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Nobel Prize in Literature Winners - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 4,421 times
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- The average score is 32 of 122
Answer Stats
| Year | Author | Nationality/Occupation | % Correct |
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| 2016 | Bob Dylan | United States (songwriter) | 71%
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| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | Colombia (novelist, short story writer, proponent of Magic Realism) | 68%
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| 1954 | Ernest Hemingway | United States (modernist novelist, short story writer) | 60%
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| 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre | France, declined prize (novelist, philosopher, dramatist, essayist, literary critic, political activist) | 60%
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| 2012 | Mo Yan | China (novelist, short story writer) | 56%
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| 1957 | Albert Camus | France (novelist, dramatist, short story writer, essayist, philosopher; first African-born laureate) | 55%
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| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | Chile (poet who adopted the name of a Czech poet as his pen name) | 53%
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| 1929 | Thomas Mann | Germany (novelist, essayist, short story writer; in recognition of "Buddenbrooks") | 53%
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| 1962 | John Steinbeck | United States (realist novelist and short story writer) | 51%
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| 1953 | Winston Churchill | United Kingdom (historian, essayist, memoirist, orator, politician) | 51%
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| 1969 | Samuel Becket | Ireland (absurdist and minimalist dramatist, novelist, poet) | 50%
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| 1997 | Dario Fo | Italy (dramatist influenced by the commedia dell'arte tradition) | 47%
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| 1983 | William Golding | United Kingdom (novelist, poet, dramatist best remebered for "Lord of the Flies") | 46%
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| 2024 | Han Kang | South Korea (novelist, poet) | 45%
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| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | United Kingdom (novelist, short-story writer; born in Japan) | 44%
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| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | United Kingdom (novelist, poet, short story writer born in Bombay) | 44%
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| 1949 | William Faulkner | United States (modernist novelist, short story writer, essayist from Mississippi) | 44%
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| 1958 | Boris Pasternak | Soviet Union, declined prize (novelist, poet, translator) | 41%
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| 1999 | Günter Grass | Germany (novelist, dramatist, poet; born in the Free City of Danzig) | 41%
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| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peru (lives in Spain) (novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, political activist; ran for President of Peru) | 40%
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| 1993 | Toni Morrison | United States (novelist) | 40%
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| 1946 | Hermann Hesse | Germany (exiled to Switzerland; novelist, poet) | 38%
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| 1923 | William Butler Yeats | Ireland (poet) | 38%
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| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey (novelist, essayist) | 37%
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| 1998 | José Saramago | Portugal (novelist, dramatist, poet; moved from Portugal to the Canaries in protest) | 36%
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| 2022 | Annie Ernaux | France (novelist) | 35%
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| 2003 | J. M. Coetzee | South Africa (emigrated to Australia) (novelist, essayist, translator; anti-Apartheid activist) | 35%
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| 1938 | Pearl S. Buck | United States (novelist; in recognition of her works on life in China) | 35%
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| 2013 | Alice Munro | Canada (short-story writer) | 34%
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| 1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Soviet Union (novelist, dissident activist who was expelled from the USSR in 1974) | 33%
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| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland (dramatist, novelist, essayist, literary critic, political activist) | 32%
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| 1994 | Kenzaburō Ōe | Japan (novelist, short story writer) | 32%
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| 1948 | T. S. Eliot | United Kingdom (US-born modernist poet) | 32%
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| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | United Kingdom (philosopher, essayist, political activist, founder of analytic philosophy) | 31%
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| 2007 | Doris Lessing | United Kingdom (novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, dramatist, memoirist; born in Tehran 1919) | 31%
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| 2023 | Jon Fosse | Norway (dramatist, novelist) | 31%
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| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | India (Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, short story writer, composer) | 31%
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| 1920 | Knut Hamsun | Norway (epic novelist) | 30%
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| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | Ireland (poet) | 30%
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| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden (novelist, short story writer remebered for her children's story about Nils Holgersson) | 30%
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| 1904 | Frédéric Mistral | France (Occitan) | 29%
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| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chile (poet, diplomat) | 29%
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| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | United States (Yiddish) (novelist, short story writer, memoirist of Polish-Jewish origin) | 29%
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| 1990 | Octavio Paz | Mexico (poet, essayist) | 29%
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| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | Poland (novelist, essayist, poet) | 29%
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| 2005 | Harold Pinter | United Kingdom (dramatist) | 26%
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| 2009 | Herta Müller | Germany (emigrated from Romania, writes in German) (novel, poet) | 26%
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| 2025 | László Krasznahorkai | Hungary (novelist) | 26%
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| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme | France (poet, essayist) | 26%
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| 2001 | V. S. Naipaul | Trinidad & Tobago / UK (novelist, essayist) | 26%
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| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria (dramatist, novelist, poet) | 26%
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| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | Germany (novelist, short story writer highly critical of West German society) | 25%
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| 2019 | Peter Handke | Austria (novelist, playwright) | 25%
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| 1996 | Wisława Szymborska | Poland (poet, essayist, translator) | 25%
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| 1980 | Czesław Miłosz | United States (emigrated from Poland) (poet, essayist) | 24%
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| 1992 | Derek Walcott | Saint Lucia (poet) | 24%
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| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Poland (Russian Empire) (epic novelist) | 24%
