Elfriede Jelinek 2004
Germany (drama/novel)
Die Klavierspielerin (The Piano Teacher), Die Kinder der Toten (The Children of the Dead), Greed, Lust
J. M. Coetzee 2003
South Africa (novel/essay)
Work: Boyhood, Life & Times of Michael K, Waiting for the Barbarians
Imre Kertész 2002
Hungary (novel)
Work: Fatelessness, Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Sir V. S. Naipaul 2001
Trinidad and Tobago/UK (novel)
Work: The Loss of El Dorado, The Enigma of Arrival, Guerrillas
高行健 Gao Xingjian 2000
China/France (novel/screenwriter)
Work: 給我老爺買魚竿 Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, 靈山 Soul Mountain, 一個人的聖經 One Man’s Bible