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Nobel prize laureates in literature - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 195 times
11 since last reset
- The average score is 21 of 122
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| 2016 | Bob Dylan | American (poetry, songwriting) | 86%
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| 1997 | Dario Fo | Italian (drama, songwriting) | 57%
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| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | American (novel, short story, screenplay) | 57%
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| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre | French (novel, short story, philosophy, drama, literary criticism, screenplay) | 57%
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| 1929 | Thomas Mann | German (novel, short story, essay) | 57%
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| 1923 | William Butler Yeats | Irish (poetry) | 57%
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| 1953 | Winston Churchill | English (history, essay, memoirs) | 57%
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| 1957 | Albert Camus | French (novel, short story, drama, philosophy, essay) | 43%
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| 1921 | Anatole France | French (novel, poetry) | 43%
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| 1982 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Spanish (novel, short story, screenplay) | 43%
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| 1999 | Günter Grass | German (novel, drama, poetry) | 43%
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| 1955 | Haldor Laxness | Icelandic (novel, short story, drama, poetry) | 43%
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| 1983 | William Golding | English (novel, poetry, drama) | 43%
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| 1947 | Andre Gide | French (novel, essay) | 29%
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| 1992 | Derek Walcott | Saint Lucian (poetry, drama) | 29%
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| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austrian (novel, drama) | 29%
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| 2005 | Harold Pinter | English (drama, screenplay) | 29%
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| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | German (novel, short story) | 29%
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| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | American/Polish (Novel, short story, memoirs) | 29%
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| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | Czechoslovakian/Hungarian (poetry) | 29%
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| 1962 | John Steinbeck | American (novel, short story, screenplay) | 29%
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| 1998 | Jose Saramago | Portugese (novel, drama, poetry) | 29%
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| 1956 | Juan Ramon Jimenez | Spanish (poetry) | 29%
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| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | Norweigan (novel) | 29%
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| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peruvian/Spanish (novel, short story, essay, drama, memoirs) | 29%
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| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South African (novel, short story, essay, drama) | 29%
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| 1990 | Octavio Paz | Spanish (poetry, essay) | 29%
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| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | Spanish (poetry) | 29%
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| 1973 | Patrick White | English/Australian (novel, short story, drama) | 29%
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| 1938 | Pearl Buck | American (novel, biography) | 29%
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| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | Indian (poetry, novel, drama, short story, music, essay, philosophy, literary criticism, translation) | 29%
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| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | English (novel, short story, poetry) | 29%
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| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | Irish (novel, drama, poetry) | 29%
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| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Spanish (poetry) | 29%
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| 1949 | William Faulkner | American (novel, short story) | 29%
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| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | Tanzanian, Brittisk (novel, short story, essay) | 14%
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| 1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Russian (novel) | 14%
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| 2022 | Annie Ernaux | French (autobiography, novel) | 14%
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| 1958 | Boris Pasternak | Russian (novel, poetry, translation) | 14%
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| 1989 | Camilo Jose Cela | Spanish (novel, short story, essay, poetry) | 14%
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| 1985 | Claude Simon | French (novel, literary criticism) | 14%
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| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz | American/Polish (poetry, essay) | 14%
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| 2007 | Doris Lessing | Iranian/Zimbawean/English (novel, drama, poetry, short story, memoirs, autobiography) | 14%
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| 1981 | Elias Canetti | English/Bulgarian (novel, drama, memoirs, essay) | 14%
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| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill | American (drama) | 14%
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| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson | Swedish (novel) | 14%
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| 1904 | Frederic Mistral | French (poetry, philology) | 14%
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| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chilean (poetry) | 14%
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| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | China/France (novel, drama, literary criticism) | 14%
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| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis | Greek (poetry, essay, memoirs) | 14%
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| 2024 | Han Kang | South korean (novel, poetry) | 14%
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| 1927 | Henri Bergson | French (philosophy) | 14%
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| 1946 | Herman Hesse | German (novel, poetry) | 14%
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| 2009 | Herta Muller | German/Romanian (novel, short story, poetry, essay) | 14%
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| 2002 | Imre Kertesz | Hungarian (novel) | 14%
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| 1933 | Ivan Bunin | Russian (short story, poetry, novel) | 14%
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| 1961 | Ivo Andric | Serbo-Croatian (novel, short story) | 14%
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| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave le Clezio | French (novel, short story, essay, translation) | 14%
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| 2003 | J.M. Coetzee | Australian/South African (novel, essay, translation) | 14%
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| 1932 | John Galsworthy | English (novel) | 14%
