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Authors: Colm Tóibín,Carmen Callil
Awarded by the Swedish Academy for a writer’s contribution to literature, language and society.
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell |
| 1951 | Pär Fabian Lagerkvist |
| 1952 | François Mauriac |
| 1953 | Sir Winston Churchill |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway |
| 1955 | Halldór Laxness |
| 1956 | Juan Ramon Jimenez |
| 1957 | Albert Camus |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak (obliged to decline award) |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse |
| 1961 | Ivo Andrić |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck |
| 1963 | George Seferis (pseudonym of Giorgos Seferiadis) |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre (declined award) |
| 1965 | Michail Sholokhov |
| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Nelly Sachs |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias |
| 1968 | Kawabata Yasunari |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda |
| 1972 | Heinrich Boll |
| 1973 | Patrick White |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson; Harry Martinson |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis (pseudonym of Odysseus Alepoudhelis) |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez |
| 1983 | Sir William Golding |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Siefert |
| 1985 | Claude Simon |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oë |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska |
| 1997 | Dario Fo |
| 1998 | José Saramago |
| 1999 | Günter Grass |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian |
| 2001 | V. S. Naipaul |
| 2002 | Imre Ketersz |
| 2003 | J. M. Coetzee |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustavo Le Clezio |
| 2009 | Herta Muller |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa |
French literary prize awarded by an all-women jury of twelve, to novels written in a .foreign language. No restrictions on nationality. Books can be translations from any language.
| 1985 | Life and Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee |
| 1986 | Bathsheba Torgny Lindgren |
| 1987 | Monkeys Susan Minot |
| 1988 | The Black Box Amos Oz |
| 1989 | The Truth about Lorin Jones Alison Lurie |
| 1990 | The Lost Morning Vergilio Ferreira |
| 1991 | The Great World David Malouf |
| 1992 | Talking it Over Julian Barnes |
| 1993 | A Child in Time Ian McEwan |
| 1994 | Restoration Rose Tremain |
| 1995 | Decanted Red Jeroen Brouwers |
| 1996 | Tomorrow in the Battle, Think on Me Javier Marias |
| 1997 | The Fallen City Jia Pingwa |
| 1998 | Full Moon Antonio Munoz Molina |
| 1999 | The White Buddha Hitonari Tsuji |
| 2000 | My Brother Jamaica Kincaid |
| 2001 | The Long Falling Keith Ridgway |
| 2002 | God’s Mountain Erri De Luca |
| 2003 | The Door Magda Szabo |
| 2004 | The Speckled People Hugo Hamilton |
| 2005 | The Falls Joyce Carol Oates |
| 2006 | The Story of Chicago May Nuala O’Faolain |
| 2007 | Mother’s Milk Edward St. Aubyn |
| 2008 | Calm Chaos Sandro Veronesi |
| 2009 | Maurice mit Huhn Matthias Zschokke |
| 2010 | Puhdistus Sofi Oksanen |
French literary prize awarded by a jury of twelve to novels written in a foreign language. No restrictions on nationality. Books can be translations from any language.
| 1970 | Jump of Death Luigi Malherba |
| 1971 | Deliverance James Dickey |
| 1972 | Cobra Severo Sarduy |
| 1973 | Life is Elsewhere Milan Kundera |
| 1974 | Manuel’s Book Julio Cortazar |
| 1975 | The Too Brief Life of Edwin Mulhouse Steven Millhauser |
| 1976 | No award |
| 1977 | The Treatise of Seasons Hector Biancotti |
| 1978 | Radiant Future Aleksandr Zinoviev |
| 1979 | The Harp and the Shadow Alejo Carpentier |
| 1980 | A Dry White Season André Brink |
| 1981 | The Day of the Countess David Shahar |
| 1982 | The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco |
| 1983 | The Blue Road Kenneth White |
| 1984 | Aracoeli Elsa Morante |
| 1985 | God Knows Joseph Heller |
| 1986 | Adventures of the Fur Trade in Alaska John Hawkes |
| 1987 | Indian Nocturne Antonio Tabucchi |
| 1988 | Ancient Masters Thomas Bernhard |
| 1989 | The Admiral’s Snow Alvaro Mutis |
| 1990 | The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh |
| 1991 | The Story that was Happy then Painful then Funereal Pietro Citati |
| 1992 | Wartime Lies Louis Begley |
| 1993 | Leviathan Paul Auster |
| 1994 | Brother Sleep Robert Schneider |
| 1995 | The Castles of Anger Alessandro Baricco |
| 1996 | Himmelfarb Michael Kruger Sonietchka Ludmila Oulitskaia |
| 1997 | The Tortilla Curtain T. C. Boyle |
| 1998 | The House of Sleep Jonathan Coe |
| 1999 | The Captain of his Dreams Bjorn Larsson |
| 2000 | Anil’s Ghost Michael Ondaatje |
| 2001 | La Noce Du Poète Antonio Skarmeta |
| 2002 | The Human Stain Philip Roth |
| 2003 | Le Mal De Montano Enrique Vila-Matas |
| 2004 | Story of a Life Aharon Appelfeld |
| 2005 | Snow Orhan Pamuk |
| 2006 | Return of the Hooligan Norman Manea |
| 2007 | The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million Daniel Mendelsohn |
| 2008 | A Perfect Boy Alain Claude Sulzer |
| 2009 | What is the What Dave Eggers |
| 2010 | Sukkwan Island David Vann |
Author must be an American citizen. Books cannot be submitted for this, but are selected by a panel.
| 1950 | The Way West A. B. Guthrie Jr. |
| 1951 | The Town Conrad Richter |
| 1952 | The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk |
| 1953 | The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway |
| 1954 | No award |
| 1955 | A Fable William Faulkner |
| 1956 | Andersonville Mackinlay Kantor |
| 1957 | No award |
| 1958 | A Death in the Family James Agee (posthumous publication/award) |
| 1959 | The Travels of Jamie McPheeters Robert Lewis Taylor |
| 1960 | Advise and Consent Allen Drury |
| 1961 | To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee |
| 1962 | The Edge of Sadness Edwin O’Connor |
| 1963 | The Reivers William Faulkner |
| 1964 | No award |
| 1965 | The Keepers of the House Shirley Ann Grau |
| 1966 | Collected Stories Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1967 | The Fixer Bernard Malamud |
| 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron |
| 1969 | House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday |
| 1970 | Collected Stories Jean Stafford |
| 1971 | No award |
| 1972 | Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner |
| 1973 | The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty |
| 1974 | No award |
| 1975 | The Killer Angels Michael Shaara |
| 1976 | Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow |
| 1977 | No award |
| 1978 | Elbow Room James Alan McPherson |
| 1979 | The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever |
| 1980 | The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer |
| 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole |
| 1982 | Rabbit is Rich John Updike |
| 1983 | The Color Purple Alice Walker |
| 1984 | Ironweed William Kennedy |
| 1985 | Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie |
| 1986 | Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry |
| 1987 | A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor |
| 1988 | Beloved Toni Morrison |
| 1989 | Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler |
| 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos |
| 1991 | Rabbit at Rest John Updike |
| 1992 | A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley |
| 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler |
| 1994 | The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx |
| 1995 | The Stone Diaries Carol Shields |
| 1996 | Independence Day Richard Ford |
| 1997 | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer Steven Millhauser |
| 1998 | American Pastoral Philip Roth |
| 1999 | The Hours Michael Cunningham |
| 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon |
| 2002 | Empire Falls Rick Russo |
| 2003 | Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides |
| 2004 | The Known World Edward P. Jones |
| 2005 | Gilead Marilynne Robinson |
| 2006 | March Geraldine Brooks |
| 2007 | The Road Cormac McCarthy |
| 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz |
| 2009 | Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout |
| 2010 | Tinkers Paul Harding |