Imre Kertész, Gao Xingjian, Wislawa Szymborska, Kenzaburo Oe, Derek Walcott, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka, Claude Simon, Jaroslav Seifert, Elias Canetti, Czeslaw Milosz, Odysseus Elytis, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Vicente Aleixandre, Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson, Yasunari Kawabata, Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs, Giorgos Seferis, Ivo Andric, Salvatore Quasimodo, Halldór Laxness, Pär Lagerkvist, Johannes V. Jensen, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Roger Martin du Gard, Ivan Bunin, John Galsworthy, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sigrid Undset, Grazia Deledda, Wladyslaw Reymont, Knut Hamsun, Carl Spitteler, Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan, Verner von Heidenstam, Rabindranath Tagore, Gerhart Hauptmann, Maurice Maeterlinck, Paul Heyse, Selma Lagerlöf, Rudolf Eucken, Giosuè Carducci, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Theodor Mommsen, Sully Prudhomme e Elfriede Jelinek. Quem é capaz de me dizer quem são estas pessoas e o que têm em comum?