| Afghanistan | Literature | دشت قابیل1988 · Short stories | Spozhmai Zaryab | Persian |
| Albania | Literature | The General of the Dead Army1963 · Novel | Ismail Kadare | Tosk Albanian |
| Algeria | Literature | The Poor Man's Son1950 · Novel | Mouloud Feraoun | French |
| Angola | Literature | Mayombe1980 · Novel | Pepetela | Portuguese |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Literature | Annie John1985 · Novel | Jamaica Kincaid | English |
| Argentina | Literature | Fictions1944 · Short stories | Jorge Luis Borges | Spanish |
| Armenia | Literature | Book of Lamentations1002 · Poetry | Gregory of Narek | Armenian |
| Australia | Cinema | My Brilliant Career1979 · Cinema | Gillian Armstrong | English |
| Austria | Literature | Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman1927 · Narrative | Stefan Zweig | German |
| Azerbaijan | Literature | Ali and Nino1937 · Novel | Kurban Said | German |
| Bahamas | Literature | Woman Take Two1994 · Theatre | Telcine Turner | English |
| Bahrain | Literature | البشارة1970 · Poetry | Qassim Haddad | Arabic |
| Bangladesh | Literature | Tree Without Roots1948 · Novel | Syed Waliullah | Bengali |
| Barbados | Literature | Rights of Passage1967 · Poetry | Kamau Brathwaite | English |
| Belarus | Literature | The Unwomanly Face of War1985 · Narrative | Svetlana Alexievich | Russian |
| Belgium | Literature | The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel1867 · Epic | Charles de Coster | French |
| Belize | Literature | Beka Lamb1982 · Novel | Zee Edgell | English |
| Benin | Literature | Snares Without End1960 · Novel | Olympe Bhêly-Quénum | French |
| Bhutan | Cinema | The Cup1999 · Cinema | Khyentse Norbu | Dzongkha |
| Bolivia | Literature | Confidences1913 · Novel | Adela Zamudio | Spanish |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Literature | The Bridge on the Drina1945 · Novel | Ivo Andrić | Bosnian |
| Botswana | Literature | Love on the Rocks1981 · Novel | Andrew Sesinyi | English |
| Brazil | Literature | The Alienist1881 · Novel | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis | Portuguese |
| Brunei | Literature | Mahkota Berdarah1951 · Novel | Yura Halim | Malay |
| Bulgaria | Literature | Under the Yoke1889 · Novel | Ivan Vazov | Bulgarian |
| Burkina Faso | Literature | Crépuscule des temps anciens1962 · Novel | Nazi Boni | French |
| Burma (Myanmar) | Literature | Not Out of Hate1955 · Novel | Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay | Burmese |
| Burundi | Cinema | Gito the Ungrateful1992 · Cinema | Léonce Ngabo | French and Kirundi |
| Cambodia | Literature | សូផាត1941 · Novel | Rim Kin | Khmer |
| Cameroon | Literature | Agatha Moudio's Son1968 · Novel | Francis Bebey | French |
| Canada | Literature | Maria Chapdelaine1914 · Novel | Louis Hémon | French |
| Cape Verde | Literature | Chiquinho1947 · Novel | Baltasar Lopes da Silva | Portuguese |
| Central African Republic | Literature | Le Silence de la forêt1984 · Novel | Étienne Goyémidé | French |
| Chad | Literature | Told by Starlight in Chad1962 · Tale | Joseph Brahim Seïd | French |
| Chile | Literature | The House of the Spirits1982 · Novel | Isabel Allende | Spanish |
| China | Literature | Diary of a Madman1918 · Short stories | Lu Xun | Chinese |
| Colombia | Literature | Chronicle of a Death Foretold1981 · Novel | Gabriel García Márquez | Spanish |
