Preisträger 1996-2008
| 1996 | Wisława Szymborska | Günter Grass |
| 1997 | Zbigniew Herbert | Karl Dedecius |
| 1998 | Tadeusz Różewicz | Siegfried Lenz |
| 1999 | Ryszard Kapuściński | Christa Wolf |
| 2000 | Hanna Krall | Marcel Reich-Ranicki |
| 2001 | Jan Józef Szczepański | Henryk Bereska |
| 2002 | Andrzej Stasiuk | Friedrich Christian Delius |
| 2003 | Włodzimierz Kowalewski | Barbara Köhler |
| 2004 | Hubert Orłowski | Klaus Zernack |
| 2005 | Pawel Huelle | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 2006 | Slawomir Mrozek | Tankred Dorst |
| 2007 | Ewa Lipska | Sarah Kirsch |
| 2008 | Olga Tokarczuk | Ingo Schulze |