Düring | 2 September 1903 Gothenburg, Sweden | 23 December 1984 Gothenburg, Sweden | 1963 | Nominated by Franz Dirlmeier (1904–1977) the only time. |
| | René Étiemble | 26 January 1909 Mayenne, France | 7 January 2002 Vigny, Val-d'Oise, France | 1963 | Nominated by Auguste Haury (1910–2002) the only time. |
| | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | 18 July 1932 Zima, Irkutsk, Russia | 1 April 2017 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States | 1963 | Nominated by Konrad Bittner (1890–1967) the only time. |
| | Rudolf Pfeiffer | 20 September 1889 Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany | 5 May 1979 Dachau, Bavaria, Germany | 1963 | Nominated by Will Richter (1910–1984) the only time. |
| | Kate Roberts | 13 February 1891 Rhosgadfan, Gwynedd, Wales | 14 April 1985 Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales | 1963 | Nominated by Idris Foster (1911–1984) the only time. |
| | André Breton | 18 February 1896 Tinchebray-Bocage, Orne, France | 28 September 1966 Paris, France | 1963, 1964 | |
| | Ramón José Sender | 3 February 1901 Chalamera, Huesca, Spain | 16 February 1982 San Diego, California, United States | 1963, 1964 | |
| | Jean Guéhenno | 25 March 1890 Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine, France | 22 September 1978 Paris, France | 1963, 1964, 1965 | Nominated by Edmond Jarno (1905–1985) each time. |
| | Karl Löwith | 9 January 1897 Munich, Germany | 26 May 1973 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1963, 1964, 1967 | Nominated by Franz Dirlmeier (1904–1977) each time. |
| | Charles de Gaulle | 22 November 1890 Lille, Nord, France | 9 November 1970 Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, Haute-Marne, France | 1963, 1968 | President of France (1959–1969). |
| | Yukio Mishima | 14 January 1925 Tokyo, Japan | 25 November 1970 Tokyo, Japan | 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968 | |
| | Gustave Thibon | 2 September 1903 Saint-Marcel-d'Ardèche, Ardèche, France | 19 January 2001 Saint-Marcel-d'Ardèche, Ardèche, France | 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968 | Nominated by Édouard Delebecque (1910–1990) each time. |
| | Marcel Jouhandeau | 26 July 1888 Guéret, Creuse, France | 7 April 1979 Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, France | 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969 | Nominated by Jean Gaulmier (1905–1997) each time. |
| | Henri Queffélec | 29 January 1910 Brest, Finistère, France | 12 January 1992 Paris, France | 1963, 1972 | |
| | Michel Butor | 14 September 1926 Mons-en-Barœul, Nord, France | 24 August 2016 Contamine-sur-Arve, Haute-Savoie, France | 1963, 1964, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973 | |
| | Erico Verissimo | 17 December 1905 Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | 28 November 1975 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | 1963, 1968, 1974 | |
| | Vladimir Nabokov | 22 April 1899 Saint Petersburg, Russia | 2 July 1977 Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland | 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Léopold Sédar Senghor | 9 October 1906 Joal-Fadiout, M'bour, Senegal | 20 December 2001 Verson, Calvados, France | 1963, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | 1st President of Senegal (1960 – 1980). Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| 1964 ||||||
| | Miguel Ángel Asturias | 19 October 1899 Guatemala City, Guatemala | 9 June 1974 Madrid, Spain | 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 | Awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Harry Martinson | 6 May 1904 Jämshög, Sweden | 11 February 1978 Solna, Sweden | 1964, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | Shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Eyvind Johnson |
| | Camilo José Cela | 11 May 1916 Padrón, A Coruña, Spain | 17 January 2002 Madrid, Spain | 1964, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Jérôme Carcopino | 27 June 1881 Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure, France | 17 March 1970 Paris, France | 1964 | Nominated by Pierre Grimal (1912–1996) the only time. |
| | Jacques Perret | 8 September 1901 Trappes, Yvelines, France | 10 December 1992 Paris, France | 1964 | Nominated by Paul Pédech (1912–2005) the only time. |
| | Jacques Pirenne | 26 June 1891 Ghent, Belgium | 7 September 1972 Hierges, Ardennes, France | 1964 | Nominated by Pierre Nothomb (1887–1966) the only time. |
| | Ina Seidel | 15 September 1885 Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany | 2 October 1974 Schäftlarn, Bavaria, Germany | 1964 | Nominated by Günther Jachmann (1887–1979) the only time. |
| | Pierre Emmanuel | 3 May 1916 Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France | 24 September 1984 Paris, France | 1964, 1966 | |
| | Hossein Ghods-Nakhai | c. 1894 Sanur, Mazandaran, Iran | 30 December 1977 Shiraz, Fars, Iran | 1964, 1966 | |
| | Judith Wright | 31 May 1915 Armidale, New South Wales, Australia | 25 June 25, 2000 Canberra, Australia | 1964, 1965, 1967 | |
| | Gunnar Ekelöf | 15 September 1907 Stockholm, Sweden | 16 March 1968 Sigtuna, Sweden | 1964, 1968 | |
| | Hugh MacDiarmid | 11 August 1892 Langholm, Dumfrieshire, Scotland | 9 September 1978 Edinburgh, Scotland | 1964, 1968 | Nominated by David Daiches (1912–2005) each time. |
| | Katherine Anne Porter | 15 May 1890 Indian Creek, Texas, United States | 18 September 1980 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States | 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 | |
| | Paul Celan | 23 November 1920 Chernivtsi, Bukovina, Ukraine | 20 April 1970 Paris, France | 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969 | |
| | James Thomas Farrell | 27 February 1904 Chicago, Illinois, United States | 22 August 1979 New York City, United States | 1964, 1973 | |
| | Henri Michaux | 24 May 1899 Namur, Belgium | 19 October 1984 Paris, France | 1964, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Robert Lowell | 1 March 1917 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 12 September 1977 New York, United States | 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974 | |
| | José María Pemán | 8 May 1897 Cádiz, Spain | 19 July 1981 Cádiz, Spain | 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Eugène Ionesco | 26 November 1909 Slatina, Olt, Romania | 28 March 1994 Paris, France | 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974 | |
| 1965 ||||||
| | Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno | 11 September 1903 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany | 6 August 1969 Visp, Valais, Switzerland | 1965 | Nominated by Helmut Viebrock (1912–1997) the only time. |
| | Alceu Amoroso Lima | 11 December 1893 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 14 August 1983 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1965 | |
| | Tudor Arghezi | 21 May 1880 Bucharest, Romania | 14 July 1967 Bucharest, Romania | 1965 | Nominated by Angelo Monteverdi (1886–1967) the only time. |
| | Gilbert Cesbron | 13 January 1913 Paris, France | 12 August 1979 Paris, France | 1965 | Nominated by Pierre Jonin (1912–1997) the only time. |
| | Sudhindra Nath Ghose | 30 July 1899 Bardhaman, West Bengal, India | 30 December 1965 London, England | 1965 | Nominated by Henri de Ziégler (1885–1970) the only time. |
| | Gopal Singh | 29 November 1917 Amritsar, Punjab, India | 8 August 1990 New Delhi, India | 1965 | |
| | Giovannino Guareschi | 1 May 1908 Roccabianca, Parma, Italy | 22 July 1968 Cervia, Ravenna Italy | 1965 | Nominated by Mario Manlio Rossi (1895–1971) the only time. |
| | Pêr-Jakez Helias | 17 February 1914 Pouldreuzic, Finistère, France | 13 August 1995 Quimper, Finistère, France | 1965 | Nominated by André Lebois (1915–1978) the only time. |
| | Wilhelm Röpke | 10 October 1899 Schwarmstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany | 12 February 1966 Geneva, Switzerland | 1965 | Nominated by Olof Gigon (1912–1998) the only time. |
| | Alan Sillitoe | 4 March 1928 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England | 25 April 2010 London, England | 1965 | Nominated by Robert Graves (1895–1985) the only time. |
| | Carl Erik Soya | 30 October 1896 Copenhagen, Denmark | 10 November 1983 Rudkøbing, Langeland, Denmark | 1965 | |
| | Henri Troyat | 1 November 1911 Moscow, Russia | 2 March 2007 Paris, France | 1965 | Nominated by Ernst Dickenmann (1902–1985) the only time. |
| | Marguerite Yourcenar | 8 June 1903 Brussels, Belgium | 17 December 1987 Bar Harbor, Maine, United States | 1965 | Nominated by Ida-Marie Frandon (1907–1997) the only time. |
| | Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui | 21 December 1901 Portugalete, Biscay, Spain | 31 May 1982 Madrid, Spain | 1965 | Nominated by Elie Poulenard (1901–1985) the only time. |
| | Anna Akhmatova | 23 June 1889 Odesa, Ukraine | 5 March 1966 Domodedovo, Russia | 1965, 1966 | |
| | Marie Luise Kaschnitz | 31 January 1901 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 10 October 1974 Rome, Italy | 1965, 1967 | Nominated by Hermann Tiemann (1899–1981) each time. |
| | Konstantin Paustovsky | 31 May 1892 Moscow, Russia | 14 July 1968 Moscow, Russia | 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 | |
| | Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh | 13 January 1892 Isfahan, Iran | 8 November 1997 Geneva, Switzerland | 1965, 1967, 1969 | |
| | Alejo Carpentier | 26 December 1904 Lausanne, Switzerland | 24 April 1980 Paris, France | 1965, 1966, 1967, 1971 | |
| | Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn Rahnamā | 15 December 1894 Karbala, Iraq | 1 July 1990 Tehran, Iran | 1965, 1967, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Gyula Illyés | 2 November 1902 Pálfa, Tolna, Hungary | 15 April 1983 Budapest, Hungary | 1965, 1966, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1966 ||||||
| | Günter Grass | 16 October 1927 Free City of Danzig, Germany | 13 April 2015 Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Carlo Emilio Gadda | 14 November 1893 Milan, Italy | 21 May 1973 Rome, Italy | 1966 | Nominated by Mario Pei (1901–1978) the only time. |
| | Thierry Maulnier | 1 October 1909 Alès, Gard, France | 26 September 1988 Marnes-la-Coquette, Paris, France | 1966 | Nominated by Félix Carrère (1911–1991) the only time. |
| | Henry Muller | 21 August 1902 Muhlbach-sur-Bruche, Bas-Rhin, France | 15 November 1980 Paris, France | 1966 | Nominated by Pierre Lyautey (1893–1976) the only time. |
| | Walter Pabst | 9 March 1907 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | 18 November 1992 Berlin, Germany | 1966 | Nominated by Günther Reichenkron (1907–1966) the only time. |
| | Alexandre Arnoux | 27 February 1884 Digne, France | 5 January 1973 Paris, France | 1966, 1968 | Nominated by François Bar (?) each time. |
| | Pierre-Henri Simon | 16 January 1903 Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde, Charente-Maritime, France | 20 September 1972 Ville-d'Avray, Paris, France | 1966, 1968 | |
| | Arnold Wesker | 24 May 1932 London, England | 12 April 2016 Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England | 1966, 1969 | |
| | Witold Gombrowicz | 4 August 1904 Małoszyce, Świętokrzyskie, Poland | 24 July 1969 Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 | |
| | Johan Borgen | 28 April 1902 Oslo, Norway | 16 October 1979 Hvaler, Norway | 1966, 1974 | Nominated by Harry Martinson (1904–1978) the only time. |
