1918- Ernest Poole, His Family
(prominent NY father learns his 3 daughters must make their way in a world
of social mobility)
1919- Booth Tarkington, The
Magnificent Ambersons (about family life of fading
1900s aristocracy)
1921- Edith Wharton, The Age of
Innocence (NY 1870s: Neland Archer marries May Welland but
loves her cousin Ellen Olenska)
1922- Booth Tarkington, Alice
Adams (drug company employee has nagging wife,
shiftless son, and dreaming daughter Alice whose hopes are dashed and
enters Frincke's Business College)
1923- Willa Cather, One of Ours
(Claude Wheeler grows up on Western farm, goes to college, killed
in army in France)
1924- Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins (about 1860s Scottish Presbyterian family on
American frontier)
1925- Edna Ferber, So Big (life
of hard-working principled woman and her materialistic son)
1926- Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith (Refused prize) (Martin Arrowsmith, a bacteriologist, goes to VT farm
and West Indies)
1927- Louis Bromfield, Early
Autumn (a strong woman opposes materialism)
1928- Thornton Wilder, Bridge of
San Luis Rey (1714 Peru: Brother Juniper investigates death of 5
travelers on bridge)
1929- Julia M. Peterkin, Scarlet
Sister Mary (religious heroine has 8 illegitimate kids)
1930- Oliver LaFarge,
Laughing Boy (young Navajo wife lives with missionary family)
1931- Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years
of Grace (tells of a woman's relationships from adolescence to age 54)
1932- Pearl S. Buck, The Good
Earth China: Wang Lung and wife O-lan rise from
poverty to wealth but
sons don't share their respect for the land)
1933- T. S. Stribling, The Store
(three generations of AL family, Civil War to 1920s)
1934- Caroline Miller, Lamb in
His Bosom (about Carver family in mid-1800s GA backwoods)
1935- Josephine W. Johnson, Now
in November (about a Midwest farm girl)
1936- Harold L. Davis, Honey in
the Horn (teenager wanders through Oregon)
1937- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind (Civil War Georgia: Scarlett O'Hara of Tara
plantation loves Ashley Wilkes but he marries Melanie Hamilton; Scarlett
is widowed twice, then marries
Rhett Butler; Alexandra Ripley wrote 1992 sequel Scarlett)
1938- John P. Marquand, The Late
George Apley (A Novel in the Form of a Memoir;
Horatio Willing tells about life of Bostonian George Apley)
1939- Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings, The Yearling (northern Florida boy Jody loves a fawn but must
shoot it when it eats family corn)
1940- John Steinbeck, The Grapes
of Wrath (Joad family travels from OK to CA during the Great
Depression to find work picking fruit; Tom Joad becomes involved in
strikes and kills a man; Rose of Sharon has
baby),
1942- Ellen Glasgow, In This Our
Life (contrast between old and new societies in the South)
1943- Upton Sinclair, Dragon's
Teeth (about Nazi Germany)
1944- Martin Flavin, Journey in
the Dark (Chicago wallpaper manufacturer rises from poverty to wealth)
1945- John Hersey, A Bell for Adano (American major in WWII discovers dignity of the
Sicilian villagers)
1947- Robert Penn Warren, All
the King's Men (US South: Willie Stark, like Huey Long;
narrated by Jack Burden)
1948- James A. Michener, Tales
of the South Pacific (stories based on experiences in South Pacific during
WWII)
1949- James Gould Cozzens, Guard
of Honor
1950- A. B. Guthrie Jr., The Way
West (families in an 1845 wagon train to Oregon)
1951- Conrad Richter, The Town
(about pioneer woman Sayward Luckett)
1952- Herman Wouk, The Caine
Mutiny (officers on WWII minesweeper mutiny against Captain Queeg)
1953- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (Cuban fisherman Santiago catches
marlin on 85th day
