Statistics for 110 Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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YearCategoryCountry of birthLaureate% Correct
1954LiteratureUSAErnest Hemingway
69%
1982LiteratureColombiaGabriel García Márquez
66%
1957LiteratureAlgeriaAlbert Camus
60%
1964LiteratureFranceJean-Paul Sartre
58%
1962LiteratureUSAJohn Steinbeck
57%
1929LiteratureGermanyThomas Mann
55%
1953LiteratureUnited KingdomWinston Churchill
54%
1999LiteratureFree City of Danzig (now Poland)Günter Grass
53%
1907LiteratureBritish India (now India)Rudyard Kipling
51%
1997LiteratureItalyDario Fo
50%
2006LiteratureTurkeyOrhan Pamuk
49%
1971LiteratureChilePablo Neruda
49%
1958LiteratureRussiaBoris Pasternak
48%
2007LiteraturePersia (now Iran)Doris Lessing
46%
1969LiteratureIrelandSamuel Beckett
46%
1949LiteratureUSAWilliam Faulkner
46%
1993LiteratureUSAToni Morrison
44%
1923LiteratureIrelandWilliam Butler Yeats
43%
2013LiteratureCanadaAlice Munro
42%
1998LiteraturePortugalJosé Saramago
42%
1946LiteratureGermanyHermann Hesse
41%
2003LiteratureSouth AfricaJ. M. Coetzee
41%
2009LiteratureRomaniaHerta Müller
40%
2010LiteraturePeruMario Vargas Llosa
40%
1913LiteratureIndiaRabindranath Tagore
40%
1925LiteratureIrelandGeorge Bernard Shaw
39%
2005LiteratureUnited KingdomHarold Pinter
39%
1970LiteratureRussiaAlexandr Solzhenitsyn
37%
2004LiteratureAustriaElfriede Jelinek
36%
1995LiteratureNorthern IrelandSeamus Heaney
36%
2001LiteratureTrinidadV. S. Naipaul
36%
1983LiteratureUnited KingdomWilliam Golding
35%
1904LiteratureFranceFrédéric Mistral
34%
1945LiteratureChileGabriela Mistral
34%
1994LiteratureJapanKenzaburo Oe
34%
1938LiteratureUSAPearl Buck
34%
1909LiteratureSwedenSelma Lagerlöf
34%
1901LiteratureFranceSully Prudhomme
34%
1991LiteratureSouth AfricaNadine Gordimer
33%
1990LiteratureMexicoOctavio Paz
33%
1921LiteratureFranceAnatole France
31%
1972LiteratureGermanyHeinrich Böll
31%
2012LiteratureChinaMo Yan
31%
1948LiteratureUSAT.S. Eliot
31%
1934LiteratureItalyLuigi Pirandello
30%
1976LiteratureCanadaSaul Bellow
30%
1920LiteratureNorwayKnut Hamsun
29%
1947LiteratureFranceAndré Gide
28%
1992LiteratureSaint LuciaDerek Walcott
28%
1955LiteratureIcelandHalldór Laxness
28%
1996LiteraturePolandWislawa Szymborska
28%
1986LiteratureNigeriaWole Soyinka
28%
2002LiteratureHungaryImre Kertész
27%
1988LiteratureEgyptNaguib Mahfouz
27%
2011LiteratureSwedenTomas Tranströmer
27%
1905LiteraturePolandHenryk Sienkiewicz
26%
1968LiteratureJapanYasunari Kawabata
26%
1950LiteratureUnited KingdomBertrand Russell
25%
1980LiteratureRussian Empire (now Lithuania)Czeslaw Milosz
25%
1961LiteratureBosnia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)Ivo Andric
25%
2008LiteratureFranceJean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
25%
1930LiteratureUSASinclair Lewis
25%
1978LiteratureRussian Empire (now Poland)Isaac Bashevis Singer
24%
1911LiteratureBelgiumMaurice Maeterlinck
24%
1959LiteratureItalySalvatore Quasimodo
24%
1928LiteratureDenmarkSigrid Undset
24%
1989LiteratureSpainCamilo José Cela
23%
1981LiteratureBulgariaElias Canetti
23%
1932LiteratureUnited KingdomJohn Galsworthy
23%
1987LiteratureUSSR (now Russia)Joseph Brodsky
23%
1902LiteratureSchleswig (now Germany)Theodor Mommsen
23%
1936LiteratureUSAEugene O'Neill
22%
1975LiteratureItalyEugenio Montale
22%
1965LiteratureRussiaMikhail Sholokhov
22%
1973LiteratureUnited KingdomPatrick White
22%
1974LiteratureSwedenEyvind Johnson
21%
1927LiteratureFranceHenri Bergson
21%
1966LiteratureGermanyNelly Sachs
20%
1926LiteratureItalyGrazia Deledda
19%
1933LiteratureRussiaIvan Bunin
19%
1903LiteratureNorwayBjørnstjerne Bjørnson
18%
1985LiteratureMadagascarClaude Simon
18%
1952LiteratureFranceFrançois Mauriac
18%
1906LiteratureTuscany (now Italy)Giosuè Carducci
18%
1915LiteratureFranceRomain Rolland
18%
1951LiteratureSwedenPär Lagerkvist
17%
1924LiteratureRussian Empire (now Poland)Wladyslaw Reymont
17%
1939LiteratureRussian Empire (now Finland)Frans Eemil Sillanpää
16%
2000LiteratureChinaGao Xingjian
16%
1963LiteratureOttoman Empire (now Turkey)Giorgos Seferis
16%
1974LiteratureSwedenHarry Martinson
16%
1904LiteratureSpainJosé Echegaray
16%
1956LiteratureSpainJuan Ramón Jiménez
16%
1967LiteratureGuatemalaMiguel Angel Asturias
16%
1979LiteratureCrete (now Greece)Odysseus Elytis
16%
1960LiteratureGuadeloupe IslandSaint-John Perse
16%
1912LiteraturePrussia (now Germany)Gerhart Hauptmann
15%
1910LiteraturePrussia (now Germany)Paul Heyse
15%
1984LiteratureAustria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)Jaroslav Seifert
14%
1908LiteratureEast Friesland (now Germany)Rudolf Eucken
14%
1966LiteratureAustria-Hungary (now Ukraine)Shmuel Agnon
14%
1917LiteratureDenmarkHenrik Pontoppidan
13%
1977LiteratureSpainVicente Aleixandre
13%
1922LiteratureSpainJacinto Benavente
12%
1944LiteratureDenmarkJohannes V. Jensen
12%
1916LiteratureSwedenVerner von Heidenstam
12%
1917LiteratureDenmarkKarl Gjellerup
11%
1937LiteratureFranceRoger Martin du Gard
11%
1919LiteratureSwitzerlandCarl Spitteler
10%
1931LiteratureSwedenErik Axel Karlfeldt
10%

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