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| 2023 | Jon Fosse | Norwegian (drama, novel, poetry, essay) | 14%
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| 1904 | Jose Echegaray | Spanish (drama) | 14%
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| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | American/Russian (poetry, essay) | 14%
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| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Japanse/English (novel, screenplay, short story) | 14%
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| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japanese (novel, short story, essay) | 14%
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| 2025 | László Krasznahorkai | Hungarian (novel) | 14%
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| 2020 | Louise Glück | American (poetry, essay) | 14%
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| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Italian (drama, novel, short story) | 14%
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| 1967 | Miguel Angel Asturias | Spanish (novel, poetry) | 14%
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| 2012 | Mo Yan | Chinese (novel, short story) | 14%
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| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Egyptian (novel, short story) | 14%
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| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | Polish (novel, short story, poetry, essay, screenplay) | 14%
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| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkish (novel, screenplay, autobiography, essay) | 14%
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| 2014 | Patrick Modiano | French (novel, screenplay | 14%
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| 2019 | Peter Handke | Austrian (novel, short story, drama, translation, screenplay) | 14%
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| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | French (poetry) | 14%
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| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Italian (poetry) | 14%
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| 1976 | Saul Bellow | American/Canadian (novel, short story) | 14%
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| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | Irish (poetry, drama, translation) | 14%
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| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme | French (poetry, essay) | 14%
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| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | Russian (history, essay) | 14%
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| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer | Swedish (poetry, translation) | 14%
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| 1993 | Toni Morrison | American (novel) | 14%
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| 1948 | T.S. Eliot | American (poetry) | 14%
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| 2001 | Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul | English/Trinidad & Tobago /novel, essay) | 14%
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| 1996 | Wislawa Szymborska | Polish (poetry, essay, translation) | 14%
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| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigerian (drama, novel, poetry, screenplay) | 14%
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| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japanese (novel, short story) | 14%
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| 2013 | Alice Munroe | Canadian (short story) | 0%
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| 1950 | Betrand Russell | English (philosophy) | 0%
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| 1903 | Bjornstjerne Bjornson | Norweigan (poetry, novel, drama) | 0%
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| 1919 | Carl Spitteler | German (poetry) | 0%
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| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Swedish (poetry) | 0%
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| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | Italian (poetry) | 0%
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| 1952 | Francois Mauriac | French (novel, short story) | 0%
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| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Finnish (novel) | 0%
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| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | English (drama, literary criticism) | 0%
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| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | German (drama, novel) | 0%
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| 1906 | Giosue Carducci | Italian (poetry) | 0%
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| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italian (poetry, novel) | 0%
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| 1974 | Harry Martinson | Swedish (poetry, novel, drama) | 0%
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| 1917 | Henrik Pontoppidan | Danish (novel) | 0%
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| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Polish (novel) | 0%
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| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | Spanish (drama) | 0%
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| 1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | Danish (novel, short story) | 0%
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| 1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup | Danish (poetry) | 0%
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| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgian (drama, poetry, essay) | 0%
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| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | Russian (novel) | 0%
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| 1966 | Nelly Sachs | German/Swedish (poetry, drama) | 0%
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| 1979 | Odysseas Elytis | Greece (poetry, essay) | 0%
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| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | Swedish (poetry, novel, short story, drama) | 0%
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| 1910 | Paul von Heyse | German (poetry, novel, drama, short story) | 0%
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| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | French (novel) | 0%
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| 1915 | Romain Rolland | French (novel) | 0%
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| 1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | German (philosophy) | 0%
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| 1909 | Selma Lagerlof | Swedish (novel, short story) | 0%
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| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Hungarian/Israelian (novel, short story) | 0%
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| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norweigan (novel) | 0%
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| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | American (novel, short story, drama) | 0%
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| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen | German (history, law) | 0%
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| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Swedish (poetry, novel) | 0%
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| 1924 | Wladyslaw Reymont | Polish (novel) | 0%
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