Nobelprisen er uddelt siden 1901,og er den ældste internationale pris. Nobelprisen gives for ”præstationer” inden for fysik, kemi, medicin, litteratur og fred. Prisvinderne modtager en medalje, et diplom og ti millioner svenske kroner.
Modtagere
| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 2016 | Bob Dylan |
| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich |
| 2014 | Patrick Modiano |
| 2013 | Alice Munro |
| 2012 | Mo Yan |
| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| 2009 | Herta Müller |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek |
| 2003 | J.M. Coetzee |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész |
| 2001 | Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian |
| 1999 | Günter Grass |
| 1998 | José Saramago |
| 1997 | Dario Fo |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka |
| 1985 | Claude Simon |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert |
| 1983 | William Golding |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow |
| 1975 | Eugonio Montale |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson |
| Harry Martinson | |
| 1973 | Patrick White |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Isayevich Solsjenitsyn |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias |
| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon |
| Nelly Sachs | |
| 1965 | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo |
| 1958 | Boris Leonidovich Pasternak |
| 1957 | Albert Camus |
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez |
| 1955 | Halldór Kiljan Laxness |
| 1954 | Ernest Miller Hemingway |
| 1953 | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
| 1952 | François Mauriac |
| 1951 | Pär Fabian Lagerkvist |
| 1950 | Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell |
| 1949 | William Faulkner |
| 1948 | Thomas Stearns Eliot |
| 1947 | André Paul Guillaume Gide |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral |
| 1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen |
| 1943 | Ikke uddelt |
| 1942 | Ikke uddelt |
| 1941 | Ikke uddelt |
| 1940 | Ikke uddelt |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää |
| 1938 | Pearl Buck |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard |
| 1936 | Eugene Gladstone O’Neill |
| 1935 | Ikke uddelt |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello |
| 1933 | Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente |
| 1921 | Anatole France |
| 1920 | Knut Pedersen Hamsun |
| 1919 | Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler |
| 1918 | Ikke uddelt |
| 1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup |
| Henrik Pontoppidan | |
| 1916 | Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland |
| 1914 | Ikke uddelt |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1912 | Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann |
| 1911 | Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie |
| Bernhard Maeterlinck | |
| 1910 | Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf |
| 1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling |
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral |
| José Echegaray y Eizaguirre | |
| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson |
| 1902 | Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen |
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme |