| 100% | OLGA | 4 | Nobel-winning “Flights” author Tokarczuk |
| 72% | OLGA | 4 | "Flights" author Tokarczuk |
| 69% | ELIE | 4 | ___ Wiesel, a Nobel prize winning author |
| 69% | OLGA | 4 | "Flights" author ___ Tokarczuk |
| 68% | OLGA | 4 | Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 67% | COETZEE | 7 | South African Nobel Prize winning author: J. M. __ |
| 66% | NADINE | 6 | Nobel-winning author Gordimer |
| 66% | GIDE | 4 | Nobel-winning author André |
| 66% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Nobel-winning Canadian author |
| 66% | ALICE | 5 | Nobel-winning author munro |
| 65% | COETZEE | 7 | Nobel-winning author of "Disgrace" |
| 64% | OLGA | 4 | Novelist Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 64% | HESSE | 5 | "Siddhartha" author Hermann ___ who won a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 64% | HESSE | 5 | German-Swiss author who won the 1946 Nobel in Literature |
| 63% | CAMUS | 5 | Nobel-winning author of “The Fall” |
| 62% | KNUTHAMSUN | 10 | *Norwegian author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 |
| 62% | TONI | 4 | Nobel-winning author ___ Morrison who wrote "Beloved" |
| 62% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel Prize-winning author Wiesel |
| 61% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Canadian short-story author who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 60% | TONI | 4 | Nobel- and Pulitzer-winning author Morrison |
| 60% | MANDELA | 7 | "Long Walk to Freedom" author who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 |
| 60% | MALALA | 6 | “I Am ___” (2013 autobiography whose author won a Nobel Prize the following year) |
| 60% | OLGA | 4 | Author Tokarczuk |
| 59% | CAMUS | 5 | Albert ___, Nobel-winning author of "The Stranger" |
| 59% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Canadian short story author who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature: 2 wds. |
| 57% | KAZUO | 5 | "Never Let Me Go" author ___ Ishiguro who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 |
| 57% | ORHAN | 5 | "My Name is Red" author ___ Pamuk who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006 |
| 57% | DYLAN | 5 | Nobel winning songwriter Bob ___ |
| 56% | BORISPASTERNAK | 14 | Nobel Prize-winning author of 19-Across: 2 wds. |
| 56% | STEINBECK | 9 | Nobel Prize-winning author of Of Mice and Men |