| ASBYATT | Literary critic and Booker Prize-winning author of Possession (1,1,5) |
| BYATT | Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and The Children's Book (5) |
| ENRIGHT | Anne -, 2007 Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering (7) |
| NAIPAUL | Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author of A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (7) |
| HERMANN | Nobel prize winning author of Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, ... Hesse |
| LESSING | Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook and the Canopus in Argos series (7) |
| COETZEE | Nobel Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" |
| STEINER | George *****. literary critic and essayist born in 1929 (7) |
| SWIFT | Booker Prize-winning author of Shuttlecock, Waterland and Last Orders (5) |
| KIPLING | Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote The Jungle Book, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill and Just So |
| MARQUEZ | "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Nobel Prize-winning author |
| DERRIDA | Jacques ___, French philosopher and literary critic regarded as the founder of deconstruction |
| MUNRO | Nobel Prize-winning author of Lives of Girls and Women and The Moons of Jupiter; or, a Scottish mountain such as Ben Nevis or Lochnagar (5) |
| WHITE | Patrick -; Nobel Prize-winning author of novels including The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of Leaves, Happy Valley and The Tree of Man (5) |
| STEARNS | Middle name of the Nobel Prize-winning writer T.S. Eliot (7) |
| HAZLITT | William, English essayist and literary critic (7) |
| GAUTIER | Theophile, French poet, dramatist and literary critic born in 1811 (7) |
| ISHIGURO | Kazuo -; Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun (8) |
| MORRISON | Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Sula (8) |
| JEFFREY | Pulitzer Prize-winning author, - - - Eugenides |
