Ted Giola has compiled "The Nobel Prize in Literature from an Alternative Universe".
Imagine a world in which such honors are exempt from pettiness, politics and tokenism. Imagine a Nobel Prize in which the contributions of Proust, Kafka, Nabokov and Joyce are not forgotten. Imagine a Nobel Prize in Literature in which genre writers have a chance. Imagine a Nobel Prize in Literature that doesn't bend over backward to exclude native born U.S. writers (only three honored during the last 52 years!).Let's start arguing:
| Year | Actual Winner | Alternative |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio | Don DeLillo |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing | J.K. Rowling |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Philip Roth |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter | Milan Kundera |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | John Updike |
| 2003 | J. M. Coetzee | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész | John le Carré |
| 2001 | V. S. Naipaul | V. S. Naipaul |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | Haruki Murakami |
| 1999 | Günter Grass | Tom Stoppard |
| 1998 | José Saramago | Roberto Bolaño |
| 1997 | Dario Fo | Hunter Thompson |
| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | Stanisław Lem |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | Isaiah Berlin |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | Stephen Sondheim |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | Ralph Ellison |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | Bob Dylan |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | Muriel Spark |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz | Octavio Paz |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | Theodor Seuss Geisel |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Salman Rushdie |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | Eugene Ionesco |
| 1985 | Claude Simon | Philip Larkin |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | Italo Calvino |
| 1983 | William Golding | Graham Greene |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | Gabriel García Márquez |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | Elias Canetti |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz | Czeslaw Milosz |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis | Philip K. Dick |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Tennessee Williams |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | Saul Bellow |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | Eugenio Montale |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson | John Lennon, Paul McCartney |
| 1973 | Patrick White | Lionel Trilling |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | J.R.R. Tolkein |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | Pablo Neruda |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | Samuel Beckett |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Yukio Mishima |
| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs | Agatha Christie, Jorge Luis Borges |
| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | Jack Kerouac |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1963 | Giorgios Seferis | Giorgios Seferis |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck | John Steinbeck |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric | William Carlos Willaims |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | Ian Fleming |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Cole Porter |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak | E. M. Forster |
| 1957 | Albert Camus | Albert Camus |
| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Raymond Chandler |
| 1955 | Halldòr Laxness | Bertolt Brecht |
| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill | Wallace Stevens |
| 1952 | François Mauriac | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | Dorothy Parker |
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| 1949 | William Faulkner | William Faulkner |
| 1948 | T.S. Eliot | T.S. Eliot |
| 1947 | André Gide | André Gide |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse | Hermann Broch |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | George Orwell |
| 1944 | Johannes V. Jensen | W. H. Auden |
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Robert Musil |
| 1938 | Pearl Buck | Virginia Woolf |
| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | James Joyce |
| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Luigi Pirandello |
| 1933 | Ivan Bunin | Stefan Zweig |
| 1932 | John Galsworthy | Zane Grey |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | G. K. Chesterton |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann | Thomas Mann |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Edith Wharton |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson | Constantine P. Cavafy |
| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | George Bernard Shaw |
| 1924 | Wladyslaw Reymont | Miguel de Unamuno |
| 1923 | William Butler Yeats | William Butler Yeats |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | Franz Kafka |
| 1921 | Anatole France | Marcel Proust |
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 1919 | Carl Spitteler | Thomas Hardy |
| 1917 | Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan | Joseph Conrad |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Sigmund Freud |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland | Guillaume Apollinaire |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | George Trakl |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | William Dean Howells |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Henry James |
| 1910 | Paul Heyse | W.S. Gilbert |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | August Strindberg |
| 1908 | Rudolf Eucken | John Millington Synge |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | Rudyard Kipling |
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci | Mark Twain |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Henrik Ibsen |
| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray | Jules Verne |
| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Anton Chekhov |
| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen | George Meredith |
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme | Leo Tolstoy |
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