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2023 Peter SELLARS, USA
2021 Helen MIRREN, United Kingdom
2020 Shahid Nadeem, Pakistan
2019 Carlos CELDRÁN, Cuba
2018 Ram Gopal BAJAJ, India, Maya ZBIB, Lebanon, Simon MCBURNEY, UK, Sabina BERMAN, Mexico, Werewere-Liking GNEPO, Ivory Coast
2017 Isabelle HUPPERT, France
2016 Anatoly VASILIEV, Russia
2015 Krzysztof WARLIKOWSKI, Poland
2014 Brett BAILEY, South Africa
2013 Dario FO, Italy
2012 John MALKOVICH, USA
2011 Jessica A. KAAHWA, Uganda
2010 Judi DENCH, United Kingdom
2009 Augusto BOAL, Brazil
2008 Robert LEPAGE, Canada
2007 Sultan bin Mohammed AL QASIMI, Sharjah, UAE
2006 Victor Hugo RASCON BANDA, Mexico
2005 Ariane MNOUCHKINE, France
2004 Fathia EL ASSAL, Egypt
2003 Tankred DORST, Germany
2002 Girish KARNAD, India
2001 Iakovos KAMPANELLIS, Greece
2000 Michel TREMBLAY, Canada
1999 Vigdís FINNBOGADÓTTIR, Iceland
1998 50th Anniversary of ITI - Special Message
1997 Jeong Ok KIM, South Korea
1996 Saadallah WANNOUS, Syria
1995 Humberto ORSINI, Venezuela
1994 Vaclav HAVEL, Czech Republic
1993 Edward ALBEE, USA
1992 Jorge LAVELLI, Argentina/France - Arturo USLAR PIETRI, Venezuela
1991 Federico MAYOR, Director General of UNESCO, France
1990 Kirill LAVROV, Russia
1989 Martin ESSLIN, United Kingdom

1988 Peter BROOK, United Kingdom
1987 Antonio GALA, Spain
1986 Wole SOYINKA, Nigeria
1985 André-Louis PERINETTI, France
1984 Mikhaïl TSAREV, Russia
1983 Amadou Mahtar M'BOW, Director General of UNESCO, Senegal
1982 Lars af MALMBORG, Sweden
1981 national messages
1980 Janusz WARMINSKI, Poland
1979 national messages
1978 national messages
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1976 Eugène IONESCO, Romania
1975 Ellen STEWART, USA
1974 Richard BURTON, USA
1973 Luchino VISCONTI, Italy
1972 Maurice BEJART, France
1971 Pablo NERUDA, Chile
1970 Dimitri CHOSTAKOVITCH, Russia
1969 Peter BROOK, United Kingdom
1968 Miguel Angel ASTURIAS, Guatemala
1967 Hélène WEIGEL, Germany
1966 René MAHEU, Director General of UNESCO, France
1965 Anonymous
1964 Laurence OLIVIER, United Kingdom - Jean-Louis BARRAULT, France
1963 Arthur MILLER, USA
1962 Jean COCTEAU, France