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.