List of nominees for 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). Besides the prize has been delayed for a year seven times (1915, 1919, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1936, 1949).

Records of nominations are strictly kept secret for 50 years until they are made publicly available. Currently, the nominations submitted from 1901 to 1973 are available.^[4][5] Between those two years there have been 829 writers coming from different parts of the world nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 70 of which were awarded the prize^[6] including Albert Schweitzer who was awarded by Nobel Peace Prize on 1953. 17 more writers from these nominees were awarded after 1973 including Elie Wiesel who was awarded by Nobel Peace Prize on 1986. Only 77 women had been nominated for the prize starting with Malwida von Meysenburg who was nominated once for the year 1901^[7] and 8 of them have been awarded after all. Only one literary society has been nominated, the Pali Text Society for the year 1916. Of the 829 revealed nominated writers, only the 1967-nominated Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko (born 1930), the 1969-nominated Finnish author Hannu Salama (born 1936) and the 1973-nominated Indian poet Indira Devi Dhanrajgir (born 1929) are currently living.

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, Robert Hugh Benson, Franz Kafka, Fernando Pessoa, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 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, Christopher Dawson, Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Simone Weil, Willa Cather, George Orwell, Galaktion Tabidze, Edith Hamilton, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Nancy Mitford and Agatha Christie.^[9][10][11]

Nominees by their first nomination[edit]

1901–1909[edit]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1901
	Sully Prudhomme	March 16, 1839 Paris, France	September 6, 1907 Châtenay-Malabry, France	1901	Awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature.[12]
	Frédéric Mistral	September 8, 1830 Maillane, France	March 25, 1914 Maillane, France	1901, 1902, 1903, 1904	Shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature with José Echegaray.[13]
	Henryk Sienkiewicz	May 5, 1846 Wola Okrzejska, Poland	November 15, 1916 Vevey, Switzerland	1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905	Awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature.[14]
	René Vallery-Radot[a]	October 1, 1853 Paris, France	January 24, 1933 Paris, France	1901	[16]
	Edmond Rostand[b]	April 1, 1868 Marseille, France	December 2, 1918 Paris, France	1901	[17]
	Julius Gersdorff[c]	June 15, 1849 Szczecin, Poland	November 7, 1907 Weimar, Germany	1901	Nominated by Carl Heinrich Döring (1834–1916) the only time.[18]
	Oscar le Pin[d]	? Switzerland	? Switzerland	1901	Nominated by P. L. Bonnaviat (?) the only time.[19]
	Louis Ducros[e]	December 27, 1846 Nîmes, France	1927 Strasbourg, France[20]	1901	Nominated by Michel Clerc (1857–1931) the only time .[21]
	Carl Gustaf Estlander[f]	January 31, 1834 Lappfjärd, Finland	August 28, 1910 Helsinki, Finland	1901	Nominated by Johan Gustaf Frosterus (1826–1901) the only time.[22]
	Auguste Sabatier[g]	October 22, 1839 Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France	April 12, 1901 Strasbourg, France	1901	Nominated by Gabriel Monod (1844–1912) the only time.[23] Died before his only chance to be awarded.
	Paul Duproix[h]	August 14, 1851 France	January 24, 1912 France	1901	Nominated by Émile Redard (1848–1913) the only time.[24]
	Charles Borgeaud[i]	August 15, 1861 Le Chenit, Switzerland	October 6, 1940 Onex, Switzerland	1901	[25]
	Charles Renouvier[j]	January 1, 1815 Montpellier, France	September 1, 1903 Prades, France	1901	Nominated by Antoine Benoist (1846–1922) the only time.[26]
	Giacomo Stampa[k]	? Italy	? Italy	1901	Nominated by Ármin Vámbéry (1832–1913) the only time.[27]
	Ossip Lourié[l]	January 28, 1868 Dubroŭna, Belarus	July 2, 1955 Paris, France	1901	Nominated by Kristian Birch-Reichenwald Aars (1868–1917) the only time.[28]
	João da Câmara[m]	December 27, 1852 Lisbon, Portugal	January 2, 1908 Lisbon, Portugal	1901	Nominated by Joaquim José Coelho de Carvalho (1855–1934) the only time.[29]
	Malwida von Meysenbug[n]	October 28, 1816 Kassel, Germany	April 23, 1903 Rome, Italy	1901	Nominated by Gabriel Monod (1844–1912) the only time through Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910).[30]
	Émile Zola[o]	April 2, 1840 Paris, France	September 29, 1902 Paris, France	1901, 1902	Nominated by Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907) each time.[31]
	Ferenc Kemény[p]	July 17, 1860 Zrenjanin Serbia	November 21, 1944 Budapest, Hungary	1901, 1902	[32]
	Gaston Paris[q]	August 9, 1839 Avenay-Val-d'Or, France	March 5, 1903 Cannes, France	1901, 1902, 1903	Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) each time.[33]
	Gaspar Núñez de Arce[r]	August 4, 1834 Valladolid, Spain	June 9, 1903 Madrid, Spain	1901, 1902, 1903	[34]
	Alexander Baumgartner[s]	June 27, 1841 St. Gallen, Switzerland	October 5, 1910 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	1901, 1902, 1903	Nominated by Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (1842–1911) each time.[35]
	Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol[t]	March 23, 1847 Iași, Romania	February 27, 1920 Bucharest, Romania	1901, 1909	Nominated by Ion Găvănescu (1859–1949) each time.[36]
	Antonio Fogazzaro[u]	March 25, 1842 Vicenza, Italy	March 7, 1911 Vicenza, Italy	1901, 1902, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911	[37]
	Paul Sabatier[v]	August 3, 1858 Saint-Michel-de-Chabrillanoux, France	March 4, 1928 Strasbourg, France	1901, 1902, 1903, 1924, 1925	Nominated by Carl Bildt (1850–1931) each time.[38]
1902
	Theodor Mommsen	November 30, 1817 Garding, Germany	November 1, 1903 Berlin, Germany	1902	Awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature.[39]
	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	December 8, 1832 Kvikne, Norway	April 26, 1910 Paris, France	1902, 1903	Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature.[40]
	José Echegaray	April 19, 1832 Madrid, Spain	September 14, 1916 Madrid, Spain	1902, 1903, 1904	Shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature with Frédéric Mistral.[41]
	Giosuè Carducci	July 27, 1835 Pietrasanta, Italy	February 16, 1907 Bologna, Italy	1902, 1903, 1905, 1906	Awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature.[42]
	Gerhart Hauptmann	November 15, 1862 Szczawno-Zdrój, Poland	June 6, 1946 Jelenia Góra, Poland	1902, 1906, 1912	Awarded 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	Awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.[44]
	Anatoly Koni[w]	January 28, 1844 Saint Petersburg, Russia	September 17, 1927 Saint Petersburg, Russia	1902	Nominated by Anton Karlovich Wulfert (1843–1918) the only time.[45]
	Ventura Fernández López[x]	July 14, 1866 Bárcena de Pie de Concha, Spain	November 17, 1944 Toledo, Spain	1902	Nominated by Emmanuel Casado Salas (?) the only time.[46]
	Carl Weitbrecht	December 8, 1847 Althengstett, Germany	June 10, 1904 Stuttgart, Germany	1902	Nominated by Hermann Fischer (1851–1920) the only time.[47]
	Hartmann Grisar[y]	September 22, 1845 Koblenz, Germany	February 25, 1932 Innsbruck, Austria	1902	Nominated by Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (1842–1911) the only time.[48]
	Herbert Spencer	April 27, 1820 Derby, England	December 8, 1903 Brighton, England	1902	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[49]
	Bernard Bosanquet	June 14, 1848 Alnwick, England	February 8, 1923 London, England	1902	Nominated by William Macneile Dixon (1866–1946) the only time.[50]
	Marcel Barrière[z]	November 3, 1860 Limoux, France	February 18, 1954 Paris, France	1902	Nominated by Émile Faguet (1847–1916) the only time.[51]
	Gustav Falke[aa]	January 11, 1853 Lübeck, Germany	February 8, 1916 Marburg, Germany	1902	Nominated by August Sauer (1855–1926) the only time.[52]
	Archibald Robertson[ab]	June 29, 1853 Northamptonshire, England	January 29, 1931 Oxford, England	1902	Nominated by John Wesley Hales (1836–1914) the only time.[53]
	Henrik Ibsen	March 20, 1828 Skien, Norway	May 23, 1906 Oslo, Norway	1902, 1903, 1904	[54]
	Houston Stewart Chamberlain[ac]	September 9, 1855 Portsmouth, England	January 9, 1927 Bayreuth, Germany	1902, 1906	[55]
	Leo Tolstoy[ad]	September 9, 1828 Yasnaya Polyana, Russia	November 20, 1910 Astapovo, Russia	1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[56]
	George Meredith	February 12, 1828 Hampshire, England	May 18, 1909 Surrey, England	1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907	[57]
	Lewis Morris[ae]	January 23, 1833 Carmarthen, Wales	November 12, 1907 Penbryn, Wales	1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907	[58]
	Theodor Zahn[af]	October 10, 1838 Moers, Germany	March 5, 1933 Erlangen, Germany	1902, 1904, 1908	Nominated by Lars Dahle (1843–1925) each time.[59]
	Charles Wagner[ag]	January 3, 1852 Alsace, France	May 12, 1918 Alsace, France	1902, 1903, 1909	[60]
	John Morley[ah]	December 24, 1838 Blackburn, England	September 23, 1923 London, England	1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913	[61]
	Juhani Aho[ai]	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[aj]	January 25, 1851 Jæren, Norway	January 14, 1924 Asker, Norway	1902, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921	[63]
1903
	Rudyard Kipling	December 30, 1865 Mumbai, India	January 18, 1936 London, England	1903, 1904, 1905, 1907	Awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature.[64]
	Maurice Maeterlinck	August 29, 1862 Ghent, Belgium	May 6, 1949 Nice, France	1903, 1904, 1909, 1910, 1911	Awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature.[65]
	François Coppée	January 26, 1842 Paris, France	May 23, 1908 Paris, France	1903	Nominated by Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) the only time.[66]
	Carl Friedrich Glasenapp[ak]	October 3, 1847 Riga, Latvia	April 14, 1915 Riga, Latvia	1903	[67]
	Robert Langton Douglas[al]	1864 Cheshire, England	1951 Fiesole, Italy	1903, 1904	[68]
	Albert Sorel[am]	August 13, 1842 Honfleur, France	June 29, 1906 Paris, France	1903, 1904, 1905, 1906	[69]
	Iwan Gilkin[an]	January 7, 1858 Brussels, Belgium	September 28, 1924 Brussels, Belgium	1903, 1909	[70]
	Algernon Charles Swinburne	April 5, 1837 London, England	April 10, 1909 London, England	1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 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	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[73]
1904
	Selma Lagerlöf	November 20, 1858 Värmland, Sweden	March 16, 1940 Värmland, Sweden	1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909	Awarded 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	Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature.[75]
	Émilie Lerou[ao]	18 May 1855 Rouen, France	11 June 1935 Paris, France	1904	Nominated by Jules Claretie (1840–1913) the only time.[76]
	Demetrios Bernardakis	December 3, 1833 Mitilini, Greece	January 12, 1907 Mitilini, Greece	1904, 1905	Nominated by Athanasios Bernardakis (1844–1912) each time.[77]
	Jaroslav Vrchlický (Emil Frida)	February 17, 1853 Louny, Czechia	September 9, 1912 Domazlice, Czechia	1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912	[78]
	William Chapman[ap]	December 13, 1850 Beauceville, Canada	February 23, 1917 Ottawa, Canada	1904, 1910, 1912, 1917	[79]
1905
	Eliza Orzeszkowa	June 6, 1841 Mil'kovshchina, Belarus	May 18, 1910 Grodno, Belarus	1905	[80]
	Godfrey Sweven[aq]	May 5, 1845 Irvine, Scotland	January 18, 1935 Christchurch, New Zealand	1905	John Macmillan Brown has only been nominated under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven.[81][82]
1906
	Louis Franck	November 28, 1868 Antwerp, Belgium	December 31, 1937 Wijnegem, Belgium	1906	Nominated by Ernest Nys (1851–1920) the only time.[83]
	Gaston Boissier	August 15, 1823 Nîmes, France	June 10, 1908 Viroflay, France	1906	Nominated by Jacobus Johannaes Hartmann (1851–1924) the only time.[84]
	William J. Neidig[ar]	1870 United States	1955 United States	1906	Nominated by Henry Burrowes Lathrop (1867-1936) the only time.[85]
	Max Bewer[as]	January 19, 1861 Düsseldorf, Germany	October 13, 1921 Meißen, Germany	1906	[86]
	Pedro Pablo Figueroa	December 25, 1857 Copiapó, Chile	January 4, 1909 Santiago, Chile	1906[at]	Nominated by Leonardo Eliz (1861–1939) the only time.[87]
	Max Haushofer[au]	April 23, 1840 Munich, Germany	1907 Gries-San Quirino, Italy	1906[av]	Nominated by Emil Milan (1859–1917) the only time.[88]
	William Booth[aw]	April 10, 1829 Nottingham, England	August 20, 1912 London, England	1906[ax]	Nominated by Otto Classen (1868–1939) the only time.[89]
	Joseph Viktor Widmann[ay]	February 20, 1842 Brno, Czechia	November 6, 1911 Bern, Switzerland	1906, 1908	[90]
	George Lansing Raymond[az]	September 3, 1839 Illinois, United States	July 11, 1929 Washington D.C., United States	1906, 1907, 1908	[91]
	Angelo de Gubernatis	April 7, 1840 Turin, Italy	February 26, 1913 Rome, Italy	1906, 1907, 1909	[92]
	Borden Parker Bowne	January 14, 1847 Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States	April 1, 1910 Boston, United States	1906, 1907, 1909	[93]
1907
	João Bonança[ba]	ca. 1836 Lagos, Portugal	April 13, 1924 Lisbon, Portugal	1907	Nominated by Teófilo Braga (1843–1924) the only time.[94]
	Holger Drachmann	October 9, 1846 Copenhagen, Denmark	January 14, 1908 Hornbæk, Denmark	1907	Nominated by Harald Høffding (1843–1931) the only time.[95]
	Ian Maclaren	November 3, 1850 Manningtree, Essex, England[96]	May 6, 1907 Iowa, United States	1907	Nominated by Waldemar Rudin (1833–1921) the only time.[97] Died before his only chance to be awarded.
	Andrés Manjón	November 30, 1846 Sargentes de la Lora, Spain	July 10, 1923 Granada, Spain	1907	Nominated by Angel Sanchez Rubio Ibanez (1852–1910) the only time.[98]
	Eduardo Benot	November 26, 1822 Cádiz, Spain	July 27, 1907 Madrid, Spain	1907	Nominated by Daniel Cortázar Larrubia (1844–1927) the only time.[99] Died before his only chance to be awarded.
