| MAETERLINCK | Belgian playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 (11) |
| EDWARDALBEE | Playwright who won the 1963 Tony for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| HAROLDPINTER | Playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 upset top hardliner (6,6) |
| SAMUELBECKETT | Irish novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 (6,7) |
| YEATS | Irish poet and playwright who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1923 |
| PINTER | English playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 (6) |
| ALBERTCAMUS | French Algerian author, philosopher and journalist awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 |
| ONEILL | Eugene, U.S. playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 (6) |
| DARIOFO | Italian playwright who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| MARIOVARGASLLOSA | Peruvian novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2010 (5,6,5) |
| EUGENEONEILL | US playwright who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1936 (6,6) |
| JONFOSSE | Norwegian playwright who won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| HAROLD | Playwright who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature (6,6) |
| ARTHUR | ****** Miller, playwright who won the Jerusalem Prize in 2003 (6) |
| TSELIOT | British poet, born in the United States, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1948 (1,1,5) |
| ELIOT | American-born poet and playwright who became a British citizen and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948 (5) |
| HESSE | German-born Swiss novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946 (5) |
| SEAMUSHEANEY | Poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 |
| ANATOLEFRANCE | French poet, journalist, and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921 |
| BELLOW | Saul ___, Canadian-born writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1976 |
