| JONFOSSE | Norwegian playwright who won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| MOHAMMADI | Narges who won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize while imprisoned in Iran |
| IBSEN | Norwegian playwright, who wrote all his plays in Danish, d. 1906 (5) |
| IRAN | Country of 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi |
| MAETERLINCK | Belgian playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 (11) |
| YEATS | Irish poet and playwright who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1923 |
| 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) |
| DARIOFO | Italian playwright who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| EUGENEONEILL | US playwright who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1936 (6,6) |
| ONEILL | Eugene, U.S. playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 (6) |
| PINTER | Playwright who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature (6,6) |
| HAROLD | Playwright who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature (6,6) |
| MARIOVARGASLLOSA | Peruvian novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2010 (5,6,5) |
| ARTHUR | ****** Miller, playwright who won the Jerusalem Prize in 2003 (6) |
| LIZZO | About Damn Time female singer who won the 2023 Grammy for Record of the Year |
| RAITT | Bonnie, blues musician who won the 2023 Song of the Year Grammy for Just Like That (5) |
| NOAH | Trevor who won the 2023 Erasmus Prize |
| GRILLO | Argentine golfer who won the 2023 Charles Schwab Challenge on the PGA Tour, Emiliano _ (6) |
| NATHANASPINALL | English darts player who won the 2023 World Matchplay, defeating Jonny Clayton 18?6 in the final |
