| Year | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Bob Dylan | 83%
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| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | 77%
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| 1957 | Albert Camus | 75%
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| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | 71%
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| 1999 | Günter Grass | 71%
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| 2013 | Alice Munro | 69%
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| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | 69%
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| 1953 | Winston Churchill | 69%
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| 1997 | Dario Fo | 67%
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| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre | 67%
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| 2003 | J. M. Coetzee | 67%
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| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | 67%
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| 1994 | Kenzaburō Ōe | 67%
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| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | 67%
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| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | 67%
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| 1958 | Boris Pasternak | 65%
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| 2005 | Harold Pinter | 65%
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| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | 65%
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| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | 65%
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| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | 63%
|
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse | 63%
|
| 1962 | John Steinbeck | 63%
|
| 1973 | Patrick White | 63%
|
| 1929 | Thomas Mann | 63%
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| 1949 | William Faulkner | 63%
|
| 1921 | Anatole France | 60%
|
| 2022 | Annie Ernaux | 60%
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| 2007 | Doris Lessing | 60%
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| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral | 60%
|
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | 60%
|
| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | 60%
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| 1990 | Octavio Paz | 60%
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| 2019 | Peter Handke | 60%
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| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | 60%
|
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | 60%
|
| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | 58%
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| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | 58%
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| 1998 | José Saramago | 58%
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| 2012 | Mo Yan | 58%
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| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | 58%
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| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme | 58%
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| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | 56%
|
| 2009 | Herta Müller | 56%
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| 2002 | Imre Kertész | 56%
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| 2020 | Louise Glück | 56%
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| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | 56%
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| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | 56%
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| 2001 | V. S. Naipaul | 56%
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| 1983 | William Golding | 56%
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| 1947 | André Gide | 54%
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| 1955 | Halldór Laxness | 54%
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| 2008 | J. M. G. Le Clézio | 54%
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| 1932 | John Galsworthy | 54%
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| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | 54%
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| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | 54%
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| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | 54%
|
| 1996 | Wisława Szymborska | 54%
|
| 1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 52%
|
| 1985 | Claude Simon | 52%
|
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | 52%
|
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson | 52%
|
| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | 52%
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| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | 52%
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| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | 52%
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| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | 52%
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| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 52%
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| 1961 | Ivo Andrić | 52%
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| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | 52%
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| 2014 | Patrick Modiano | 52%
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| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | 52%
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| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen | 52%
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| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | 52%
|
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | 50%
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| 1952 | François Mauriac | 50%
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| 1974 | Harry Martinson | 50%
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| 1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias | 50%
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| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | 50%
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| 1966 | Nelly Sachs | 50%
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| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck | 50%
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| 1976 | Saul Bellow | 50%
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| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | 50%
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| 1923 | W. B. Yeats | 50%
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| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | 50%
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| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | 48%
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| 1917 | Henrik Pontoppidan | 48%
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| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | 48%
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| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | 48%
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| 1915 | Romain Rolland | 48%
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| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer | 48%
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| 1948 | T. S. Eliot | 48%
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| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | 46%
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| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill | 46%
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| 1927 | Henri Bergson | 46%
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| 1933 | Ivan Bunin | 46%
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| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | 46%
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| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | 46%
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| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | 46%
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| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | 46%
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| 1924 | Władysław Reymont | 46%
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| 1919 | Carl Spitteler | 44%
|
| 1980 | Czesław Miłosz | 44%
|
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | 44%
|
| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci | 44%
|
| 1910 | Paul Heyse | 44%
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| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | 44%
|
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | 44%
|
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | 42%
|
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | 42%
|
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis | 42%
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| 1904 | José Echegaray | 40%
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| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | 40%
|
| 1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup | 38%
|
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | 38%
|
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | 38%
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| 1979 | Odysseas Elytis | 35%
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| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | 33%
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| 1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | 33%
|
| 1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | 33%
|
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | 31%
|