| TONIMORRISON | Nobel Literature laureate, 1993 |
| DOVE | U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-95 |
| TONI | Nobel Literature laureate Morrison |
| KAWABATA | Japanese Nobel literature laureate getting back into coat a BA wake (8) |
| EYELESSINGAZA | Observe Nobel literature laureate take street guide and a novel (7,2,4) |
| HEANEY | Nobel Literature Prize-winning Irish poet (6) |
| FAULKNER | William, 1949 Nobel Literature Prize winner (8) |
| LESSING | Doris, 2007 Nobel Literature Prize winner (7) |
| ALICE | ___ Munro, 2013 Nobel Literature Prize winner (5) |
| ANATOLE | ___ France, 1921 Nobel Literature Prize winner (7) |
| GOLDING | William, 1983 Nobel Literature Prize winner (7) |
| BOBDYLAN | 2016 Nobel Literature Prize winner (3,5) |
| DARIOFO | Italian recipient of the 1997 Nobel literature prize |
| MAURIAC | French Catholic novelist, winner of 1952 Nobel Literature prize (7) |
| BOLL | Heinrich, German writer who won the 1972 Nobel Literature Prize (4) |
| YEATS | Irish poet who received the Nobel Literature Prize in 1923 (5) |
| GIDE | Andre, French writer who received the Nobel Literature Prize in 1947 (4) |
| SAMUELBECKETT | Irish playwright who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1969 (6,7) |
| VSNAIPAUL | Trinidadian winner of the Nobel literature prize in 2001 |
| PASTERNAK | Russian author Boris ____ was forced to decline the 1958 Nobel literature prize |