but it is slowly eaten by sharks on way home),
1955- William Faulkner, A Fable
(allegory of Jesus in WWI France)
1956- MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville
(about Confederate prison camp in GA)
1958- James Agee, A Death in the
Family (about the effects of a man's death on his family)
1959- Robert Lewis Taylor, The
Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (boy's view of 1849 CA
Gold Rush)
1960- Allen Drury, Advise and
Consent (about Senate confirmation battle for Secretary of State with
Communist ties in youth)
1961- Harper Lee, To Kill a
Mockingbird (AL town: lawyer Atticus Finch defends a black
man; his daughter Scout Finch narrates)
1962- Edwin O'Connor, The Edge
of Sadness (Priest Hugh Kennedy's view of three generations of Irish)
1963- William Faulkner, The
Reivers
1965- Shirley Ann Grau, The
Keepers of the House (Abigail's politician husband leaves her when he learns
her grandfather had married his black mistress)
1966- Katherine Anne Porter, Collected
Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1967- Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
(Russian Jewish workman unjustly sentenced to prison)
1968- William Styron, The
Confessions of Nat Turner (about 1831 slave revolt)
1969- N. Scott Momaday,
House Made of Dawn (WWII veteran Abel remembers his Kiowa ancestry)
1970- Jean Stafford, Collected
Stories
1972- Wallace Stegner,
Angle of Repose (man researches his grandparent's settling of American West)
1973- Eudora Welty, The
Optimist's Daughter (woman has conflict with her father's second wife)
1975- Michael Shaara,
The Killer Angels (about Battle of Gettysburg)
1976- Saul Bellow, Humboldt's
Gift (Charles Citrine falls under spell of Von Humboldt Fleisher and
Rinaldo Cantabile; debates isolated life of art)
1978- James Alan McPherson,
Elbow Room (stories about struggling against limits set by others)
1979- John Cheever, The Stories
of John Cheever
1980- Norman Mailer, The
Executioner's Song (about convicted murderer Gary Gilmore)
1981- John Kennedy Toole, A
Confederacy of Dunces (about retarted Ignatius
Reilly)
1982- John Updike, Rabbit Is
Rich (about Henry "Rabbit" Angstrom)
1983- Alice Walker, The Color Purple (Celie made pregnant twice by dad
by age 14 and sold to Albert but
befriends Shug)
1984- William Kennedy, Ironweed
(about major league pitcher Francis Phelan)
1985- Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs
(about middle-aged children's author)
1986- Larry McMurtry, Lonesome
Dove (about late 1800s cattle drive from TX to MT)
1987- Peter Taylor, A Summons to
Memphis (Mr. Carver moves his family from genteel Nashville to industrialized
Memphis)
1988- Toni Morrison, Beloved (Sethe kills her daughter Beloved rather than have her grow
up a slave)
1989- Anne Tyler, Breathing
Lessons
1990- Oscar Hijuelos,
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (two brothers go from Havana to NYC to
play in
mambo clubs)
1991- John Updike, Rabbit at
Rest (about Henry "Rabbit" Angstrom)
1992- Jane Smiley, A Thousand
Acres
1993- Robert Olen Butler, A Good
Scent From a Strange Mountain (stories about
Vietnamese emigres in
Louisiana)
1994- E. Annie Proulx, The
Shipping News (unattractive widower makes new life for himself and two
daughters
in Newfoundland)
1995- Carol Shields, The Stone
Diaries (about the life of a Canadian woman born in 1905)
1996- Richard Ford, Independence
Day (about sportswriter Frank Bascombe)
1997-
Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an
American Dreamer (about young man's rise in NYC
hotel business in late 1800s)
1998-
Philip Roth, American Pastoral (about a family's deterioration in late
1900s)
1999-
Michael Cunningham, The Hours (about the influence of Virginia Woolf's Mrs.
