Top 5 Favorite Nobel Prize Winners?

[tiganeasca]

Fascinating. (I went through and did the best I could, trying to limit folks to 5 authors. In some cases, that meant leaving out choice #6 but in other cases, it was next to impossible since people listed their choices in chronological order. Anyway, did my best and here's the result.)

Faulkner 13
Garcia-Marquez 12
Beckett 9
Mann 8
Kawabata 8
Saramago 7
Oe 6
Vargas Llosa 5
Neruda 5
Munro 5
Mahfouz 5
Hesse 5
Coetzee 5
Yeats 4
Morrison 4
Hemingway 4
Camus 4
Hamsun 3
Eliot 3

Everyone else, needless to say, got 2 or 1 votes.

 

[Hamishe22]

1) W B Yeats
2) Alice Munro
3) Mario Vargas Llosa
4) Ōe Kenzaburō
5) Samuel Beckett

 

[redhead]

Need to update this for 2023, but I might as well wait for Thursday...

Waited because I had a feeling this year's winner might be on to my list, which turned out right ?

No order:
Kenzaburo Oe
Jon Fosse
Samuel Beckett
William Golding
Olga Tokarczuk

 

[Z--]

Waited because I had a feeling this year's winner might be on to my list, which turned out right ?

No order:
Kenzaburo Oe
Jon Fosse
Samuel Beckett
William Golding
Olga Tokarczuk

Very wise choice to wait! Fosse may well be in mine as well, though it's very close...