| 1967 ||||||
| | Saul Bellow | 10 June 1915 Lachine, Quebec, Canada | 5 April 2005 Brookline, Massachusetts, United States | 1967, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Claude Simon | 10 October 1913 Antananarivo, Madagascar | 6 Jule 2005 Paris, France | 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Arturo Capdevila | 14 March 1889 Córdoba | 20 December 1967 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1967 | |
| | Jean Genet | 19 December 1910 Paris, France | 15 April 1986 Paris, France | 1967 | Nominated by Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) the only time. |
| | Lawrence Sargent Hall | 23 April 1915 Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States | 28 October 1993 Orr's Island, Maine, United States | 1967 | Nominated by Robert Brumbaugh (1918–1992) the only time. |
| | Friedrich Georg Jünger | 1 September 1898 Hanover, Germany | 20 July 1977 Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1967 | Nominated by Fritz Schalk (1902–1980) the only time. |
| | Basij Khalkhali | 16 April 1918 Khalkhal, Iran | 31 December 1995 Tehran, Iran | 1967 | Nominated by Sadeq Rezazadeh Shafaq (1892–1971) the only time. |
| | György Lukács | 13 April 1885 Budapest, Hungary | 4 June 1971 Budapest, Hungary | 1967 | Nominated by Erik Lindegren (1910–1968) the only time. |
| | André Pézard | 22 June 1893 Paris, France | 26 August 1984 Sault, Vaucluse, France | 1967 | Nominated by Wilhelm Theodor Elwert (1906–1997) the only time. |
| | Pavlo Tychyna | 23 January 1891 Pisky, Chernihiv, Ukraine | 16 September 1967 Kiev, Ukraine | 1967 | Tychyna has died before the only chance to be rewarded. Nominated jointly with Ivan Drach by Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) the only time. |
| | Lina Kostenko | 19 March 1930 Rzhyshchiv, Obukhiv, Ukraine | — | 1967 | Tychyna has died before the only chance to be rewarded. Nominated jointly with Ivan Drach by Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) the only time. |
| | Ivan Drach | 14 March 1936 Telizhyntsi, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine | 19 June 2018 Kyiv, Ukraine | 1967, 1969 | Nominated by Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) each time. |
| | Emil Boyson | 4 September 1897 Bergen, Norway | 2 June 1979 Oslo, Norway | 1967, 1969 | Nominated by Asbjørn Aarnes (1923–2013) each time. |
| | Jorge Amado | 10 August 1912 Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil | 6 August 2001 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil | 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 | |
| | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | 11 November 1929 Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, Germany | 24 November 2022 Munich, Germany | 1967, 1974 | |
| | Carlos Drummond de Andrade | 31 October 1902 Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil | 17 August 1987 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1967, 1969, 1974 | |
| | Germán Pardo García | 19 July 1902 Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia | 23 August 1991 Mexico City, Mexico | 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974 | |
| | Rabbe Enckell | 3 March 1903 Tammela, Kanta-Häme, Finland | 17 June 1974 Helsinki, Finland | 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1968 ||||||
| | Patrick White | 28 May 1912 Knightsbridge, London, England | 30 September 1990 Sydney, Australia | 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 | Awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Mildred Mathews Breedlove | 27 May 1904 Coal Hill, Arkansas, United States | 14 August 1994 Ferron, Utah, United States | 1968 | |
| | Konstantin Fedin | 24 February 1892 Saratov, Russia | 15 July 1977 Moscow, Russia | 1968 | |
| | Zbigniew Herbert | 29 October 1924 Lviv, Ukraine | 28 July 1998 Warsaw, Poland | 1968 | Nominated jointly with Graham Greene and Sławomir Mrożek by Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) the only time. |
| | Marianne Moore | 15 November 1887 Kirkwood, Missouri, United States | 5 February 1972 New York City, United States | 1968 | Nominated by Erik Lindegren (1910–1968) the only time. |
| | Peter Vansittart | 27 August 1920 Bedford, Bedfordshire, England | 4 October 2008 Ipswich, Suffolk, England | 1968 | Nominated by Herbert Howarth (1900-1971) the only time. |
| | Kazimierz Wierzyński | 27 August 1894 Drohobych, Ukraine | 13 February 1969 London, England | 1968 | Nominated by unnamed nominator the only time. |
| | Joseph Delteil | 20 April 1894 Villar-en-Val, Aude, France | 16 April 1978 Grabels, Hérault, France | 1968, 1969 | |
| | Claude Lévi-Strauss | 28 November 1908 Brussels, Belgium | 30 October 2009 Paris, France | 1968, 1969 | |
| | Agustí Bartra | 8 November 1908 Barcelona, Spain | 7 July 1982 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain | 1968, 1969, 1970 | Nominated by Manuel Durán (1925–2020) each time. |
| | Friedebert Tuglas | 2 March 1886 Ahja, Põlva, Estonia | 15 April 1971 Tallinn, Estonia | 1968, 1969, 1970 | |
| | Angus Wilson | 11 August 1913 Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England | 31 May 1991 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England | 1968, 1971 | |
| | Luis Buñuel | 22 February 1900 Calanda, Teruel, Spain | 29 July 1983 Mexico City, Mexico | 1968, 1972 | |
| | Edward Compton Mackenzie | 17 January 1883 West Hartlepool, Durham, England | 30 November 1972 Edinburgh, Scotland | 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972 | |
| | Sławomir Mrożek | 29 June 1930 Borzęcin, Brzesko, Poland | 15 August 2013 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1968, 1972 | |
| | G. L. Martin-Saint-René | 22 November 1888 Paris, France | 21 January 1973 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France | 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973 | |
| | Segismundo Masel | 1895 Argentina | 1985 Argentina | 1968, 1974 | Nominated by Antonio de Tornes Ballesteros (?) each time. |
| | Tadeusz Różewicz | 9 October 1921 Radomsko, Poland | 24 April 2014 Wrocław, Poland | 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Vladimír Holan | 16 September 1905 Prague, Czech Republic | 31 March 1980 Kampa Island, Prague, Czech Republic | 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1969 ||||||
| | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 11 December 1918 Kislovodsk, Russia | 3 August 2008 Moscow, Russia | 1969, 1970 | Awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Elias Canetti | 25 July 1905 Ruse, Bulgaria | 14 August 1994 Zürich, Switzerland | 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Jean Cassou | 9 July 1897 Bilbao, Biscay, Spain | 16 January 1986 Paris, France | 1969 | Nominated by Giannēs Koutsocheras (1904–1994) the only time. |
| | Georges Dumézil | 4 March 1898 Paris, France | 11 October 1986 Paris, France | 1969 | Nominated by Marcel Bataillon (1895–1977) the only time. |
| | Louis Guilloux | 15 January 1899 Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, France | 14 October 1980 Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, France | 1969 | Nominated by Jean-Bertrand Barrère (1914–1985). |
| | Yasushi Inoue | 6 May 1907 Asahikawa, Kamikawa, Japan | 29 January 1991 Tokyo, Japan | 1969 | Nominated by Erich Ruprecht (1906–1997) the only time. |
| | Bernhard Karlgren | 15 October 1889 Jönköping, Sweden | 20 October 1978 Stockholm, Sweden | 1969 | Nominated by Walter Fuchs (1914–1993) the only time. |
| | Robert Pinget | 19 July 1919 Geneva, Switzerland | 25 August 1997 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France | 1969 | Nominated jointly with Vladimír Holan and Carlos Drummond de Andrade by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) the only time. |
| | Anthony Powell | 21 December 1905 Westminster, England | 19 October 1999 Frome, Somerset, England | 1969 | Nominated by Jean Hamard (1920-2012) the only time. |
| | Raymond Queneau | 21 February 1903 Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France | 25 October 1976 Paris, France | 1969 | Nominated by T. van den Heuvel (?) the only time. |
| | Jean Rateau-Landeville | 23 December 1894 Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France | 14 February 1972 Bordeaux, Gironde, France | 1969 | Nominated by Pierre Flottes (1895–1994) the only time. |
| | Gustave Roud | 20 April 1897 Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz, Vaud, Switzerland | 10 November 1976 Moudon, Vaud, Switzerland | 1969 | Nominated by Henri Perrochon (1899–1990) the only time. |
| | Nathalie Sarraute | 18 July 1900 Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Russia | 19 October 1999 Paris, France | 1969 | Nominated by Lars Gyllensten (1921–2006) the only time. |
| | Ton Smerdel | 21 April 1904 Silba, Croatia | 20 August 1970 Zagreb, Croatia | 1969 | Nominated by Christiaan Alphonsus van den Berk (1919–1979) the only time. |
| | Hồ Hữu Tường | 8 May 1910 Thường Thạnh, Cái Răng, Vietnam | 26 June 1980 Saigon, Vietnam | 1969 | Nominated by Đông Hồ (1906–1969) the only time. |
| | Jerzy Andrzejewski | 19 August 1909 Warsaw, Poland | 19 April 1983 Warsaw, Poland | 1969, 1970, 1971 | |
| | Karl Krolow | 11 March 1915 Hanover, Germany | 26 July 1999 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | 1969, 1971 | Nominated by Emil Ernst Ploss (1925–1972) each time. |
| | Jacques Maritain | 18 November 1882 Paris, France | 28 April 1973 Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France | 1969, 1971 | Nominated by Charles Dédéyan (1910–2003) each time. |
| | Alain Robbe-Grillet | 18 August 1922 Brest, Finistère, France | 18 February 2008 Caen, Calvados, France | 1969, 1971 | Nominated by Henry Olsson (1896–1985) each time. |
| | Edward Albee | 12 March 1928 Washington, D.C., United States | 16 September 2016 Montauk, New York, United States | 1969, 1971, 1972 | |
| | Aimé Césaire | 26 June 1913 Basse-Pointe, Martinique | 17 April 2008 Fort-de-France, Martinique | 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 | |
| | Tawfiq al-Hakim | 9 October 1898 Alexandria, Egypt | 26 July 1987 Cairo, Egypt | 1969, 1972 | |
| | Hugh MacLennan | 20 March 1907 Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada | 9 November 1990 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 | Nominated by Lawrence Lande (1906–1998) each time. |
| | Arthur Miller | 17 October 1915 Harlem, New York City, United States | 10 February 2005 Roxbury, Connecticut, United States | 1969, 1971, 1973 | |
| | Hans Ruin | 18 June 1891 Helsinki, Finland | 3 November 1980 Stockholm, Sweden | 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973 | Nominated by Arthur Arnholtz (1901–1973) each time. |
| | Hannu Salama | 4 October 1936 Kouvola, Kymenlaakso, Finland | — | 1969, 1973 | |
| | Siegfried Lenz | 17 March 1926 Lyck, Poland | 7 October 2014 Hamburg, Germany | 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974 | |
| | Mécs László | 17 January 1895 Kostoľany nad Hornádom, Košice-okolie, Slovakia | 9 November 1978 Pannonhalma, Hungary | 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Zaharia Stancu | 7 October 1902 Salcia, Teleorman, Romania | 5 December 1974 Bucharest, Romania | 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Gerard Walschap | 9 July 1898 Londerzeel-Sint-Jozef, Belgium | 25 October 1989 Antwerp, Belgium | 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |

### 1970–1975

Nominees are published 50 years later so 1975 nominees should be published at the beginning of 2026.
* 1970
* 1971
* 1972
* 1973
* 1974
* 1975
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 1970 ||||||
| | Eugen Barbu | 20 February 1924 Bucharest, Romania | 7 September 1993 Bucharest, Romania | 1970 | Nominated by Alexandru Rosetti (1895–1990) the only time. |
| | Hugo Bergmann | 25 December 1883 Prague, Czech Republic | 18 June 1975 Jerusalem, Israel | 1970 | Nominated by André Neher (1914–1988) the only time. |
| | Heðin Brú | 17 August 1901 Skálavík, Faroe Islands | 18 May 1987 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands | 1970 | Nominated by Ólavur Michelsen (1933–1978) the only time. |
| | Robert Ganzo | 22 August 1898 Caracas, Venezuela | 6 April 1995 Boulogne-Billancourt, France | 1970 | Nominated by André Lebois (1915–1978) the only time. |
| | Youssef Durra al-Haddad | 1913 Yabroud, Rif Dimashq, Syria | 1979 Lebanon | 1970 | Nominated by Fouad E. Boustany (1904–1994) the only time. |
| | Sei Itō | 16 January 1905 Otaru, Japan | 15 November 1969 Tokyo, Japan | 1970 | Nominated jointly (Itō - posthumously) by Serizawa Kōjirō (1897–1993) the only time. |
| | Tatsuzō Ishikawa | 2 July 1905 Yokote, Akita, Japan | 31 January 1985 Tokyo, Japan | 1970 | Nominated jointly (Itō - posthumously) by Serizawa Kōjirō (1897–1993) the only time. |
| | Yi Kwang-su | 1 February 1892 Chongju, North P'yŏngan, North Korea | 25 October 1950 Manpo, Chagang, North Korea | 1970 | Posthumously nominated by Chull Paik (1908–1985) the only time. |
| | Alexander Lernet-Holenia | 21 October 1897 Vienna, Austria | 3 July 1976 Vienna, Austria | 1970 | Nominated by Hilde Spiel (1911–1990) the only time. |
| | Emilio Oribe | 13 April 1893 Melo, Cerro Largo, Uruguay | 24 May 1975 Montevideo, Uruguay | 1970 | Nominated by Sarah Bollo (1904–1987) the only time. |
| | Lluís Valeri i Sahís | 18 September 1891 Barcelona, Spain | April 1971 Barcelona, Spain | 1970 | Nominated by Antoni Griera i Gaja (1887–1973) the only time. |
| | Frank Waters | 25 July 1902 Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States | 3 June 1995 Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, United States | 1970 | Nominated by Thomas J. Lyon (born 1937) the only time. |
| | Saunders Lewis | 15 July 1893 Wallasey, Merseyside, England | 1 September 1985 Cardiff, Wales | 1970, 1972 | Nominated by John Ellis Caerwyn Williams (1912–1999) each time. |
| | Harold Macmillan | 10 February 1894 Belgravia, London, England | 29 December 1986 Chelwood Gate, East Sussex, England | 1970, 1972 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1957–1963) Nominated by Carl Becker (1925–1973) each time. |
| | Pandelis Prevelakis | 18 February 1909 Rethymno, Greece | 15 March 1986 Ekali, Kifisia, Greece | 1970, 1972 | Nominated by Kariophilēs Mētsakēs (1932–2013) each time. |
| | Denis de Rougemont | 8 September 1906 Couvet, Neuchâtel, Switzerland | 6 December 1985 Geneva, Switzerland | 1970, 1972 | |
| | Evaristo Ribera Chevremont | 16 February 1890 San Juan, Puerto Rico | 1 March 1976 San Juan, Puerto Rico | 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 | |
| | Amado Magcalas Yuzon | 30 August 1906 Guagua, Pampanga, Philippines | 17 January 1979 Manila, Philippines | 1970, 1973 | |
| | Victoria Ocampo | 7 April 1890 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 27 January 1979 Béccar, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1970, 1974 | |
| | Abraham Sutzkever | 15 July 1913 Smarhoń, Belarus | 20 January 2010 Tel Aviv, Israel | 1970, 1972, 1974 | Nominated by Joseph Leftwich (1892–1984) each time. |
| | Mikhail Naimy | 17 October 1889 Baskinta, Matn, Lebanon | 28 February 1988 Beirut, Lebanon | 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974 | |
| | Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca | 26 August 1914 Istanbul, Türkiye | 15 October 2008 Istanbul, Türkiye | 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Salvador Espriu | 10 July 1913 Santa Coloma de Farners, Girona, Spain | 22 February 1985 Barcelona, Spain | 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Paavo Juhani Haavikko | 25 January 1931 Helsinki, Finland | 6 October 2008 Helsinki, Finland | 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Sándor Weöres | 22 June 1913 Szombathely, Vas, Hungary | 22 January 1989 Budapest, Hungary | 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | Nominated by Áron Kibédi Varga (1930–2018) each time. |
| 1971 ||||||
| | William Golding | 19 September 1911 Newquay, Cornwall, England | 19 June 1993 Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England | 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Elie Wiesel | 30 September 1928 Sighet, Maramureș, Romania | 2 July 2016 Manhattan, New York City, United States | 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. |
| | José María Arguedas | 18 January 1911 Andahuaylas, Peru | 2 December 1969 Jesús María District, Lima, Peru | 1971 | Posthumously nominated by Elie Poulenard (1901–1985) the only time. |
| | James Baldwin | 2 August 1924 New York City, United States | 1 December 1987 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1971 | Nominated by Jacob Louis Mey (1926–2023) the only time. |
| | Mykola Platonovych Bazhan | 9 October 1904 Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine | 23 November 1983 Kiev, Ukraine | 1971 | Nominated by Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) the only time. |
| | Jawad Boulos | 1 January 1900 Zghorta, Lebanon | 16 September 1982 Beirut, Lebanon | 1971 | Nominated jointly with Georges Schéhadé by Camille Aboussouan (1919–2013) the only time. |
| | Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil | 9 April 1902 Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England | 1 January 1986 Cranborne, East Dorset, England | 1971 | Nominated by Leslie Poles Hartley (1895–1972) the only time. |
| | Tsendiin Damdinsüren | 14 September 1908 Matad, Dornod, Mongolia | 27 May 1986 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | 1971 | Nominated by Walther Heissig (1913–2005) the only time. |
| | Paul Demiéville | 13 September 1894 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland | 23 March 1979 Paris, France | 1971 | Nominated by Martin Gimm (born 1930) the only time. |
| | Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix | 29 November 1890 Decize, Nièvre, France | 8 September 1980 Alicante, Spain | 1971 | Nominated by Yves Gandon (1899–1975) the only time. |
| | Younghill Kang | 5 June 1898 Hongwon, South Hamgyŏng, North Korea | 2 December 1972 Satellite Beach, Florida, United States | 1971 | Nominated by Robert Payne (1911–1983) the only time. |
| | Richard Eun Kook Kim | 13 March 1932 Hamhung, South Hamgyŏng, North Korea | 23 June 2009 Shutesbury, Massachusetts, United States | 1971 | Nominated by Chull Paik (1908–1985) the only time. |
| | Archibald MacLeish | 7 May 1892 Glencoe, Illinois, United States | 20 April 1982 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 1971 | Nominated by William Scovil Anderson (1927–2022) the only time. |
| | Miquel Melendres i Rué | 11 March 1902 Girona, Spain | 10 March 1974 Tarragona, Spain | 1971 | Nominated by Antoni Griera i Gaja (1887–1973) the only time. |
| | Fritiof Nilsson Piraten | 4 December 1895 Vollsjö, Sweden | 31 January 1972 Malmö, Sweden | 1971 | Nominated by Bertil Ejder (1916–2005) the only time. |
| | Shih Robert (Shi Jieyun) | 19 May 1926 Zhejiang, China | 5 May 1983 | 1971 | Nominated by Étienne Lamotte (1903–1983) the only time. |
| | Henry William Williamson | 1 December 1895 Brockley, London, England | 13 August 1977 Twyford Abbey, London, England | 1971 | Nominated by Petronella O'Flanagan (?) the only time. |
| | Philip A. Larkin | 9 August 1922 Coventry, West Midlands, England | 2 December 1985 Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England | 1971, 1972 | Nominated by Jørgen Læssøe (1924–1993) each time. |
| | Georges Schéhadé | 2 November 1905 Alexandria, Egypt | 17 January 1989 Paris, France | 1971, 1972 | |
| | Arno Schmidt | 18 January 1914 Hamburg, Germany | 3 June 1979 Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany | 1971, 1972 | |
| | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | 23 July 1898 Labhpur, West Bengal, India | 14 September 1971 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 1971, 1972, 1973 | Died before the only chance to be awarded. |
| | Romain Gary | 21 May 1914 Vilnius, Lithuania | 2 December 1980 Paris, France | 1971, 1972, 1973 | Nominated by Walther Hinz (1906–1992) each time. |
| | Arthur Koestler | 5 September 1905 Budapest, Hungary | 1 March 1983 London, England | 1971, 1974 | |
| | Yiannis Ritsos | 1 May 1909 Monemvasia, Greece | 11 November 1990 Athens, Greece | 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | José García Villa | 5 August 1908 Manila, Philippines | 7 February 1997 New York City, United States | 1971, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1972 ||||||
| | Odysseas Elytis | 2 November 1911 Heraklion, Crete, Greece | 18 March 1996 Athens, Greece | 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Nadine Gordimer | 20 November 1923 Springs, Gauteng, South Africa | 13 July 2014 Johannesburg, South Africa | 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul | 17 August 1932 Chaguanas, Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago | 11 August 2018 London, England | 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Doris Lessing | 22 October 1919 Kermanshah, Iran | 17 November 2013 London, England | 1972, 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Said Akl | 4 July 1911 Zahlé, Beqaa, Lebanon | 28 November 2014 Beirut, Lebanon | 1972 | |
| | Austin Clarke | 9 May 1896 Stoneybatter, Dublin, Ireland | 19 March 1974 Templeogue, Dublin, Ireland | 1972 | |
| | Jacob Glatstein | 20 August 1896 Lublin, Poland | 19 November 1971 New York City, United States | 1972 | Nominatedby Moshe Starkman (1906–1975) the only time. Died before the only chance to be rewarded. |
| | Joseph Heller | 1 May 1923 Brooklyn, New York, United States | 12 December 1999 East Hampton, New York, United States | 1972 | Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) the only time. |
| | Stanislaus Lynch | 1907 Ballyjamesduff, Ireland | 15 July 1983 Dunsany, Ireland | 1972 | Nominated by Desmond Clarke (1907–1979) the only time. |
| | Pak Tu-jin | 10 March 1916 Anseong, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | 16 September 1998 Seoul, South Korea | 1972 | Nominated by Chull Paik (1908–1985) the only time. |
| | Alan Paton | 11 January 1903 Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | 12 April 1988 Botha's Hill, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | 1972 | Nominated by Astley Cooper Partridge (1901–?) the only time. |
| | Philip Roth | 19 March 1933 Newark, New Jersey, United States | 22 May 2018 New York City, United States | 1972 | Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) the only time. |
| | Francis Stuart | 29 April 1902 Townsville, Queensland, Australia | 2 February 2000 Fanore, County Clare, Ireland | 1972 | Nominated by Desmond Clarke (1907–1979) the only time. |
| | Vu Hoang Chuong | 14 May 1915 Phù Ủng, Vietnam | 6 September 1976 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 1972 | Nominated by Thanh Lãng (1924–1978) the only time. |
| | Aaron Zeitlin | 3 June 1898 Uvarovichi, Belarus | 28 September 1973 Queens, New York, United States | 1972 | Nominated by Moshe Starkman (1906–1975) the only time. |
| | Suniti Kumar Chatterji | 26 November 1890 Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal, India | 29 May 1977 Calcutta, West Bengal, India | 1972, 1973 | |
| | Manbohdan Lal | — | — | 1972, 1973 | |
| | Veijo Meri | 31 December 1928 Viipuri, Finland | 21 June 2015 Helsinki, Finland | 1972, 1973 | |
| | Astrid Lindgren | 14 November 1907 Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden | 28 January 2002 Stockholm, Sweden | 1972, 1974 | |
| | Louis Paul Boon | 15 March 1912 Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium | 10 May 1979 Erembodegem, East Flanders, Belgium | 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Anthony Burgess | 25 February 1917 Harpurhey, Manchester, England | 22 November 1993 St John's Wood, London, England | 1972, 1973, 1974 | Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) each time. |
| | Sri Chinmoy | 27 August 1931 Chittagong, Bangladesh | 11 October 2007 New York City, United States | 1972, 1973, 1974 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Julien Green | 6 September 1900 Paris, France | 13 August 1998 Paris, France | 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Ferenc Juhász | 16 August 1928 Biatorbágy, Pest, Hungary | 2 December 2015 Budapest, Hungary | 1972, 1973, 1974 | Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) each time. |
| | Norman Mailer | 31 January 1923 Long Branch, New Jersey, United States | 10 November 2007 Manhattan, New York City, United States | 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Bernard Malamud | 26 April 1914 Brooklyn, New York, United States | 18 March 1986 Manhattan, New York City, United States | 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| | Frederick Manfred | 6 January 1912 Doon, Iowa, United States | 7 September 1994 Luverne, Minnesota, United States | 1972, 1973, 1974 | |
| 1973 ||||||
| | Vicente Aleixandre | 26 April 1898 Seville, Spain | 14 December 1984 Madrid, Spain | 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 21 November 1902 Leoncin, Nowy Dwór, Poland | 24 July 1991 Surfside, Florida, United States | 1973, 1974 | Awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Conrad Potter Aiken | 5 August 1889 Savannah, Georgia, United States | 17 August 1973 Savannah, Georgia, United States | 1973 | Nominated by Samuel Frederick Johnson (1918–2005) the only time. Died before the only chance to be awarded. |
| | Antonio Aniante | 2 January 1900 Viagrande, Catania, Italy | 6 November 1983 Ventimiglia, Imperia, Italy | 1973 | Nominated by Vittorio Vettori (1920–2004) the only time. |
| | Chiang Yee | 19 May 1903 Chaisang, Jiujiang, China | 26 October 1977 Beijing, China | 1973 | Nominated by Lo Hsiang-lin (1906–1978) the only time. |
| | Albert Cohen | 16 August 1895 Corfu, Greece | 17 October 1981 Geneva, Switzerland | 1973 | Nominated by Joseph Kessel (1898–1979) the only time. |
| | Indira Devi Dhanrajgir | 17 August 1930 Hyderabad, Telangana, India | — | 1973 | Nominated by Krishna Srinivas (1913–2007) the only time. |
| | Xu Xu | 11 November 1908 Cixi, Zhejiang, China | 5 October 1980 Hong Kong | 1973 | Nominated by Lee Chiu-seng (?) the only time. |
| | Eugen Jebeleanu | 24 April 1911 Câmpina, Prahova, Romania | 21 August 1991 Bucharest, Romania | 1973 | |
| | Zenta Mauriņa | 15 December 1897 Lejasciems, Gulbene, Latvia | 25 April 1978 Basel, Switzerland | 1973 | Nominated by Mārtiņš Zīverts (1903–1990) the only time. |
| | Henry Miller | 26 December 1891 Yorkville, New York, United States | 7 June 1980 Los Angeles, California, United States | 1973 | Nominated by Allan Philip (1927–2004) the only time. |
| | John Crowe Ransom | 30 April 1888 Pulaski, Tennessee, United States | 3 July 1974 Gambier, Ohio, United States | 1973 | Nominated by Samuel Frederick Johnson (1918–2005) the only time. |
| | Martin Wickramasinghe | 29 May 1890 Koggala, Sri Lanka | 23 July 1976 Colombo, Sri Lanka | 1973 | Nominated by Ediriweera Sarachchandra (1914–1996) the only time. |
| | Paul Voivenel | 24 September 1880 Séméac, Hautes-Pyrénées, France | 9 June 1975 Pamiers, Ariège, France | 1973 | Nominated by Roland Dorgelès (1885–1973) the only time. |
| | Miodrag Bulatović | 20 February 1930 Okladi, Bijelo Polje, Montenegro | 15 March 1991 Igalo, Herceg Novi, Montenegro | 1973, 1974 | |
| | Adolfo Costa du Rels | 19 June 1891 Sucre, Chuquisaca, Bolivia | May 26, 1980 La Paz, Bolivia | 1973, 1974 | Nominated by Humberto Palza (1900–1975) each time. |
| | Yaşar Kemal | 6 October 1923 Gökçedam, Osmaniye, Türkiye | 28 February 2015 Istanbul, Türkiye | 1973, 1974 | |
| | Pratap Narayan Tandon | c. 1935 Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India | — | 1973, 1974 | |
| 1974 ||||||
| | Czesław Miłosz | 30 June 1911 Šeteniai, Kėdainiai, Lithuania | 14 August 2004 Kraków, Poland | 1974 | Awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Octavio Paz | 31 March 1914 Mexico City, Mexico | 19 April 1998 Mexico City, Mexico | 1974 | Awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Kenzaburō Ōe | 31 January 1935 Uchiko, Ehime, Japan | 3 March 2023 Tokyo, Japan | 1974 | Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Harold Pinter | 10 October 1930 London, England | 24 December 2008 London, England | 1974 | Awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Rafael Alberti | 16 December 1902 El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, Spain | 28 October 1999 El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, Spain | 1974 | Nominated by Johannes Edfelt (1904–1997) the only time. |
| | Gwen Bristow | 16 September 1903 Marion, South Carolina, United States | 17 August 1980 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States | 1974 | Nominated by Lorenz B. Graham (1902–1989) the only time. |
| | Chen Minghua | December 1950 Zhengning, Gansu, China | — | 1974 | Nominated by Emeterio Barcelón Barceló-Soriano (1897-1978) the only time. |
| | Kamala Surayya-Das | 31 March 1934 Punnayurkulam, Kerala, India | 31 May 2009 Pune, Maharashtra, India | 1974, 1984 | Nominated by K. P. Kannan (?) the only time. |
| | Argentina Díaz Lozano | 5 December 1909 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras | 13 August 1999 Tegucigalpa, Honduras | 1974 | |
| | Ralph Ellison | 1 March 1913 Oklahoma City, United States | 16 April 1994 New York City, United States | 1974 | Nominated by Henri Peyre (1901–1988) the only time. |
| | Armand Gatti | 26 January 1924 Monte Carlo, Monaco | 6 April 2017 Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France | 1974 | Nominated by Volker Klotz (1930–2023) the only time. |
| | G. Floran (prob. Jacques Floran (1918–1982)) | — | — | 1974 | Nominated by Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994) the only time. |
| | Uwe Johnson | 20 July 1934 Kamień Pomorski, Kamień, Poland | 22 February 1984 Sheerness, Kent, England | 1974 | Nominated by Sheila St. Clair (?) the only time. |
| | Brendan Kennelly | 17 April 1936 Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland | 17 October 2021 Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland | 1974 | Nominated by John B. Keane (1928–2002) the only time. |
| | Eduardo Mallea | 14 August 1904 Bahia Blanca, Argentina | 12 November 1982 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1974 | Nominated by Manuel Durán (1925–2020) the only time. |
| | Herbert Marcuse | 19 July 1898 Berlin, Germany | 29 July 1979 Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany | 1974 | Nominated by Hans Mayer (1907–2001) the only time. |
| | R. K. Narayan | 10 October 1901 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | 13 May 2001 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | 1974 | |
| | Francis Ponge | 27 March 1899 Montpellier, Hérault, France | 6 August 1988 Le Bar-sur-Loup, Alpes-Maritimes, France | 1974 | Nominated by Michael Riffaterre (1907–2001) the only time. |
| | Stephen Spender | 28 February 1909 Kensington, England | 16 July 1995 Westminster, England | 1974 | Nominated by Barbara Hardy (1924–2016) the only time. |
| | Isidor Feinstein Stone | 24 December 1907 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | 18 July 1989 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 1974 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Antonio Buero Vallejo | 29 September 1916 Guadalajara, Spain | 29 April 2000 Madrid, Spain | 1974 | Nominated by Juan Contreras López de Ayala (1893–1978) the only time. |
| | Louise Weiss | 25 January 1893 Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France | 26 May 1983 Paris, France | 1974 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| 1975 ||||||
| | Jorge Carrera Andrade | 18 September 1903 Quito, Ecuador | 7 November 1978 Quito, Ecuador | 1975 | |
| | Kim Chi-ha | 4 February 1941 Mokpo, South Jeolla, South Korea | 8 May 2022 Wonju, Gangwon, South Korea | 1975 | |
| | Anja Lundholm | 28 April 1918 Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 4 August 2007 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany | 1975 | |
| | Ba Jin | 25 November 1904 Chengdu, Sichuan, China | 17 October 2005 Shanghai, China | 1975, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1996, 2001 | |

