1901 — Sully Prudhomme (Pamanang hadiah Nobel panambayan dalam literatur) 1904 — Frédéric Mistral 1911 — Maurice Maeterlinck (warga negara Belgia) 1915 — Romain Rolland 1921 — Anatole France 1927 — Henri Bergson 1937 — Roger Martin du Gard 1947 — André Gide 1952 — François Mauriac 1957 — Albert Camus 1960 — Saint-John Perse 1964 — Jean-Paul Sartre 1969 — Samuel Beckett 1985 — Claude Simon 2000 — Gao Xingjian 2008 — J.M.G. Le Clézio