2017: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

2016: William Shakespeare (8,700)

2015: Leo Tolstoy (9,000)

2014: Daniel Defoe (10,000)

2013: Honore de Balzac (10,000)

2012: Jonathan Swift (12,800)

2011: Carlo Collodi (12,000)

2010: Mark Twain (12,000)

2009: Thomas Mann (12,000)

2008: George Bernard Shaw (16,000)

2007: William Faulkner (16,000)

2006: Virginia Woolf (12,000)

2005: Miguel de Cervantes (13,000)

2004: Franz Kafka (14,000)

2003: Jules Verne (14,000)

2002: F Scott Fitzgerald (18,500)

2001: Charles Dickens (18,000)

2000: Friedrich Schiller (22,000)

1999: Marcel Proust (17,000)

1998: Edgar Allan Poe (14,000)

1997: Fyodor Dostoevsky (17,000)

1996: Alexandre Dumas (20,000)

1995: Voltaire (15,000)

1994: Oscar Wilde (20,000)

1993: Agatha Christie (30,000)

1992: Ernest Hemingway (25,000)

The official announcement for Writers Edition is made around July or August.