### Others

Despite the rule of keeping the nominations secret for 50 years, a number of literary organizations and academies revealed publicly their favored nominees. The following names, though verified and features their respective years, are yet still to be organized as they may have been nominated in earlier years.

#### 1976–1979

* 1976
* 1977
* 1978
* 1979
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated |
| 1976 ||||||
| | Anaïs Nin | 21 February 1903 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France | 14 January 1977 Los Angeles, California, United States | 1976 |
| 1977 ||||||
| | Francisco Matos Paoli | 9 March 1915 Lares, Puerto Rico | 10 July 2000 San Juan, Puerto Rico | 1977 |
| 1978 ||||||
| 1979 ||||||
| | Gerardo Melo Mourão | 8 January 1917 Ipueiras, Ceará, Brazil | 9 March 2007 Humaitá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1979 |
| | Manuel Scorza | 9 September 1928 Lima, Peru | 27 November 1983 Mejorada del Campo, Madrid, Spain | 1979 |
| | Nichita Stănescu | 31 March 1933 Ploiești, Prahova, Romania | 13 December 1983 Bucharest, Romania | 1979, 1980 |
| | André Brink | 19 May 1935 Vrede, Free State, South Africa | 6 February 2015 on a flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to South Africa | 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1991, 2004 |
| | Joyce Carol Oates | 16 June 1938 Lockport, New York, United States | — | 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 |