| Comoros | Literature | La République des imberbes1985 · Novel | Mohamed Toihiri | French |
| Costa Rica | Literature | Cuentos de mi tía Panchita1920 · Tale | Carmen Lyra | Spanish |
| Croatia | Literature | The Return of Philip Latinowicz1932 · Novel | Miroslav Krleža | Croatian |
| Cuba | Literature | The Kingdom of This World1949 · Novel | Alejo Carpentier | Spanish |
| Cyprus | Literature | Moments1958 · Poetry | Costas Montis | Greek |
| Czechia | Literature | The Grandmother1855 · Novel | Božena Němcová | Czech |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Cinema | Life Is Rosy1987 · Cinema | Dieudonné Mweze Ngangura and Benoît Lamy | French |
| Denmark | Literature | The Little Mermaid1837 · Tale | Hans Christian Andersen | Danish |
| Djibouti | Literature | The Land without Shadows1994 · Short stories | Abdourahman A. Waberi | French |
| Dominican Republic | Literature | Cuentos frágiles1908 · Tale | Fabio Fiallo | Spanish |
| East Timor | Literature | A Voz Fagueira de Oan Tímor1993 · Poetry | Fernando Sylvan | Portuguese |
| Ecuador | Literature | The Villagers1934 · Novel | Jorge Icaza | Spanish |
| Egypt | Literature | Midaq Alley1947 · Novel | Naguib Mahfouz | Arabic |
| El Salvador | Literature | Cuentos de barro1933 · Short stories | Salvador Salazar Arrué (Salarrué) | Spanish |
| England | Literature | Pride and Prejudice1813 · Novel | Jane Austen | English |
| Equatorial Guinea | Literature | Shadows of Your Black Memory1987 · Novel | Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo | Spanish |
| Eritrea | Literature | The Conscript1950 · Novel | Ghebreyesus Hailu | Tigrinya |
| Estonia | Literature | Kalevipoeg1861 · Epic | Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald | Estonian |
| Ethiopia | Literature | አዲስ አለም1932 · Novel | Heruy Wäldä Sellasie | Amharic |
| Fiji | Literature | Tales of the Tikongs1983 · Short stories | Epeli Hauʻofa | English |
| Finland | Literature | Seven Brothers1870 · Novel | Aleksis Kivi | Finnish |
| France | Literature | Candide1759 · Novel | Voltaire | French |
| French Guiana (France) | Literature | Pigments1937 · Poetry | Léon-Gontran Damas | French |
| Gabon | Literature | Le Mvett1970 · Epic | Tsira Ndong Ndoutoume | French |
| Gambia | Literature | The Second Round1965 · Novel | Lenrie Peters | English |
| Georgia | Literature | The Knight in the Panther's Skin1200 · Poetry | Shota Rustaveli | Georgian |
| Germany | Literature | The Sorrows of Young Werther1774 · Novel | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | German |
| Ghana | Literature | The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born1968 · Novel | Ayi Kwei Armah | English |
| Greece | Literature | Zorba the Greek1946 · Novel | Nikos Kazantzakis | Greek |
| Greenland (Denmark) | Literature | A Greenlander's Dream1914 · Novel | Mathias Storch | Greenlandic |
| Grenada | Literature | Angel1987 · Novel | Merle Collins | English |
| Guadeloupe (France) | Literature | The Bridge of Beyond1972 · Novel | Simone Schwarz-Bart | French |
| Guatemala | Literature | The President1946 · Novel | Miguel Ángel Asturias | Spanish |
| Guinea (Conakry) | Literature | The Dark Child1953 · Novel | Camara Laye | French |
| Guinea-Bissau | Cinema | Those Whom Death Refused1988 · Feature film | Flora Gomes | Guinea-Bissau Creole |
| Guyana | Literature | To Sir, With Love1959 · Novel | E. R. Braithwaite | English |
| Haiti | Literature | Masters of the Dew1944 · Novel | Jacques Roumain | French |
| Honduras | Literature | Prisión verde1945 · Novel | Ramón Amaya Amador | Spanish |
| Hungary | Literature | The Paul Street Boys1907 · Novel | Ferenc Molnár | Hungarian |
| Iceland | Literature | Iceland's Bell1946 · Novel | Halldór Laxness | Icelandic |
| India | Literature | Gitanjali1910 · Poetry | Rabindranath Tagore | Bengali |
| Indonesia | Literature | This Earth of Mankind1980 · Novel | Pramoedya Ananta Toer | Indonesian |
| Iran | Literature | The Blind Owl1936 · Novel | Sadegh Hedayat | Persian |
| Iraq | Literature | أنشودة المطر1960 · Poetry | Badr Shakir al-Sayyab | Arabic |
| Ireland | Literature | Pygmalion1912 · Theatre | George Bernard Shaw | English |
| Israel | Literature | My Michael1968 · Novel | Amos Oz | Hebrew |
| Italy | Literature | The Leopard1958 · Novel | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Italian |
| Ivory Coast | Literature | The Suns of Independence1968 · Novel | Ahmadou Kourouma | French |
| Jamaica | Literature | Songs of Jamaica1912 · Poetry | Claude McKay | Jamaican Patois |
| Japan | Literature | Kokoro1914 · Novel | Natsume Soseki | Japanese |
| Jordan | Literature | You as of Today My Homeland1968 · Novel | Tayseer Sboul | Arabic |
| Kazakhstan | Literature | Book of Words1898 · Essay | Abai Kunanbaiuly | Kazakh |
| Kenya | Literature | Weep Not, Child1964 · Novel | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | English |
| Kosovo | Literature | Lum Lumi1982 · Poetry | Ali Podrimja | Albanian |
| Kuwait | Cinema | The Cruel Sea1972 · Cinema | Khalid Al-Siddiq | Arabic |
| Kyrgyzstan | Literature | Jamilia1958 · Short story | Chinghiz Aitmatov | Kyrgyz |
| Laos | Literature | ສິນໄຊ1650 · Epic | Pang Kham | Lao |
| Latvia | Literature | Bearslayer1888 · Poetry | Andrejs Pumpurs | Latvian |
| Lebanon | Literature | The Prophet1923 · Poetry | Kahlil Gibran | English |
| Lesotho | Literature | Chaka1925 · Novel | Thomas Mofolo | Sesotho |
| Liberia | Literature | Murder in the Cassava Patch1968 · Novel | Bai T. Moore | English |
| Libya | Literature | Gold Dust1990 · Novel | Ibrahim al-Koni | Arabic |
| Lithuania | Literature | The Seasons1765 · Poetry | Kristijonas Donelaitis | Lithuanian |
| Luxembourg | Literature | Reenert1872 · Poetry | Michel Rodange | Luxembourgish |
| Madagascar | Literature | Translated from the Night1935 · Poetry | Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo | French |
| Malawi | Literature | Of Chameleons and Gods1981 · Poetry | Jack Mapanje | English |
| Malaysia | Literature | Iakah Salmah?1928 · Novel | Ahmad bin Haji Muhammad Rashid Talu | Malay |
| Mali | Literature | The Fortunes of Wangrin1973 · Novel | Amadou Hampâté Bâ | French |
| Malta | Literature | Ineż Farruġ1889 · Novel | Anton Manwel Caruana | Maltese |
| Martinique (France) | Literature | Journal of a Homecoming1939 · Poetry | Aimé Césaire | French |
| Mauritania | Literature | L'Amour impossible1990 · Novel | Moussa Ould Ebnou | French |
| Mauritius | Literature | Rue la Poudrière1989 · Novel | Ananda Devi | French |
| Mexico | Literature | Pedro Páramo1955 · Novel | Juan Rulfo | Spanish |
| Moldova | Literature | Our Language1917 · Poetry | Alexei Mateevici | Romanian |
| Mongolia | Literature | The Blue Sky1994 · Novel | Galsan Tschinag | German |
| Montenegro | Literature | The Mountain Wreath1847 · Poetry | Petar II Petrović-Njegoš | Montenegrin |
| Morocco | Literature | The Simple Past1954 · Novel | Driss Chraïbi | French |
