| 100% | ORHAN | 5 | "My Name is Red" author ___ Pamuk who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006 |
| 62% | KNUTHAMSUN | 10 | *Norwegian author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 |
| 62% | KAZUO | 5 | "Never Let Me Go" author ___ Ishiguro who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 |
| 55% | PAZ | 3 | Octavio ___, Mexican poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990 |
| 55% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Short-story author who announced her retirement from writing in 2013, the same year she won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 55% | NADINE | 6 | South African writer Gordimer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 |
| 55% | DYLAN | 5 | Singer Bob who won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 55% | ELIOT | 5 | "The Waste Land" poet T.S. ___ who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 |
| 55% | MUNRO | 5 | Canadian writer Alice who won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 54% | BOB | 3 | "Blowin' in the Wind" songwriter ___ Dylan who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 |
| 54% | NADINE | 6 | ___ Gordimer, South African writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 54% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Canadian short-story author who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 54% | HESSE | 5 | "Siddhartha" author Hermann ___ who won a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 54% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | "The Wild Iris" poet from the US who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 54% | DEREKWALCOTT | 12 | "White Egrets" poet from Saint Lucia who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992: 2 wds. |
| 54% | PABLONERUDA | 11 | "100 Love Sonnets" poet from Chile who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971: 2 wds. |
| 53% | ONEILL | 6 | Eugene ___, 20th-century playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 |
| 53% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Canadian short story author who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature: 2 wds. |
| 53% | BARACK | 6 | "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" author who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 |
| 52% | HAROLDPINTER | 12 | British author of "The Birthday Party" who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature: 2 wds. |
| 52% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | British author of "Never Let Me Go" who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature : 2 wds. |
| 51% | HESSE | 5 | German-Swiss author who won the 1946 Nobel in Literature |
| 51% | ELIOT | 5 | T.S. ___ who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 51% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1993: 2 wds. |
| 50% | GORDIMER | 8 | "My Son's Story" writer, Nadine ___ who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1991 |
| 50% | FOSSE | 5 | Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (October, 2023) |
| 50% | TONI | 4 | First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 50% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | Author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature on the basis of her first six novels, all featured in this puzzle |
| 49% | BOBDYLAN | 8 | "Blowin' in the Wind" singer-songwriter who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 2016: 2 wds. |
| 49% | BOB | 3 | Singer-songwriter Dylan who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |