| 100% | COETZEE | 7 | J M —, 1983 Booker Prize winner for Life & Times of Michael K; 2003 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 92% | COETZEE | 7 | J M —, 1983 Booker Prize winner for Life and Times of Michael K; 2003 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 44% | GBSHAW | 6 | *1925 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 44% | DYLAN | 5 | 2016 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 44% | DARIOFO | 7 | 1997 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | GOLDING | 7 | William —, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | WALCOTT | 7 | Derek —, 1992 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | QUASIMODO | 9 | Salvatore —, 1959 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 42% | SOLOW | 5 | Robert M —, 1987 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics |
| 41% | IVOANDRIC | 9 | Author of 1945 novel The Bridge on the Drina; 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 41% | GABOR | 5 | Dennis —, 1971 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of holography |
| 40% | HANKANG | 7 | Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, whom Hernan Diaz praised for her “unique ear for the rumors of history” (October, 2024) |
| 39% | DYLAN | 5 | Winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 39% | ANNIEERNAUX | 11 | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature who described her prose in the novel “Les Armoires Vides” as “brutally direct, working-class and sometimes obscene” (October, 2022) |
| 39% | ELIOT | 5 | T S ---, winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | CAMUS | 5 | Albert —, winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | BOLL | 4 | Heinrich —, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | BUCK | 4 | Pearl —, winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | MAURIAC | 7 | Francois —, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | STEINBECK | 9 | John —, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | FAULKNER | 8 | William —, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | GRASS | 5 | Gunter —, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | GORDIMER | 8 | Nadine —, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | FRANCE | 6 | Anatole —, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | CANETTI | 7 | Elias —, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | LEWIS | 5 | Sinclair —, winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | KIPLING | 7 | Rudyard —, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | JELINEK | 7 | Elfriede —, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | SOYINKA | 7 | Wole —, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | PINTER | 6 | Harold —, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature |