| Forfattere som skrev på norsk | Forfattere som skrev på andre språk |
| 1321 | |
Dante Alighieri |
| 1375 | |
Giovanni Boccaccio |
| 1400 | |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 1531 | |
Ulrich Zwingli |
| 1535 | |
Thomas Moore |
| 1546 | |
Martin Luther |
| 1564 | |
Jean Calvin |
| 1572 | |
John Knox |
| 1616 | |
William Shakespeare, Miguel Cervantes |
| 1626 | |
Francis Bacon |
| 1630 | |
Johannes Kepler |
| 1655 | |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 1673 | |
Molière |
| 1703 | |
Charles Perrault |
| 1707 | Petter Dass |
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| 1716 | Dorothe Engelbretsdotter |
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| 1731 | |
Daniel Defoe |
| 1745 | |
Jonathan Swift |
| 1754 | Ludvig Holberg |
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| 1755 | |
Charles Montesqieu |
| 1764 | Erik Pontoppidan |
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| 1778 | |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire |
| 1784 | |
Denis Diderot |
| 1785 | Johan Herman Wessel |
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| 1790 | |
Adam Smith |
| 1794 | |
Rudolf Eirch Raspe, Maximilien de Robespierre |
| 1797 | Andreas Eckstorm |
Horace Walpole |
| 1802 | |
Nicolas Rétif de la Bretonne |
| 1804 | Jacob Christian Bie |
Immanuel Kant |
| 1809 | |
Thomas Paine |
| 1814 | |
Marquis de Sade |
| 1816 | Johan Nordahl Brun |
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| 1820 | |
Honoré de Balzac |
| 1821 | Jens Zetlitz |
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| 1822 | |
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Amadeus Hoffmann |
| 1823 | |
Ann Radcliffe, David Ricardo |
| 1824 | Hans Nielsen Hauge |
George Gordon Byron |
| 1826 | |
Thomas Jefferson |
| 1827 | |
William Blake |
| 1829 | Claus Frimann |
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| 1831 | |
James Monroe |
| 1832 | |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Scott |
| 1834 | |
Thomas Malthus |
| 1836 | |
William Godwin, James Madison |
| 1844 | |
Joseph Smith |
| 1845 | Henrik Wergeland |
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| 1848 | |
Emily Brontë |
| 1849 | Peder Olivarius Bugge |
Anne Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe |
| 1850 | |
Báb |
| 1851 | |
Mary Shelley |
| 1855 | Olea Crøger |
Charlotte Brontë |
| 1856 | |
Heinrich Heine, Max Stirner |
| 1857 | Ole Vig |
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| 1859 | |
Wilhelm Grimm |
| 1863 | Peter Andreas Munch |
Jacob Grimm (den lengstlevende av Brødrene Grimm) |
| 1864 | Rudolf Keyser |
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| 1865 | |
Abraham Lincoln, Jean-Pierre Proudhon |
| 1866 | Conradine Dunker, Nils Joachim Christian Vibe Stockfleth |
Friedrich Gustav Lisco |
| 1867 | |
Charles Baudelaire |
| 1869 | Paul Botten-Hansen, Andreas Faye |
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| 1870 | Anthon Bang, Bernhard Dunker, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje |
Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas |
| 1872 | |
Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné |
| 1873 | August Schneider, Johan Sebastian Welhaven |
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| 1875 | |
H.C. Andersen |
| 1876 | |
Mikhail Bakunin, Georges Sand |
| 1877 | |
Johan Ludvig Runeberg |
| 1878 | Olaus Fjørtoft |
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| 1879 | Henrik Krohn |
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| 1880 | Magnus Brostrup Landstad |
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| 1881 | |
Fjodor Dostojevski |
| 1882 | Jørgen Moe |
Charles Darwin |
| 1883 | |
Karl Marx |
| 1884 | Georg Vilhelm Lyng |
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| 1885 | Peter Chrisbten Asbjørnsen, Hans Ørn Blom, Johan Koren Christie |
Victor Hugo |
| 1887 | Lars Dilling, Ludvig Mathias Lindeman |
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| 1888 | |
Julius Krohn |
| 1889 | Gustava Kielland |
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| 1890 | Marcus Thrane |
Peder Fylling |
