Year | Category | Country of birth | Laureate | % Correct |
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1954 | Literature | USA | Ernest Hemingway | 69%
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1982 | Literature | Colombia | Gabriel García Márquez | 66%
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1957 | Literature | Algeria | Albert Camus | 60%
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1964 | Literature | France | Jean-Paul Sartre | 58%
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1962 | Literature | USA | John Steinbeck | 57%
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1929 | Literature | Germany | Thomas Mann | 55%
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1953 | Literature | United Kingdom | Winston Churchill | 54%
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1999 | Literature | Free City of Danzig (now Poland) | Günter Grass | 53%
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1907 | Literature | British India (now India) | Rudyard Kipling | 51%
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1997 | Literature | Italy | Dario Fo | 50%
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2006 | Literature | Turkey | Orhan Pamuk | 49%
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1971 | Literature | Chile | Pablo Neruda | 49%
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1958 | Literature | Russia | Boris Pasternak | 48%
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2007 | Literature | Persia (now Iran) | Doris Lessing | 46%
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1969 | Literature | Ireland | Samuel Beckett | 46%
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1949 | Literature | USA | William Faulkner | 46%
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1993 | Literature | USA | Toni Morrison | 44%
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1923 | Literature | Ireland | William Butler Yeats | 43%
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2013 | Literature | Canada | Alice Munro | 42%
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1998 | Literature | Portugal | José Saramago | 42%
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1946 | Literature | Germany | Hermann Hesse | 41%
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2003 | Literature | South Africa | J. M. Coetzee | 41%
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2009 | Literature | Romania | Herta Müller | 40%
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2010 | Literature | Peru | Mario Vargas Llosa | 40%
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1913 | Literature | India | Rabindranath Tagore | 40%
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1925 | Literature | Ireland | George Bernard Shaw | 39%
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2005 | Literature | United Kingdom | Harold Pinter | 39%
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1970 | Literature | Russia | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | 37%
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2004 | Literature | Austria | Elfriede Jelinek | 36%
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1995 | Literature | Northern Ireland | Seamus Heaney | 36%
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2001 | Literature | Trinidad | V. S. Naipaul | 36%
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1983 | Literature | United Kingdom | William Golding | 35%
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1904 | Literature | France | Frédéric Mistral | 34%
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1945 | Literature | Chile | Gabriela Mistral | 34%
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1994 | Literature | Japan | Kenzaburo Oe | 34%
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1938 | Literature | USA | Pearl Buck | 34%
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1909 | Literature | Sweden | Selma Lagerlöf | 34%
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1901 | Literature | France | Sully Prudhomme | 34%
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1991 | Literature | South Africa | Nadine Gordimer | 33%
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1990 | Literature | Mexico | Octavio Paz | 33%
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1921 | Literature | France | Anatole France | 31%
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1972 | Literature | Germany | Heinrich Böll | 31%
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2012 | Literature | China | Mo Yan | 31%
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1948 | Literature | USA | T.S. Eliot | 31%
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1934 | Literature | Italy | Luigi Pirandello | 30%
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1976 | Literature | Canada | Saul Bellow | 30%
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1920 | Literature | Norway | Knut Hamsun | 29%
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1947 | Literature | France | André Gide | 28%
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1992 | Literature | Saint Lucia | Derek Walcott | 28%
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1955 | Literature | Iceland | Halldór Laxness | 28%
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1996 | Literature | Poland | Wislawa Szymborska | 28%
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1986 | Literature | Nigeria | Wole Soyinka | 28%
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2002 | Literature | Hungary | Imre Kertész | 27%
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1988 | Literature | Egypt | Naguib Mahfouz | 27%
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2011 | Literature | Sweden | Tomas Tranströmer | 27%
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1905 | Literature | Poland | Henryk Sienkiewicz | 26%
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1968 | Literature | Japan | Yasunari Kawabata | 26%
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1950 | Literature | United Kingdom | Bertrand Russell | 25%
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1980 | Literature | Russian Empire (now Lithuania) | Czeslaw Milosz | 25%
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1961 | Literature | Bosnia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) | Ivo Andric | 25%
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2008 | Literature | France | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | 25%
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1930 | Literature | USA | Sinclair Lewis | 25%
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1978 | Literature | Russian Empire (now Poland) | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 24%
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1911 | Literature | Belgium | Maurice Maeterlinck | 24%
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1959 | Literature | Italy | Salvatore Quasimodo | 24%
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1928 | Literature | Denmark | Sigrid Undset | 24%
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1989 | Literature | Spain | Camilo José Cela | 23%
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1981 | Literature | Bulgaria | Elias Canetti | 23%
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1932 | Literature | United Kingdom | John Galsworthy | 23%
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1987 | Literature | USSR (now Russia) | Joseph Brodsky | 23%
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1902 | Literature | Schleswig (now Germany) | Theodor Mommsen | 23%
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1936 | Literature | USA | Eugene O'Neill | 22%
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1975 | Literature | Italy | Eugenio Montale | 22%
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1965 | Literature | Russia | Mikhail Sholokhov | 22%
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1973 | Literature | United Kingdom | Patrick White | 22%
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1974 | Literature | Sweden | Eyvind Johnson | 21%
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1927 | Literature | France | Henri Bergson | 21%
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1966 | Literature | Germany | Nelly Sachs | 20%
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1926 | Literature | Italy | Grazia Deledda | 19%
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1933 | Literature | Russia | Ivan Bunin | 19%
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1903 | Literature | Norway | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | 18%
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1985 | Literature | Madagascar | Claude Simon | 18%
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1952 | Literature | France | François Mauriac | 18%
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1906 | Literature | Tuscany (now Italy) | Giosuè Carducci | 18%
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1915 | Literature | France | Romain Rolland | 18%
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1951 | Literature | Sweden | Pär Lagerkvist | 17%
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1924 | Literature | Russian Empire (now Poland) | Wladyslaw Reymont | 17%
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1939 | Literature | Russian Empire (now Finland) | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | 16%
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2000 | Literature | China | Gao Xingjian | 16%
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1963 | Literature | Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) | Giorgos Seferis | 16%
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1974 | Literature | Sweden | Harry Martinson | 16%
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1904 | Literature | Spain | José Echegaray | 16%
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1956 | Literature | Spain | Juan Ramón Jiménez | 16%
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1967 | Literature | Guatemala | Miguel Angel Asturias | 16%
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1979 | Literature | Crete (now Greece) | Odysseus Elytis | 16%
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1960 | Literature | Guadeloupe Island | Saint-John Perse | 16%
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1912 | Literature | Prussia (now Germany) | Gerhart Hauptmann | 15%
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1910 | Literature | Prussia (now Germany) | Paul Heyse | 15%
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1984 | Literature | Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) | Jaroslav Seifert | 14%
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1908 | Literature | East Friesland (now Germany) | Rudolf Eucken | 14%
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1966 | Literature | Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) | Shmuel Agnon | 14%
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1917 | Literature | Denmark | Henrik Pontoppidan | 13%
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1977 | Literature | Spain | Vicente Aleixandre | 13%
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1922 | Literature | Spain | Jacinto Benavente | 12%
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1944 | Literature | Denmark | Johannes V. Jensen | 12%
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1916 | Literature | Sweden | Verner von Heidenstam | 12%
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1917 | Literature | Denmark | Karl Gjellerup | 11%
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1937 | Literature | France | Roger Martin du Gard | 11%
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1919 | Literature | Switzerland | Carl Spitteler | 10%
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1931 | Literature | Sweden | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | 10%
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