Statistics for Nobel prize laureates in literature

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  • The average score is 83 of 119

Answer Stats

HintAnswer% Correct
2016Bob DylanAmerican (poetry, songwriting)
100%
1957Albert CamusFrench (novel, short story, drama, philosophy, essay)
94%
1929Thomas MannGerman (novel, short story, essay)
94%
1958Boris PasternakRussian (novel, poetry, translation)
88%
1997Dario FoItalian (drama, songwriting)
88%
1954Ernest HemingwayAmerican (novel, short story, screenplay)
88%
1999Günter GrassGerman (novel, drama, poetry)
88%
1964Jean-Paul SartreFrench (novel, short story, philosophy, drama, literary criticism, screenplay)
88%
1962John SteinbeckAmerican (novel, short story, screenplay)
88%
1998Jose SaramagoPortugese (novel, drama, poetry)
88%
2017Kazuo IshiguroJapanse/English (novel, screenplay, short story)
88%
2006Orhan PamukTurkish (novel, screenplay, autobiography, essay)
82%
1907Rudyard KiplingEnglish (novel, short story, poetry)
82%
1969Samuel BeckettIrish (novel, drama, poetry)
82%
2001Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulEnglish/Trinidad & Tobago /novel, essay)
82%
1923William Butler YeatsIrish (poetry)
82%
1949William FaulknerAmerican (novel, short story)
82%
1953Winston ChurchillEnglish (history, essay, memoirs)
82%
1950Betrand RussellEnglish (philosophy)
76%
2007Doris LessingIranian/Zimbawean/English (novel, drama, poetry, short story, memoirs, autobiography)
76%
1936Eugene O'NeillAmerican (drama)
76%
1904Frederic MistralFrench (poetry, philology)
76%
1945Gabriela MistralChilean (poetry)
76%
1982Gabriel Garcia MarquezSpanish (novel, short story, screenplay)
76%
1972Heinrich BöllGerman (novel, short story)
76%
1946Herman HesseGerman (novel, poetry)
76%
2003J.M. CoetzeeAustralian/South African (novel, essay, translation)
76%
1987Joseph BrodskyAmerican/Russian (poetry, essay)
76%
1994Kenzaburo OeJapanese (novel, short story, essay)
76%
1934Luigi PirandelloItalian (drama, novel, short story)
76%
2010Mario Vargas LlosaPeruvian/Spanish (novel, short story, essay, drama, memoirs)
76%
1991Nadine GordimerSouth African (novel, short story, essay, drama)
76%
1988Naguib MahfouzEgyptian (novel, short story)
76%
1971Pablo NerudaSpanish (poetry)
76%
1913Rabindranath TagoreIndian (poetry, novel, drama, short story, music, essay, philosophy, literary criticism, translation)
76%
1995Seamus HeaneyIrish (poetry, drama, translation)
76%
1993Toni MorrisonAmerican (novel)
76%
1948T.S. EliotAmerican (poetry)
76%
1986Wole SoyinkaNigerian (drama, novel, poetry, screenplay)
76%
2013Alice MunroeCanadian (short story)
71%
1921Anatole FranceFrench (novel, poetry)
71%
2022Annie ErnauxFrench (autobiography, novel)
71%
2004Elfriede JelinekAustrian (novel, drama)
71%
1955Haldor LaxnessIcelandic (novel, short story, drama, poetry)
71%
2005Harold PinterEnglish (drama, screenplay)
71%
1927Henri BergsonFrench (philosophy)
71%
1920Knut HamsunNorweigan (novel)
71%
2014Patrick ModianoFrench (novel, screenplay
71%
2019Peter HandkeAustrian (novel, short story, drama, translation, screenplay)
71%
1976Saul BellowAmerican/Canadian (novel, short story)
71%
1996Wislawa SzymborskaPolish (poetry, essay, translation)
71%
2021Abdulrazak GurnahTanzanian, Brittisk (novel, short story, essay)
65%
1970Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRussian (novel)
65%
1903Bjornstjerne BjornsonNorweigan (poetry, novel, drama)
65%
1919Carl SpittelerGerman (poetry)
65%
1992Derek WalcottSaint Lucian (poetry, drama)
65%
1981Elias CanettiEnglish/Bulgarian (novel, drama, memoirs, essay)
65%
1975Eugenio MontaleItalian (poetry)
65%
1925George Bernard ShawEnglish (drama, literary criticism)
65%
1912Gerhart HauptmannGerman (drama, novel)
65%
1963Giorgos SeferisGreek (poetry, essay, memoirs)
65%
1906Giosue CarducciItalian (poetry)
65%
1926Grazia DeleddaItalian (poetry, novel)
65%
1917Henrik PontoppidanDanish (novel)
65%
2009Herta MullerGerman/Romanian (novel, short story, poetry, essay)
65%
2002Imre KerteszHungarian (novel)
65%
1978Isaac Bashevis SingerAmerican/Polish (Novel, short story, memoirs)
65%
1961Ivo AndricSerbo-Croatian (novel, short story)
65%
1984Jaroslav SeifertCzechoslovakian/Hungarian (poetry)
65%
2008Jean-Marie Gustave le ClezioFrench (novel, short story, essay, translation)
65%
1944Johannes Vilhelm JensenDanish (novel, short story)
65%
1904Jose EchegaraySpanish (drama)
65%
1917Karl Adolph GjellerupDanish (poetry)
65%
2020Louise GlückAmerican (poetry, essay)
65%
1911Maurice MaeterlinckBelgian (drama, poetry, essay)
65%
1965Mikhail SholokhovRussian (novel)
65%
2012Mo YanChinese (novel, short story)
65%
1966Nelly SachsGerman/Swedish (poetry, drama)
65%
1990Octavio PazSpanish (poetry, essay)
65%
1979Odysseas ElytisGreece (poetry, essay)
65%
1951Pär LagerkvistSwedish (poetry, novel, short story, drama)
65%
1973Patrick WhiteEnglish/Australian (novel, short story, drama)
65%
1910Paul von HeyseGerman (poetry, novel, drama, short story)
65%
1938Pearl BuckAmerican (novel, biography)
65%
1915Romain RollandFrench (novel)
65%
1908Rudolf Christoph EuckenGerman (philosophy)
65%
1959Salvatore QuasimodoItalian (poetry)
65%
1909Selma LagerlofSwedish (novel, short story)
65%
1966Shmuel Yosef AgnonHungarian/Israelian (novel, short story)
65%
1928Sigrid UndsetNorweigan (novel)
65%
1930Sinclair LewisAmerican (novel, short story, drama)
65%
1901Sully PrudhommeFrench (poetry, essay)
65%
1902Theodor MommsenGerman (history, law)
65%
2011Tomas TranströmerSwedish (poetry, translation)
65%
1983William GoldingEnglish (novel, poetry, drama)
65%
1968Yasunari KawabataJapanese (novel, short story)
65%
1947Andre GideFrench (novel, essay)
59%
1989Camilo Jose CelaSpanish (novel, short story, essay, poetry)
59%
1985Claude SimonFrench (novel, literary criticism)
59%
1931Erik Axel KarlfeldtSwedish (poetry)
59%
1974Eyvind JohnsonSwedish (novel)
59%
1952Francois MauriacFrench (novel, short story)
59%
1939Frans Eemil SillanpääFinnish (novel)
59%
2000Gao XingjianChina/France (novel, drama, literary criticism)
59%
1974Harry MartinsonSwedish (poetry, novel, drama)
59%
1905Henryk SienkiewiczPolish (novel)
59%
1933Ivan BuninRussian (short story, poetry, novel)
59%
1922Jacinto BenaventeSpanish (drama)
59%
1956Juan Ramon JimenezSpanish (poetry)
59%
1967Miguel Angel AsturiasSpanish (novel, poetry)
59%
2018Olga TokarczukPolish (novel, short story, poetry, essay, screenplay)
59%
1937Roger Martin du GardFrench (novel)
59%
1960Saint-John PerseFrench (poetry)
59%
2015Svetlana AlexievichRussian (history, essay)
59%
1916Verner von HeidenstamSwedish (poetry, novel)
59%
1924Wladyslaw ReymontPolish (novel)
59%
1980Czeslaw MiloszAmerican/Polish (poetry, essay)
53%
1932John GalsworthyEnglish (novel)
53%
1977Vicente AleixandreSpanish (poetry)
53%

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