Dalloway on three generations
of women)
2000-
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Madness (about
roots and the New World in the lives of American Indians)
2001 - Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (two Jewish cousins in the comics
industry)
2002 - Richard Russo, Empire Falls (Miles Roby manages the Empire
Grill in Maine)
2003 - Jeffrey Eugenide, Middlesex
(about an intersex Greek-American)
2004 - Edward P. Jones, The Known World (about slavery in Virginia)
2005 - Marilynne
Robinson, Gilead (about dying Reverend
John Ames in Iowa)
2006 - Geraldine Brooks, March (Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
retold by the absent father)
2007 - Cormac McCarthy, The Road (journey of father and son across
post-apocalyptic landscape)
2008 - Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (life of Oscar De Leon, a Dominican boy in New Jersey)
2009 - Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (interrelated short stories
about residents of Crosby, Maine)
2010 - Paul Harding, Tinkers (stories of clock repairman George
Washington Crosby and his tinker father)
2011 - Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the
Goon Squad (interrelated stories about record company executive
Bennie Salazar)
2012 - No award
2013 - Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son (about an orphan
growing up in North Korea)
2014 - Donna Tartt,
The Goldfinch (Theodore Decker turns to
crime after mom killed in art museum bombing)
2015 - Anthony Doerr, All the Light
We Cannot See (about a blind French girl and German boy in WWII France)
2016 - Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer (about a North Vietnamese
mole during and after Vietnam War)
2017 - Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Slaves Cora and
Caesar flee Georgia via a subway)
1918- Jesse Lynch Williams, Why
Marry?
1920- Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the
Horizon
1921- Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
1922- Eugene O'Neill, Anna
Christie
1923- Owen Davis, Icebound
1924- Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent
for Heaven
1925- Sidney Howard, They Knew
What They Wanted
1926- George Kelly, Craig's Wife
1927- Paul Green, In Abraham's
Bosom
1928- Eugene O'Neill, Strange
Interlude
1929- Elmer Rice, Street Scene
1930- Marc Connelly, The Green
Pastures
1931- Susan Glaspell, Alison's
House
1932- George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
1933- Maxwell Anderson, Both
Your Houses
1934- Sidney Kingsley, Men in
White
1935- Zoe Akins, The Old Maid
1936- Robert E. Sherwood, Idiot's
Delight
1937- George S. Kaufman and Moss
Hart, You Can't Take It With You
1938- Thornton Wilder, Our Town
1939- Robert E. Sherwood, Abe
Lincoln in Illinois
1940- William Saroyan, The Time
of Your Life
1941- Robert E. Sherwood, There
Shall Be No Night
1943- Thornton Wilder, The Skin
of Our Teeth
1945- Mary Chase, Harvey
1946- Russel Crouse and Howard
Lindsay, State of the Union
1948- Tennessee Williams, A
Streetcar Named Desire
1949- Arthur Miller, Death of a
Salesman
1950- Richard Rodgers, Oscar
Hammerstein 2d, and Joshua Logan, South Pacific
1952- Joseph Kramm,
The Shrike
1953- William Inge, Picnic
1954- John Patrick, Teahouse of
the August Moon
1955- Tennessee Williams, Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof
1956- Frances Goodrich and Albert
Hackett, The Diary of Anne Frank
1957- Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's
Journey Into Night
1958- Ketti Frings, Look Homeward,
Angel
1959- Archibald MacLeish, J. B.
1960- George Abbott, Jerome
Weidman, Sheldon Harnick, and Jerry Bock, Fiorello
1961- Tad Mosel, All the Way
Home
1962- Frank Loesser and Abe
Burrows, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1965- Frank D. Gilroy, The
Subject Was Roses
1967- Edward Albee, A Delicate
Balance
1969- Howard Sackler, The Great
White Hope
1970- Charles Gordone,
No Place to Be Somebody
1971- Paul Zindel,
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1973- Jason Miller, That
Championship Season
1975- Edward Albee, Seascape
1976- Michael Bennett, James
Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, and Edward Kleban,
A Chorus Line
1977- Michael Cristofer, The
Shadow Box
1978- Donald L. Coburn, The Gin
Game
1979- Sam Shepard, Buried Child
1980- Lanford Wilson, Talley's
Folly
1981- Beth Henley, Crimes of the
Heart
1982- Charles Fuller, A
Soldier's Play
1983- Marsha Norman, 'night,
Mother
1984- David Mamet, Glengarry
Glen Ross
1985- Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, Sunday in the Park With
George
1987- August Wilson, Fences
1988- Alfred Uhry,
Driving Miss Daisy
1989- Wendy Wasserstein, The
Heidi Chronicles
1990- August Wilson, The Piano
Lesson
1991- Neil Simon, Lost in
Yonkers
1992- Robert Schenkkan,
The Kentucky Cycle
1993- Tony Kushner, Angels in
America: Millennium Approaches
1994- Edward Albee, Three Tall
Women
1995- Horton Foote, The Young
Man From Atlanta
1996-
Jonathan Larson, Rent
1997-
No award
1998-
Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
1999-
Margaret Edson, Wit
2000-
Donald Margulies, Dinner with Friends
2001- David Auburn, Proof
2002- Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog
2003- Nilo
Cruz, Anna in the Tropics
2004- Doug Wright, I Am My
Own Wife
2005- John Patrick Shanley, Doubt:
A Parable
2006- No award
2007- David Lindsay-Abaire, Rabbit Hole
2008- Tracy Lefts, August:
Osage County
2009- Lynn Nottage,
Ruined
2010- Tom Kitt
and Brian Yorkey, Next to Normal
2011- Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park
2012- Quiara
Alegria Hudes, Water by the Spoonful
2013- Ayad Akhtar, Disgraced
2014- Annie Baker, The
Flick
2015- Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between
Riverside and Crazy
2016- Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
2017- Lynn Nottage,
Sweat
1918- Love Songs, by Sara Teasdale
1919- Old Road to Paradise, by Margaret Widemer; Corn Huskers, by Carl Sandburg.
1922- Edwin Arlington Robinson, Collected
Poems
1923- Edna St. Vincent Millay, The
Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs From Thistles;
Eight Sonnets in
American Poetry, 1922; A Miscellany
1924- Robert Frost, New
Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes
1925- Edwin Arlington Robinson, The
Man Who Died Twice
1926- Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock
1927- Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's
Farewell
1928- Edwin Arlington Robinson, Tristram
1929- Stephen Vincent Benet, John
Brown's Body
1930- Conrad Aiken, Selected
Poems
1931- Robert Frost, Collected
Poems
1932- George Dillon, The
Flowering Stone
1933- Archibald MacLeish,
Conquistador
1934- Robert Hillyer, Collected
Verse
1935- Audrey Wurdemann,
Bright Ambush
1936- Robert P. Tristram
Coffin, Strange Holiness
1937- Robert Frost, A Further
Range
1938- Marya Zaturenska,
Cold Morning Sky
1939- John Gould Fletcher, Selected
Poems
1940- Mark Van Doren, Collected
Poems
1941- Leonard Bacon, Sunderland Capture
1942- William Rose Benet, The
Dust Which Is God
1943- Robert Frost, A Witness
Tree
1944- Stephen Vincent Benet, Western
Star
1945- Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems
1947- Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
1948- W. H. Auden, The Age of
Anxiety
1949- Peter Viereck,
Terror and Decorum
1950- Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie
Allen
1951- Carl Sandburg, Complete
Poems
1952- Marianne Moore, Collected
Poems
1953- Archibald MacLeish, Collected
Poems
1954- Theodore Roethke, The
Waking
1955- Wallace Stevens, Collected
Poems
1956- Elizabeth Bishop, Poems,
North and South
1957- Richard Wilbur, Things of
This World
1958- Robert Penn Warren, Promises:
Poems 1954-1956
1959- Stanley Kunitz,
Selected Poems 1928-1958
1960- W. D. Snodgrass, Heart's
Needle
1961- Phyllis McGinley, Times
Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
1962- Alan Dugan, Poems
1963- William Carlos Williams, Pictures
From Breughel
1964- Louis Simpson, At the End
of the Open Road
1965- John Berryman, 77 Dream
Songs
1966- Richard Eberhart,
Selected Poems
1967- Anne Sexton, Live or Die
1968- Anthony Hecht, The Hard
Hours
1969- George Oppen,
Of Being Numerous
1970- Richard Howard, Untitled
Subjects
1971- William S. Merwin, The
Carrier of Ladders
1972- James Wright, Collected
Poems
1973- Maxine Winokur
Kumin, Up Country
1974- Robert Lowell, The Dolphin
1975- Gary Snyder, Turtle Island
1976- John Ashbery,
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
1977- James Merrill, Divine
Comedies
1978- Howard Nemerov,
Collected Poems
1979- Robert Penn Warren, Now and
Then: Poems 1976-1978
1980- Donald Justice, Selected
Poems
1981- James Schuyler, The
Morning of the Poem
1982- Sylvia Plath, The
Collected Poems
1983- Galway Kinnell,
Selected Poems
1984- Mary Oliver, American
Primitive
1985- Carolyn Kizer,
Yin
1986- Henry Taylor, The Flying
Change
1987- Rita Dove, Thomas
and Beulah
1988- William Meredith, Partial
Accounts: New and Selected Poems
1989- Richard Wilbur, New and
Collected Poems
1990- Charles Simic,
The World Doesn't End
1991- Mona Van Duyn,
Near Changes
1992- James Tate, Selected Poems
1993- Louise Gluck, The Wild
Iris
1994- Yusef Komunyakaa,
Neon Vernacular
1995- Philip Levine, The Simple Truth
1996- Jorie
Graham, The Dream of the Unified Field
1997- Lisel
Mueller, Alive Together: New and Selected
Poems
1998- Charles Wright, Black Zodiac
1999- Mark Strand, Blizzard of One
2000- CK Williams, Repair
2001- Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
2002- Carl Dennis, Practical Gods
2003- Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel
2004- Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard
2005- Ted Kooser,
Delights & Shadows
2006- Claudia Emerson, Late Wife
2007- Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard
2008- Philip Schultz, Failure
2009- W.S. Merwin, The Shadow of Sirius
2010- Rae Armantrout,
Versed
2011- Kay Ryan, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
2012- Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars
2013- Sharon Olds,
Stag's Leap
2014- Vijay Seshadri,
3 Sections
2015- Gregory Pardlo, Digest
2016- Peter Balakian,
Ozone Journal
2017- Tyehimba
Jess, Olio
(listed with one well-known
work)
1901 Sully Prudhomme (France), The
Destinies
1902 Theodor Mommsen (Germany), Romische Geschichte
1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson (Norway), Sigurd the Bastard trilogy
1904 Frederic Mistral (France), Mireio
Jose Echegaray
y Eizaguirre (Spain), El Matadero
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland),
With Fire and Sword
1906 Giosue Carducci (Italy), The Hymn
to Satan
1907 Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom),
Captains Courageous
1908 Rudolf C. Eucken (Germany),
Knowledge and Life
1909 Selma O.L. Lagerlof (Sweden),
Jerusalem
1910 Paul von Heyse (Germany), L'Arrabiata
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck
(Belgium), Pelleas et Melisandre
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany),
The Weavers
1913 Sir Rabindranath Tagore
(India), Ravindrasangeet
1914 Not awarded
1915 Romain Rolland (France), Jean
Christophe
1916 Verner von Heidenstam
(Sweden), Dikter
1917 Karl Gjellerup (Denmark), The
Pilgrim Kamanoto
Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark), Emanuel or Children of the
Soul
1918 Not awarded
1919 Carl Spitteler (Switzerland), Olympian Spring
1920 Knut Hamsun (Norway), The Growth of the Soil
1921 Anatole France (France),
Penguin Island
1922 Jacinto Benavente
y Martinez (Spain), Bonds of Interest
1923 William Butler Yeats
(Ireland), The
Second Coming
1924 Wladyslaw S. Reymont (Poland), The Peasants
1925 George Bernard Shaw (United
Kingdom), Man
and Superman
1926 Grazia Deledda (Italy), Elias Portulu
1927 Henri Louis Bergson (France), Creative Evolution
1928 Sigrid Undset (Norway), Kristin Lavransdatter
1929 Thomas Mann (Germany), The
Magic Mountain
1930 Sinclair Lewis (United
States), Arrowsmith
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden), Fridolin's Songs
1932 John Galsworthy (United
Kingdom), Forsyte Saga
1933 Ivan Alekseevich
Bunin (USSR),
The Gentleman from San Francisco
1934 Luigi Pirandello (Italy), Six Characters in Search
of an Author
1935 Not awarded
1936 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
(United States), Mourning Becomes Electra
1937 Roger Martin du Gard (France), Les Thibaults
1938 Pearl Buck (Sydenstricker) (United States), The House of Earth
1939 Frans Eemil
Sillanpaa (Finland), Meek Heritage
1940 Not awarded
1941 Not awarded
1942 Not awarded
1943 Not awarded
1944 Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark),
The Long Journey
1945 Gabriela Mistral (Chile), The Wine Press
1946 Hermann Hesse (Switzerland),
Steppenwolf
1947 Andre Gide (France), The
Immoralist
1948 T(homas)
S(tearns) Eliot (United Kingdom), The Waste Land
1949 William Faulkner (United
States),
Absalom Absalom
1950 Bertrand A.W. Russell (United
Kingdom), Principia Mathematica
1951 Par F. Lagerkvist (Sweden),
Barabbas
1952 Francois Mauriac (France),
Therese Desqueyroux
1953 Sir Winston Churchill (United
Kingdom), The
Crisis
1954 Ernest Hemingway (United
States), The
Sun Also Rises
1955 Halldor Kiljan
Laxness (Iceland),
Under the Holy Mountain
1956 Juan Ramon Jimenez (Spain),
Platero and I
1957 Albert Camus (France), The Fall
1958 Boris L. Pasternak* (USSR),
Dr. Zhivalgo
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy), To Give and To Have
1960 Saint-John Perse (France), Seamarks
1961 Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia), The
Bridge on the Drina
1962 John Ernst Steinbeck (United
States), The Grapes of Wrath
1963 George Seferis
(Greece),
Turning Point
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre* (France),
Being and Nothingness
1965 Mikhail A. Sholokhov (USSR),
The Quiet Don
1966 Shmuel Yosef H. Agnon
(Israel), The Bridal Canopy
Nelly Sachs (Germany-Sweden), The Nightingale of Wittenburg
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias
(Guatemala), El
senor presidente
1968 Kawabata Yasunari
(Japan), The Izu Dancer
1969 Samuel Beckett (Ireland),
Waiting for Godot
1970 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitzyn (USSR), The Gulag Archipelago
