Ten winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature:
- Gabriel García Marquez, Colombia (1982)
- Paul Heyse, Germany (1910)
- Roger Martin du Gard, France (1937)
- Carl Spitteler, Switzerland (1919)
- Nadine Gordimer, South Africa (1991)
- Sigrid Undset, Norway (1928)
- Hermann Hesse, Switzerland (1946)
- Halldór Laxness, Iceland (1955)
- Jean-Paul Sartre, France (1964, declined)
- Patrick White, Australia (1973)