#### 1980–1989

* 1980
* 1981
* 1982
* 1983
* 1984
* 1985
* 1986
* 1987
* 1988
* 1989
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 1980 ||||||
| | Gabriel García Márquez | 6 March 1927 Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia | 17 April 2014 Mexico City, Mexico | 1980, 1981, 1982 | Awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Mario Vargas Llosa | 28 March 1936 Arequipa, Peru | — | 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 | Awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Peter Abrahams | 3 March 1919 Vrededorp, Gauteng, South Africa | 18 January 2017 Saint Andrew, Surrey, Jamaica | 1980 | |
| | Leszek Kołakowski | 23 October 1927 Radom, Poland | 17 July 2009 Oxford, England | 1980 | |
| | Giorgio Nurigiani | 23 September 1892 Livorno, Italy | 7 May 1981 Rome, Italy | 1980 | |
| | Juan Carlos Onetti | 1 July 1909 Montevideo, Uruguay | 30 May 1994 Madrid, Spain | 1980 | |
| | Mongo Beti | 30 June 1932 Mbalmayo, Nyong-et-So'o, Cameroon | 8 October 2001 Douala, Cameroon | 1980, 1984 | |
| 1981 ||||||
| | Irving Layton | 12 March 1912 Târgu Neamț, Romania | 4 January 2006 Montreal, Québec, Canada | 1981 | |
| | Fernando Namora | 15 April 1919 Condeixa-a-Nova, Coimbra, Portugal | 31 January 1989 Lisbon, Portugal | 1981 | |
| | Mary Kawena Pukui | 20 April 1895 Kau, Hawaii, United States | 21 May 1986 Honolulu, Hawaii, United States | 1981 | |
| | Yury Trifonov | 28 August 1925 Moscow, Russia | 28 March 1981 Moscow, Russia | 1981 | |
| | Biagio Marin | 29 June 1891 Grado, Gorizia, Italy | 24 December 1985 Grado, Gorizia, Italy | 1981, 1982 | |
| 1982 ||||||
| | Derek Walcott | 23 January 1930 Castries, Saint Lucia | 17 March 2017 Cap Estate, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia | 1982, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992 | Awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | John Barth | 27 May 1930 Cambridge, Maryland, United States | 2 April 2024 Bonita Springs, Florida, United States | 1982 | |
| | Julio Cortázar | 26 August 1914 Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium | 12 February 1984 Paris, France | 1982 | |
| | Manuel Puig | 28 December 1932 General Villegas, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 22 July 1990 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico | 1982 | |
| | Juan Rulfo | 16 May 1917 Apulco, Jalisco, Mexico | 7 January 1986 Mexico City, Mexico | 1982 | |
| | Josef Škvorecký | 27 September 1924 Náchod, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic | 3 January 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | 1982 | |
| | Kurt Vonnegut | 11 November 1922 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States | 11 April 2007 Manhattan, New York, United States | 1982 | |
| 1983 ||||||
| | Wole Soyinka | 13 July 1934 Abeokuta, Ogun, Nigeria | — | 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 | Awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Faiz Ahmad Faiz | 13 February 1911 Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan | 20 November 1984 Lahore, Pakistan | 1983 | |
| | William Styron | 11 June 1925 Newport News, Virginia, United States | 1 November 2006 Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States | 1983 | |
| | Breyten Breytenbach | 16 September 1939 Bonnievale, Western Cape, South Africa | 24 November 2024 Paris, France | 1983, 1989, 1991 | |
| 1984 ||||||
| | Andrée Chedid | 20 March 1920 Cairo, Egypt | 6 February 2011 Paris, France | 1984 | |
| | Ahmad Shamlou | 12 December 1925 Tehran, Iran | 23 July 2000 Karaj, Alborz, Iran | 1984 | |
| | Yusuf Idris | 19 May 1927 Faqous, Sharqia, Egypt | 1 August 1991 London, England | 1984, 1988 | |
| | Kōbō Abe | 7 March 1924 Kita, Tokyo, Japan | 22 January 1993 Tokyo, Japan | 1984, 1987, 1991 | |
| | Giuseppe Bonaviri | 11 July 1924 Mineo, Catania, Italy | 21 March 2009 Frosinone, Italy | 1984, 2002, 2004 | |
| | Milan Kundera | 1 April 1929 Královo Pole, Brno, Czechia | 11 July 2023 Paris, France | 1984, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| 1985 ||||||
| | John Maxwell Coetzee | 9 February 1940 Cape Town, South Africa | — | 1985, 1989, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 | Awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Ding Ling | 12 October 1904 Linli, Hunan, China | 4 March 1986 Beijing, China | 1985 | |
| | Édouard Glissant | 21 September 1928 Sainte-Marie, Martinique | 3 February 2011 Paris, France | 1985, 1990, 1992, 2003, 2004 | |
| | Nicolás Guillén | 10 July 1902 Camagüey, Cuba | 16 July 1989 Havana, Cuba | 1985 | |
| | Nick Joaquin | 4 May 1917 Paco, Manila, Philippines | 29 May 2004 San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines | 1985 | |
| | Kim Dongni | 24 November 1913 Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang, South Korea | 17 June 1995 Seoul, South Korea | 1985 | |
| | Patrick D. Smith | 8 October 1927 D'Lo, Mississippi, United States | 26 January 2014 Merritt Island, Florida, United States | 1985 | |
| | Vasyl Stus | 6 January 1938 Rakhnivka, Vinnytsia, Ukraine | 4 September 1985 Perm-36, Kuchino, Vologda, Russia | 1985, 1986 | |
| | Susan Howe | 10 June 1937 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | — | 1985, 1987 | |
| | Francisco Sionil Jose | 3 December 1924 Rosales, Pangasinan, Philippines | 6 January 2022 Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines | 1985, 1994, 2006 | |
| | Pramoedya Ananta Toer | 6 February 1925 Blora, Central Java, Indonesia | 20 April 2006 Jakarta, Indonesia | 1985, 1986, 1989, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2005 | |
| | Michel Tournier | 19 December 1924 Paris, France | 18 January 2016 Choisel, Yvelines, France | 1985, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007 | |
| | Chinghiz Aitmatov | 12 December 1928 Sheker, Kara-Buura, Kyrgyzstan | 10 June 2008 Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany | 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2005, 2008 | |
| | Carlos Fuentes | 11 November 1928 Panama City, Panama | 15 May 2012 Mexico City, Mexico | 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 |
| 1986 ||||||
| | Albino Pierro | 19 November 1916 Tursi, Matera, Italy | 23 March 1995 Rome, Italy | 1986, 1988 | |
| 1987 ||||||
| | Joseph Brodsky | 24 May 1940 Saint Petersburg, Russia | 28 January 1996 Brooklyn Heights, New York, United States | 1987 | Awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Roman Brandstaetter | 3 January 1906 Tarnów, Poland | 28 September 1987 Poznań, Poland | 1987 | |
| | Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi | 25 December 1922 Fez, Morocco | 23 August 1993 Rabat, Morocco | 1987 | |
| | Thomas Bernhard | 9 February 1931 Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands | 12 February 1989 Gmunden, Austria | 1987, 1988 | |
| | Danilo Kiš | 22 February 1935 Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia | 15 October 1989 Paris, France | 1987, 1989 | |
| | Václav Havel | 5 October 1936 Prague, Czech Republic | 18 October 2011 Vlčice, Trutnov, Czech Republic | 1987, 2005 | Last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) |
| | Christa Wolf | 18 March 1929 Gorzów Wielkopolski, Lubusz, Poland | 1 December 2011 Berlin, Germany | 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2007 | |
| | Hugo Claus | 5 April 1929 Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium | 19 March 2008 Antwerp, Belgium | 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 |
| 1988 ||||||
| | Naguib Mahfouz | 11 December 1911 Cairo, Egypt | 30 August 2006 Agouza, Giza, Egypt | 1988 | Awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Shen Congwen | 28 December 1902 Fenghuang, Hunan, China | 10 May 1988 Beijing, China | 1988 | |
| | Marguerite Duras | 4 April 1914 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam | 3 March 1996 Paris, France | 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992 | |
| | John Updike | 18 March 1932 Reading, Pennsylvania, United States | 27 January 2009 Danvers, Massachusetts, United States | 1988, 1989, 1993, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 | |
| | Yves Bonnefoy | 24 June 1923 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France | 1 July 2016 Paris, France | 1988, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007 |
| | Ali Ahmad Said Esber | 1 January 1930 Al-Qassabin, Latakia, Syria | — | 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011 | |
| 1989 ||||||
| | Seamus Heaney | 13 April 1939 Tamniaran, Northern Ireland | 30 August 2013 Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland | 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995 | Awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Joan Didion | 5 December 1934 Sacramento, California, United States | 23 December 2021 New York City, United States | 1989 | |
| | Ana María Matute | 26 July 1925 Barcelona, Spain | 25 June 2014 Barcelona, Spain | 1989 | |
| | Robertson Davies | 28 August 1913 Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada | 2 December 1995 Orangeville, Ontario, Canada | 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993 | |
| | Miguel Delibes | 17 October 1920 Valladolid, Spain | 12 March 2010 Valladolid, Spain | 1989, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 | |
| | Ismail Kadare | 28 January 1936 Gjirokastër, Albania | 1 July 2024 Tirana, Albania | 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011 | |

#### 1990–1999

* 1990
* 1991
* 1992
* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 1990 ||||||
| | Masuji Ibuse | 15 February 1898 Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan | 20 July 1993 Suginami, Tokyo, Japan | 1990 | |
| | Pira Sudham | 1942 Na Pho, Buriram, Thailand | — | 1990 | |
| | Maria Luisa Spaziani | 7 December 1922 Turin, Italy | 30 June 2014 Rome, Italy | 1990, 1992, 1997 | |
| | Bei Dao | 2 August 1949 Beijing, China | — | 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 | |
| | Salman Rushdie | 19 June 1947 Mumbai, India | — | 1990, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| | Margaret Atwood | 18 November 1939 Ottawa, Canada | — | 1990, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| | Jaan Kross | 19 February 1920 Tallinn, Estonia | 27 December 2007 Tallinn, Estonia | 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007 | |
| 1991 ||||||
| | Tomas Tranströmer | 15 April 1931 Stockholm, Sweden | 26 March 2015 Stockholm, Sweden | 1991, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011 | Awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Patricia Highsmith | 19 January 1921 Fort Worth, Texas, United States | 4 February 1995 Locarno, Switzerland | 1991 | |
| | Milan Rúfus | 10 December 1928 Závažná Poruba, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia | 11 January 2009 Bratislava, Slovakia | 1991 | |
| | Mario Luzi | 20 October 1914 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy | 28 February 2005 Florence, Italy | 1991, 1997 | |
| | Bohumil Hrabal | 28 March 1914 Židenice, Brno, Czech Republic | 3 February 1997 Prague, Czech Republic | 1991, 1992, 1995 | |
| | Gennadiy Aygi | 21 August 1934 Shaymurzino, Chuvashia, Russia | 21 February 2006 Moscow, Russia | 1991, 1994, 2004 | |
| | Les Murray | 17 October 1938 Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia | 29 April 2019 Taree, New South Wales, Australia | 1991, 2002, 2005, 2007 | |
| | Timur Zulfikarov | 17 August 1936 Dushanbe, Tajikistan | — | 1991, 2000, 2010 | |
| | Janet Frame | 28 August 1924 Dunedin, New Zealand | 29 January 2004 Dunedin, New Zealand | 1991, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003 | |
| | John Ashbery | 28 July 1927 Rochester, New York, United States | 3 September 2017 Hudson, New York, United States | 1991, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 | |
| 1992 ||||||
| | José Saramago | 16 November 1922 Azinhaga, Golegã, Portugal | 18 June 2010 Tías, Las Palmas, Spain | 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1998 | Awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Pablo Antonio Cuadra | 4 November 1912 Managua, Nicaragua | 2 January 2002 Managua, Nicaragua | 1992 | |
| | Sorley MacLean | 26 October 1911 Òsgaig, Raasay, Scotland | 24 November 1996 Inverness, Scotland | 1992 | |
| | Matilde Alba Swann | 24 February 1912 Berisso, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 13 September 2000 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1992 | |
| | Marin Sorescu | 29 February 1936 Bulzești, Romania | 8 December 1996 Bucharest, Romania | 1992, 1996 | |
| | Wilson Harris | 24 March 1921 New Amsterdam, Guyana | 8 March 2018 Chelmsford, Essex, England | 1992, 2001, 2005 | |
| | Milorad Pavić | 15 October 1929 Belgrade, Serbia | 30 November 2009 Belgrade, Serbia | 1992, 2004, 2008 | |
| | Vizma Belševica | 30 May 1931 Riga, Latvia | 6 August 2005 Riga, Latvia | 1992, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 | |
| | Jaan Kaplinski | 22 January 1941 Tartu, Estonia | 8 August 2021 Tartu, Estonia | 1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2016 | |
| 1993 ||||||
| | Toni Morrison | 18 February 1931 Lorain, Ohio, United States | 5 August 2019 New York City, New York, United States | 1993 | Awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Nader Naderpour | 6 June 1929 Tehran, Iran | 18 February 2000 Los Angeles, California, United States | 1993 | |
| | Arturo Uslar Pietri | 16 May 1906 Caracas, Venezuela | 26 February 2001 Caracas, Venezuela | 1993 | |
| | Mahmoud Darwish | 13 March 1941 Al-Birwa, Acre, Palestine | 9 August 2008 Houston, Texas, United States | 1993, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| | Thomas Pynchon | 8 May 1937 Glen Cove, New York, United States | — | 1993, 1995, 2002, 2005, 2007 | |
| 1994 ||||||
| | Wisława Szymborska | 2 July 1923 Kórnik, Poznań, Poland | 1 February 2012 Kraków, Poland | 1994, 1995, 1996 | Awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Peter Handke | 6 December 1942 Griffin, Völkermarkt, Carinthia, Austria | — | 1994, 1994, 2002, 2004, 2018, 2019 | Awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Wazir Agha | 18 May 1922 Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan | 8 September 2010 Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan | 1994 | |
| | Shūsaku Endō | 27 March 1923 Toshima, Tokyo, Japan | 29 September 1996 Tokyo, Japan | 1994 | |
| | Yehuda Amichai | 3 May 1924 Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany | 22 September 2000 Jerusalem, Israel | 1994, 2000 | |
| | György Konrád | 2 April 1933 Berettyóújfalu, Hajdú–Bihar, Hungary | 13 September 2019 Budapest, Hungary | 1994, 2002 | |
| | Ján Ondruš | 11 March 1932 Nová Vieska, Nové Zámky, Slovakia | 7 November 2000 Stupava, Malacky, Slovakia | 1994, 1999, 2000 | |
| | William Trevor | 24 May 1928 Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland | 20 December 2016 Crediton, Devon, England | 1994, 2000, 2005 | |
| | António Lobo Antunes | 1 September 1942 Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal | — | 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 | |
| | Cees Nooteboom | 31 July 1933 The Hague, Netherlands | — | 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| 1995 ||||||
| | John Berger | 5 November 1926 London, England | 2 January 2017 Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France | 1995 | |
| | Gaetano Camillo | 1932 Rome, Italy | — | 1995 | |
| | Ronald Stuart Thomas | 29 March 1913 Cardiff, Wales | 25 September 2000 Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales | 1995, 1996 | |
| | Nicanor Parra | 5 September 1914 San Fabián, Punilla, Chile | 23 January 2018 La Reina, Santiago, Chile | 1995, 1997, 2000 | |
| | Friederike Mayröcker | 20 December 1924 Vienna, Austria | 4 June 2021 Vienna, Austria | 1995, 2004 | |
| 1996 ||||||
| | Bob Dylan | 24 May 1941 Duluth, Minnesota, United States | — | 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2016 | Awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Licio Gelli | 21 April 1919 Pistoia, Italy | 15 December 2015 Arezzo, Italy | 1996 | |
| | Iris Murdoch | 15 July 1919 Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland | 8 February 1999 Oxford, England | 1996 | |
| | Alda Merini | 21 March 1931 Milan, Italy | 1 November 2009 Milan, Italy | 1996, 2001 | |
| | Antonio Tabucchi | 24 September 1943 Pisa, Italy | 25 March 2012 Lisbon, Portugal | 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007 | |
| | Inger Christensen | 16 January 1935 Vejle, Denmark | 2 January 2009 Copenhagen, Denmark | 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| | Francisco Ayala | 16 March 1906 Granada, Spain | 3 November 2009 Madrid, Spain | 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 | |
| 1997 ||||||
| | Dario Fo | 24 March 1926 Sangiano, Varese, Italy | 13 October 2016 Milan, Italy | 1997 | Awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Alicia Ghiragossian | 13 July 1936 Córdoba, Argentina | 22 May 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States | 1997 | |
| | Tahar Ben Jelloun | 1 December 1944 Fez, Morocco | — | 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 | |
| 1998 ||||||
| | João Cabral de Melo Neto | 9 January 1920 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil | 9 October 1999 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1998 | |
| | Otar Chiladze | 20 March 1933 Signagi, Georgia | 1 October 2009 Tbilisi, Georgia | 1998 | |
| | Nelson Estupiñán Bass | 19 September 1912 Esmeraldas, Ecuador | 3 March 2002 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States | 1998 | |
| | Agustina Bessa-Luís | 15 October 1922 Amarante, Portugal | 3 June 2019 Porto, Portugal | 1998, 2018 | |
| | Ernesto Sabato | 24 June 1911 Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 30 April 2011 Santos Lugares, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina | 1998, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 | |
| 1999 ||||||
| | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | 13 April 1940 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France | — | 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 | Awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | John Fowles | 31 March 1926 Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England | 5 November 2005 Lyme Regis, Dorset, England | 1999 | |
| | Enrique Laguerre | 15 July 1905 Moca, Puerto Rico | 16 June 2005 Carolina, Puerto Rico | 1999 | |
| | Alfonso Rumazo González | 1903 Latacunga, Cotopaxi, Ecuador | 27 June 2002 Caracas, Venezuela | 1999 | |
| | Winfried Georg Sebald | 18 May 1944 Wertach, Bavaria, Germany | 14 December 2001 near Norwich, Norfolk, England | 1999 | |
| | Maurice Blanchot | 22 September 1907 Devrouze, Saône-et-Loire, France | 20 February 2003 Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, Yvelines, France | 1999, 2000 | |
| | Simin Behbahani | 20 July 1927 Tehran, Iran | 19 August 2014 Tehran, Iran | 1999, 2002 | |
| | William Auld | 6 November 1924 Erith, London, England | 11 September 2006 Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland | 1999, 2004, 2006 | |

#### 2000–2009

* 2000
* 2001
* 2002
* 2003
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 2000 ||||||
| | Gao Xingjian | 4 January 1940 Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China | — | 2000 | Awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Alice Munro | 10 July 1931 Wingham, Ontario, Canada | 13 May 2024 Port Hope, Ontario, Canada | 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013 | Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Li Ao | 25 April 1935 Harbin, Heilongjiang, China | 18 March 2018 Taipei, Taiwan | 2000 | |
| | Ben Okri | 15 March 1959 Minna, Niger, Nigeria | — | 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005 | |
| | Juan Goytisolo | 6 January 1931 Barcelona, Spain | 4 June 2017 Marrakesh, Morocco | 2000, 2004, 2005 | |
| | Chinua Achebe | 16 November 1930 Ogidi, Anambra, Nigeria | 21 March 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 | |
| | Lev Rubinstein | 19 February 1947 Moscow, Russia | 14 January 2024 Moscow, Russia | 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| | Amos Oz | 4 May 1939 Jerusalem, Israel | 28 December 2018 Petah Tikva, Israel | 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| 2001 ||||||
| | Herta Müller | 17 August 1953 Nițchidorf, Romania | — | 2001, 2006, 2007, 2009 | Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen | 6 November 1919 Porto, Portugal | 2 July 2004 Lisbon, Portugal | 2001 | |
| | Henrik Nordbrandt | 21 March 1945 Frederiksberg, Denmark | 31 January 2023 Copenhagen, Denamrk | 2001 | |
| | Yordan Radichkov | 24 October 1929 Kalimanitza, Montana, Bulgaria | 21 January 2004 Sofia, Bulgaria | 2001 | |
| | Richard Ford | 16 February 1944 Jackson, Mississippi, United States | — | 2001, 2002, 2006 | |
| | Li Kuei-hsien | 19 June 1937 Taipei, Taiwan | 15 January 2025 Taipei, Taiwan | 2001, 2003, 2006 | |
| | Ko Un | 1 August 1933 Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea | — | 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| | Adam Zagajewski | 21 June 1945 Lviv, Ukraine | 21 March 2021 Kraków, Poland | 2001, 2002, 2010 | |
| | Assia Djebar | 30 June 1936 Cherchell, Tipaza, Algeria | 6 February 2015 Paris, France | 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| 2002 ||||||
| | Imre Kertész | 9 November 1929 Budapest, Hungary | 31 March 2016 Budapest, Hungary | 2002 | Awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Orhan Pamuk | 7 June 1952 Istanbul, Türkiye | — | 2002, 2005, 2006 | Awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | John Banville | 8 December 1945 Wexford, Ireland | — | 2002 | |
| | Noam Chomsky | 7 December 1928 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | — | 2002 | Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too. |
| | Leyla Erbil | 12 January 1931 Istanbul, Türkiye | 19 July 2013 Istanbul, Türkiye | 2002 | |
| | Ferreira Gullar | 10 September 1930 São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil | 4 December 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 2002 | |
| | Arnošt Lustig | 21 December 1926 Prague, Czech Republic | 26 February 2011 Prague, Czech Republic | 2002 | |
| | John Ralston Saul | 19 June 1947 Ottawa, Canada | — | 2002 | |
| | Jorge Semprún | 10 December 1923 Madrid, Spain | 7 June 2011 Paris, France | 2002 | |
| | Harry Mulisch | 29 July 1927 Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands | 30 October 2010 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2002, 2003 | |
| | Susan Sontag | 16 January 1933 New York City, United States | 28 December 2004 New York City, United States | 2002, 2003, 2004 | |
| | Aharon Appelfeld | 16 February 1932 Stara Zhadova, Chernivtsi, Ukraine | 4 January 2018 Petah Tikva, Israel | 2002, 2005 | |
| | Nuruddin Farah | 24 November 1945 Baidoa, Somalia | — | 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 | |
| | Umberto Eco | 5 January 1932 Alessandria, Italy | 19 February 2016 Milan, Italy | 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 | |
| | Don DeLillo | 20 November 1936 The Bronx, New York, United States | — | 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 | |
| 2003 ||||||
| | Elfriede Jelinek | 20 October 1946 Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria | — | 2003, 2004 | Awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Svetlana Alexievich | 31 May 1948 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine | — | 2003, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2015 | Awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Klára Jarunková | 28 April 1922 Šumiac, Brezno, Slovakia | 11 July 2005 Bratislava, Slovakia | 2003 | |
| | Giovanna Mulas | 6 May 1969 Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy | — | 2003 | |
| | Kelinu Vella Haber | 1 October 1913 Nadur, Gozo, Malta | 28 January 2014 Qala, Gozo, Malta | 2003 | |
| | Jacques Derrida | 15 July 1930 El Biar, Algiers, Algeria | 9 October 2004 Paris, France | 2003, 2004 | |
| 2004 ||||||
| | Isabel Allende | 2 August 1942 Lima, Peru | — | 2004 | |
| | Péter Esterházy | 14 April 1950 Budapest, Hungary | 14 July 2016 Budapest, Hungary | 2004 | |
| | Oliver Friggieri | 27 March 1947 Floriana, Malta | 21 November 2020 Valletta, Malta | 2004 | |
| | Álvaro Pombo | 23 June 1939 Santander, Cantabria, Spain | — | 2004 | |
| | Mykola Rohozhynskyy | 28 August 1965 Kiev, Ukraine | — | 2004 | |
| | Gunturu Seshendra Sarma | 20 October 1927 Marripadu, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India | 30 May 2007 Hyderabad, Telangana, India | 2004 | |
| | Muriel Spark | 1 February 1918 Edinburgh, Scotland | 13 April 2006 Uliveto Terme, Pisa, Italy | 2004 | |
| | Per Olov Enquist | 23 September 1934 Skellefteå, Västerbotten, Sweden | 25 April 2020 Vaxholm, Sweden | 2004, 2005 | |
| | Claudio Magris | 10 April 1939 Trieste, Italy | — | 2004, 2005, 2007 | |
| | Frederick Turner | 19 November 1943 Northamptonshire, England | — | 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 | |
| | Haruki Murakami | 12 January 1949 | — | 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 | |
| | Péter Nádas | 14 October 1942 Budapest, Hungary | — | 2004, 2016 | |
| 2005 ||||||
| | Jon Fosse | 29 September 1959 Haugesund, Norway | — | 2005, 2023 | Awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Anne-Marie Albiach | 9 August 1937 Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France | 4 November 2012 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France | 2005 | |
| | Kamau Brathwaite | 11 May 1930 Bridgetown, Barbados | 4 February 2020 Christ Church, Barbados | 2005 | |
| | Ernesto Cardenal | 20 January 1925 Granada, Nicaragua | 1 March 2020 Managua, Nicaragua | 2005 | |
| | John le Carré | 19 October 1931 Poole, Dorset, England | 12 December 2020 Truro, Cornwall, England | 2005 | |
| | Hélène Cixous | 5 June 1937 Oran, Algeria | — | 2005 | |
| | Michel Houellebecq | 26 February 1956 Saint-Denis, Réunion, France | — | 2005 | |
| | Nedžad Ibrišimović | 20 October 1940 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 15 September 2011 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2005 | |
| | Eeva Kilpi | 18 February 1928 Khiytola, Karelia, Russia | — | 2005 | |
| | Torgny Lindgren | 16 June 1938 Norsjö, Västerbotten, Sweden | — | 2005 | |
| | Javier Marías | 20 September 1951 Madrid, Spain | 11 September 2022 Madrid, Spain | 2005 | |
| | Cormac McCarthy | 20 July 1933 Providence, Rhode Island, United States | 13 June 2023 Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States | 2005 | |
| | Nancy Morejón | 7 August 1944 Havana, Cuba | — | 2005 | |
| | Adélia Prado | 13 December 1935 Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil | — | 2005 | |
| | Cecil Rajendra | 1941 George Town, Penang, Malaysia | — | 2005 | |
| | Adrienne Rich | 16 May 1929 Baltimore, Maryland, United States | 27 March 2012 Santa Cruz, California, United States | 2005 | |
| | Tom Stoppard | 3 July 1937 Zlín, Czech Republic | — | 2005 | |
| | Luisa Valenzuela | 26 November 1938 Buenos Aires, Argentina | — | 2005 | |
| | Ian McEwan | 21 June 1948 Aldershot, Hampshire, England | — | 2005, 2006 | |
| | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | 5 January 1938 Kamirithu, Kiambu, Kenya | — | 2005, 2006 | |
| | Ryszard Kapuściński | 4 March 1932 Pinsk, Belarus | 23 January 2007 Warsaw, Poland | 2005, 2006 | |
| | Maryse Condé | 11 February 1934 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe | 2 April 2024 Apt, Vaucluse, France | 2005, 2007 | |
| | Dương Thu Hương | 1947 Thái Bình, Vietnam | — | 2005, 2009 | |
| | Umberto Piersanti | 26 February 1941 Urbino, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy | — | 2005, 2024 | |
| 2006 ||||||
| | Paul Auster | 3 February 1947 Newark, New Jersey, United States | 30 April 2024 New York City, United States | 2006 | |
| | Ryhor Baradulin | 24 February 1935 Vierasoŭka, Ushachy, Belarus | 2 March 2014 Minsk, Belarus | 2006 | |
| | Julian Barnes | 19 January 1946 Leicester, England | — | 2006 | |
| | Eduardo Galeano | 3 September 1940 Montevideo, Uruguay | 13 April 2015 Montevideo, Uruguay | 2006 | |
| | Hanna Krall | 20 May 1935 Warsaw, Poland | — | 2006 | |
| | Mikael Niemi | 13 August 1959 Tärnaby, Storuman, Sweden | — | 2006 | |
| | Elena Poniatowska | 19 May 1932 Paris, France | — | 2006 | |
| | Barry Unsworth | 10 August 1930 Wingate, County Durham, England | 4 June 2012 Perugia, Italy | 2006 | |
| | Vijaydan Detha | 1 September 1926 Borunda, Rajasthan, India | 10 November 2013 Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India | 2006, 2011 | |
| 2007 ||||||
| | Carlos Germán Belli | 15 September 1927 Lima, Peru | 10 August 2024 Surquillo, Peru | 2007 | |
| | Roberto Benigni | 27 October 1952 Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo, Italy | — | 2007 | |
| | Peter Carey | 7 May 1943 Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia | — | 2007 | |
| | Philippe Jaccottet | 30 June 1925 Moudon, Vaud, Switzerland | 24 February 2021 Grignan, Drôme, France | 2007 | |
| | Luz Pozo Garza | 21 July 1922 Ribadeo, Lugo, Spain | 20 April 2020 A Coruña, Spain | 2007 | |
| | Marcio Veloz Maggiolo | 13 August 1936 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 10 April 2021 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 2007 | |
| | Boris Pahor | 26 August 1913 Trieste, Italy | 20 May 2022 Trieste, Italy | 2007, 2008, 2009 | |
| 2008 ||||||
| | Marjorie Boulton | 7 May 1924 Teddington, Greater London, United Kingdom | 30 August 2017 London, United Kingdom | 2008 | |
| | Shlomo Kalo | 25 February 1928 Sofia, Bulgaria | 30 August 2014 Tel Aviv, Israel | 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014 | |
| 2009 ||||||
| | Georgi Vasilyevich Marchuk | 1 January 1947 Davyd-Haradok, Belarus | 23 August 2023 Minsk, Belarus | 2009 | |
| | Franck Étienne | 12 April 1936 Ravine-Sèche, Artibonite, Haiti | 20 February 2025 Delmas, Ouest, Haiti | 2009, 2010 | |

