| Year | Author | Work | Publisher (x times) | Country (x times) | | 1985 | J. M. Coetzee | Life & Times of Michael K | Seuil | South Africa |
| 1986 | Torgny Lindgren | Bethsabée | Actes Sud | Sweden |
| 1987 | Susan Minot | Monkeys | Gallimard | United States |
| 1988 | Amos Oz | Black Box | Calmann-Lévy | Israël |
| 1989 | Alison Lurie | The Truth About Lorin Jones | Rivages | United States (2) |
| 1990 | Vergílio Ferreira | Matin perdu | Éditions de la Différence|fr}} | Portugal |
| 1991 | David Malouf | The Great World | Albin Michel | Australia |
| 1992 | Julian Barnes | Talking It Over | Denoël | United Kingdom |
| 1993 | Ian McEwan | The Child in Time | Gallimard (2) | United Kingdom (2) |
| 1994 | Rose Tremain | Sacred Country | Éditions de Fallois|fr}} | United Kingdom (3) |
| 1995 | Jeroen Brouwers | Rouge décanté | Gallimard (3) | Netherlands |
| 1996 | Javier Marías | Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me | Rivages (2) | Spain |
| 1997 | Jia Pingwa | Ruined City | Stock | China |
| 1998 | Antonio Muñoz Molina | Pleine Lune | Le Seuil (2) | Spain (2) |
| 1999 | Hitonari Tsuji | Le Bouddha blanc | Mercure de France | Japan |
| 2000 | Jamaica Kincaid | My Brother | Éditions de l'Olivier | United States (3) |
| 2001 | Keith Ridgway | The Long Falling | Éditions Phébus | Eire |
| 2002 | Erri De Luca | Montedidio | Gallimard (4) | Italia |
| 2003 | Magda Szabó | The Door | Éditions Viviane Hamy|fr}} | Hungary |
| 2004 | Hugo Hamilton | The Speckled People | Phébus (2) | Eire (2) |
| 2005 | Joyce Carol Oates | The Falls | Éditions Philippe Rey|fr}} | United States(4) |
| 2006 | Nuala O'Faolain | The Story of Chicago May | Éditions Sabine Wespieser|fr}} | Eire (3) |
| 2007 | Edward St Aubyn | Mother's Milk | Éditions Christian Bourgois|fr}} | United Kingdom (4) |
| 2008 | Sandro Veronesi | Chaos calme | Grasset | Italia (2) |
| 2009 | Matthias Zschokke | Maurice à la poule | Éditions Zoé|fr}} | Switzerland |
| 2010 | Sofi Oksanen | Purge | Stock (2) | Finland |
| 2011 | Francisco Goldman | Say Her Name | Christian Bourgois (2) | United States (5) |
| 2012 | Julie Otsuka | The Buddha in the Attic | Phébus (3) | United States (6) |
| 2013 | Richard Ford | Canada | L'Olivier (2) | United States (7) |
| 2014 | Zeruya Shalev | Ce qui reste de nos vies | Gallimard (5) | Israel (2) |
| 2015 | Kerry Hudson | Thirst | Philippe Rey (2) | United Kingdom (5) |
| 2016 | Rabih Alameddine | Les Vies de papier | Éditions Les Escales|fr}} | Lebanon |
| 2017 | John Edgar Wideman | Ecrire pour sauver une vie, le dossier Louis Till | Éditions Gallimard | United States (8) |
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