Awardees
- 1961 Nelly Sachs (Sweden)
- 1963 Johanna Moosdorf (Germany)
- 1965 Max Tau (Norway)
- 1967 Alfred Andersch (Switzerland)
- 1969 Giorgio Bassani (Italy)
- 1971 Ilse Aichinger (Austria)
- 1973 Paul Schallück (Germany)
- 1975 Elias Canetti (England)
- 1977 Hermann Kesten (United States)
- 1979 Erich Fromm (Germany)
- 1981 Horst Bienek (Germany)
- 1983 Hilde Domin (Germany)
- 1985 Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
- 1987 Milan Kundera (France)
- 1989 Andrzej Szczypiorski (Poland)
- 1991 David Grossman (Israel)
- 1993 Juan Goytisolo (Morocco)
- 1995 Michael Ondaatje (Canada)
- 1997 Javier Marías (Spain)
- 1999 Christa Wolf (Germany)
- 2001 Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (France)
- 2003 Per Olov Enquist(Sweden)
- 2005 Aharon Appelfeld (Israel)
- 2007 Rafik Schami (Syria/Germany)
- 2010 Margaret Atwood (Canada)
- 2011 Norman Manea (Romania)
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