Nobel Prize laureates in literature - Statistics

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

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