This list is incomplete. The award is presented in different categories every 5 years. The International Botev Prize was not awarded between 1986 and 1996.

1976 edit

•   Alexey Surkov (1976)
•   Nicolás Guillén (1976)
•   Pierre Seghers (1976)
•   László Nagy (1976)

1981 edit

•   Rafael Alberti (1981)
•   Ahmad al-Ahmad (1981)
•   Miroslav Krleža (1981)
•   Rasul Gamzatov (1981)

1986 edit

•   Günter Wallraff (1986)
•   Nil Hilevich (1986)
•   Mario Benedetti (1986)
•   Dmytro Pavlychko (1986)

1996 edit

•   Nadine Gordimer (1996)
•   Valeri Petrov (1996)

2001 edit

•   Branko Cvetkovski (2001)
•   Nikola Indzhov (2001)

2006 edit

•   Yevgeny Yevtushenko (2006)

2008 edit

•   Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2008) – exceptional award in commemoration of his death

• На колене пред слънцето на свободата!, List of Botev prize laureates as well as other decorations, bearing Botev's name.
• International Botev Prize laureates