#### 2010–2019

* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 2010 ||||||
| | Néstor Amarilla | 24 July 1980 Coronel Oviedo, Caaguazú, Paraguay | — | 2010 | |
| | Valentin Rasputin | 15 March 1937 Ust-Uda, Ust-Udinsky, Russia | 14 March 2015 Moscow, Russia | 2010 | |
| | Kanta Ibraguimov | 9 July 1960 Grozny, Chechnya, Russia | — | 2010, 2012 | |
| 2011 ||||||
| | Besik Kharanauli | 11 November 1939 Tianeti, Georgia | — | 2011, 2015 | |
| | David Magradze | 28 June 1962 Tbilisi, Georgia | — | 2011, 2018, 2019 | |
| | Nawal El Saadawi | 22 October 1931 Kafr Tahla, Qalyubiyya, Egypt | 21 March 2021 Cairo, Egypt | 2011, 2012, 2021 | |
| 2012 ||||||
| | Mo Yan | 5 March 1955 Gaomi, Shandong, China | — | 2012 | Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Kamal Mehdi Abdullayev | 4 December 1950 Baku, Azerbaijan | — | 2012 | |
| | Mahasweta Devi | 14 January 1926 Dhaka, Bangladesh | 28 July 2016 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 2012 | |
| | Maksud Ibrahimbeyov | 11 May 1935 Baku, Azerbaijan | 22 March 2016 Baku, Azerbaijan | 2012 | |
| | Dacia Maraini | 13 November 1936 Florence, Italy | — | 2012 | |
| | Ariano Suassuna | 16 June 1927 João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil | 23 July 2014 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil | 2012 | |
| | Fazil Iskander | 6 March 1929 Sukhumi, Georgia | 31 July 2016 Peredelkino, Moscow, Russia | 2012, 2013 | |
| 2013 ||||||
| | Paul Goma | 2 October 1935 Seliște, Nisporeni, Moldova | 25 March 2020 Paris, France | 2013 | |
| | Dante Maffia | 17 January 1946 Roseto Capo Spulico, Cosenza, Italy | — | 2013 | |
| | Varujan Vosganian | 25 July 1958 Craiova, Romania | — | 2013, 2014, 2015 | |
| | Luiz de Miranda | 6 April 1945 Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | 29 July 2022 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 | |
| 2014 ||||||
| | Patrick Modiano | 30 July 1945 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France | — | 2014 | Awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Nicolae Breban | 1 February 1934 Baia Mare, Romania | — | 2014 | |
| | Vasyl Holoborodko | 7 April 1945 Adrianopil, Perevalsk, Ukraine | — | 2014 | |
| | Norman Manea | 19 July 1936 Suceava, Romania | — | 2014 | |
| | Boualem Sansal | 15 October 1949 Théniet El Had, Algeria | — | 2014 | |
| | Mircea Cărtărescu | 1 June 1955 Bucharest, Romania | — | 2014, 2015 | |
| 2015 ||||||
| | Bernardo Atxaga | 27 July 1951 Asteasu, Guipuzkoa, Spain | — | 2015 | |
| | Moniz Bandeira | 30 December 1935 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil | 10 November 2017 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 2015 | |
| | Sebastiano Vassalli | 24 October 1941 Genoa, Italy | 26 July 2015 Casale Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy | 2015 | |
| | Anna Nerkagi | 15 February 1951 Yamalo-Nenets, Russia | — | 2015, 2018, 2020 | |
| | Pierfranco Bruni | 18 January 1955 San Lorenzo del Vallo, Cosenza, Italy | — | 2015, 2023 | |
| | Francesco Benozzo | 22 February 1969 Modena, Italy | — | 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024 | |
| 2016 ||||||
| | Lygia Fagundes Telles | 19 April 1918 São Paulo, Brazil | 3 April 2022 São Paulo, Brazil | 2016 | |
| | José Manuel Caballero Bonald | 11 November 1926 Jerez de la Frontera, Spain | 9 May 2021 Madrid, Spain | 2016 | |
| | Predrag Matvejević | 7 October 1932 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 February 2017 Zagreb, Croatia | 2016 | |
| | Tess Osonye Onwueme | 8 September 1955 Ogwashi Ukwu, Delta, Nigeria | — | 2016 | |
| 2017 ||||||
| | Kazuo Ishiguro | 8 November 1954 Nagasaki, Japan | — | 2017 | Awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Alessio Arena | 12 October 1996 Palermo, Italy | — | 2017 | |
| | Carlos Nejar | 11 January 1939 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | — | 2017 | |
| | Jamal Qaiser | 27 July 1972 Rawalpindi, Pakistan | — | 2017 | |
| 2018 ||||||
| | Olga Tokarczuk | 29 January 1962 Sulechów, Zielona Góra, Poland | — | 2018, 2019 | Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. |
| | Manuel Alegre | 12 May 1936 Águeda, Aveiro, Portugal | — | 2018 | |
| | Hafez Haidar | 25 May 1953 Baalbek, Baalbek-Hermel, Lebanon | — | 2018 | |
| | Emanuel Medeiros Vieira | 31 March 1945 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil | 29 July 2019 Brasília, Brazil | 2018 | |
| | Ernő Polgár | 27 January 1954 Bácsalmás, Bács-Kiskun, Hungary | 28 October 2018 Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei | 2018 | |
| | Damdinsurengiin Urainkhai | 12 January 1940 Bulgan, Mongolia | — | 2018 | |
| 2019 ||||||
| | Jamal Sanad Al Suwaidi | 30 July 1959 Dubai, United Arab Emirates | — | 2019 | |
| | Leo Butnaru | 5 January 1949 Negureni, Telenești, Moldova | — | 2019 | |
| | Kyriakos Kytoudis | 1961 Larissa, Greece | — | 2019 | |

#### 2020–2025

* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025
| Picture | Name | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Notes |
| 2020 ||||||
| | Louise Glück | 22 April 1943 New York City, New York, United States | 13 October 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | 2020 | Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Mário Cláudio | 6 December 1941 Porto, Portugal | — | 2020 | |
| | Giovanna Giordano | 12 November 1961 Milan, Italy | — | 2020 | |
| | Scholastique Mukasonga | 20 December 1956 Gikongoro, Rwanda | — | 2020, 2021, 2022 | |
| | Antonia Lera | 13 May 1958 Roseto degli Abruzzi, Teramo, Italy | — | 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 | |
| 2021 ||||||
| | Abdulrazak Gurnah | 20 December 1948 Zanzibar, Tanzania | — | 2021 | Awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Denny Januar Ali | 4 January 1963 Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia | — | 2021 | |
| | Indran Amirthanayagam | 1960 Colombo, Sri Lanka | — | 2021 | |
| | Drago Jančar | 13 April 1948 Maribor, Slovenia | — | 2021 | |
| | Guido Oldani | 2 May 1947 Melegnano, Milan, Italy | — | 2021 | |
| | Vassilis Pappas | 5 July 1958 Vrion, Sarandë, Albania | — | 2021, 2023, 2024 | |
| 2022 ||||||
| | Annie Ernaux | 1 September 1940 Lillebonne, Seine-Maritime, France | — | 2022 | Awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | Deonísio da Silva | 30 November 1948 Siderópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil | — | 2022 | |
| | Edwidge Danticat | 19 January 1969 Port-au-Prince, Haiti | — | 2022 | |
| | Georgi Gospodinov | 7 January 1968 Yambol, Bulgaria | — | 2022 | |
| | Noé Jitrik | 23 January 1928 Rivera, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 6 October 2022 Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia | 2022 | |
| | Fatos Kongoli | 12 January 1944 Elbasan, Albania | — | 2022 | |
| | Serhiy Zhadan | 23 August 1974 Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine | — | 2022 | |
| | Adam Kadir | 1942 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia | — | 2022, 2023, 2024 | |
| 2023 ||||||
| | José Humberto da Silva Henriques | 17 December 1958 Cruzeiro da Fortaleza, Minas Gerais, Brazil | — | 2023 | |
| | Carlos Hugo Garrido Chalén | 16 October 1951 Zorritos, Contralmirante Villar, Peru | — | 2023 | |
| | Ida Vitale | 2 November 1923 Montevideo, Uruguay | — | 2023 | |
| 2024 ||||||
| | Han Kang | 27 November 1970 Gwangju, South Korea | — | 2024 | Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| | Nicolae Ciucă | 7 February 1967 Plenița, Dolj, Romania | — | 2024 | |
| | Maciel de Aguiar | 11 February 1952 Conceição da Barra, Espírito Santo, Brazil | — | 2024 | |
| | Aka Morchiladze | 10 November 1966 Tbilisi, Georgia | — | 2024 | |
| | Ihor Pavlyuk | 1 January 1967 Rozhysche, Volyn, Ukraine | — | 2024 | |
| | Giulio "Mogol" Rapetti | 17 August 1936 Milan, Italy | — | 2024 | |
| | Maria Tedeschi | 3 January 1972 Naples, Italy | — | 2024 | |

