Nobel Prize Winners
- Gao Xingjian (PWF 2009, Nobel Prize 2000)
- Wole Soyinka (PWF 2006, Nobel Prize 1986)
- Nadine Gordimer (PWF 2004, Nobel Prize 1991)
- Harold Pinter (PWF 1999, Nobel Prize 2005)
- José Saramago (PWF 1994, Nobel Prize 1998)
- Herta Müller (PWF 1999, Nobel Prize 2009)
- Derek Walcott (PWF 2011, Nobel Prize 1992)
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