Samuel Beckett

William Faulkner
John Steinbeck

V.S. Naipul

6 correct and one almost correct
V.S. Naipul is correct if you look at his books but for this competition you need a first + last name.
To be semi fair, if Nails knows what the "V" stands for but forgot about the first + last rule, we'll give him til the end of the day (EDT) to tell us what it is.

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Elizabeth Taylor
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Jermain Defoe
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John Steinbeck
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Joseph Stalin
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Rock Hudson
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Samuel Beckett
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Thierry Henry
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William Faulkner
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Yuri Andropov

Seems overly nitty, but it's your game.

EDIT: Especially since I doubt "Rock" and "Andy" are the real first names of those already credited as correct.

Yes, very nitty.

However, that's what I put in the rules (before I thought of Mr Naipul) so I have to go with it.
Others may have thought of him but didn't use him as a pick because they didn't know his first name.
"Rock" and "Andy" might not be on their birth certificates but that was the name that people used when talking to or about them.
Unfortunately the Nobel people did give the award to Naipul using his first, middle and last name.

oooops

Mr Naipul is really Mr Naipaul. Where is auto-correct when you need it?

Ram Vaswani

pablo neruda

William Golding

Thomas Mann

I have no idea what the V stands for. Don't think I've ever seen any reference to him other than by his initials.

GG.

Tony G

Currently playing the PLO8 in the WCOOP so I'll be a little late with the update.
That'll give Urbanwaste a bit of time to make a guess as to what "G" stands for.

Shouldn't be long now. Down to my last 12K.

And then there were three.
I kinda thought Ram Vaswani would be a good pick. He was on plenty of poker TV back in the day - but not Premier League I guess.
And Tony G - I'm sure UrbanWaste knows what's wrong with that pick!

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Jermain Defoe
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John Steinbeck
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Joseph Stalin
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Rock Hudson
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Yuri Andropov

Albert Camus

Ahhh bugger ok

Antanas Guoga

And we have a winner: eyebooger
Albert Camus was correct. Didn't hear from our other 2 contestants.

Here are the 225 possible right answers.

Abdulrazak Gurnah
Alan Shearer
Albert Camus
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Kravchenko
Alice Munro
Anatole France
Andrew Feldman
Andrey Arshavin
André Gide
Andy Black
Andy Cole
Andy Frankenberger
Annie Duke
Antanas Guoga
Antonio Esfandiari
Bertrand Russell
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bob Dylan
Bob Homan
Bobby Bare
Boris Pasternak
Buck Owens
Burl Ives
Camilo José Cela
Carl Spitteler
Carl Van Vechten
Carroll Baker
Charley Pride
Claude Simon
Conway Twitty
Czeslaw Milosz
Dan Shak
Daniel Cates
Daniel Negreanu
Dario Fo
David Benyamine
DeeRay Garcia
Derek Walcott
Dimitar Berbatov
Don Gibson
Doris Lessing
Dwight Yoakam
Edin Dzeko
Efan Ekoku
Elena Stasova
Elfriede Jelinek
Elias Canetti
Elizabeth Taylor
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Ernest Hemingway
Eugene O'Neill
Eugenio Montale
Eyvind Johnson
Frank Lampard
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
François Mauriac
Frédéric Mistral
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel Jesus
Gabriela Mistral
Gao Xingjian
George Bernard Shaw
George Hamilton IV
Georginio Wijnaldum
Gerhart Hauptmann
Giorgos Seferis
Giosuè Carducci
Giovanni Safina
Grazia Deledda
Günter Grass
Halldór Laxness
Harlan Howard
Harold Pinter
Harry Kane
Harry Martinson
Heinrich Böll
Henri Bergson
Henrik Pontoppidan
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Hermann Hesse
Herta Müller
Hueng-Min Son
Ian Frazer
Igor Kurganov
Imre Kertész
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ivan Bunin
Ivo Andric
J C Tran
Jacinto Benavente
James Dempsey
Jaroslav Seifert
Jason Mercier
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jennifer Tilly
Jermain Defoe
Jim Backus
Jim Byrnes
Jimmy Hasselbaink
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
John Galsworthy
John Maxwell Coetzee
John Steinbeck
Johnny Paycheck
Jonathan Duhamel
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Stalin
José Echegaray
José Saramago
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juha Helppi
Julie Harris
Jurgen Klinsmann
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kenzaburo Oe
Kevin de Bruyne
Knut Hamsun
Konstantin Chernenko
Leonid Brezhnev
Liz Lieu
Louis Saha
Louise Glück
Luigi Pirandello
Luis Suarez
Luke Schwartz
Marcel Luske
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mark Viduka
Marvin Rettenmaier
Matt Giannetti
Matthew Franklin
Maurice Maeterlinck
Max Pescatori
Michael Owen
Michail Antonio
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sholokhov
Mo Yan
Mohamed Salah
Nadine Gordimer
Naguib Mahfouz
Natalie Wood
Nelly Sachs
Nikita Krushchev
Nikolay Krestinsky
Octavio Paz
Odysseas Elytis
Ole Solskjaer
Olga Tokarczuk
Orhan Pamuk
Pablo Neruda
Patrick Modiano
Patrick White
Patrik Antonius
Paul von Heyse
Pearl Buck
Peter Eastgate
Peter Handke
Phil Hellmuth
Phil Laak
Pär Lagerkvist
Rabindranath Tagore
Rachel Jillett
Ray Pillow
Raymond Massey
Robbie Fowler
Robbie Keane
Rock Hudson
Rodney Crowell
Roger Martin du Gard
Roland De Wolfe
Romain Rolland
Romalu Lukaku
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Rudyard Kipling
Saint-John Perse
Sal Mineo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Sam Trickett
Samuel Beckett
Saul Bellow
Scott Seiver
Seamus Heaney
Selma Lagerlöf
Sergio Aguero
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Sigrid Undset
Sinclair Lewis
Sonny James
Sorel Mizzi
Sully Prudhomme
Svetlana Alexievich
Talal Shakerchi
Theodor Mommsen
Thierry Henry
Thomas Mann
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Tobias Rienkemier
Tom Dwan
Tomas Tranströmer
Toni Morrison
Vance Lane
Verner von Heidenstam
Vicente Aleixandre
Vicky Coren
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Vladimir Ivashko
Vyacheslav Molotov
Wayne Rooney
William Butler Yeats
William Faulkner
William Golding
Winston Churchill
Wislawa Szymborska
Wladyslaw Reymont
Wole Soyinka
Wynn Stewart
Yakov Sverdiov
Yakubu
Yasunari Kawabata
Yuri Andropov

Lol was i out?

You were in until 2PM EDT. Then you failed to make a pick.
Normally, you could just make 2 picks next round but since the game is over, there is no next round.