## Statistics

With the annual revelation of nominated writers for the Nobel Prize in Literature, interesting facts are eventually uncovered between 1901 and 1974 such as the following:
* Number of nominations: ---
* Highest nominations in a year: 205 nominations were made in 1973.
* Highest nominations for a nominee: Spanish philologist Ramón Menéndez Pidal received 92 nominations in 1956.
* Number of nominees: 854
* Most new nominees: 30 new writers were recommended in 1969.
* Highest number of nominates in a year: 103 writer were nominated in 1969.
* Literary societies: The Pali Text Society was nominated in 1916 and remains the only society.
* Number of women: 81
* Most women nominees in a year: 9 women were nominated in 1974.
* Oldest male nominee: At age 99, Spanish philologist Ramón Menéndez Pidal was nominated in 1968.
* Oldest female nominee: At age 91, Estonian poet Marie Under was nominated in 1974.
* Youngest male nominee: At age 24, Chinese poet Chen Minghua was nominated in 1974.
* Youngest female nominee: At age 31, Finnish writer Sally Salminen was nominated in 1937.
Official statistics of Nobel Prize in Literature nominees (1901–1975) :
| Year | Total | Total | Nominees | Nominees | Oldest | Youngest | Most nominated (by nominations) | Source |
| Year | Nominations | Nominees | Women | New | Oldest | Youngest | Most nominated (by nominations) | Source |
| 1901 | 37 | 26 | 1 | 26 | Charles Renouvier (86) | Edmond Rostand (33) | Frédéric Mistral (5) | |
| 1902 | 44 | 34 | 0 | 25 | Theodor Mommsen (85) | Ventura López Fernández (36) | Leo Tolstoy (4) | |
| 1903 | 43 | 24 | 0 | 10 | George Meredith (75) | Rudyard Kipling (38) | Frédéric Mistral (5) | |
| 1904 | 29 | 21 | 2 | 6 | George Meredith (76) | Rudyard Kipling (39) | Lewis Morris (3) | |
| 1905 | 35 | 15 | 2 | 2 | Leo Tolstoy (77) | Rudyard Kipling (40) | Eliza Orzeszkowa (8) | |
| 1906 | 54 | 24 | 1 | 11 | Gaston Boissier (83) | William J. Neidig (36) | Lewis Morris (5) Giosuè Carducci (5) Joseph Widmann (5) G. Lansing Raymond (5) | |
| 1907 | 37 | 21 | 1 | 8 | Eduardo Benot (84) | Rudyard Kipling (42) | Angelo de Gubernatis (5) | |
| 1908 | 23 | 16 | 2 | 6 | Theodor Zahn (70) | Alfred Hutchinson (49) | Selma Lagerlöf (6) | |
| 1909 | 38 | 21 | 1 | 7 | John Morley (71) | Maurice Maeterlinck (47) | Selma Lagerlöf (11) | |
| 1910 | 27 | 25 | 2 | 12 | Paul Heyse (80) | Maurice Maeterlinck (48) | Georg Brandes (2) Gustav Warneck (2) | |
| 1911 | 30 | 27 | 2 | 11 | M. von Ebner-Eschenbach (81) | Karl Schönherr (42) | Salvador Rueda Santos (2) Ernst von der Recke (2) Gustaf Fröding (2) Karl Gjellerup (2) Juhani Aho (2) | |
| 1912 | 40 | 30 | 0 | 10 | Jean-Henri Fabre (89) | Karl Schönherr (45) | Pierre Loti (4) | |
| 1913 | 32 | 28 | 1 | 9 | John Lubbock (79) | Grazia Deledda (42) | Grazia Deledda (2) Pierre Loti (2) Karl Gjellerup (2) Ernest Lavisse (2) | |
| 1914 | 26 | 24 | 2 | 7 | Jean-Henri Fabre (91) | Vilhelm Grønbech (42) | Harald Høffding (2) Ángel Guimerá Jorge (2) Carl Spitteler (2) |
| 1915 | 26 | 22 | 1 | 3 | Benito Pérez Galdós (72) | Vilhelm Grønbech (42) | Grazia Deledda (3) | |
| 1916 | 47 | 28 | 1 | 9 | Edmond Picard (80) | Rabindranath Datta (33) | Verner von Heidenstam (6) | |
| 1917 | 26 | 20 | 2 | 6 | Edmond Picard (81) | Olaf Bull (34) | Georg Brandes (3) | |
| 1918 | 19 | 17 | 1 | 5 | Georg Brandes (76) | Gunnar Gunnarsson (29) | Juhani Aho (3) | |
| 1919 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 5 | Carl Spitteler (74) | Hugo von Hofmannsthal (45) | Hans Ernst Kinck (4) | |
| 1920 | 27 | 16 | 1 | 1 | Thomas Hardy (80) | Grazia Deledda (49) | Thomas Hardy (9) | |
| 1921 | 22 | 18 | 1 | 5 | Anatole France (77) | Gunnar Gunnarsson (32) | Anatole France (3) | |
| 1922 | 30 | 22 | 3 | 10 | Thomas Hardy (82) | Gunnar Gunnarsson (33) | Georg Brandes (4) | |
| 1923 | 36 | 20 | 3 | 5 | Thomas Hardy (83) | Bertel Gripenberg (45) | Guglielmo Ferrero (7) | |
| 1924 | 22 | 18 | 2 | 3 | Thomas Hardy (84) | Olav Duun (48) | Guglielmo Ferrero (3) | |
| 1925 | 25 | 21 | 3 | 6 | Thomas Hardy (85) | Giovanni Schembari (31) | Guglielmo Ferrero (5) | |
| 1926 | 37 | 29 | 4 | 16 | Thomas Hardy (86) | Vicente Huidobro (33) | Concha Espina (4) | |
| 1927 | 29 | 21 | 4 | 6 | Thomas Hardy (87) | Olaf Bull (44) | Ada Negri (4) | |
| 1928 | 48 | 36 | 6 | 13 | Paul Bourget (76) | Felix Timmermans (42) | Paul Ernst (3) Henri Bergson (3) | |
| 1929 | 30 | 24 | 1 | 6 | Ludwig von Pastor (75) | Knud Rasmussen (32) | Benedetto Croce (3) | |
| 1930 | 47 | 30 | 3 | 13 | Ernst von der Recke (82) | Frans Eemil Sillanpää (42) | Paul Valéry (6) | |
| 1931 | 49 | 29 | 3 | 10 | Kostis Palamas (72) | Erich Maria Remarque (33) | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (8) | |
| 1932 | 48 | 31 | 1 | 9 | Axel Munthe (72) | Karel Čapek (42) | Ivan Bunin (5) | |
| 1933 | 47 | | | 10 | | | | |
| 1934 | 44 | 32 | 1 | 13 | Ernest Roguin (83) | Karel Čapek (44) | A. Correia de Oliveira (5) | |
| 1935 | 52 | 38 | 5 | 14 | James George Frazer (81) | Jarl Hemmer (43) | Frans Emil Sillanpää (4) Johannes V. Jensen (4) | |
| 1936 | 47 | 27 | 2 | 10 | Sigmund Freud (80) | Jarl Hemmer (43) | Frans Emil Sillanpää (5) | |
| 1937 | 62 | 37 | 7 | 14 | Kostis Palamas (78) | Sally Salminen (31) | Johannes V. Jensen (7) | |
| 1938 | 47 | 29 | 6 | 11 | Kostis Palamas (79) | Sally Salminen (32) | Frans Eemil Sillanpää (6) | |
| 1939 | 45 | 33 | 7 | 10 | Benedetto Croce (73) | Sally Salminen (33) | Johannes V. Jensen (4) | |
| 1940 | 26 | 19 | 3 | 7 | Kostis Palamas (81) | Gösta Carlberg (31) | Henriette Charasson (3) | |
| 1941 | 21 | 15 | 4 | 3 | Paul Claudel (73) | Edmund Blunden (45) | Johannes V. Jensen (3) | |
| 1942 | 30 | 16 | 2 | 6 | Johannes Jørgensen (76) | Edmund Blunden (46) | Johannes V. Jensen (7) | |
| 1943 | 21 | 20 | 4 | 5 | Carlos María Ocantos (83) | John Steinbeck (41) | Johannes V. Jensen (2) | |
| 1945 | 24 | 21 | 4 | 4 | Paul Valéry (73) | John Steinbeck (42) | Enrique Larreta (2) Johannes V. Jensen (2) Henriette Charasson (2) | |
| 1945 | 23 | 18 | 4 | 4 | Paul Valéry (74) | Yiorgos Theotokas (39) | Franz Werfel (3) Paul Valéry (3) | |
| 1946 | 32 | 22 | 2 | 9 | Ricarda Huch (83) | Ignazio Silone (46) | Charles F. Ramus (4) | |
| 1947 | 43 | 35 | 4 | 11 | Georgios Drossinis (88) | Mikhail Sholokhov (42) | Henriette Charasson (3) Charles F. Ramuz (3) | |
| 1948 | 45 | 32 | 3 | 7 | Georgios Drossinis (89) | Mikhail Sholokhov (43) | Winston Churchill (6) | |
| 1949 | 43 | 35 | 3 | 9 | George Santayana (86) | Albert Camus (36) | Arnulf Øverland (3) | |
| 1950 | 79 | 54 | 4 | 20 | John Dewey (91) | Albert Camus (37) | Pär Lagerkvist (7) | |
| 1951 | 44 | 25 | 2 | 6 | Paul Claudel (83) | Mika Waltari (43) | Pär Lagerkvist (9) | |
| 1952 | 57 | 40 | 1 | 14 | Benedetto Croce (86) | Albert Camus (39) | Concha Espina (4) Ramón Menéndez Pidal (4) | |
| 1953 | 34 | 24 | 0 | 3 | Julien Benda (86) | Graham Greene (49) | Rudolf Kassner (3) Tarjei Vesaas (3) Johan Falkberget (3) | |
| 1954 | 35 | 27 | 2 | 3 | Julien Benda (87) | Albert Camus (41) | Halldór Laxness (6) | |
| 1955 | 59 | 46 | 3 | 17 | Julien Benda (88) | Igor Gouzenko (36) | Halldór Laxness (5) | |
| 1956 | 158 | 44 | 4 | 14 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (87) | Albert Camus (43) | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (92) | |
| 1957 | 66 | 49 | 4 | 12 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (88) | Väinö Linna (37) | André Malraux (4) | |
| 1958 | 70 | 42 | 5 | 17 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (89) | John Hersey (44) | Robert Frost (5) | |
| 1959 | 83 | 56 | 8 | 20 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (90) | Sachidananda Routray (43) | Maria Dabrowska (7) | |
| 1960 | 70 | 58 | 4 | 14 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (91) | Heinrich Böll (43) | Johan Falkberget (4) | |
| 1961 | 93 | 56 | 5 | 15 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (92) | Friedrich Dürrenmatt (40) | Robert Frost (8) | |
| 1962 | 86 | 66 | 3 | 15 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (93) | André Schwarz-Bart (34) | E. Morgan Forster (4) | |
| 1963 | 121 | 81 | 5 | 22 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (94) | Yevgeny Yevtushenko (31) | Robert Frost (8) | |
| 1964 | 98 | 75 | 4 | 19 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (95) | Michel Butor (38) | Väinö Linna (3) Friedrich Dürrenmatt (3) André Malraux (3) Mikhail Sholokhov (3) | |
| 1965 | 120 | 93 | 8 | 21 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (96) | Alan Sillitoe (37) | André Malraux (6) | |
| 1968 | 99 | 72 | 3 | 10 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (97) | Arnold Wesker (37) | Samuel Beckett (4) André Malraux (4) | |
| 1967 | 112 | 69 | 5 | 18 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (98) | Ivan Drach (31) | José María Pemán (8) | |
| 1968 | 112 | 76 | 5 | 19 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (99) | Sławomir Mrożek (38) | Samuel Beckett (6) Compton Mackenzie (6) Tarjei Vesaas (6) | |
| 1969 | 184 | 103 | 5 | 30 | Stijn Streuvels (98) | Ivan Drach (33) | André Malraux (8) Giuseppe Ungaretti (8) Tarjei Vesaas (8) |
| 1970 | 128 | 77 | 2 | 25 | Compton Mackenzie (87) | Paavo Haavikko (39) | Tarjei Vesaas (9) | |
| 1971 | 137 | 91 | 1 | 25 | Jacques Maritain (89) | Richard E. Kim (39) | Jorge Luis Borges (6) Eugenio Montale (6) | |
| 1972 | 158 | 100 | 5 | 27 | Compton Mackenzie (89) | Philip Roth (39) | W. Hugh Auden (10) | |
| 1973 | 205 | 101 | 6 | 18 | Marie Under (90) | Hannu Salama (37) | Elie Wiesel (32) | |
| 1974 | — | 101 | 9 | 22 | Marie Under (91) | Chen Minghua (24) | Elie Wiesel (17) | |
| 1975 | to be determined by 2026 | to be determined by 2026 | to be determined by 2026 | to be determined by 2026 | to be determined by 2026 | to be determined by 2026 | to be determined by 2026 |