| MAURIAC | French Catholic novelist, winner of 1952 Nobel Literature prize (7) |
| IANWILLIAMS | Canadian poet-turned-novelist, winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize: 2 wds. (More at #28-Across) |
| LESSING | Doris, 2007 Nobel Literature Prize winner (7) |
| ANATOLE | ___ France, 1921 Nobel Literature Prize winner (7) |
| GOLDING | William, 1983 Nobel Literature Prize winner (7) |
| DARIOFO | Italian recipient of the 1997 Nobel literature prize |
| NAIPAUL | V.S. , Trinidad and Tobagoborn British writer who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2001 (7) |
| LACONIC | The French Catholic icon turned terse (7) |
| LECTERN | The French Catholic to rent out a desk (7) |
| DUKEDOM | Noble position of French Catholic dignitary touring our country |
| GRIMBLE | Arthur -, author of 1952 memoir A Pattern of Islands (7) |
| VSNAIPAUL | Trinidadian winner of the Nobel literature prize in 2001 |
| ELIASCANETTI | 1981 Nobel Literature Prize winner cites a tale in novel (5,7) |
| ELLISON | Ralph ?, author of 1952 novel Invisible Man (7) |
| OCONNOR | Flannery, author of 1952 literary work Wise Blood (7) |
| SELMALAGERLOF | Swedish author who was the first female winner of the Nobel Literature Prize in 1909 (5,8) |
| FAULKNER | William, 1949 Nobel Literature Prize winner (8) |
| ALICE | ___ Munro, 2013 Nobel Literature Prize winner (5) |
| BOBDYLAN | 2016 Nobel Literature Prize winner (3,5) |
| GIDE | Andre, French writer who received the Nobel Literature Prize in 1947 (4) |
