1993 

Toni Morrison – [American]
(February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019)

"who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"

1992

Sir Derek Alton Walcott – [ Saint Lucian]
(January 23, 1930 – March 17, 2017)

"for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment"

1986 

Wole Soyinka –  [Nigerian]
(born July 13, 1934)

"who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence."