Statistics for Nobel Prize laureates in literature

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Answer Stats

Year	Answer	% Correct
2016	Bob Dylan	85%
1957	Albert Camus	78%
2017	Kazuo Ishiguro	78%
2013	Alice Munro	74%
1954	Ernest Hemingway	74%
1999	Günter Grass	74%
1964	Jean-Paul Sartre	74%
2003	J. M. Coetzee	74%
2018	Olga Tokarczuk	74%
2021	Abdulrazak Gurnah	70%
1982	Gabriel García Márquez	70%
2005	Harold Pinter	70%
2006	Orhan Pamuk	70%
1971	Pablo Neruda	70%
2019	Peter Handke	70%
2022	Annie Ernaux	67%
1997	Dario Fo	67%
2007	Doris Lessing	67%
2004	Elfriede Jelinek	67%
1994	Kenzaburō Ōe	67%
2020	Louise Glück	67%
2010	Mario Vargas Llosa	67%
1907	Rudyard Kipling	67%
1953	Winston Churchill	67%
1996	Wisława Szymborska	67%
1972	Heinrich Böll	63%
2009	Herta Müller	63%
2008	J. M. G. Le Clézio	63%
1962	John Steinbeck	63%
1998	José Saramago	63%
1920	Knut Hamsun	63%
2012	Mo Yan	63%
1990	Octavio Paz	63%
1973	Patrick White	63%
2011	Tomas Tranströmer	63%
2001	V. S. Naipaul	63%
1921	Anatole France	59%
1958	Boris Pasternak	59%
1989	Camilo José Cela	59%
1904	Frédéric Mistral	59%
1945	Gabriela Mistral	59%
2000	Gao Xingjian	59%
1946	Hermann Hesse	59%
2002	Imre Kertész	59%
1934	Luigi Pirandello	59%
1913	Rabindranath Tagore	59%
1995	Seamus Heaney	59%
1930	Sinclair Lewis	59%
2015	Svetlana Alexievich	59%
1929	Thomas Mann	59%
1993	Toni Morrison	59%
1949	William Faulkner	59%
1983	William Golding	59%
1947	André Gide	56%
1985	Claude Simon	56%
1936	Eugene O'Neill	56%
1974	Eyvind Johnson	56%
1952	François Mauriac	56%
1912	Gerhart Hauptmann	56%
1927	Henri Bergson	56%
1917	Henrik Pontoppidan	56%
1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz	56%
1932	John Galsworthy	56%
1956	Juan Ramón Jiménez	56%
1967	Miguel Ángel Asturias	56%
1991	Nadine Gordimer	56%
2014	Patrick Modiano	56%
1938	Pearl S. Buck	56%
1959	Salvatore Quasimodo	56%
1976	Saul Bellow	56%
1909	Selma Lagerlöf	56%
1928	Sigrid Undset	56%
1901	Sully Prudhomme	56%
1970	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	52%
1950	Bertrand Russell	52%
1919	Carl Spitteler	52%
1992	Derek Walcott	52%
1981	Elias Canetti	52%
1906	Giosuè Carducci	52%
1926	Grazia Deledda	52%
1955	Halldór Laxness	52%
1974	Harry Martinson	52%
1978	Isaac Bashevis Singer	52%
1961	Ivo Andrić	52%
1911	Maurice Maeterlinck	52%
1988	Naguib Mahfouz	52%
1910	Paul Heyse	52%
1915	Romain Rolland	52%
1960	Saint-John Perse	52%
1969	Samuel Beckett	52%
1902	Theodor Mommsen	52%
1923	W. B. Yeats	52%
1903	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	48%
1980	Czesław Miłosz	48%
1939	Frans Eemil Sillanpää	48%
1904	José Echegaray	48%
1966	Nelly Sachs	48%
1937	Roger Martin du Gard	48%
1966	Shmuel Yosef Agnon	48%
1916	Verner von Heidenstam	48%
1924	Władysław Reymont	48%
1968	Yasunari Kawabata	48%
1931	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	44%
1975	Eugenio Montale	44%
1925	George Bernard Shaw	44%
1933	Ivan Bunin	44%
1984	Jaroslav Seifert	44%
1987	Joseph Brodsky	44%
1917	Karl Adolph Gjellerup	44%
1965	Mikhail Sholokhov	44%
1948	T. S. Eliot	44%
1977	Vicente Aleixandre	44%
1986	Wole Soyinka	44%
1963	Giorgos Seferis	41%
1922	Jacinto Benavente	41%
1944	Johannes Vilhelm Jensen	41%
1951	Pär Lagerkvist	41%
1908	Rudolf Christoph Eucken	41%
1979	Odysseas Elytis	37%