| 1892 | Arne Dybfest | Bahá'u'lláh, Forfatter:Charles Spurgeon |
| 1895 | Camilla Collett, Knud Knudsen, Ole Munch Ræder |
| 1896 | Ivar Aasen |
| 1897 | Carl Richard Unger |
| 1899 | Frithjof Foss |
| 1900 | Daniel A. Buli | Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Heinrich Reusch, Oscar Wilde |
| 1901 | | Gaetano Bresci, Leon Czolgosz |
| 1902 | Elias Blix | Émile Zola |
| 1904 | Fredrik Gjertsen, Per Sivle | Theodor Herzl, Anton Tsjekhov |
| 1905 | Amalie Skram | Louise Michel, Jules Verne |
| 1906 | Kristofer Hansteen, Henrik Ibsen, Alexander Kielland |
| 1907 | Rasmus Løland, Sophus Bugge |
| 1908 | Jonas Lie, Ragnhild Jølsen |
| 1909 | Otto Sinding |
| 1910 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Ludvig Daae, Hans Jæger, Viggo Ullmann | Leo Tolstoj, Mark Twain |
| 1911 | Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning, Marie Wexelsen |
| 1912 | | August Strindberg, Bram Stoker |
| 1913 | Moltke Moe, Rasmus Olai Steinsvik |
| 1914 | Johannes Skar |
| 1915 | | Anna Leonowens |
| 1916 | Martin Johannes Bugge, Johannes Johnson, Yngvar Nielsen | Jack London |
| 1917 | Kristofer Janson, Ernst Sars | Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof |
| 1918 | | Guillaume Apollinaire |
| 1919 | Jonas Dahl |
| 1920 | Christopher Bruun | Walter Runeberg |
| 1921 | | Pjotr Aleksejevitsj Kropotkin, James Gibbons |
| 1922 | Henrik August Angell, Thrond Sjursen Haukenæs, Gustav Jensen, Ole Theodor Moe, Alvilde Prydz, Hans Reusch | Marcel Proust, Hermann L. Starck |
| 1923 | Knut Loupedalen |
| 1924 | Arne Garborg, Anton Aure | Vladimir Lenin, Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad |
| 1925 | Christian Krohg, Hans Wiers-Jenssen | Antti Aarne, Camille Flammarion |
| 1926 | Chr. Collin, Lars Jaastad |
| 1927 | Leiv Isaksen, Gustav Aagaard |
| 1928 | Roald Amundsen, Dirdrik Hegermann Grønvold |
| 1929 | Matti Aikio, Rudolf Nilsen | Armin Stein, Thorstein Veblen |
| 1930 | Jacob Breda Bull, Fridtjof Nansen | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 1931 | Johannes Barstad, Peter Hognestad, Margrethe Munthe, Ole Edvart Rølvaag |
| 1932 | Andreas Martin Hansen, Bernhard Folkestad | Errico Malatesta, Gustav Meyrink |
| 1933 | Vetle Vislie | Robert W. Chambers |
| 1934 | Ivar Mortensson-Egnund, Sven Elvestad (Stein Riverton), Hulda Garborg |
| 1936 | Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen | Hinke Bergegren, Rudyard Kipling, Nestor Makhno |
| 1937 | Bendix Joachim Ebbell, Bernt Støylen | H.P. Lovecraft |
| 1938 | Paul Olaf Bodding, Johan Daniel Landmark | Karel Čapek, Benjamin R. Tucker |
| 1939 | Olav Duun, Regine Normann, Oskar Braaten |
| 1940 | | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lev Trotskij |
| 1941 | | Virginia Woolf |
| 1942 | Nini Roll Anker, Ove Arthur Ansteinsson, Catharinus Elling |
| 1943 | Nordahl Grieg, Anders Hovden, Anna Caspari Agerholt Johan Oscar Smith |
| 1944 | | Marc Bloch, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| 1945 | Øvre Richter Frich, Arnold Hazeland, Vidkun Quisling, Clara Tschudi, Hanna Astrup Larsen |
| 1946 | Theodor Dahl, Olaf Wilhelm Erichsen, Ronald Fangen | John Maynard Keynes, Herbert George Wells |
| 1947 | Sigurd Christiansen, Carl O. Tangen, Kathrine Lie, Julli Wiborg | Aleister Crowley |
| 1948 | Thekla Resvoll, Nanna Thrane | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1949 | Sigrid Undset |
| 1950 | | Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Orwell, George Bernhard Shaw |
| 1951 | Tryggve Aakervik |
| 1952 | Knut Hamsun |
| 1953 | | Ivan Bunin, Josef Hamsun |
| 1958 | Gabriel Scott |
| 1959 | Peter Egge, Herman Wildenvey |
| 1960 | Sigurd Hoel |
| 1961 | | Ernest Hemingwey, James Thurber |
| 1962 | Trygve Gulbranssen, Sigurd Kvåle |
| 1963 | Olav Hoprekstad | C.S. Lewis |
| 1965 | Herbrand Lavik | Winston Churchill |
| 1967 | Johan Falkberget |
| 1968 | Arnulf Øverland |
| 1970 | Tarjei Vesaas |
| 1971 | Clara Thue Ebbell |
| 1972 | Stein Barth-Heyerdahl |
| 1973 | | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 1974 | Cora Sandel |
| 1976 | Jens Bjørneboe |
| 1979 | Jonas Schanche Jonasen |
| 1985 | André Bjerke |
| 1990 | | Roald Dahl |