1971 Pablo Neruda (Chile), Canto general
1972 Heinrich Boll (West Germany), The Clown
1973 Patrick V.M. White
(Australia),
Happy Valley
1974 Eyvind Johnson (Sweden), Krilon trilogy
Harry Martinson (Sweden), Cape Farewell
1975 Eugenio Montale (Italy), Cuttlefish Bones
1976 Saul Bellow (United States),
The Adventures of Augie March
1977 Vicente Aleixandre (Spain), Revista
de Occidente
1978 Isaac Bashevis
Singer (United States), The Magician of Lublin
1979 Odysseus Elytis (Greece), The Axion Esti of Odysseus Elytis
1980 Czeslaw Milosz (Poland-United
States), The Captive Mind
1981 Elias Canetti (United
Kingdom), The
Tower of Babel
1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Columbia), One
Hundred Years of Solitude
1983 William Golding (United
Kingdom), Lord
of the Flies
1984 Jaroslav Seifert
(Czechoslovakia),
Put Out the Lights
1985 Claude Simon (France), The Flanders
1986 Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), The Swamp Dwellers
1987 Joseph Brodsky (United
States), A Halt
in the Wilderness
1988 Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt), The Cairo
Trilogy
1989 Camilo Jose Cela (Spain), The Hive
1990 Octavio Paz (Mexico), The
Labyrinth of Solitude
1991 Nadine Gordimer (South
Africa), The
Soft Voice of the Serpent
1992 Derek W. Walcott (St. Lucia), Dream on Monkey Mountain
1993 Toni Morrison (United States), Beloved
1994 Oe Kenzaburo (Japan), The Catch
1995 Seamus Heaney (Ireland), Death of a Naturalist
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
(Poland),
That's Why We're Alive
1997 Dario Fo
(Italy), Comic
Mysteries
1998 Jose Saramago
(Portugal), Baltasar and Blimunda
1999 Gunter Grass (Germany), The
Tin Drum
2000 Gao Xingjian (China), Soul
Mountain
2001 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
(UK, born Trinidad and Tobago), A House for Mr. Biswas
2002 Imre Kertesz (Hungary), Fatelessness
2003 J.M.
Coetzee (South Africa), Life & Times of Michael K
2004 Elfriede
Jelinek (Austria), The Piano Teacher
2005 Harold
Pinter (UK), The Birthday Party
2006 Orhan Pamuk (Turkey), The White
Castle
2007 Doris
Lessing (UK, born Iran), Children of Violence
2008 J.M.G.
Le Clezio (France/Mauritius), Le Proces-Verbal
2009 Herta Muller (Germany, born Romania), The Hunger Angel
2010 Mario
Vargas Llosa (Peru/Spain), Conversation in the
Cathedral
2011 Tomas
Transtromer (Sweden), The Sorrow Gondola
2012 Mo
Yan (China), Red Sorghum Clan
2013 Alice
Munro (Canada), Who Do You Think You Are?
2014 Patrick
Modiano (France), Rue des boutiques obscures
2015 Svetlana
Alexievich (Belarus, born Ukraine), War's Unwomanly
Face
2016 Bob
Dylan (US), songwriter, The Times They Are a-Changin
1969 P.
H. Newby, Something to Answer For
1970 Bernice
Rubens, The Elected Member
1971 V.
S. Naipaul, In a Free State
1972 John
Berger, G
1973 J.
G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
1974 Nadine
Gordimer, The Conservationist
Stanley Middleton, Holiday
1975 Ruth
Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
1976 David
Storey, Saville
1977 Paul
Scott, Staying On
1978 Iris
Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
1979 Penelope
Fitzgerald, Offshore
1980 William
Golding, Rites of Passage
1981 Salman
Rushdie, Midnight's Children
1982 Thomas
Keneally, Schindler's Ark
1983 J.
M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K
1984 Anita
Brookner, Hotel du Lac
1985 Keri
Hulme, The Bone People
1986 Kingsley
Amis, The Old Devils
1987 Penelope
Lively, Moon Tiger
1988 Peter
Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
1989 Kazuo
Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
1990 A.
S. Byatt, Possession
1991 Ben
Okri, The Famished Road
1992 Michael
Ondaatje, The English Patient
Barry
Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
1993 Roddy
Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994 James
Kelman, How Late It Was,
How Late
1995 Pat
Barker, Ghost Road
1996 Graham
Swift, Last Orders
1997 Arundhati
Roy, The God of Small Things
1998 Ian
McEwan, Amsterdam
1999 J.
M. Coetzee, Disgrace
2000 Margaret
Atwood, The Blind Assassin
2001 Peter
Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
2002 Yann
Martel, Life of Pi
2003 DBC
Pierre, Vernon God Little
2004 Alan
Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
2005 John
Banville, The Sea
2006 Kiran
Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
2007 Anne
Enright, The Gathering
2008 Aravind
Adiga, The White Tiger
2009 Hilary
Mantel, Wolf Hall
2010 Howard
Jacobson, The Finkler Question
2011 Julian
Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
2012 Hilary
Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
2013 Eleanor
Catton, The Luminaries
2014 Richard
Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2015 Marlon
James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
2016 Paul
Beatty, The Sellout