110 Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature - Statistics

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Year	Category	Country of birth	Laureate	% Correct
1954	Literature	USA	Ernest Hemingway	67%
1982	Literature	Colombia	Gabriel García Márquez	65%
1957	Literature	Algeria	Albert Camus	59%
1964	Literature	France	Jean-Paul Sartre	56%
1962	Literature	USA	John Steinbeck	55%
1929	Literature	Germany	Thomas Mann	54%
1999	Literature	Free City of Danzig (now Poland)	Günter Grass	52%
1953	Literature	United Kingdom	Winston Churchill	50%
1907	Literature	British India (now India)	Rudyard Kipling	49%
1997	Literature	Italy	Dario Fo	48%
1971	Literature	Chile	Pablo Neruda	48%
2006	Literature	Turkey	Orhan Pamuk	46%
1958	Literature	Russia	Boris Pasternak	45%
2007	Literature	Persia (now Iran)	Doris Lessing	44%
1969	Literature	Ireland	Samuel Beckett	44%
1949	Literature	USA	William Faulkner	44%
1993	Literature	USA	Toni Morrison	42%
1923	Literature	Ireland	William Butler Yeats	42%
2013	Literature	Canada	Alice Munro	40%
1946	Literature	Germany	Hermann Hesse	39%
1998	Literature	Portugal	José Saramago	39%
2003	Literature	South Africa	J. M. Coetzee	38%
1913	Literature	India	Rabindranath Tagore	38%
1925	Literature	Ireland	George Bernard Shaw	37%
2010	Literature	Peru	Mario Vargas Llosa	37%
2005	Literature	United Kingdom	Harold Pinter	36%
2009	Literature	Romania	Herta Müller	36%
1995	Literature	Northern Ireland	Seamus Heaney	35%
1970	Literature	Russia	Alexandr Solzhenitsyn	34%
2004	Literature	Austria	Elfriede Jelinek	33%
2001	Literature	Trinidad	V. S. Naipaul	33%
1983	Literature	United Kingdom	William Golding	33%
1938	Literature	USA	Pearl Buck	32%
1904	Literature	France	Frédéric Mistral	31%
1945	Literature	Chile	Gabriela Mistral	31%
1994	Literature	Japan	Kenzaburo Oe	31%
1909	Literature	Sweden	Selma Lagerlöf	31%
1901	Literature	France	Sully Prudhomme	31%
1991	Literature	South Africa	Nadine Gordimer	30%
1990	Literature	Mexico	Octavio Paz	29%
1948	Literature	USA	T.S. Eliot	29%
1972	Literature	Germany	Heinrich Böll	28%
2012	Literature	China	Mo Yan	28%
1921	Literature	France	Anatole France	27%
1920	Literature	Norway	Knut Hamsun	27%
1934	Literature	Italy	Luigi Pirandello	27%
1976	Literature	Canada	Saul Bellow	27%
1947	Literature	France	André Gide	25%
1992	Literature	Saint Lucia	Derek Walcott	25%
1955	Literature	Iceland	Halldór Laxness	25%
1986	Literature	Nigeria	Wole Soyinka	25%
2002	Literature	Hungary	Imre Kertész	24%
1988	Literature	Egypt	Naguib Mahfouz	24%
1930	Literature	USA	Sinclair Lewis	24%
2011	Literature	Sweden	Tomas Tranströmer	24%
1996	Literature	Poland	Wislawa Szymborska	24%
1950	Literature	United Kingdom	Bertrand Russell	22%
1905	Literature	Poland	Henryk Sienkiewicz	22%
1961	Literature	Bosnia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)	Ivo Andric	22%
1968	Literature	Japan	Yasunari Kawabata	22%
2008	Literature	France	Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio	21%
1989	Literature	Spain	Camilo José Cela	20%
1980	Literature	Russian Empire (now Lithuania)	Czeslaw Milosz	20%
1981	Literature	Bulgaria	Elias Canetti	20%
1974	Literature	Sweden	Eyvind Johnson	20%
1978	Literature	Russian Empire (now Poland)	Isaac Bashevis Singer	20%
1987	Literature	USSR (now Russia)	Joseph Brodsky	20%
1911	Literature	Belgium	Maurice Maeterlinck	20%
1959	Literature	Italy	Salvatore Quasimodo	20%
1928	Literature	Denmark	Sigrid Undset	20%
1936	Literature	USA	Eugene O'Neill	19%
1932	Literature	United Kingdom	John Galsworthy	19%
1965	Literature	Russia	Mikhail Sholokhov	19%
1973	Literature	United Kingdom	Patrick White	19%
1902	Literature	Schleswig (now Germany)	Theodor Mommsen	19%
1975	Literature	Italy	Eugenio Montale	18%
1927	Literature	France	Henri Bergson	18%
1966	Literature	Germany	Nelly Sachs	17%
1903	Literature	Norway	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	15%
1985	Literature	Madagascar	Claude Simon	15%
1906	Literature	Tuscany (now Italy)	Giosuè Carducci	15%
1926	Literature	Italy	Grazia Deledda	15%
1933	Literature	Russia	Ivan Bunin	15%
1952	Literature	France	François Mauriac	14%
1974	Literature	Sweden	Harry Martinson	14%
1951	Literature	Sweden	Pär Lagerkvist	14%
1915	Literature	France	Romain Rolland	14%
1939	Literature	Russian Empire (now Finland)	Frans Eemil Sillanpää	13%
1904	Literature	Spain	José Echegaray	13%
1924	Literature	Russian Empire (now Poland)	Wladyslaw Reymont	13%
2000	Literature	China	Gao Xingjian	12%
1912	Literature	Prussia (now Germany)	Gerhart Hauptmann	12%
1963	Literature	Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)	Giorgos Seferis	12%
1956	Literature	Spain	Juan Ramón Jiménez	12%
1967	Literature	Guatemala	Miguel Angel Asturias	12%
1979	Literature	Crete (now Greece)	Odysseus Elytis	12%
1960	Literature	Guadeloupe Island	Saint-John Perse	12%
1984	Literature	Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)	Jaroslav Seifert	11%
1910	Literature	Prussia (now Germany)	Paul Heyse	11%
1908	Literature	East Friesland (now Germany)	Rudolf Eucken	10%
1966	Literature	Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)	Shmuel Agnon	10%
1977	Literature	Spain	Vicente Aleixandre	10%
1917	Literature	Denmark	Henrik Pontoppidan	9%
1944	Literature	Denmark	Johannes V. Jensen	9%
1916	Literature	Sweden	Verner von Heidenstam	9%
1922	Literature	Spain	Jacinto Benavente	8%
1917	Literature	Denmark	Karl Gjellerup	8%
1937	Literature	France	Roger Martin du Gard	8%
1919	Literature	Switzerland	Carl Spitteler	7%
1931	Literature	Sweden	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	7%

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