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Which Nobellaureates have delivered a Nobellecture?
Vicente Aleixandre, Saul Bellow, Heinrich Böll, Joseph Brodsky, Pearl Buck, Albert Camus, Camilo J. Cela, J.M. Coetzee, Odysseus Elytis, Rudolf Eucken, Camilo José Cela, Dario Fo, Gao Xingjian, William Golding, Nadine Gordimer,Günter Grass, Seamus Heaney, Harold Pinter, Elfriede Jelinek, Yasunari Kawabata, Imre Kertész, Pär Lagerkvist, Nagieb Mahfuz, Gabriel G. Márquez, Czeslaw Milosz, Eugenio Montale, Toni Morrison, VS Naipaul, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Kenzaburo Oë, Orhan Pamuk, Octavio Paz, Salvatore Quasimodo, Bertrand Russell, José Saramago, Jórgos Séferis, Wislawa Szymborska, Claude Simon, Isaac B. Singer, Aleksandre Solzjenitsyn, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, William B. Yeats.

This is the spreading of Nobel laureates literature from 1901until 2008:
Europe                                  North-America                Australia and Oceania
France 14                               United States 9                 Australia 1
Great-Britain 10
Sweden 7                              
Central-America              Africa
Germany 7                             Saint Lucia 1                      Republic of South-Africa 2
Italy 6                                      Guatemala 1                       Nigeria 1
Spain 5                                   Mexico 1                             Egypt 1
Russia 5
Ireland 4                                
South-America
Poland 4                                 Chile 2
Norway 3                                Colombia 1
Denmark 3
Switzerland 2                         
Asia
Greece 2                                Japan 2
Belgium 1                               India 1
Finland 1                                 Israel 1
Iceland 1                                 China 1
Jugoslavia 1
Portugal 1
Czechoslovakia 1
Hongary 1
Austria 1 
Turkey 1

Total 105 Nobellaureates in Literature (94 men & 11 women) chosen by the Swedish Academy.
Europe (incl. Russia)    80 (= approximately 76 %)
‘Rest’ of the world         25 (= approximately 24 %)
 

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