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| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa (novelist, short story writer, essayist, anti-Apartheid activist) | 24%
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| 1921 | Anatole France | France (poet, novelist) | 23%
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| 1947 | André Gide | France (novelist, essayist who famously repudiated his communist beliefs after visiting the Soviet Union) | 23%
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| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria (feminist novelist, dramatist) | 23%
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| 2002 | Imre Kertész | Hungary (novelist; Holocaust survivor) | 23%
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| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | Egypt (novelist) | 23%
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| 1976 | Saul Bellow | United States (born in Canada, novelist, short story writer) | 23%
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| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | United Kingdom (novelist; born in Zanzibar) | 22%
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| 1955 | Halldór Laxness | Iceland (poet, novelist, short story writer, dramatist) | 22%
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| 1961 | Ivo Andrić | Yugoslavia (novelist, short story writer) | 22%
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| 2020 | Louise Glück | United States (poet, essayist) | 22%
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| 1934 | Luigi Pirandello | Italy (dramatist, novelist, short story writer) | 22%
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| 1967 | Miguel Ángel Asturias | Guatemala (novelist, poet) | 22%
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| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus (journalist, oral historian) | 22%
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| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japan (novelist, short story writer) | 22%
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| 1932 | John Galsworthy | United Kingdom (novelist, in recognition of "The Forsyte Saga") | 21%
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| 1965 | Mikhail Sholokhov | Soviet Union (epic novelist, in recognition of "And Quiet Flows the Don") | 21%
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| 1973 | Patrick White | Australia (novelist, dramatist, short story writer) | 21%
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| 1981 | Elias Canetti | United Kingdom (born in Bulgaria, wrote in German) (novelist, dramatist, memoirist, essayist) | 20%
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| 1936 | Eugene O'Neill | United States (realist dramatist) | 20%
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| 1927 | Henri Bergson | France (philosopher known for the concept of élan vital, or the life force) | 20%
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| 2008 | J. M. G. Le Clézio | France / Mauritus (novelist, short story writer, essayist, translator) | 20%
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| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis | United Staes (novelist, dramatist, short story writer) | 20%
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| 1902 | Theodor Mommsen | Germany (historian, legal scholar) | 20%
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| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer | Sweden (poet) | 20%
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| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson | Sweden (novelist; was on the Nobel panel himself) | 19%
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| 1966 | Nelly Sachs | Germany (exiled in Sweden; poet, dramatist) | 19%
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| 2014 | Patrick Modiano | France (novelist) | 19%
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| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | Italy (poet) | 19%
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| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | Spain (novelist, short story writer) | 18%
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| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium (symbolist dramatist, poet, essayist) | 18%
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| 1933 | Ivan Bunin | Russia (exiled in France; novelist, poet, short story writer) | 17%
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| 1924 | Władysław Reymont | Poland (epic novelist) | 17%
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| 1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italy (poet, novelist) | 16%
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| 1904 | José Echegaray | Spain (dramatist) | 16%
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| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norway (novelist) | 16%
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| 1903 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Norway (poet, novelist, dramatist, author of lyrics of Norwegian national anthem | 15%
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| 1974 | Harry Martinson | Sweden (novelist, poet, dramatist; was on the Nobel panel himself) | 15%
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| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | United States (expelled from the USSR) (poet) | 15%
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| 1956 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | Spain (poet) | 15%
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| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | Italy (poet) | 14%
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| 1939 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Finland (novelist) | 14%
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| 2000 | Gao Xingjiang | China (emigrated to France) (novelist, dramatist, literary critic) | 14%
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| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann | Germany (dramatist, novelist) | 14%
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| 1963 | Giorgos Seferis | Greece (poet; Greek ambassador to the UK 1957–62) | 14%
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| 1906 | Giosuè Carducci | Italy (poet) | 14%
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| 1985 | Claude Simon | France (novelist) | 13%
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| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | Czechoslovakia (Czech poet) | 13%
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| 1979 | Odysseas Elytis | Greece (poet) | 13%
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| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | Sweden (poet, novelist, short story writer, dramatist) | 13%
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| 1937 | Roger Martin du Gard | France (novelist) | 13%
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| 1952 | François Mauriac | France (novelist, short story writer) | 12%
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| 1915 | Romain Rolland | France (novelist) | 12%
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| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Israel (novelist, short story writer) | 12%
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| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | Spain (poet) | 12%
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| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Sweden (poetry) | 11%
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| 1917 | Henrik Pontoppidan | Denmark (novelist) | 11%
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| 1944 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | Denmark (modernist poet) | 11%
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| 1917 | Karl Adolph Gjellerup | Denmark (poet) | 11%
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| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente | Spain (dramatist) | 10%
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| 1910 | Paul von Heyse | Germany (poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer) | 10%
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| 1908 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | Germany (philosopher) | 10%
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| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | France (poet) | 10%
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| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Sweden (poet, novelist) | 9%
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| 1919 | Carl Spitteler | Switzerland (German-language epic poet) | 8%
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