| 1 | Juhani Aho (1861–1921) | Russia
Finland) | novel, short story | Karl Alfred Melin (1849–1919) |
| 2 | Henri Bergson (1859–1941) | France | philosophy | Vitalis Norström (1856–1916) |
| 3 | Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) | Italy | novel, short story, essays | Ferdinando Martini (1840–1928)Luigi Luzzatti (1841–1927) |
| 4 | Edward Dowden (1843–1913) | Ireland | poetry, essays, literary criticism | James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913) |
| 5 | Émile Faguet (1847–1916) | France | literary criticism, essays | Émile Boutroux (1845–1921) |
| 6 | Salvatore Farina (1846–1918) | Italy | novel, short story | members of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere |
| 7 | Anatole France (1844–1924) | France | poetry, essays, drama, novel, literary criticism | Richard Moritz Meyer (1860–1914) |
| 8 | Adolf Frey (1855–1920) | Switzerland | biography, history, essays | Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919) |
| 9 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857–1919) | Denmark | poetry, drama, novel | several German professorsmembers of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters |
| 10 | Ángel Guimerá Jorge (1845–1924) | Spain | drama, poetry | members of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona |
| 11 | Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) | Great Britain | novel, short story, poetry | 97 members of the Royal Society of Literature |
| 12 | Sven Hedin (1865–1952) | Sweden | essays, autobiography, history | Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) |
| 13 | Harald Høffding (1843–1931) | Denmark | philosophy, theology | members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters |
| 14 | Jakob Knudsen (1858–1917) | Denmark | novel, short story, pedagogy, theology | Per Hallström (1866–1960) |
| 15 | Ernest Lavisse (1842–1922) | France | history | Hans Hildebrand (1842–1913)Frédéric Masson (1847–1923)Raymond Poincaré (1860–1934)Paul Hervieu (1857–1915)Marcel Prévost (1862–1941) |
| 16 | Pierre Loti (1850–1923) | France | novel, short story, autobiography, essays | Ernest Lavisse (1842–1922)Gabriel Hanotaux (1853–1944) |
| 17 | John Lubbock (1834–1913) | Great Britain | essays | Hans Hildebrand (1842–1913) |
| 18 | John Morley (1838–1923) | Great Britain | biography, literary criticism, essays | John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) |
| 19 | Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) | Spain | novel, short story, drama, essays | members of the Royal Spanish Academy and several literary societies |
| 20 | Edmond Picard (1836–1924) | Belgium | drama, law, essays | Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) |
| 21 | Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943) | Denmark | novel, short story | Adolf Noreen (1854–1925) |
| 22 | Peter Rosegger (1843–1918) | Austria-Hungary | poetry, essays | Karl Alfred Melin (1849–1919) |
| 23 | Salvador Rueda Santos (1857–1933) | Spain | poetry, essays | professors in Madrid |
| 24 | Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) | India | poetry, novel, drama, short story, essay, songwriting,
translation | Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944) |
| 25 | Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) | Switzerland | poetry, essays | 49 members of The Nobel Prize Committee of the Society of AuthorsWilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919) |
| 26 | Ernst von der Recke (1848–1933) | Denmark | poetry, drama | members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters |
| 27 | Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940) | Sweden | novel, short story, poetry | Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) |
| 28 | Francis Channing Welles (1887–1956) | Great Britain | essays | Carveth Read (1848–1931) |
