| DORIS | Nobel Prize-winning author, ... Lessing |
| MARQUEZ | "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Nobel Prize-winning author |
| SAMUEL | Nobel Prize winning author Beckett |
| ERNEST | Nobel Prize-winning author, ... Hemingway (6) |
| HERMANN | Nobel prize winning author of Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, ... Hesse |
| NADINE | ___ Gordimer, Nobel Prize winning author (6) |
| ELIE | Nobel Prize-winning author Wiesel |
| COETZEE | Nobel Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" |
| BELLOW | Clamour for a Nobel prize-winning author (6) |
| NAIPAUL | Nobel Prize-winning author noted for his comic portrayal of his birth country, Trinidad, in novels i |
| KIPLING | Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote The Jungle Book, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill and Just So |
| LESSING | Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook and the Canopus in Argos series (7) |
| ISHIGURO | Nobel Prize-winning author knighted in February this year, his novels include An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| 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) |
| GALSWORTHY | John -; Nobel Prize-winning author whose The Forsyte Saga was adapted into a television series in 1967 and again in 2002 (10) |
| UNDSET | Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter who fled the Nazis (6) |
| MORRISON | Nobel Prize-winning author of Song of Solomon and Beloved (8) |
| 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) |
| JOHNSTEINBECK | February 27, 2002 was the centennial of this Nobel Prize-winning author's birth |
| OLGA | Nobel Prize-winning writer Tokarczuk |