| 100% | ONEILL | 6 | Eugene ___, 20th-century playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 |
| 61% | MILLER | 6 | Arthur ___, 20th-century playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 |
| 59% | JONFOSSE | 8 | Norwegian playwright who won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 59% | DARIOFO | 7 | Italian playwright who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 58% | DYLAN | 5 | Singer Bob who won the Nobel prize for Literature |
| 54% | DYLAN | 5 | Singer Bob who won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 54% | MUNRO | 5 | Canadian writer Alice who won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 53% | KNUTHAMSUN | 10 | *Norwegian author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 |
| 53% | NADINE | 6 | ___ Gordimer, South African writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 53% | PAZ | 3 | Octavio ___, Mexican poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990 |
| 53% | NADINE | 6 | South African writer Gordimer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 |
| 53% | FOSSE | 5 | Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (October, 2023) |
| 52% | KAZUO | 5 | "Never Let Me Go" author ___ Ishiguro who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 |
| 52% | ORHAN | 5 | "My Name is Red" author ___ Pamuk who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006 |
| 51% | DEREKWALCOTT | 12 | "White Egrets" poet from Saint Lucia who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992: 2 wds. |
| 51% | PABLONERUDA | 11 | "100 Love Sonnets" poet from Chile who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971: 2 wds. |
| 51% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 51% | LESSING | 7 | Doris who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 51% | DYLAN | 5 | Musician who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 51% | OLGA | 4 | Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 51% | MANN | 4 | Thomas who won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 50% | NERUDA | 6 | Poet Pablo who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 50% | OLGA | 4 | Novelist Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 50% | ALICE | 5 | Canadian writer Munro who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 50% | MANN | 4 | German writer Thomas who won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 50% | ONEILL | 6 | Eugene —, playwright awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 50% | PEARLSBUCK | 10 | American writer who won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature (3 wds.) |
| 50% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Canadian writer who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 50% | NADINE | 6 | ___ Gordimer, South African novelist who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature |