Statistics for Nobel Prize laureates in literature

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Answer Stats

Year	Answer	% Correct
2016	Bob Dylan	85%
1957	Albert Camus	76%
1954	Ernest Hemingway	76%
2013	Alice Munro	74%
1999	Günter Grass	74%
2021	Abdulrazak Gurnah	71%
1982	Gabriel García Márquez	71%
2005	Harold Pinter	71%
1964	Jean-Paul Sartre	71%
2003	J. M. Coetzee	71%
2017	Kazuo Ishiguro	71%
1971	Pablo Neruda	71%
2019	Peter Handke	71%
1907	Rudyard Kipling	71%
2022	Annie Ernaux	68%
1997	Dario Fo	68%
2004	Elfriede Jelinek	68%
1994	Kenzaburō Ōe	68%
2018	Olga Tokarczuk	68%
1953	Winston Churchill	68%
2007	Doris Lessing	65%
2020	Louise Glück	65%
2010	Mario Vargas Llosa	65%
1990	Octavio Paz	65%
2006	Orhan Pamuk	65%
1973	Patrick White	65%
1996	Wisława Szymborska	65%
1958	Boris Pasternak	62%
1989	Camilo José Cela	62%
1972	Heinrich Böll	62%
1946	Hermann Hesse	62%
2009	Herta Müller	62%
1962	John Steinbeck	62%
1998	José Saramago	62%
1920	Knut Hamsun	62%
2012	Mo Yan	62%
1913	Rabindranath Tagore	62%
1930	Sinclair Lewis	62%
2015	Svetlana Alexievich	62%
1929	Thomas Mann	62%
2001	V. S. Naipaul	62%
1949	William Faulkner	62%
1921	Anatole France	59%
1952	François Mauriac	59%
1904	Frédéric Mistral	59%
1945	Gabriela Mistral	59%
1927	Henri Bergson	59%
1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz	59%
2002	Imre Kertész	59%
2008	J. M. G. Le Clézio	59%
1932	John Galsworthy	59%
1934	Luigi Pirandello	59%
2014	Patrick Modiano	59%
1976	Saul Bellow	59%
1928	Sigrid Undset	59%
1901	Sully Prudhomme	59%
2011	Tomas Tranströmer	59%
1993	Toni Morrison	59%
1983	William Golding	59%
1970	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	56%
1947	André Gide	56%
1985	Claude Simon	56%
1981	Elias Canetti	56%
1936	Eugene O'Neill	56%
1974	Eyvind Johnson	56%
1939	Frans Eemil Sillanpää	56%
2000	Gao Xingjian	56%
1912	Gerhart Hauptmann	56%
1906	Giosuè Carducci	56%
1926	Grazia Deledda	56%
1917	Henrik Pontoppidan	56%
1956	Juan Ramón Jiménez	56%
1967	Miguel Ángel Asturias	56%
1991	Nadine Gordimer	56%
1938	Pearl S. Buck	56%
1960	Saint-John Perse	56%
1969	Samuel Beckett	56%
1995	Seamus Heaney	56%
1909	Selma Lagerlöf	56%
1902	Theodor Mommsen	56%
1950	Bertrand Russell	53%
1919	Carl Spitteler	53%
1955	Halldór Laxness	53%
1974	Harry Martinson	53%
1978	Isaac Bashevis Singer	53%
1961	Ivo Andrić	53%
1904	José Echegaray	53%
1911	Maurice Maeterlinck	53%
1988	Naguib Mahfouz	53%
1966	Nelly Sachs	53%
1910	Paul Heyse	53%
1915	Romain Rolland	53%
1959	Salvatore Quasimodo	53%
1966	Shmuel Yosef Agnon	53%
1923	W. B. Yeats	53%
1903	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	50%
1925	George Bernard Shaw	50%
1937	Roger Martin du Gard	50%
1977	Vicente Aleixandre	50%
1924	Władysław Reymont	50%
1968	Yasunari Kawabata	50%
1980	Czesław Miłosz	47%
1992	Derek Walcott	47%
1931	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	47%
1975	Eugenio Montale	47%
1963	Giorgos Seferis	47%
1933	Ivan Bunin	47%
1984	Jaroslav Seifert	47%
1987	Joseph Brodsky	47%
1917	Karl Adolph Gjellerup	47%
1965	Mikhail Sholokhov	47%
1916	Verner von Heidenstam	47%
1986	Wole Soyinka	47%
1922	Jacinto Benavente	44%
1908	Rudolf Christoph Eucken	44%
1948	T. S. Eliot	44%
1944	Johannes Vilhelm Jensen	41%
1979	Odysseas Elytis	41%
1951	Pär Lagerkvist	41%