Año | Premiado | País |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | Estados Unidos |
| 1929 | tdomas Mann | Alemania |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Noruega |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson | Francia |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italia |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Irlanda |
| 1924 | Władysław Reymont | Polonia |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats | Irlanda |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | España |
| 1921 | Anatole France | Francia |