| Mozambique | Literature | Voices Made Night1986 · Short stories | Mia Couto | Portuguese |
| Namibia | Literature | Born of the Sun1988 · Novel | Joseph Diescho | English |
| Nepal | Literature | तीन घुम्ती1968 · Novel | Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala | Nepali |
| Netherlands | Literature | Max Havelaar1860 · Novel | Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker) | Dutch |
| New Caledonia (France) | Literature | To Tell the Truth1999 · Poetry | Déwé Gorodé and Nicolas Kurtovitch | French |
| New Zealand | Literature | The Garden Party and Other Stories1922 · Short stories | Katherine Mansfield | English |
| Nicaragua | Literature | Azul…1888 · Tale | Rubén Darío | Spanish |
| Niger | Literature | Sarraounia1980 · Novel | Abdoulaye Mamani | French |
| Nigeria | Literature | Things Fall Apart1958 · Novel | Chinua Achebe | English |
| North Korea | Cinema | The Flower Girl1972 · Feature film | Choe Ik-kyu and Pak Hak | Korean |
| North Macedonia | Literature | The Sirdar1860 · Poetry | Grigor Prličev | Greek |
| Norway | Literature | Hunger1890 · Novel | Knut Hamsun | Norwegian |
| Oman | Literature | A Man from the Empty Quarter1994 · Poetry | Saif al-Rahbi | Arabic |
| Pakistan | Literature | آتش پارے1936 · Short stories | Saadat Hasan Manto | Urdu |
| Palestine | Cinema | Chronicle of a Disappearance1996 · Cinema | Elia Suleiman | Arabic |
| Panama | Literature | My Country1909 · Poetry | Ricardo Miró | Spanish |
| Papua New Guinea | Cinema | Tinpis Run1991 · Cinema | Pengau Nengo | Tok Pisin |
| Paraguay | Literature | I the Supreme1974 · Novel | Augusto Roa Bastos | Spanish |
| Peru | Literature | Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter1977 · Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa | Spanish |
| Philippines | Literature | Noli Me Tangere1887 · Novel | José Rizal | Spanish |
| Poland | Literature | Quo Vadis1896 · Novel | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Polish |
| Portugal | Literature | Baltasar and Blimunda1982 · Novel | José Saramago | Portuguese |
| Puerto Rico (United States) | Literature | The Oxcart1953 · Theatre | René Marqués | Spanish |
| Republic of the Congo | Literature | The Laughing Cry1982 · Novel | Henri Lopes | French |
| Romania | Literature | Luceafărul1883 · Poetry | Mihai Eminescu | Romanian |
| Russia | Literature | Dead Souls1842 · Novel | Nikolai Gogol | Russian |
| Rwanda | Literature | La Divine Pastorale1952 · Poetry | Alexis Kagame | Kinyarwanda and French |
| Saint Lucia | Literature | Omeros1990 · Poetry | Derek Walcott | English |
| Samoa | Literature | Leaves of the Banyan Tree1979 · Novel | Albert Wendt | English |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Literature | É nosso o solo sagrado da terra1978 · Poetry | Alda do Espírito Santo | Portuguese |
| Saudi Arabia | Literature | Cities of Salt1984 · Novel | Abdul Rahman Munif | Arabic |
| Scotland | Literature | Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde1886 · Novel | Robert Louis Stevenson | English |
| Senegal | Literature | So Long a Letter1979 · Novel | Mariama Bâ | French |
| Serbia | Literature | A Tomb for Boris Davidovich1976 · Short stories | Danilo Kiš | Serbian |
| Seychelles | Literature | Paille en queue1969 · Poetry | Antoine Abel | French and English |
| Sierra Leone | Literature | The African1960 · Novel | William Conton | English |
| Singapore | Literature | If We Dream Too Long1972 · Novel | Goh Poh Seng | English |
| Slovakia | Literature | Death Is Called Engelchen1959 · Novel | Ladislav Mňačko | Slovak |
| Slovenia | Literature | Alamut1938 · Novel | Vladimir Bartol | Slovenian |
| Solomon Islands | Literature | The Alternative1980 · Novel | John Saunana | English |
| Somalia | Literature | Sweet and Sour Milk1979 · Novel | Nuruddin Farah | Somali |
| South Africa | Cinema | Cry, the Beloved Country1952 · Cinema | Zoltan Korda | English |
| South Korea | Literature | The Square1960 · Novel | Choe In-hun | Korean |
| South Sudan | Literature | The Last Word1969 · Essay | Taban Lo Liyong | English |
| Spain | Literature | Don Quixote1605 · Novel | Miguel de Cervantes | Spanish |
| Sri Lanka | Literature | The Way of the Lotus1956 · Novel | Martin Wickramasinghe | Sinhala |
| Sudan | Literature | Season of Migration to the North1966 · Novel | Tayeb Salih | Arabic |
| Suriname | Literature | Zuid-Zuid-West1926 · Novel | Albert Helman | Dutch |
| Sweden | Literature | Miss Julie1889 · Theatre | August Strindberg | Swedish |
| Switzerland | Cinema | Heidi1952 · Feature film | Luigi Comencini | German |
| Syria | Literature | قالت لي السمراء1944 · Poetry | Nizar Qabbani | Arabic |
| Taiwan | Cinema | A City of Sadness1989 · Cinema | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Chinese |
| Tajikistan | Literature | Дохунда1930 · Novel | Sadriddin Aini | Tajik |
| Tanzania | Literature | Paradise1994 · Novel | Abdulrazak Gurnah | English |
| Thailand | Literature | Phra Aphai Mani1870 · Poetry | Sunthorn Phu | Thai |
| Togo | Literature | An African in Greenland1980 · Narrative | Tété-Michel Kpomassie | French |
| Tonga | Literature | You, the Choice of My Parents1974 · Poetry | Konai Helu Thaman | English |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Literature | The Mystic Masseur1957 · Novel | V. S. Naipaul | English |
| Tunisia | Literature | The Pillar of Salt1953 · Novel | Albert Memmi | French |
| Turkey (Türkiye) | Literature | Memed, My Hawk1955 · Novel | Yaşar Kemal | Turkish |
| Turkmenistan | Literature | Songs from the Steppes of Central Asia1770 · Poetry | Magtymguly Pyragy | Turkmen |
| Uganda | Literature | Song of Lawino: A Lament1966 · Poetry | Okot p'Bitek | Acholi and English |
| Ukraine | Literature | Kobzar1840 · Poetry | Taras Shevchenko | Ukrainian |
| United Arab Emirates | Literature | ديوان سلطان العويس1978 · Poetry | Sultan al-Owais | Arabic |
| United States | Literature | The Great Gatsby1925 · Novel | Francis Scott Fitzgerald | English |
| Uruguay | Literature | Tales of Love, Madness and Death1917 · Short stories | Horacio Quiroga | Spanish |
| Uzbekistan | Literature | The Baburnama1530 · Narrative | Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur | Chagatai |
| Vanuatu | Literature | Black Stone1983 · Poetry | Grace Mera Molisa | English |
| Venezuela | Literature | Doña Barbara1929 · Novel | Rómulo Gallegos | Spanish |
| Vietnam | Literature | The Tale of Kieu1820 · Poetry | Nguyễn Du | Vietnamese |
| Wales | Literature | Collected Poems 1934–19521952 · Poetry | Dylan Thomas | English |
| Yemen | Literature | The Hostage1984 · Novel | Zayd Mutee Dammaj | Arabic |
| Zambia | Literature | The Tongue of the Dumb1971 · Novel | Dominic Mulaisho | English |
| Zimbabwe | Literature | The House of Hunger1978 · Short stories | Dambudzo Marechera | English |