List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature

Leo Tolstoy, one of the most widely read writers who never won the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors which, according to the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the benefactor of the prize, has produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".^[1] It is one of the five Nobel Prizes which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.^[2]

Every year, the Swedish Academy sends out requests regularly for nominations of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Members of the Academy, members of literature academies and societies, professors of literature and language, former Nobel literature laureates, and the presidents of writers' organizations are all allowed to nominate a candidate. Nomination of oneself is not permitted.^[3] Despite the yearly invitations for nominations, there have been some years wherein the prize was not conferred due to particular reasons (1914, 1918, 1935) and due to the outbreak of World War II (1940-1943).

Records of nominations are strictly kept secret for 50 years until they are made publicly available. Currently, the nominations submitted from 1901 to 1970 are available.^{[4] [5]} Since 1901 to 1970, there have been 762 writers coming from different parts of the world nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 66 of which were awarded the prize.^[6] 12 more writers from these nominees were awarded after 1970 and Albert Schweitzer was awarded by Nobel Peace Prize on 1953. Seventy-two women have been nominated for the prize starting with Malwida von Meysenburg who was nominated once for the year 1901.^[7] Only one literary society has been nominated, the Pali Text Society for the year 1916.

Though the following list consists of notable literary figures deemed worthy of the prize, there have been some celebrated writers who were not considered nor even nominated such as Anton Chekhov,^[8] Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Robert Hugh Benson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexander Blok, Marcel Proust, Joseph Conrad, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico García Lorca, Lu Xun, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Antonio Machado, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Simone Weil, Willa Cather, George Orwell, Galaktion Tabidze, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Langston Hughes and Jack Kerouac.^[9][10][11]

List of Nominees[]

1st nomination in 1901-1909[]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
	Sully Prudhomme	March 16, 1839 Paris, France	September 6, 1907 Châtenay-Malabry, France	1901	Won the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature.[12]
	Henryk Sienkiewicz	May 5, 1846 Wola Okrzejska, Poland	November 15, 1916 Vevey, Switzerland	1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905	Won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature.[13]
	Julius Gersdorff	June 15, 1849 Szczecin, Poland	November 7, 1907 Weimar, Germany	1901	Nominated the only time by music pedagogue Carl Heinrich Döring (1834-1916) from Dresden Royal Conservatory.[14] "600 bis 700 Lieder"[15]("Songs 600-700")
	Oscar le Pin	? Switzerland	? Switzerland	1901	Nominated the only time by P.L.Bonnaviat from Saint-Petersburg Elizabethan Institute.[16] "La recherche de l'idéal" (Geneva, 1900)[15](play "Searching of the ideal")
	Louis Ducros	December 27, 1846 Nîmes, France	1927 Strasbourg, France[17]	1901	Nominated the only time by M.Clerc.[18] "Les Encyclopédistes" (1900)[15]("Encyclopedists»")
	Carl Gustaf Estlander	January 31, 1834 Lappfjärd, Finland	August 28, 1910 Helsinki, Finland	1901	Nominated the only time by J.G.Frosterus.[19] "Vitterhetens utveckling hos de nyare folken i medeltiden: förra perioden" (1900)[15]("Witnesses of the newer peoples development in the Middle Ages: the last period")
	Auguste Sabatier	October 22, 1839 Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France	April 12, 1901 Strasbourg, France	1901	Nominated the only time by G.Monod.[20] "Esquisse d'une philosophie de la religion d'après la psychologie et l'histoire" (1897)[15]("Psychological and historical sketch of a philosophy of religion")
	Malwida von Meysenbug	October 28, 1816 Kassel, Germany	April 23, 1903 Rome, Italy	1901	Nominated the only time by G.Monod through B.Bjørnson.[21] "Memoiren einer Idealistin" (1869–76), "Der Lebensabend einer Idealistin: Nachtrag zu den "Memoiren einer Idealistin»" (1898), "Stimmungsbilder" (1879)[15]("Memoirs of an Idealist", "The Retirement of an Idealist": addendum to the "Memoirs of an idealist", "Shades of Mood") First woman nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Paul Duproix	August 14, 1851 France	January 24, 1912 France	1901	Nominated the only time by Émile Redard (1848-1913) from the Société de Belles-Lettres, Geneva.[22] "Kant et Fichte et le problème de l´éducation" (1895)[15]("Kant, Fichte and the problem of education")
	Charles Renouvier	January 1, 1815 Montpellier, France	September 1, 1903 Prades, France	1901	Nominated the only time by Antoine Benoist (1846-1922) from the University of Toulouse.[23] "La nouvelle monadologie" (1899, avec L. Prat)[15]("The new monadology")
	Giacomo Stampa	? Italy	? Italy	1901	Nominated the only time by Árm.Vámbéry.[24] "Arcanum anima [sic!]. Gedanken eines Menschenfreundes"[15]("Mysterious soul. Philanthropist's thoughts")
	Ossip Lourié	January 28, 1868 Dubroŭna, Belarus	July 2, 1955 Paris, France	1901	Nominated the only time by Kr.Birch-Reichenwald Aars.[25] "La philosophie de Tolstoï" (1899), "La philosophie sociale dans le théâtre d'Ibsen" (1900)[15]("The Tolstoy' Philosophy". "The Social Philosophy of Ibsen' Theatre")
	João da Câmara	December 27, 1852 Lisbon, Portugal	January 2, 1908 Lisbon, Portugal	1901	Nominated the only time by J.J.Coelho de Carvalho.[26] "Meia-Noite" (1900)[15]{"The Midnight")
	René Vallery-Radot	October 1, 1853 Paris, France	January 24, 1933 Paris, France	1901	"La Vie de Pasteur (Life of Pasteur). 1900"[15][27]
	Edmond Rostand	April 1, 1868 Marseille, France	December 2, 1918 Paris, France	1901	"Cyrano de Bergerac". "L'Aiglon"[15]("Eaglet").[28]
	Charles Borgeaud	August 15, 1861 Le Chenit, Switzerland	October 6, 1940 Onex, Switzerland	1901	"Histoire de l'Université de Gen��ve. L'académie de Calvin. 1559—1798" (1900)[15]("The History of the Geneva University. The Calvin' Academy")[29]
	Émile Zola	April 2, 1840 Paris, France	September 29, 1902 Paris, France	1901, 1902	Nominated by M.Berthelot only[30] för hans arbeten i allmänhet[15](for his works in general).
	Ferenc Kemény	July 17, 1860 Zrenjanin Serbia	November 21, 1944 Budapest, Hungary	1901, 1902	"Entwurf einer internationalen Gesammt-Academie: Weltakademie" (1901)[15]("The Draft of an Total International Academy: World Academy") [31]
	Alexander Baumgartner	June 27, 1841 St. Gallen, Switzerland	October 5, 1910 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	1901, 1902, 1903	Nominated by Kn.K.Krogh-Tonning only.[32] "Geschichte der Weltliteratur" (Bd. 1—4, 1897—1900)[15]("The History of World Literature", Vol. 1-4)
	Gaston Paris	August 9, 1839 Avenay-Val-d'Or, France	March 5, 1903 Cannes, France	1901, 1902, 1903	Nominated by Fr.Wulff only.[33] "Discours de réception" (1897), "La poésie du moyen âge" (séries 1—2, 1885–95), "Penseurs et poètes" (1896), "Poèmes et légendes du moyen âge" (1899)[15] ("Reception speech", "The poetry of the middle ages" (ser. 1—2), "Thinkers and poets", "Poems and legends of the middle ages")
	Gaspar Núñez de Arce	August 4, 1832 Valladolid, Spain	June 9, 1903 Madrid, Spain	1901, 1902, 1903	"Obras dramáticas" (1879), "Gritos del combate: Poesías" (1875), "La selva oscura: Poema" (1879), "Sursum Corda!" (1900)[15]("Dramatic Works", "Cries of Combat: Poems", "The Dark Forest: Poem", "Ascend the Hearts!")[34]
	Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol	March 23, 1847 Iași, Romania	February 27, 1920 Bucharest, Romania	1901, 1909	Nominated by I.Găvănescu only.[35] "Les principes fondamentaux de l'histoire" (1899)[15]("The fundamental principles of History")
	Antonio Fogazzaro	March 25, 1842 Vicenza, Italy	March 7, 1911 Vicenza, Italy	1901, 1902, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911	"Malombra: romanzo" (1881), "Daniele Cortis: romanzo" (1885), "Il mistero del poeta" (1888), "Ascensioni umane" (1899)[15]("Malombra: novel", "Daniele Cortis: novel", "The mystery of the poet", "Human ascensions")[36]
	Paul Sabatier	August 3, 1858 Saint-Michel-de-Chabrillanoux, France	March 4, 1928 Strasbourg, France	1901, 1902, 1903, 1924, 1925	Nominated by C.Bildt only.[37] "Vie de S. François d'Assise" (1894)[15]("Francis of Assisi' Life")
	Frédéric Mistral	September 8, 1830 Maillane, France	March 25, 1914 Maillane, France	1901, 1902, 1903, 1904	Won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature (shared with José Echegaray).[38]
	José Echegaray	April 19, 1832 Madrid, Spain	September 14, 1916 Madrid, Spain	1902, 1903, 1904	Won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature (shared with Frédéric Mistral).[39]
	Theodor Mommsen	November 30, 1817 Garding, Germany	November 1, 1903 Berlin, Germany	1902	Won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature.[40]
	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	December 8, 1832 Kvikne, Norway	April 26, 1910 Paris, France	1902, 1903	Won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature.[41]
	Giosuè Carducci	July 27, 1835 Pietrasanta, Italy	February 16, 1907 Bologna, Italy	1902, 1903, 1905, 1906	Won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature.[42]
	Gerhart Hauptmann	November 15, 1862 Szczawno-Zdrój, Poland	June 6, 1946 Jelenia Góra, Poland	1902, 1906, 1912	Won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature.[43]
	William Butler Yeats	June 13, 1865 Sandymount, Ireland	January 28, 1939 Cannes, France	1902, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1921, 1922, 1923	Won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.[44]
	Anatoly Koni	January 28, 1844 Saint Petersburg, Russia	September 17, 1927 Saint Petersburg, Russia	1902	"Doktor Friedrich Haass. Lebensskizze eines deutschen Philantropen in Russland." (1899)[15]("Fyodor Petrovich Gaaz. The biographical sketch.")[45]
	Ventura Fernández López	July 14, 1866 Bárcena de Pie de Concha, Spain	November 17, 1944 Toledo, Spain	1902	"La Rota (Canto épico)" (1901).[15]("Broken (Epic song)").[46]
	Carl Weitbrecht	December 8, 1847 Althengstett, Germany	June 10, 1904 Stuttgart, Germany	1902	[47]
	Hartmann Grisar	September 22, 1845 Koblenz, Germany	February 25, 1932 Innsbruck, Austria	1902	[48]
	Herbert Spencer	April 27, 1820 Derby, England	December 8, 1903 Brighton, England	1902	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[49]
	Bernard Bosanquet	June 14, 1848 Alnwick, England	February 8, 1923 London, England	1902	[50]
	Marcel Barrière	November 3, 1860 Limoux, France	February 18, 1954 Paris, France	1902	[51]
	Gustav Falke	January 11, 1853 Lübeck, Germany	February 8, 1916 Marburg, Germany	1902	[52]
	Archibald Robertson	June 29, 1853 Northamptonshire, England	January 29, 1931 Oxford, England	1902	[53]
	Henrik Ibsen	March 20, 1828 Skien, Norway	May 23, 1906 Oslo, Norway	1902, 1903, 1904	[54]
	Leo Tolstoy	September 9, 1828 Yasnaya Polyana, Russia	November 20, 1910 Lev Tolstoy, Russia	1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906	"Uppståndelse" (1899)[15]("Resurrection"). Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[55]
	Houston Stewart Chamberlain	September 9, 1855 Portsmouth, England	January 9, 1927 Bayreuth, Germany	1902, 1906	[56]
	Lewis Morris	January 23, 1833 Carmarthen, Wales	November 12, 1907 Penbryn, Wales	1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907	[57]
	George Meredith	February 12, 1828 Hampshire, England	May 18, 1909 Surrey, England	1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907	[58]
	Theodor Zahn	October 10, 1838 Moers, Germany	March 5, 1933 Erlangen, Germany	1902, 1904, 1908	"Einleitung in das neue Testament" (two volumes, 1897–1900);[15]("Introduction to the New Testament")[59]
	Charles Wagner	January 3, 1852 Alsace, France	May 12, 1918 Alsace, France	1902, 1903, 1909	[60]
	John Morley	December 24, 1838 Blackburn, England	September 23, 1923 London, England	1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913	[61]
	Juhani Aho	September 11, 1861 Lapinlahti, Finland	August 8, 1921 Helsinki, Finland	1902, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920	[62]
	Arne Garborg	January 25, 1851 Jæren, Norway	January 14, 1924 Asker, Norway	1902, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921	[63]
	Rudyard Kipling	December 30, 1865 Mumbai, India	January 18, 1936 London, England	1903, 1904, 1905, 1907	Won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature.[64]
	Maurice Maeterlinck	August 29, 1862 Ghent, Belgium	May 6, 1949 Nice, France	1903, 1904, 1909, 1910, 1911	Won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature.[65]
	François Coppée	January 26, 1842 Paris, France	May 23, 1908 Paris, France	1903	[66]
	Carl Friedrich Glasenapp	October 3, 1847 Riga, Latvia	April 14, 1915 Riga, Latvia	1903	[67]
	Robert Langton Douglas	1864 Cheshire, England	1951 Fiesole, Italy	1903, 1904	[68]
	Albert Sorel	August 13, 1842 Honfleur, France	June 29, 1906 Paris, France	1903, 1904, 1905, 1906	[69]
	Algernon Charles Swinburne	April 5, 1837 London, England	April 10, 1909 London, England	1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909	[70]
	Iwan Gilkin	January 7, 1858 Brussels, Belgium	September 28, 1924 Brussels, Belgium	1903, 1909	[71]
	Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo	November 3, 1856 Santander, Spain	May 19, 1912 Santander, Spain	1903, 1905, 1907, 1910	[72]
	Georg Brandes	February 4, 1842 Copenhagen, Denmark	February 19, 1927 Copenhagen, Denmark	1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926	[73]
	Selma Lagerlöf	November 20, 1858 Värmland, Sweden	March 16, 1940 Värmland, Sweden	1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909	Won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature.[74]
	Anatole France	April 16, 1844 Paris, France	October 12, 1924 Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France	1904, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1921	Won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature.[75]
	Émilie Lerou	1855 France	1935 France	1904	[76]
	Demetrios Bernardakis	December 3, 1833 Mitilini, Greece	January 12, 1907 Mitilini, Greece	1904, 1905	[77]
	Jaroslav Vrchlický	February 17, 1853 Louny, Czechia	September 9, 1912 Domazlice, Czechia	1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912	[78]
	William Chapman	December 13, 1850 Beauceville, Canada	February 23, 1917 Ottawa, Canada	1904, 1910, 1912, 1917	[79]
	Eliza Orzeszkowa	June 6, 1841 Mil'kovshchina, Belarus	May 18, 1910 Grodno, Belarus	1905	[80]
	Godfrey Sweven	May 5, 1845 Irvine, England	January 18, 1935 Christchurch, New Zealand	1905	John Macmillan Brown nominated himself under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven.[81][82]
	Louis Franck	November 28, 1868 Antwerp, Belgium	December 31, 1937 Wijnegem, Belgium	1906	[83]
	Gaston Boissier	August 15, 1823 Nîmes, France	June 10, 1908 Viroflay, France	1906	[84]
	William J. Neidig	1870 United States	1955 United States	1906	[85]
	Max Bewer	January 19, 1861 Düsseldorf, Germany	October 13, 1921 Meißen, Germany	1906	[86]
	William Booth	April 10, 1829 Nottingham, England	August 20, 1912 London, England	1906	Founder of The Salvation Army.[87]
	Pedro Pablo Figueroa	December 25, 1857 Copiapó, Chile	January 4, 1909 Santiago, Chile	1906	First Latin American nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[88]
	Max Haushofer	April 23, 1840 Munich, Germany	1907 Gries-San Quirino, Italy	1906	[89]
	Joseph Viktor Widmann	February 20, 1842 Brno, Czechia	November 6, 1911 Bern, Switzerland	1906, 1908	[90]
	George Lansing Raymond	September 3, 1839 Illinois, United States	July 11, 1929 Washington D.C., United States	1906, 1907, 1908	[91]
	Borden Parker Bowne	January 14, 1847 Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States	April 1, 1910 Boston, United States	1906, 1907, 1909	First American nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[92]
	Angelo de Gubernatis	April 7, 1840 Turin, Italy	February 26, 1913 Rome, Italy	1906, 1907, 1909	[93]
	João Bonança	ca. 1836 Lagos, Portugal	April 13, 1924 Lisbon, Portugal	1907	[94]
	Holger Drachmann	October 9, 1846 Copenhagen, Denmark	January 14, 1908 Hornbæk, Denmark	1907	[95]
	Ian Maclaren	November 3, 1850 Manningtree, United States	May 6, 1907 Iowa, United States	1907	[96]
	Andrés Manjón	November 30, 1846 Sargentes de la Lora, Spain	July 10, 1923 Granada, Spain	1907	First nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature on process for sainthood within the Roman Catholic Church. Declared Venerable on November 23, 2020.[97]
	Eduardo Benot	November 26, 1822 Cádiz, Spain	July 27, 1907 Madrid, Spain	1907	[98]
	Georgios Souris	February 2, 1853 Ermoupoli, Greece	August 26, 1919 Athens, Greece	1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912	[99]
	Àngel Guimerà	May 6, 1835 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain	July 18, 1924 Barcelona, Spain	1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923	[100]
	Paul Bourget	September 2, 1852 Amiens, France	December 25, 1935 Paris, France	1907, 1909, 1914, 1915, 1928	[101]
	Rudolf Christoph Eucken	January 5, 1846 Aurich, Germany	September 15, 1926 Jena, Germany	1908	Won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature.[102]
	Julio Calcaño	December 4, 1840 Caracas, Venezuela	August 18, 1918 Caracas, Venezuela	1908	[103]
	Alfred L. Hutchinson	1859 Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States	August 1930 Weyauwega, Wisconsin, United States	1908	[104]
	Edmondo De Amicis	October 21, 1846 Imperia, Italy	March 11, 1908 Bordighera, Italy	1908	[105]
	Adolf von Harnack	May 7, 1851 Tartu, Estonia	June 10, 1930 Heidelberg, Germany	1908, 1916	[106]
	Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche	July 10, 1846 Lützen, Germany	November 8, 1935 Weimar, Germany	1908, 1916, 1917, 1923	[107]
	Verner von Heidenstam	July 6, 1859 Olshammar, Sweden	May 20, 1940 Övralid, Sweden	1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916	Won the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature.[108]
	Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé	February 25, 1848 Nice, France	March 29, 1910 Paris, France	1909	[109]
	Martin Greif	June 18, 1839 Speyer, Germany	April 1, 1911 Kufstein, Austria	1909, 1910, 1911	[110]
	Francesco D'Ovidio	December 5, 1849 Campobasso, Italy	November 24, 1925 Naples, Italy	1909, 1910, 1911, 1912	[111]
	Ernest Lavisse	December 17, 1842 Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, France	August 18, 1922 Paris, France	1909, 1910, 1912, 1913	[112]
	Salvador Rueda	December 3, 1857 Benaque, Spain	April 1, 1933 Málaga, Spain	1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915	[113]
	Émile Verhaeren	May 21, 1855 Sint-Amands, Belgium	November 27, 1916 Rouen, France	1909, 1912, 1915, 1916	[114]

1st nomination in 1910-1919[]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
	Paul Heyse	March 13, 1830 Berlin, Germany	April 2, 1914 Munich, Germany	1910	Won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature.[115]
	Gustav Warneck	March 6, 1834 Naumburg, Germany	December 26, 1910 Halle (Saale), Germany	1910	[116]
	Wilhelm Hermann Heinrich Benignus	February 17, 1861 Heilbronn, Germany	June 5, 1930 Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	1910	[117]
	Alfred Fouillée	October 18, 1838 Erdre-en-Anjou, France	June 16, 1912 Lyon, France	1910	[118]
	Édouard Rod	March 31, 1857 Nyon, Switzerland	January 29, 1910 Grasse, France	1910	[119]
	William Dean Howells	March 1, 1837 Ohio, United States	May 11, 1920 New York, United States	1910	[120]
	Robert Bridges	October 23, 1844 Walmer, England	April 21, 1930 Boars Hill, England	1910	[121]
	Andrew Lang	March 31, 1844 Selkirk, Scotland	July 20, 1912 Banchory, Scotland	1910	[122]
	Molly Elliot Seawell	October 23, 1860 Virginia, United States	November 15, 1916 Washington, D.C., United States	1910, 1911	[123]
	Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach	September 13, 1830 Troubky-Zdislavice, Czechia	March 12, 1916 Vienna, Austria	1910, 1911	[124]
	Pierre Loti	January 14, 1850 Rochefort, France	June 10, 1923 Hendaye, France	1910, 1911, 1912, 1913	[125]
	Thomas Hardy	June 2, 1840 Stinsford, England	January 11, 1928 Dorchester, England	1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927	[126]
	Karl Adolph Gjellerup	June 2, 1857 Roholte, Denmark	October 13, 1919 Dresden, Germany	1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917	Won the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature (shared with Henrik Pontoppidan).[127]
	George Bernard Shaw	July 26, 1856 Dublin, Ireland	November 2, 1950 Ayot St Lawrence, England	1911, 1912, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1926	Won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.[128]
	Albert de Mun	February 28, 1841 Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, France	October 6, 1914 Bordeaux, France	1911	[129]
	Gustaf Fröding	August 22, 1860 Alster, Swedeen	February 8, 1911 Stockholm, Sweden	1911	[130]
	Rafael Altamira	February 10, 1866 Alicante, Spain	June 1, 1951 Mexico City, Mexico	1911, 1912	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[131]
	Harald Høffding	March 11, 1843 Copenhagen, Denmark	July 2, 1931 Copenhagen, Denmark	1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916	[132]
	Henry James	April 15, 1843 New York, United States	February 28, 1916 London, England	1911, 1912, 1916	[133]
	Peter Rosegger	July 31, 1843 Krieglach, Austria	June 26, 1918 Krieglach, Austria	1911, 1913, 1918	[134]
	Ernst von der Recke	August 14, 1848 Copenhagen, Denmark	December 2, 1933 Zealand, Denmark	1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1930	[135]
	Karl Schönherr	February 24, 1867 Axams, Austria	March 15, 1943 Vienna, Austria	1911, 1912, 1933, 1938	[136]
	Carl Spitteler	April 24, 1845 Liestal, Switzerland	December 29, 1924 Lucerne, Switzerland	1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920	Won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature.[137]
	Henri Bergson	October 18, 1859 Paris, France	January 4, 1941 Paris, France	1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1921, 1927, 1928	Won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature.[138]
	Pencho Slaveykov	April 27, 1866 Tryavna, Bulgaria	June 10, 1912 Brunate, Italy	1912	[139]
	Sven Hedin	February 19, 1865 Stockholm, Sweden	November 26, 1952 Stockholm, Sweden	1912, 1913	[140]
	Jean-Henri Fabre	December 21, 1823 Aveyron, France	October 11, 1915 Sérignan-du-Comtat, France	1912, 1914	[141]
	Salvatore Farina	January 10, 1846 Sorso, Italy	December 15, 1918 Milan, Italy	1912, 1913, 1914	[142]
	Benito Pérez Galdós	May 10, 1843 Las Palmas, Spain	January 4, 1920 Madrid, Spain	1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916	[143]
	Adolf Frey	February 18, 1855 Küttigen, Switzerland	February 12, 1920 Zürich, Switzerland	1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920	[144]
	Hans E. Kinck	October 11, 1865 Øksfjord, Norway	October 13, 1926 Oslo, Norway	1912, 1919, 1920, 1926	[145]
	James George Frazer	January 1, 1854 Glasgow, Scotland	May 7, 1941 Cambridge, England	1912, 1926, 1928, 1935	[146]
	Rabindranath Tagore	May 7, 1861 Kolkata, India	August 7, 1941 Kolkata, India	1913	First Asian nominated and won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.[147]
	Henrik Pontoppidan	July 24, 1857 Fredericia, Denmark	August 21, 1943 Charlottenlund, Denmark	1913, 1916, 1917	Won the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature (shared with Karl Gjellerup).[148]
	Grazia Deledda	September 28, 1871 Nuoro, Italy	August 15, 1936 Rome, Italy	1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927	Won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature.[149]
	Edward Dowden	May 3, 1843 Cork, Ireland	April 4, 1913 Dublin, Ireland	1913	[150]
	John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury	April 30, 1834 London, England	May 28, 1913 Broadstairs, England	1913	[151]
	Francis Сhanning Miles Welles	April 21, 1887 Richmond, London, England	Aug 29, 1956 Cheltenham General Hospital, England	1913	[152]
	Émile Faguet	December 17, 1847 La Roche-sur-Yon, France	June 7, 1916 Paris, France	1913, 1914	[153]
	Jakob Knudsen	September 14, 1858 Rødding, Denmark	January 21, 1917 Birkerød, Denmark	1913, 1916	[154]
	Edmond Picard	December 15, 1836 Brussels, Belgium	February 19, 1924 Namur, Belgium	1913, 1914, 1916, 1917	[155]
	Antonio Serra y Morant	December 17, 1866 Alicante, Spain	August 7, 1939 Madrid, Spain	1914	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[156]
	Josef Svatopluk Machar	February 29, 1864 Kolin, Czechia	March 17, 1942 Prague, Czechia	1914, 1915	[157]
	René Bazin	December 26, 1853 Angers, France	July 20, 1932 Paris, France	1914, 1915	[158]
	Dora Melegari	June 27, 1849 Lausanne, Switzerland	July 31, 1924 Rome, Italy	1914, 1923	[159]
	Willem Kloos	May 6, 1859 Amsterdam, Netherlands	March 3, 1938 The Hague, Netherlands	1914, 1915, 1925, 1926, 1928	[160]
	Dmitry Merezhkovsky	August 2, 1865 Saint Petersburg, Russia	December 9, 1941 Paris, France	1914, 1915, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937	[161]
	Vilhelm Grønbech	June 14, 1873 Allinge, Denmark	April 21, 1948 Helsingør, Denmark	1914, 1915, 1927, 1928, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944	[162]
	Romain Rolland	January 29, 1866 Clamecy, France	December 30, 1944 Vézelay, France	1915, 1916	Won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature.[163]
	Charles Montagu Doughty	August 19, 1843 Saxmundham, England	January 20, 1926 Sissinghurst, England	1915	[164]
	Ferdinand Avenarius	December 20, 1856 Berlin, Germany	September 22, 1923 Kampen, Germany	1915, 1921	[165]
	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	July 20, 1864 Avesta, Sweden	April 8, 1931 Stockholm, Sweden	1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1929, 1931	Posthumously won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature.[166]
	Rabindranath Datta	October 1, 1883 Kolkata, India	July 6, 1917 Kolkata, India	1916	[167]
	Ivan Franko	August 27, 1856 Lviv, Ukraine	May 28, 1916 Lviv, Ukraine	1916	[168]
	Gunnar Heiberg	November 18, 1857 Oslo, Norway	February 22, 1929 Oslo, Norway	1916	[169]
	Troels Troels-Lund	September 5, 1840 Copenhagen, Denmark	February 12, 1921 Copenhagen, Denmark	1916	[170]
	The Pāli Text Society	founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids		1916	First and last literary society nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[171]
	Per Hallström	September 29, 1866 Stockholm, Sweden	February 18, 1960 Nacka, Sweden	1916, 1919	[172]
	Otokar Březina	September 13, 1868 Počátky, Czechia	March 25, 1929 Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou, Czechia	1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1925, 1928, 1929	[173]
	Henrik Schück	November 2, 1855 Stockholm, Sweden	October 3, 1947 Uppsala, Sweden	1916, 1929	[174]
	Ivan Vazov	July 9, 1850 Sopot, Bulgaria	September 22, 1921 Sofia, Bulgaria	1917	[175]
	Otto Ernst	October 7, 1862 Hamburg, Germany	March 5, 1926 Hamburg, Germany	1917	[176]
	Jeppe Aakjær	September 10, 1866 Aakjaer, Denmark	April 22, 1930 Roslev, Denmark	1917	[177]
	Johan Bojer	March 6, 1872 Orkdal, Norway	July 3, 1959 Oslo, Norway	1917, 1925, 1929, 1932	[178]
	Olaf Bull	November 10, 1883 Oslo, Norway	June 29, 1933 Oslo, Norway	1917, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932	[179]
	Bertel Gripenberg	September 19, 1878 Saint Petersburg, Russia	May 6, 1947 Sävsjö, Sweden	1917, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1937	[180]
	Knut Hamsun	August 4, 1859 Lom, Norway	February 19, 1952 Grimstad, Norway	1918, 1920	Won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature.[181]
	Gustav Frenssen	October 19, 1863 Barlt, Germany	April 11, 1945 Barlt, Germany	1918	[182]
	Alois Jirásek	August 23, 1851 Hronov, Czechia	March 12, 1930 Prague, Czechia	1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1930	[183]
	Maxim Gorky	March 28, 1868 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia	June 18, 1936 Moscow Oblast, Russia	1918, 1923, 1928, 1933	[184]
	Gunnar Gunnarsson	May 18, 1889 Fljótsdalur, Iceland	November 21, 1975 Reykjavík, Iceland	1918, 1921, 1922, 1955, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1969[185]	[186][187]
	Władysław Reymont	May 7, 1867 Kobiele Wielkie, Poland	December 5, 1925 Warsaw, Poland	1919, 1920, 1922, 1924	Won the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature.[188]
	John Galsworthy	August 14, 1867 Kingston upon Thames, England	January 31, 1933 London, England	1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1931, 1932	Won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.[189]
	Ebenezer Howard	January 29, 1850 London, England	May 1, 1928 Welwyn Garden City, England	1919, 1920	[190]
	Hugo von Hofmannsthal	February 1, 1874 Vienna, Austria	July 15, 1929 Vienna, Austria	1919, 1924, 1926, 1927	[191]
	Arno Holz	April 26, 1863 Ketrzyn, Poland	October 26, 1929 Berlin, Germany	1919, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929	[192]

1st nomination in 1920-1929[]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
	Wilbur Cortez Abbott	December 28, 1869 Indiana, United States	February 3, 1947 Massachusetts, United States	1920	[193]
	Jacinto Benavente	August 12, 1866 Madrid, Spain	July 14, 1954 Madrid, Spain	1921, 1922	Won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature.[194]
	Jean Revel	September 22, 1848 Conteville, France	May 4, 1925 Conteville, France	1921	[195]
	Émile Boutroux	July 28, 1845 Montrouge, France	November 22, 1921 Paris, France	1921	[196]
	Stefan Żeromski	October 14, 1864 Strawczyn, Poland	November 20, 1925 Warsaw, Poland	1921, 1922, 1923, 1924	[197]
	H. G. Wells	September 21, 1866 London, England	August 31, 1946 London, England	1921, 1932, 1935, 1946	[198]
	Sigrid Undset	May 20, 1882 Kalundborg, Denmark	June 10, 1949 Lillehammer, Norway	1922, 1925, 1926, 1928	Won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature.[199]
	Darrell Figgis	September 17, 1882 Dublin, Ireland	October 27, 1925 London, England	1922	[200]
	Georg von Below	January 19, 1858 Gusev, Russia	October 20, 1927 Badenweiler, Germany	1922	[201]
	Israel Zangwill	January 21, 1864 London, England	August 1, 1926 Midhurst, England	1922	[202]
	Michael Sadleir	December 25, 1888 Oxford, England	December 13, 1957 London, England	1922	[203]
	Matilde Serao	March 7, 1856 Patras, Greece	July 25, 1927 Naples, Italy	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925	[204]
	Roberto Bracco	November 10, 1861 Naples, Italy	April 20, 1943 Sorrento, Italy	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925	[205]
	Ludwig von Pastor	January 31, 1854 Aachen, Germany	September 30, 1928 Innsbruck, Austria	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929	[206]
	William Inge	June 6, 1860 Crayke, England	February 26, 1954 Wallingford, England	1922, 1923, 1929	[207]
	Paul Ernst	March 7, 1866 Elbingerode, Germany	May 13, 1933 Sankt Georgen an der Stiefing, Austria	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933	[208]
	Ivan Bunin	October 22, 1870 Voronezh, Russia	November 8, 1953 Paris, France	1923, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933	Won the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature.[209]
	Konstantin Balmont	June 15, 1867 Shuya, Russia	December 23, 1942 Paris, France	1923	[210]
	Einar H. Kvaran	December 6, 1859 Vallanes, Iceland	May 21, 1938 Reykjavík, Iceland	1923, 1924	[211]
	Hermann Türck[212]	March 13, 1856 Georgenburg, now Russia	April 30, 1933 Weimar, Germany	1923, 1924	[213]
	Guglielmo Ferrero	July 21, 1871 Portici, Italy	August 3, 1942 Chardonne, Switzerland	1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1933	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[214]
	Thomas Mann	June 6, 1875 Lübeck, Germany	August 21, 1955 Zürich, Switzerland	1924, 1928, 1929, 1948	Won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature.[215]
	Max Neuburger	December 8, 1868 Vienna, Austria	March 15, 1955 Vienna, Austria	1924	[216]
	Olav Duun	November 21, 1876 Namsos, Norway	September 13, 1939 Holmestrand, Norway	1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939	[217]
	Johannes V. Jensen	January 20, 1873 Farsø, Denmark	November 25, 1950 Østerbro, Denmark	1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944	Won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature.[218]
	Paul Elmer More	December 12, 1864 Missouri, United States	March 9, 1937 New Jersey, United States	1925	[219]
	Giovanni Schembari	? Italy	? Italy	1925	[220]
	Paul Raynal	July 25, 1885 Narbonne, France	August 18, 1971 Paris, France	1925, 1926	[221]
	Ferenc Herczeg	September 22, 1863 Vršac, Serbia	February 24, 1954 Budapest, Hungary	1925, 1926, 1927	[222]
	Rudolf Maria Holzapfel	April 26, 1874 Kraków, Poland	February 8, 1930 Muri bei Bern, Switzerland	1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929	[223]
	Arnold Bennett	May 27, 1867 Stoke-on-Trent, England	March 27, 1931 London, England	1926	[224]
	Pyotr Krasnov	September 22, 1869 Saint Petersburg, Russia	January 16, 1947 Moscow, Russia	1926	[225]
	Avetis Aharonian	January 9, 1866 Iğdır, Turkey	March 20, 1948 Paris, France	1926	[226]
	Sofía Casanova	September 30, 1861 A Coruña, Spain	January 16, 1958 Poznań, Poland	1926	[227]
	Vicente Huidobro	January 10, 1893 Santiago, Chile	January 2, 1948 Cartagena, Chile	1926	[228]
	Edvard Westermarck	November 20, 1862 Helsinki, Finland	September 3, 1939 Tenala, Finland	1926, 1927	[229]
	Ada Negri	February 3, 1870 Lodi, Italy	January 11, 1945 Milan, Italy	1926, 1927	[230]
	Juan Zorrilla de San Martín	December 28, 1855 Montevideo, Uruguay	November 3, 1931 Montevideo, Uruguay	1926, 1928	[231]
	Karl Kraus	April 28, 1874 Jicin, Czechia	June 12, 1936 Vienna, Austria	1926, 1928, 1930	[232]
	Georg Bonne	August 12, 1859 Hamburg, Germany	May 1, 1945 Hamburg, Germany	1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[233]
	J.-H. Rosny aîné	February 17, 1856 Brussels, Belgium	February 11, 1940 Paris, France	1926, 1928, 1933	[234]
	Josip Kosor	January 27, 1879 Drniš, Croatia	January 23, 1961 Dubrovnik, Croatia	1926, 1927, 1939	[235]
	Kostis Palamas	January 13, 1859 Patras, Greece	February 27, 1943 Athens, Greece	1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940	[236]
	Johannes Jørgensen	November 6, 1866 Svendborg, Denmark	May 29, 1956 Svendborg, Denmark	1926, 1932, 1942, 1950	[237]
	Concha Espina	April 15, 1869 Santander, Spain	May 19, 1955 Madrid, Spain	1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1952, 1954	[238]
	Paul Claudel	August 6, 1868 Villeneuve-sur-Fère, France	February 23, 1955 Paris, France	1926, 1937, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1955	[239]
	Cesare Pascarella	April 28, 1858 Rome, Italy	May 8, 1940 Rome, Italy	1927	[240]
	Eduard Meyer	January 25, 1855 Hamburg, Germany	August 31, 1930 Berlin, Germany	1927	[241]
	Samuel Parsons Scott	July 8, 1846 Ohio, United States	May 30, 1929 Ohio, United States	1927	[242]
	Edith Wharton	January 24, 1862 New York, United States	August 11, 1937 Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France	1927, 1928, 1930	[243]
	Édouard Estaunié	February 4, 1862 Dijon, France	April 2, 1942 Paris, France	1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931	[244]
	Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer	December 30, 1878 Budapest, Hungary	April 12, 1962 Munich, Germany	1927, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937	[245]
	Armando Palacio Valdés	October 4, 1853 Entrialgo, Spain	January 29, 1938 Madrid, Spain	1928	[246]
	Blanca de los Ríos	August 15, 1859 Seville, Spain	April 13, 1956 Madrid, Spain	1928	[247]
	Edith Howes	August 29, 1872 London, England	July 9, 1954 Dunedin, New Zealand	1928	[248]
	Theodor Däubler	August 17, 1876 Trieste, Italy	June 14, 1934 Sankt Blasien, Germany	1928	[249]
	Frederik van Eeden	April 3, 1860 Haarlem, Netherlands	June 16, 1932 Bussum, Netherlands	1928	[250]
	Alf Larsen	July 22, 1885 Tjøme, Norway	December 12, 1967 Tjøme, Norway	1928	[251]
	Anna de Noailles	November 15, 1876 Paris, France	April 30, 1933 Paris, France	1928	[252]
	Ivan Grozev	June 23, 1872 Sofia, Bulgaria	January 10, 1957 London, England	1928, 1929	[253]
	Hans Driesch	October 28, 1867 Bad Kreuznach, Germany	April 17, 1941 Leipzig, Germany	1928, 1930, 1932	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[254]
	Rudolf Hans Bartsch	February 11, 1873 Graz, Austria	February 7, 1952 Graz, Austria	1928, 1929, 1930, 1933	[255]
	Rufino Blanco Fombona	June 17, 1874 Caracas, Venezuela	October 16, 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1935	[256]
	Felix Timmermans	July 5, 1886 Lier, Belgium	January 24, 1947 Lier, Belgium	1928, 1940, 1941	[257]
	Ricarda Huch	July 18, 1864 Braunschweig, Germany	November 17, 1947 Kronberg, Germany	1928, 1935, 1937, 1946	[258]
	Cale Young Rice	December 11, 1872 Kentucky, United States	January 24, 1943 Kentucky, United States	1929	[259]
	Knud Rasmussen	June 7, 1879 Ilulissat, Greenland	December 21, 1933 Copenhagen, Denmark	1929	[260]
	Stefan George	July 12, 1868 Büdesheim, Germany	December 4, 1933 Minusio, Switzerland	1929, 1931	[261]
	Edwin Arlington Robinson	December 22, 1869 Maine, United States	April 6, 1935 New York, United States	1929, 1930, 1932, 1934	[262]
	Benedetto Croce	February 25, 1866 Pescasseroli, Italy	November 20, 1952 Naples, Italy	1929, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952	[263]
	Thornton Wilder	April 17, 1897 Wisconsin, United States	December 7, 1975 Connecticut, United States	1929, 1949, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[267]

1st nomination in 1930-1939[]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
	Sinclair Lewis	February 7, 1885 Minnesota, United States	January 10, 1951 Rome, Italy	1930	Won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature.[268]
	Frans Eemil Sillanpää	September 16, 1888 Hämeenkyrö, Finland	June 3, 1964 Helsinki, Finland	1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939	Won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature.[269]
	Theodore Dreiser	August 27, 1871 Indiana, United States	December 28, 1945 California, United States	1930	[270]
	Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo	September 19, 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela	(?) 1959 Caracas, Venezuela	1930	[271]
	Manfred Kyber	March 1, 1880 Riga, Latvia	March 10, 1933 Löwenstein, Germany	1930	[272]
	Arvid Järnefelt	November 16, 1861 Saint Petersburg, Russia	December 27, 1932 Helsinki, Finland	1930	[273]
	Yrjö Hirn	December 7, 1870 Lappeenranta, Finland	February 23, 1952 Helsinki, Finland	1930	[274]
	Edgar Lee Masters	August 23, 1868 Kansas, United States	March 5, 1950 Pennsylvania, United States	1930	[275]
	Nathanael Jünger	October 23, 1871 Hamburg, Germany	September 29, 1941 Potsdam, Germany	1930, 1931	[276]
	Anton Wildgans	April 17, 1881 Vienna, Austria	May 3, 1932 Mödling, Austria	1930, 1931, 1932	[277]
	Paul Valéry	October 30, 1871 Sète, France	July 20, 1945 Paris, France	1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945	[278]
	Lion Feuchtwanger	July 7, 1884 Munich, Germany	December 21, 1958 California, United States	1930, 1955, 1956, 1957	[279]
	Rudolf Kassner	September 11, 1873 Velké Pavlovice, Czechia	April 1, 1959 Sierre, Switzerland	1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1959	[280][281]
	Hermann Hesse	July 2, 1877 Calw, Germany	August 9, 1962 Collina d’Oro, Switzerland	1931, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1946	Won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature.[282]
	Laura Mestre Hevia	April 6, 1867 Havana, Cuba	January 11, 1944 Havana, Cuba	1931	[283]
	Francis Jammes	December 2, 1868 Tournay, France	November 1, 1938 Hasparren, France	1931	[284]
	Ole Edvart Rølvaag	April 22, 1876 Dønna, Norway	November 5, 1931 Minnesota, United States	1931	[285]
	Erich Maria Remarque	June 22, 1898 Osnabrück, Germany	September 25, 1970 Locarno, Switzerland	1931	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[286]
	Ivan Shmelyov	October 3, 1873 Moscow, Russia	June 24, 1950 Paris, France	1931, 1932	[287]
	Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić	April 18, 1874 Ogulin, Croatia	September 21, 1938 Zagreb, Croatia	1931, 1935, 1937, 1938	[288]
	Ramón Pérez de Ayala	August 9, 1880 Oviedo, Spain	August 5, 1962 Madrid, Spain	1931, 1934, 1947	[289]
	Martin Andersen Nexø	June 26, 1869 Christianshavn, Denmark	June 1, 1954 Dresden, Germany	1931, 1950	[290]
	Ramón Menéndez Pidal	March 13, 1869 A Coruña, Spain	November 14, 1968 Madrid, Spain	1931, 1932, 1934, 1938, 1939, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968[265]	Menéndez Pidal earns the highest record as the most nominated person for the Nobel Prize in Literature but never won the prize. He was nominated 151 times.[291]
	Francesco Orestano	April 14, 1873 Alia, Italy	August 20, 1945 Rome, Italy	1932	[292]
	Axel Munthe	October 31, 1857 Oskarshamn, Sweden	February 11, 1949 Stockholm, Sweden	1932	[293]
	Percival Elgood	July 3, 1863 Marlborough, England	December 20, 1941 Cairo, Egypt	1932	[294]
	Grigol Robakidze	October 28, 1880 Imereti, Georgia	November 19, 1962 Geneva, Switzerland	1932	[295]
	Michael Blümelhuber	September 23, 1865 Christkindl, Austria	January 29, 1936 Steyr, Austria	1932, 1933, 1934	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[296]
	Karel Čapek	January 9, 1890 Malé Svatoňovice, Czechia	December 25, 1938 Prague, Czechia	1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938	[297]
	Vilhelm Ekelund	October 14, 1880 Scania, Sweden	September 3, 1949 Saltsjöbaden, Sweden	1932, 1941	[298]
	Manuel Gálvez	May 6, 1882 Parana, Argentina	November 14, 1962 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1932, 1933, 1934, 1951, 1952	[299]
	Upton Sinclair	September 20, 1878 Maryland, United States	November 25, 1968 New Jersey, United States	1932, 1933, 1934, 1965	[300]
	Henrique Coelho Neto	February 21, 1864 Maranhão, Brazil	November 28, 1934 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1933	[301]
	Max Beerbohm	August 24, 1872 London, England	May 20, 1956 Rapallo, Italy	1933	[302]
	Joseph Bédier	January 28, 1864 Paris, France	August 29, 1938 Le Grand-Serre, France	1933, 1934	[303]
	Ernest Roguin	May 27, 1851 Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland	May 5, 1939 Lausanne, Switzerland	1933, 1934	[304]
	Hayim Nahman Bialik	January 9, 1873 Volhynia, Russia	July 4, 1934 Vienna, Austria	1933, 1934	[305]
	Hermann Stehr	February 16, 1864 Bystrzyca Klodzka, Poland	September 11, 1940 Szklarska Poręba, Poland	1933, 1934, 1935, 1936	[306]
	António Correia de Oliveira	July 30, 1878 São Pedro do Sul, Portugal	February 20, 1960 Esposende, Portugal	1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942	[307]
	Carlos María Ocantos	August 24, 1835 Buenos Aires, Argentina	March 29, 1949 Madrid, Spain	1933, 1943	[308]
	José Ortega y Gasset	May 9, 1883 Madrid, Spain	October 18, 1955 Madrid, Spain	1933, 1951	[309]
	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	September 5, 1888 Thiruttani, India	April 17, 1975 Chennai, India	1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963	Second President of India (1962 – 1967). Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[310]
	Luigi Pirandello	June 28, 1867 Agrigento, Italy	December 10, 1936 Rome, Italy	1934	Won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature.[311]
	Eugene O’Neill	October 16, 1888 New York, United States	November 27, 1953 Massachusetts, United States	1934, 1935, 1936	Won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature.[312]
	Roger Martin du Gard	March 23, 1881 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France	August 22, 1958 Belforêt-en-Perche, France	1934, 1935, 1936, 1937	Won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.[313]
	Francisco García Calderón Rey	April 8, 1883 Valparaíso, Chile	July 1, 1953 Lima, Peru	1934	Son of Francisco García Calderón, Provisional President of the Republic of Peru (1881)[314]
	Ventura García Calderón	February 23, 1886 Paris, France	October 27, 1959 Paris, France	1934	Son of Francisco García Calderón, Provisional President of the Republic of Peru (1881)[315]
	Ole Hallesby	August 5, 1879 Aremark, Norway	November 22, 1961 Oslo, Norway	1934	[316]
	Ewald Magnus Engebrethsen Sundberg	October 8, 1886 Kristiansand, Norway	April 1967 Norway	1934	[317]
	Hans Henrik Holm	January 18, 1896 Oslo, Norway	September 27, 1980 Oslo, Norway	1934	[318]
	Franz Karl Ginzkey	September 8, 1871 Pula, Croatia	April 11, 1963 Vienna, Austria	1934, 1935	[319]
	Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński	September 14, 1859 Kiev, Ukraine	May 8, 1944 Schondorf, Germany	1934, 1935	[320]
	Jarl Hemmer	September 18, 1893 Vaasa, Finland	December 6, 1944 Porvoo, Finland	1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939	[321]
	Maria Madalena Valdez Trigueiros de Martel Patrício	April 19, 1884 Lisbon, Portugal	November 3, 1947 Lisbon, Portugal	1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947	[322]
	Jean Schlumberger	May 26, 1877 Guebwiller, France	October 25, 1968 Paris, France	1934, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1964	[323]
	James Cousins	July 22, 1873 Belfast, Northern Ireland	February 20, 1956 Madanapalle, India	1935	[324]
	Sven Erik Lönborg	March 16, 1871 Motala, Sweden	April 11, 1959 Uppsala, Sweden	1935	[325]
	Émile Mâle	June 2, 1862 Commentry, France	October 6, 1954 Fontaine-Chaalis, France	1935	[326]
	Guðmundur Kamban	June 8, 1888 Reykjavík, Iceland	May 5, 1945 Copenhagen, Denmark	1935	[327]
	Violet Clifton	November 2, 1883 Rome, Italy	November 20, 1961 Lytham St Annes, England	1935	[328]
	Elise Richter	March 2, 1865 Vienna, Austria	June 23, 1943 Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechia	1935	Richter was the only nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature who was killed by the Nazi officials during World War II.[329]
	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	May 29, 1874 Kensington, England	June 14, 1936 Beaconsfield, England	1935	[330]
	Dezső Szabó	June 10, 1879 Cluj-Napoca, Romania	January 13, 1945 Budapest, Hungary	1935	[331]
	Víctor Manuel Rendón	December 5, 1859 Guayaquil, Ecuador	October 9, 1940 Guayaquil, Ecuador	1935	[332]
	Edvarts Virza	December 27, 1883 Ozolnieki, Latvia	March 1, 1940 Riga, Latvia	1935, 1936	[333]
	Miguel de Unamuno	September 29, 1864 Bilbao, Spain	December 31, 1936 Salamanca, Spain	1935, 1936	[334]
	Shaul Tchernichovsky	August 20, 1875 Kiev, Ukraine	October 14, 1943 Jerusalem, Israel	1935, 1937	[335]
	John Masefield	June 1, 1878 Ledbury, England	May 12, 1967 Abingdon, England	1935, 1937	[336]
	Jules Romains	August 26, 1885 Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, France	August 14, 1972 Paris, France	1935, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1963, 1966	[337]
	Asis Domet	June 25, 1890 Cairo, Egypt	June 27, 1943 Berlin, Germany	1936	[338]
	Hari Mohan Banerjee	? India	? India	1936	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[339]
	Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti	January 10, 1871 Vienna, Austria	April 8, 1955 Linz, Austria	1936	[340]
	Ludwig Klages	December 10, 1872 Hanover, Germany	July 29, 1956 Kilchberg, Switzerland	1936	[341]
	Sigmund Freud	May 6, 1856 Příbor, Czechia	September 23, 1939 London, England	1936	Nominated for Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine too. "Work on the subconscious (dream interpretation, psychoanalysis)".[342][343]
	Alfred Edward Evershed	April 22, 1870 Littlehampton, England	May 31, 1941 Tasmania, Australia	1936	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[344]
	Cécile Tormay	October 8, 1875 Budapest, Hungary	April 2, 1937 Gyöngyös, Hungary	1936, 1937	[345]
	Hans Fallada	July 21, 1893 Greifswald, Germany	February 5, 1947 Berlin, Germany	1936, 1939	[346]
	Arvid Mörne	May 6, 1876 Kuopio, Finland	June 15, 1946 Kauniainen, Finland	1936, 1945, 1946	[347]
	Georges Duhamel	June 30, 1884 Paris, France	April 13, 1966 Valmondois, France	1936, 1937, 1940, 1942, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1961	[348]
	Maurice Magre	March 2, 1877 Toulouse, France	December 11, 1941 Nice, France	1937	[349]
	Jules Payot	April 10, 1859 Chamonix, France	January 30, 1940 Aix-en-Provence, France	1937	[350]
	Arnold Schering	April 2, 1877 Wrocław, Poland	March 7, 1941 Berlin, Germany	1937	[351]
	Maria Jotuni	April 9, 1880 Kuopio, Finland	September 30, 1943 Helsinki, Finland	1937	[352]
	Albert Verwey	May 15, 1865 Amsterdam, Netherlands	March 8, 1937 Noordwijk, Netherlands	1937	[353]
	William Burchell/Bashyr Pickard	July 31, 1889 London, England	January 25, 1973 Hertford, England	1937	[354]
	Valdemar Rørdam	September 23, 1872 Fakse, Denmark	July 13, 1946 Holbæk, Denmark	1937, 1938	[355]
	Sally Salminen	April 25, 1906 Vårdö, Åland Islands	July 18, 1976 Copenhagen, Denmark	1937, 1938, 1939	[356]
	Bensadhar Majumdar	? India	? India	1937, 1939	[357]
	Maila Talvio	October 17, 1871 Hartola, Finland	January 6, 1951 Helsinki, Finland	1937, 1939, 1947	[358]
	René Béhaine	June 17, 1880 Vervins, France	January 2, 1966 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France	1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1944 1948, 1965	[359]
	Johan Falkberget	September 30, 1879 Røros, Norway	April 5, 1967 Røros, Norway	1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965	[360]
	Stijn Streuvels	October 3, 1871 Kortrijk, Belgium	August 15, 1969 Anzegem, Belgium	1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1969[185]	[361]
	Jean Giono	March 30, 1895 Manosque, France	October 9, 1970 Manosque, France	1937, 1952, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969[185]	[362]
	Pearl Buck	June 26, 1892 West Virginia, United States	March 6, 1973 Vermont, United States	1938	Won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature.[363]
	Arthur van Schendel	March 5, 1874 Jakarta, Indonesia	September 11, 1946 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1938	[364]
	Margaret Mitchell	November 8, 1900 Georgia, United States	August 16, 1949 Georgia, United States	1938	[365]
	Veikko Antero Koskenniemi	July 8, 1885 Oulu, Finland	August 4, 1962 Turku, Finland	1938	[366]
	Robert Ritchie Racey	May 3, 1873 Canada	September 15, 1956 Paris, Ontario, Canada	1938	[367]
	Mohammad Khan	? India	? India	1938	[368]
	Sanjib Chaudhuri	? India	? India	1938, 1939	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[369]
	Henriette Charasson	February 13, 1884 Le Havre, France	May 29, 1972 Toulouse, France	1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1957	[370]
	Mark Aldanov	November 7, 1886 Kiev, Ukraine	February 24, 1957 Nice, France	1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957	[371]
	Herman Teirlinck	February 24, 1879 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium	February 4, 1967 Beersel, Belgium	1938, 1954, 1957, 1960	[372]
	Aldous Huxley	July 26, 1894 Godalming, England	November 22, 1963 California, United States	1938, 1939, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963	[373]
	Flávio de Carvalho	August 10, 1899 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	June 4, 1973 São Paulo, Brazil	1939	[374]
	Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel	November 6, 1870 Liverpool, England	February 5, 1963 London, England	1939	[375]
	Egidio Poblete Escudero	November 7, 1868 Valparaíso, Chile	October 18, 1940 Valparaíso, Chile	1939	[376]
	Ethel Florence Richardson	January 3, 1870 East Melbourne, Australia	March 20, 1946 Hastings, England	1939	First native-born Australian to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[377]
	Hugh Walpole	March 13, 1884 Auckland, New Zealand	June 1, 1941 Keswick, England	1939	[378]
	Johan Huizinga	December 7, 1872 Groningen, Netherlands	February 1, 1945 De Steeg, Netherlands	1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1953, 1944, 1945	[379]
	Henriette Roland Holst	December 24, 1869 Noordwijk, Netherlands	November 21, 1952 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1939, 1950, 1952	[380][381]
	Eugène Baie	August 3, 1874 Anderlecht, Belgium	September 10, 1964 Anderlecht, Belgium	1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956	[382]
	Hu Shih	December 17, 1891 Songjiang, China	February 24, 1962 Taipei, Taiwan	1939, 1957	First Chinese nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[383]
	Maria Dąbrowska	October 6, 1889 Russów, Poland	May 19, 1965 Warsaw, Poland	1939, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965	[384]

1st nomination in 1940-1949[]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
	Gabriela Mistral	April 7, 1889 Vicuña, Chile	January 10, 1957 New York, United States	1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945	Won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature.[385]
	Alfonso Strafile	1872 Cerignola, Italy	? Italy	1940	[386]
	Gösta Albert Carlberg	September 23, 1909 Norrköping, Sweden	March 13, 1973 Stockholm, Sweden	1940	[387]
	Bert Bailey	June 11, 1868 Auckland, New Zealand	March 30, 1953 Darlinghurst, Australia	1940	[388]
	Edmund Blunden	November 1, 1896 London, England	January 20, 1974 Long Melford, England	1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945	[389]
	Carl Sandburg	January 6, 1878 Illinois, United States	July 22, 1967 North Carolina, United States	1940, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1959	[390]
	Lin Yutang	October 10, 1895 Zhangzhou, China	March 26, 1976 Hong Kong	1940, 1950, 1970[266]	[391]
	Manoel Wanderley (Manuel Bandeira?)	? Brazil	? Brazil	1941	[392]
	Ruth Comfort Young	July 21, 1882 California, United States	February 18, 1954 California, United States	1941	[393]
	Branislav Petronijević	March 25, 1875 Sovljak, Serbia	March 4, 1954 Belgrade, Serbia	1941, 1947	[394]
	Sigfrid Siwertz	January 24, 18832 Stockholm, Sweden	November 26, 1970 Stockholm, Sweden	1942	[395]
	Nikolai Berdyaev	March 18, 1874 Kiev, Ukraine	March 24, 1948 Clamart, France	1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948	[396]
	Teixeira de Pascoaes	November 2, 1877 Amarante, Portugal	December 14, 1952 Amarante, Portugal	1942, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1948	[397]
	Charles Langbridge Morgan	January 22, 1894 Bromley, England	February 6, 1958 London, England	1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949	[398]
	Enrique Larreta	March 4, 1875 Buenos Aires, Argentina	July 6, 1961 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1942, 1943, 1944, 1950	[399]
	Hans Carossa	December 15, 1878 Bad Tölz, Germany	September 12, 1956 Lower Bavaria, Germany	1942, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1955, 1956	[400]
	John Steinbeck	February 27, 1902 California, United States	December 20, 1968 New York, United States	1943, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962	Won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature.[401]
	Sri Aurobindo	August 15, 1872 Kolkata, India	December 5, 1950 Puducherry, India	1943	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[402]
	Franz Werfel	September 10, 1890 Prague, Czechia	August 26, 1945 California, United States	1943, 1945	[403]
	Franz Hellens	September 8, 1881 Brussels, Belgium	January 20, 1972 Brussels, Belgium	1943, 1948, 1958, 1954	[404]
	Elisaveta Bagryana	April 16, 1893 Sofia, Bulgaria	March 23, 1991 Sofia, Bulgaria	1943, 1944, 1945, 1969[185]	[405]
	Abol-Gassem E’tessam Zadeh	? Iran	? Iran	1944	[406]
	Luis Nueda y Santiago	1883 Madrid, Spain	1952 Madrid, Spain	1944	[407]
	Charles Ferdinand Ramuz	September 24, 1878 Lausanne, Switzerland	May 23, 1947 Pully, Switzerland	1944, 1945, 1946, 1947	[408]
	Arnulf Øverland	April 27, 1889 Kristiansund, Norway	March 25, 1968 Oslo, Norway	1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1965, 1966, 1967[264]	[409]
	Thomas Sterns Eliot	September 26, 1888 Missouri, United States	January 4, 1965 Kensington, England	1945, 1946, 1947, 1948	Won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.[410]
	Yiorgos Theotokas	April 27, 1906 Constantinople, Turkey	October 30, 1966 Athens, Greece	1945	[411]
	Edward Morgan Forster	January 1, 1879 London, England	June 7, 1970 Coventry, England	1945, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969[185]	[412]
	Marie Under	March 27, 1883 Reval, Estonia	September 25, 1980 Stockholm, Sweden	1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[413]
	André Gide	November 22, 1869 Paris, France	February 19, 1951 Paris, France	1946, 1947	Won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.[414]
	François Mauriac	October 11, 1885 Bordeaux, France	September 1, 1970 Paris, France	1946, 1949, 1950, 1952	Won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.[415]
	Winston Churchill	November 30, 1874 Blenheim Palace, England	January 24, 1965 Kensington, England	1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953	Won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature.[416]
	Boris Pasternak	February 10, 1890 Moscow, Russia	May 30, 1960 Moscow, Russia	1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1957, 1958	Won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature.[417]
	Herbert John Clifford Grierson	January 16, 1866 Lerwick, Scotland	February 19, 1960 Cambridge, England	1946	[418]
	Sholem Asch	November 1, 1880 Kutno, Poland	July 10, 1957 London, England	1946, 1947	[419]
	Angelos Sikelianos	March 28, 1884 Lefkada, Greece	June 19, 1951 Athens, Greece	1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951	[420]
	Ignazio Silone	May 1, 1900 Pescina, Italy	August 22, 1978 Geneva, Switzerland	1946, 1947, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969[185]	[421]
	Tarjei Vesaas	August 20, 1897 Vinje, Norway	March 15, 1970 Oslo, Norway	1946, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[422]
	Pär Lagerkvist	May 23, 1891 Växjö, Sweden	July 11, 1974 Lidingö, Sweden	1947, 1949, 1950, 1951	Won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.[423]
	Ernest Hemingway	July 21, 1899 Illinois, United States	July 2, 1961 Idaho, United States	1947, 1950, 1953, 1954	Won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.[424]
	Mikhail Sholokhov	May 24, 1905 Vyoshenskaya, Russia	February 21, 1984 Vyoshenskaya, Russia	1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965	Won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.,[425][426]
	Shmuel Yosef Agnon	August 8, 1887 Buchach, Ukraine	February 17, 1970 Jerusalem, Israel	1947, 1948, 1951, 1965, 1966	Won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Nelly Sachs.[427]
	Bernard O'Dowd	April 11, 1866 Beaufort, Australia	September 1, 1953 Melbourne, Australia	1947	[428]
	Horace Kallen	August 11, 1882 Bierutow, Poland	February 16, 1974 Florida, United States	1947	[429]
	Gregorios Xenopoulos	December 9, 1867 Constantinople, Turkey	January 14, 1951 Athens, Greece	1947	[430]
	Toyohiko Kagawa	July 10, 1888 Hyogo, Japan	April 23, 1960 Tokyo, Japan	1947, 1948	First Japanese nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[431]
	Georgios Drosinis	December 9, 1859 Athens, Greece	January 3, 1951 Kifisia, Greece	1947, 1948	[432]
	Nikos Kazantzakis	February 18, 1883 Heraklion, Greece	October 26, 1957 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	1947, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957	[433]
	André Malraux	November 3, 1901 Paris, France	November 23, 1976 Créteil, France	1947, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	First 20th-century born writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[434]
	Halldór Laxness	April 23, 1902 Reykjavík, Iceland	February 8, 1998 Reykjavík, Iceland	1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955	Won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.[435]
	Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette	January 28, 1873 Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France	August 3, 1954 Paris, France	1948	[436]
	Dorothy Canfield Fisher	February 17, 1879 Kansas, United States	November 9, 1958 Vermont, United States	1948, 1949	[437]
	George Santayana	December 16, 1863 Madrid, Spain	September 26, 1952 Rome, Italy	1948, 1949	[438]
	Zalman Shneur	ca. 1887 Shkloŭ, Belarus	February 20, 1959 New York, United States	1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957	[439][440]
	George Macauley Trevelyan	February 16, 1876 Stratford-upon-Avon, England	July 21, 1962 Cambridge, England	1948, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960	[441]
	Riccardo Bacchelli	April 19, 1891 Bologna, Italy	October 8, 1985 Monza, Italy	1948, 1949, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1970[266]	[442]
	William Faulkner	September 25, 1897 Mississippi, United States	July 6, 1962 Mississippi, United States	1949, 1950	Won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.[443]
	Albert Camus	November 7, 1913 Algiers, Algeria	January 4, 1960 Villeblevin, France	1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957	Won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature.[444]
	Jacinto Grau	ca. 1877 Barcelona, Spain	August 14, 1958 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1949	[445]
	Reinaldo Temprano Azcona	1911 Pajares de la Lampreana, Spain	1954 Spain	1949	[446]
	Leonid Leonov	May 31, 1899 Moscow, Russia	August 8, 1994 Moscow, Russia	1949, 1950	[447]
	Enrique González Martínez	April 13, 1871 Guadalajara, Mexico	February 19, 1952 Mexico City, Mexico	1949, 1952	[448]
	Alfonso Reyes	May 17, 1889 Monterrey, Mexico	December 27, 1959 Mexico City, Mexico	1949, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959	First Mexican nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[449]
	Seán O'Casey	March 30, 1880 Dublin, Ireland	September 18, 1964 Torquay, England	1949, 1950, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963	[450]
	Taha Hussein	November 15, 1889 Maghagha, Egypt	October 28, 1973 Cairo, Egypt	1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969[185]	First Egyptian nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[451]
	Alberto Moravia	November 28, 1907 Rome, Italy	September 26, 1990 Rome, Italy	1949, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[452]

1st nomination in 1950-1959[]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
	Bertrand Russell	May 18, 1872 Trellech, Wales	February 2, 1970 Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales	1950	Won the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature.[453]
	Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany	July 24, 1878 London, England	October 25, 1957 Dublin, Ireland	1950	[454]
	Leopold Staff	November 14, 1878 Lviv, Ukraine	May 31, 1957 Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland	1950	[455]
	Thomas Head Raddall	November 13, 1903 Hythe, England	April 1, 1994 Liverpool, England	1950	[456]
	Albert Steffen	December 10, 1884 Wynau, Switzerland	July 13, 1963 Dornach, Switzerland	1950	[457]
	John Dewey	October 20, 1859 Vermont, United States	June 1, 1952 New York, United States	1950	[458]
	Hermann Broch	November 1, 1886 Vienna, Austria	May 30, 1951 Connecticut, United States	1950	[459]
	Júlio Dantas	May 19, 1876 Lagos, Portugal	May 25, 1962 Lisbon, Portugal	1950, 1951	[460]
	Alfred Noyes	September 16, 1880 Wolverhampton, England	June 25, 1958 Isle of Wight, England	1950, 1951	[461]
	Jakobus Cornelis Bloem	May 10, 1887 Oudshoorn, Netherlands	August 10, 1966 Kalenberg, Netherlands	1950, 1952	[462]
	Arnold Joseph Toynbee	April 14, 1889 London, England	October 22, 1975 York, England	1950, 1957	[463]
	Karl Jaspers	February 23, 1883 Oldenburg, Germany	February 26, 1969 Basel, Switzerland	1950, 1960	[464]
	Karen Blixen	April 17, 1885 Rungsted, Denmark	September 7, 1962 Rungsted, Denmark	1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962	[465]
	Gertrud von Le Fort	October 11, 1876 Minden, Germany	November 1, 1971 Oberstdorf, Germany	1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963	[466][467]
	Robert Frost	March 26, 1874 California, United States	January 29, 1963 Massachusetts, United States	1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963	[468]
	Martin Buber	February 8, 1878 Vienna, Austria	June 13, 1965 Jerusalem, Israel	1950, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[469]
	Mika Waltari	September 19, 1908 Helsinki, Finland	August 26, 1979 Helsinki, Finland	1950, 1951, 1952, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968,[265] 1969[185]	[470]
	Robert Graves	July 24, 1895 Wimbledon, England	December 7, 1985 Deià, Spain	1950, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969[185]	[471]
	Simon Vestdijk	October 17, 1898 Harlingen, Netherlands	March 23, 1971 Utrecht, Netherlands	1950, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[472]
	Graham Greene	October 2, 1904 Berkhamsted, England	April 3, 1991 Vevey, Switzerland	1950, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[473]
	Ezequiel Martínez Estrada	September 14, 1895 Buenos Aires, Argentina	November 4, 1964 Bahía Blanca, Argentina	1951	[474]
	Sotíris Skípis	ca. 1881 Athens, Greece	September 29, 1952 Provence, France	1951	[475]
	Katharine Susannah Prichard	December 4, 1883 Levuka, Fiji	October 2, 1969 Greenmount, Australia	1951	[476]
	María Enriqueta Camarillo	February 19, 1872 Coatepec, Mexico	February 13, 1968 Mexico City, Mexico	1951	[477]
	Rómulo Gallegos	August 2, 1884 Caracas, Venezuela	April 5, 1969 Caracas, Venezuela	1951, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967[264]	[478]
	José Maria Ferreira de Castro	May 24, 1898 Ossela, Portugal	June 29, 1974 Porto, Portugal	1951, 1952, 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[479][480]
	Juan Ramón Jiménez	December 24, 1881 Moguer, Spain	May 29, 1958 San Juan, Puerto Rico	1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956	Won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature.[481]
	Albert Schweitzer	January 14, 1875 Kaysersberg-Vignoble, France	September 4, 1965 Lambarene, Gabon	1952	Won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.[482]
	John Dover Wilson	July 13, 1881 London, England	January 15, 1969 Balerno, Scotland	1952	[483]
	Charles Plisnier	December 13, 1896 Ghlin, Belgium	July 17, 1952 Brussels, Belgium	1952	[484]
	Paul Vialar	September 18, 1898 Saint-Denis, France	January 8, 1996 Vaucresson, France	1952	[485]
	Louis Artus	January 10, 1870 Paris, France	May 11, 1960 Paris, France	1952	[486]
	Van Wyck Brooks	February 16, 1886 New Jersey, United States	May 2, 1963 Connecticut, United States	1952	[487]
	Walter de la Mare	April 25, 1873 London, England	June 22, 1956 Twickenham, England	1952, 1953	[488]
	Julien Benda	December 26, 1867 Paris, France	June 7, 1956 Fontenay-aux-Roses, France	1952, 1953, 1954, 1955	[489]
	Werner Bergengruen	September 16, 1892 Riga, Latvia	September 4, 1964 Baden-Baden, Germany	1952, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1963	[490][491]
	Salvador de Madariaga	July 23, 1886 A Coruña, Spain	December 14, 1978 Muralto, Switzerland	1952, 1963	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[492]
	Gottfried Benn	May 2, 1886 Putlitz, Germany	July 97, 1956 Berlin, Germany	1953, 1954, 1955, 1956	[493]
	Max Mell	November 10, 1882 Maribor, Slovenia	December 12, 1971 Vienna, Austria	1953, 1954, 1960, 1962	[494]
	Alberto Hidalgo Lobato	May 23, 1897 Arequipa, Peru	November 12, 1967 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1953, 1966, 1968[265]	[495]
	Jaroslav Seifert	September 23, 1901 Prague, Czechia	January 10, 1986 Prague, Czechia	1954, 1968,[265] 1969[185]	Won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature.[496]
	Ricardo Rojas	September 16, 1882 Tucumán, Argentina	July 29, 1957 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1954	[497]
	Gustave Vanzype	June 10, 1869 Brussels, Belgium	September 12, 1955 Brussels, Belgium	1954	[498]
	Georgios Vouyouklatis	1903 Greece	1956 Paris, France	1954	[499]
	Carl Jung	July 26, 1875 Kesswil, Switzerland	June 6, 1961 Küsnacht, Switzerland	1954	Nominated for Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine too. "Psychoanalysis".[500][501]
	Saint-John Perse	May 31, 1887 Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe	September 20, 1975 Hyères, France	1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960	Won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature.[502]
	Giorgos Seferis	March 13, 1900 Urla, Turkey	September 20, 1971 Athens, Greece	1955, 1961, 1962, 1963	Won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature.[503]
	Eugenio Montale	October 12, 1896 Genoa, Italy	September 12, 1981 Milan, Italy	1955, 1961, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	Won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.[504]
	Igor Gouzenko	January 13, 1919 Dmitrov, Russia	June 28, 1982 Mississauga, Canada	1955	[505]
	Gustav Suits	November 18, 1883 Võnnu, Estonia	May 23, 1956 Stockholm, Sweden	1955	[506]
	Reinhold Schneider	May 13, 1903 Baden-Baden, Germany	April 6, 1958 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	1955	[507]
	Ernst Robert Curtius	April 14, 1886 Thann, France	April 19, 1956 Rome, Italy	1955	[508]
	Carlos Vaz Ferreira	October 15, 1872 Montevideo, Uruguay	January 3, 1958 Montevideo, Uruguay	1955	[509]
	Arthur Bryant	February 18, 1899 Dersingham, England	January 22, 1985 Wiltshire, England	1955	[510]
	Giovanni Papini	January 9, 1881 Florence, Italy	July 8, 1956 Florence, Italy	1955	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[511]
	Edith Sitwell	September 7, 1887 Scarborough, England	December 9, 1964 London, England	1955, 1958, 1959	[512]
	Adriaan Roland Holst	May 23, 1888 Amsterdam, Netherlands	August 5, 1976 Bergen, Netherlands	1955, 1961	[513][514]
	William Somerset Maugham	January 25, 1874 Paris, France	December 16, 1965 Nice, France	1955, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965	[515]
	Leslie Poles Hartley	December 30, 1895 Whittlesey, England	December 13, 1972 London, England	1955, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966	[516]
	Henri Bosco	November 16, 1888 Avignon, France	May 4, 1976 Nice, France	1955, 1956, 1965, 1966, 1968[265]	[517]
	Ezra Pound	October 30, 1885 Idaho, United States	November 1, 1972 Venice, Italy	1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969[185]	[518]
	Giuseppe Ungaretti	February 8, 1888 Alexandria, Egypt	June 1, 1970 Milan, Italy	1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[519]
	Pablo Neruda	July 12, 1904 Parral, Chile	September 23, 1973 Santiago, Chile	1956, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	Won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.[520]
	Jean Guitton	August 18, 1901 Saint-Étienne, France	March 21, 1999 Paris, France	1956	[521]
	Marthe Bibesco	January 28, 1886 Bucharest, Romania	November 28, 1973 Paris, France	1956	[522]
	Francesco Chiesa	July 5, 1871 Sagno, Switzerland	June 13, 1973 Lugano, Switzerland	1956	[523]
	Bertolt Brecht	February 10, 1898 Augsburg, Germany	August 14, 1956 East Berlin, Germany	1956	[524]
	Melpo Axioti	July 15, 1905 Athens, Greece	May 22, 1973 Athens, Greece	1956	[525]
	Armand Godoy	April 1, 1880 Havana, Cuba	March 11, 1964 Lausanne, Switzerland	1956	[526]
	Elizabeth Goudge	April 24, 1900 Wells, England	April 1, 1984 Oxfordshire, England	1956, 1959	[527]
	Gonzague de Reynold	July 15, 1880 Cressier, Switzerland	April 9, 1970 Fribourg, Switzerland	1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960	[528]
	Jules Supervielle	January 16, 1884 Montevideo, Uruguay	May 17, 1960 Paris, France	1956, 1957, 1960	[529]
	Vasco Pratolini	October 19, 1913 Florence, Italy	January 12, 1991 Rome, Italy	1956, 1959, 1963	[530]
	Christopher Fry	December 18, 1907 Bristol, England	June 30, 2005 Chichester, England	1956, 1959, 1960, 1964	[531]
	Gabriel Marcel	December 7, 1889 Paris, France	October 8, 1973 Paris, France	1956, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1965	[532]
	Marcel Pagnol	February 28, 1895 Aubagne, France	April 18, 1974 Paris, France	1956, 1959, 1966	[533]
	Ernst Jünger	March 29, 1895 Heidelberg, Germany	February 17, 1998 Riedlingen, Germany	1956, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967[264]	[534]
	Henry de Montherlant	April 20, 1895 Paris, France	September 21, 1972 Paris, France	1956, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968[265]	[535]
	Jorge Luis Borges	August 24, 1899 Buenos Aires, Argentina	June 14, 1986 Geneva, Switzerland	1956, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[536]
	Jean-Paul Sartre	June 21, 1905 Paris, France	April 15, 1980 Paris, France	1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964	Won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but declined the prize.[537]
	Samuel Beckett	April 13, 1906 Foxrock, Ireland	December 22, 1989 Paris, France	1957, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969[185]	Won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.[538]
	Lennox Robinson	October 4, 1886 Cork, Ireland	October 15, 1958 Dublin, Ireland	1957	[539]
	Valery Larbaud	August 29, 1881 Vichy, France	February 2, 1957 Vichy, France	1957	[540]
	Carl Hendrik Knuth Becker	January 21, 1891 Hjørring, Denmark	October 30, 1974 Vår, Denmark	1957	[541]
	Jan Parandowski	May 11, 895 Lviv, Ukraine	September 26, 1978 Warsaw, Poland	1957, 1959	[542]
	Frank Thiess	March 13, 1890 Ikšķile, Latvia	December 22, 1977 Darmstadt, Germany	1957, 1962	[543]
	Carlo Levi	November 29, 1902 Turin, Italy	January 4, 1975 Rome, Italy	1957, 1966	[544]
	Mircea Eliade	March 13, 1907 Bucharest, Romania	April 22, 1986 Illinois, United States	1957, 1968[265]	[545]
	Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz	February 20, 1894 Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine	March 2, 1980 Warsaw, Poland	1957, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1969[185]	[546]
	Väinö Linna	December 20, 1920 Urjala, Finland	April 21, 1992 Kangasala, Finland	1957, 1963, 1964, 1967,[264] 1969[185]	[547]
	André Chamson	June 6, 1900 Nîmes, France	November 9, 1983 Paris, France	1957, 1965, 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[548]
	Salvatore Quasimodo	August 20, 1901 Modica, Italy	June 14, 1968 Naples, Italy	1958, 1959	Won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature.[549]
	Ivo Andrić	October 10, 1892 Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina	March 13, 1975 Belgrade, Serbia	1958, 1959, 1960, 1961	Won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature.[550]
	Elio Vittorini	July 23, 1908 Syracuse, Italy	February 12, 1966 Milan, Italy	1958	[551]
	James Gould Cozzens	August 19, 1903 Illinois, United States	August 9, 1978 Florida, United States	1958	[552]
	John Hersey	June 17, 1914 Tianjin, China	March 24, 1993 Florida, United States	1958	[553]
	Tennessee Williams	March 26, 1911 Mississippi, United States	February 25, 1983 New York, United States	1958	[554]
	Fernand Baldensperger	May 4, 1871 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France	February 24, 1958 Paris, France	1958	[555]
	Elizabeth Bowen	June 7, 1899 Dublin, Ireland	February 22, 1973 London, England	1958	[556]
	Rudolf Alexander Schröder	January 26, 1878 Bremen, Germany	August 22, 1962 Bad Wessee, Germany	1958, 1960	[557][558]
	John Cowper Powys	October 8, 1872 Shirley, England	June 17, 1963 Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales	1958, 1959, 1962	[559]
	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki	July 24, 1886 Tokyo, Japan	July 30, 1965 Kanagawa, Japan	1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965	[560]
	Lionel Trilling	July 4, 1905 New York, United States	November 5, 1975 New York, United States	1958, 1963, 1965	[561]
	Maurice Bowra	April 8, 1898 Jiujiang, China	July 4, 1971 Oxford, England	1958, 1961, 1965	[562]
	Robert Penn Warren	April 24, 1905 Kentucky, United States	September 15, 1989 Vermont, United States	1958, 1965, 1967[264]	[563]
	Junzaburō Nishiwaki	January 20, 1894 Niigata, Japan	June 5, 1982 Niigata, Japan	1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968[265]	[564][565]
	Miroslav Krleža	July 7, 1893 Zagreb, Croatia	December 29, 1981 Zagreb, Croatia	1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[566]
	Georges Simenon	February 13, 1903 Liège, Belgium	September 4, 1989 Lausanne, Switzerland	1958, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967,[264] 1970[266]	[567]
	Ernest Claes	October 24, 1885 Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Belgium	September 2, 1968 Ixelles, Sweden	1959	[568]
	Sochi Raut Roy	May 13, 1916 Khordha district, India	August 21, 2004 Cuttack, India	1959	[569]
	Osbert Sitwell	December 6, 1892 London, England	May 4, 1969 Florence, Italy	1959	[570]
	Sacheverell Sitwell	November 15, 1897 Scarborough, England	October 1, 1988 Towcester, England	1959	[571]
	Charles Mauron	June 27, 1899 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France	December 4, 1966 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France	1959	[572]
	Martin Heidegger	September 26, 1889 Meßkirch, Germany	May 26, 1976 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	1959, 1960	[573]
	Mario Roques	July 1, 1875 Callao, Peru	March 8, 1961 Paris, France	1959, 1960	[574]
	Julien Gracq	July 27, 1910 Mauges-sur-Loire, France	December 22, 2007 Angers, France	1959, 1960, 1961	[575]
	Frank Raymond Leavis	July 14, 1895 Cambridge, England	April 14, 1978 Cambridge, England	1959, 1962	[576]
	Juana de Ibarbourou	March 8, 1892 Melo, Uruguay	July 15, 1979 Montevideo, Uruguay	1959, 1960, 1963	[577]
	Stefan Andres	June 26, 1906 Trittenheim, Germany	June 29, 1970 Rome, Italy	1959, 1963	[578]
	Heimito von Doderer	September 5, 1896 Vienna, Austria	December 23, 1966 Vienna Austria	1959, 1960, 1962, 1964	[579]
	María Raquel Adler	ca. 1900	July 28, 1974 Bernal, Argentina	1959, 1965	[580]
	Miguel Torga	August 12, 1907 São Martinho de Anta, Portugal	January 17, 1995 Coimbra, Portugal	1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966	[581]
	Arnold Zweig	November 10, 1887 Glogow, Poland	November 26, 1968 East Berlin, Germany	1959, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967[264]	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[582]
	Hans Egon Holthusen	April 15, 1913 Rendsburg, Germany	January 21, 1997 Munich, Germany	1959, 1968[265]	[583]
	Étienne Gilson	June 13, 1884 Paris, France	September 19, 1978 Auxerre, France	1959, 1962, 1969[185]	[584]
	Louis Aragon	October 3, 1897 Paris, France	December 24, 1982 Paris, France	1959, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969[185]	[585]
	Anna Seghers	November 19, 1900 Mainz, Germany	June 1, 1983 East Berlin, Germany	1959, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969[185]	[586]
	Max Frisch	May 15, 1911 Zürich, Switzerland	April 4, 1991 Zürich, Switzerland	1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967,[264] 1968,[265] 1969,[185] 1970[266]	[587]