Nobel Prize laureates in literature - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Year Answer % Correct
2016 Bob Dylan
81%
1954 Ernest Hemingway
75%
1957 Albert Camus
71%
1953 Winston Churchill
69%
1982 Gabriel García Márquez
67%
1999 Günter Grass
67%
1971 Pablo Neruda
65%
2013 Alice Munro
63%
1958 Boris Pasternak
63%
1997 Dario Fo
63%
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
63%
2003 J. M. Coetzee
63%
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro
63%
1907 Rudyard Kipling
63%
2005 Harold Pinter
62%
1962 John Steinbeck
62%
1994 Kenzaburō Ōe
62%
2018 Olga Tokarczuk
62%
2006 Orhan Pamuk
62%
2004 Elfriede Jelinek
60%
1946 Hermann Hesse
60%
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa
60%
1973 Patrick White
60%
1929 Thomas Mann
60%
1993 Toni Morrison
60%
1949 William Faulkner
60%
1921 Anatole France
58%
2007 Doris Lessing
58%
1920 Knut Hamsun
58%
1990 Octavio Paz
58%
2015 Svetlana Alexievich
58%
2022 Annie Ernaux
56%
1904 Frédéric Mistral
56%
1945 Gabriela Mistral
56%
2019 Peter Handke
56%
1901 Sully Prudhomme
56%
2001 V. S. Naipaul
56%
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah
54%
1989 Camilo José Cela
54%
1972 Heinrich Böll
54%
2002 Imre Kertész
54%
1998 José Saramago
54%
2012 Mo Yan
54%
1913 Rabindranath Tagore
54%
1909 Selma Lagerlöf
54%
1930 Sinclair Lewis
54%
1983 William Golding
54%
1974 Eyvind Johnson
52%
1955 Halldór Laxness
52%
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
52%
2009 Herta Müller
52%
1932 John Galsworthy
52%
2020 Louise Glück
52%
1996 Wisława Szymborska
52%
1947 André Gide
50%
1981 Elias Canetti
50%
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
50%
1961 Ivo Andrić
50%
2008 J. M. G. Le Clézio
50%
1934 Luigi Pirandello
50%
1991 Nadine Gordimer
50%
1938 Pearl S. Buck
50%
1969 Samuel Beckett
50%
1976 Saul Bellow
50%
1995 Seamus Heaney
50%
1928 Sigrid Undset
50%
1902 Theodor Mommsen
50%
1923 W. B. Yeats
50%
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
48%
1950 Bertrand Russell
48%
1985 Claude Simon
48%
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
48%
1926 Grazia Deledda
48%
1974 Harry Martinson
48%
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer
48%
1988 Naguib Mahfouz
48%
2014 Patrick Modiano
48%
1986 Wole Soyinka
48%
1968 Yasunari Kawabata
48%
1952 François Mauriac
46%
1925 George Bernard Shaw
46%
1987 Joseph Brodsky
46%
1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias
46%
1966 Nelly Sachs
46%
1915 Romain Rolland
46%
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon
46%
2011 Tomas Tranströmer
46%
1948 T. S. Eliot
46%
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
44%
1980 Czesław Miłosz
44%
1936 Eugene O'Neill
44%
1927 Henri Bergson
44%
1917 Henrik Pontoppidan
44%
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez
44%
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck
44%
1960 Saint-John Perse
44%
1924 Władysław Reymont
44%
1919 Carl Spitteler
42%
1933 Ivan Bunin
42%
1984 Jaroslav Seifert
42%
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov
42%
1910 Paul Heyse
42%
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
42%
1992 Derek Walcott
40%
2000 Gao Xingjian
40%
1906 Giosuè Carducci
40%
1937 Roger Martin du Gard
40%
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
38%
1963 Giorgos Seferis
38%
1904 José Echegaray
38%
1951 Pär Lagerkvist
38%
1977 Vicente Aleixandre
37%
1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup
35%
1916 Verner von Heidenstam
35%
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
33%
1979 Odysseas Elytis
33%
1975 Eugenio Montale
31%
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken
31%
1922 Jacinto Benavente
29%
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