	Mark Twain	November 30, 1835 Florida, Missouri, United States	April 21, 1910 Redding, Connecticut, United States	1907,[bb] 1908[bb]
	Georgios Souris[bc]	February 2, 1853 Ermoupoli, Greece	August 26, 1919 Athens, Greece	1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912	[102]
	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	[103]
	Paul Bourget	September 2, 1852 Amiens, France	December 25, 1935 Paris, France	1907, 1909, 1914, 1915, 1928	[104]
1908
	Rudolf Christoph Eucken	January 5, 1846 Aurich, Germany	September 15, 1926 Jena, Germany	1908	Nominated by Vitalis Norström (1856–1916) the only time and awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature.[105]
	Julio Calcaño[bd]	December 4, 1840 Caracas, Venezuela	August 18, 1918 Caracas, Venezuela	1908	Nominated by José María Manrique (1846-1907) the only time..[106]
	Alfred L. Hutchinson[be]	1859 Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States	August 1930 Weyauwega, Wisconsin, United States	1908	Nominated by Luther Lamphere Wright (1856–1922).[107]
	Edmondo De Amicis	October 21, 1846 Imperia, Italy	March 11, 1908 Bordighera, Italy	1908	Died before his only chance to be awarded.[108]
	Adolf von Harnack	May 7, 1851 Tartu, Estonia	June 10, 1930 Heidelberg, Germany	1908, 1916	[109]
	Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche	July 10, 1846 Lützen, Germany	November 8, 1935 Weimar, Germany	1908, 1916, 1917, 1923	[110]
1909
	Verner von Heidenstam	July 6, 1859 Olshammar, Sweden	May 20, 1940 Övralid, Sweden	1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916	Awarded the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature.[111]
	Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé	February 25, 1848 Nice, France	March 29, 1910 Paris, France	1909	Nominated by Albert Vandal (1853–1910) the only time.[112]
	Martin Greif	June 18, 1839 Speyer, Germany	April 1, 1911 Kufstein, Austria	1909, 1910, 1911	[113]
	Francesco D'Ovidio[bf]	December 5, 1849 Campobasso, Italy	November 24, 1925 Naples, Italy	1909, 1910, 1911, 1912	Nominated by Ernesto Monaci (1844–1918) each time.[114]
	Ernest Lavisse	December 17, 1842 Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, France	August 18, 1922 Paris, France	1909, 1910, 1911,[bg] 1912, 1913	[115]
	Salvador Rueda	December 3, 1857 Benaque, Spain	April 1, 1933 Málaga, Spain	1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915	[116]
	Émile Verhaeren	May 21, 1855 Sint-Amands, Belgium	November 27, 1916 Rouen, France	1909, 1912, 1915, 1916	[117]

1910–1919[edit]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1910
	Paul Heyse	March 13, 1830 Berlin, Germany	April 2, 1914 Munich, Germany	1910	Awarded the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature.[118]
	Gustav Warneck	March 6, 1834 Naumburg, Germany	December 26, 1910 Halle (Saale), Germany	1910	[119]
	Wilhelm Hermann Heinrich Benignus	February 17, 1861 Heilbronn, Germany	June 5, 1930 Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	1910	Nominated by Marion Dexter Learned (1857–1917) the only time.[120]
	Alfred Fouillée	October 18, 1838 Erdre-en-Anjou, France	June 16, 1912 Lyon, France	1910	Nominated by Carl David af Wirsén (1842–1912) the only time.[121]
	Édouard Rod	March 31, 1857 Nyon, Switzerland	January 29, 1910 Grasse, France	1910	Nominated by Edmond Rossier (1865–1945) the only time.[122] Died before his chance to be considered.
	William Dean Howells	March 1, 1837 Ohio, United States	May 11, 1920 New York, United States	1910	Nominated by Brander Matthews (1852–1929) the only time.[123]
	Robert Bridges	October 23, 1844 Walmer, England	April 21, 1930 Boars Hill, England	1910	Nominated by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) the only time.[124]
	Andrew Lang	March 31, 1844 Selkirk, Scotland	July 20, 1912 Banchory, Scotland	1910	Nominated by Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) the only time.[125]
	Molly Elliot Seawell	October 23, 1860 Virginia, United States	November 15, 1916 Washington, D.C., United States	1910, 1911	Nominated by Charles W. Kent (1860–1917) each time.[126]
	Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach	September 13, 1830 Troubky-Zdislavice, Czechia	March 12, 1916 Vienna, Austria	1910, 1911	Nominated by Emil Reich (1854–1910) each time.[127]
	Pierre Loti	January 14, 1850 Rochefort, France	June 10, 1923 Hendaye, France	1910, 1911, 1912, 1913	[128]
	Thomas Hardy	June 2, 1840 Stinsford, England	January 11, 1928 Dorchester, England	1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927	[129]
1911
	Karl Adolph Gjellerup	June 2, 1857 Roholte, Denmark	October 13, 1919 Dresden, Germany	1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917	Shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Henrik Pontoppidan[130]
	George Bernard Shaw	July 26, 1856 Dublin, Ireland	November 2, 1950 Ayot St Lawrence, England	1911, 1912, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1926	Awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926.[131]
	Albert de Mun	February 28, 1841 Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, France	October 6, 1914 Bordeaux, France	1911	Nominated by René Bazin (1853–1932) the only time.[132]
	Gustaf Fröding	August 22, 1860 Alster, Sweden	February 8, 1911 Stockholm, Sweden	1911	Died before his only chance to be awarded.[133]
	August Strindberg	January 22, 1849 Stockholm, Sweden	May 14, 1912 Stockholm, Sweden	1911[bh]	Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) the only time.[134]
	Rafael Altamira y Crevea	February 10, 1866 Alicante, Spain	June 1, 1951 Mexico City, Mexico	1911, 1912	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[135]
	Henry James	April 15, 1843 New York, United States	February 28, 1916 London, England	1911, 1912, 1916	[136]
	Harald Høffding	March 11, 1843 Copenhagen, Denmark	July 2, 1931 Copenhagen, Denmark	1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916	[137]
	Peter Rosegger	July 31, 1843 Krieglach, Austria	June 26, 1918 Krieglach, Austria	1911, 1913, 1918	[138]
	Ernst von der Recke	August 14, 1848 Copenhagen, Denmark	December 2, 1933 Zealand, Denmark	1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1930	[139]
	Karl Schönherr	February 24, 1867 Axams, Austria	March 15, 1943 Vienna, Austria	1911, 1912, 1933, 1938	[140]
1912
	Carl Spitteler	April 24, 1845 Liestal, Switzerland	December 29, 1924 Lucerne, Switzerland	1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920	Awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.[141]
	Henri Bergson	October 18, 1859 Paris, France	January 4, 1941 Paris, France	1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1921, 1928	Awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.[142]
	Pencho Slaveykov	April 27, 1866 Tryavna, Bulgaria	June 10, 1912 Brunate, Italy	1912	Nominated by Alfred Jensen (1859–1921) the only time.[143] Died before his chance to be considered.
	Sven Hedin	February 19, 1865 Stockholm, Sweden	November 26, 1952 Stockholm, Sweden	1912, 1913	Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) only.[144]
	Jean-Henri Fabre	December 21, 1823 Aveyron, France	October 11, 1915 Sérignan-du-Comtat, France	1912, 1914	[145]
	Salvatore Farina	January 10, 1846 Sorso, Italy	December 15, 1918 Milan, Italy	1912, 1913, 1914	[146]
	Benito Pérez Galdós	May 10, 1843 Las Palmas, Spain	January 4, 1920 Madrid, Spain	1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916	[147]
	Adolf Frey	February 18, 1855 Küttigen, Switzerland	February 12, 1920 Zürich, Switzerland	1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920	Nominated jointly with Carl Spitteler by Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919) each time.[148]
	Hans E. Kinck	October 11, 1865 Øksfjord, Norway	October 13, 1926 Oslo, Norway	1912, 1919, 1920, 1926	[149]
	James George Frazer	January 1, 1854 Glasgow, Scotland	May 7, 1941 Cambridge, England	1912, 1926, 1928, 1935	[150]
1913
	Rabindranath Tagore	May 7, 1861 Kolkata, India	August 7, 1941 Kolkata, India	1913	Nominated by Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944) the only time and awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.[151]
	Henrik Pontoppidan	July 24, 1857 Fredericia, Denmark	August 21, 1943 Charlottenlund, Denmark	1913, 1916, 1917	Shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Karl Adolph Gjellerup.[152]
	Grazia Deledda	September 28, 1871 Nuoro, Italy	August 15, 1936 Rome, Italy	1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927	Awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927.[153]
	Edward Dowden	May 3, 1843 Cork, Ireland	April 4, 1913 Dublin, Ireland	1913	Nominated by James Lindsay (1852–1923) the only time.[154] Died before his chance to be considered.
	John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury	April 30, 1834 London, England	May 28, 1913 Broadstairs, England	1913	Nominated by Hans Hildebrand (1842–1913) the only time.[155] Died before his chance to be considered.
	Francis Сhanning Miles Welles	April 21, 1887 Richmond, London, England	Aug 29, 1956 Cheltenham General Hospital, England	1913	Nominated by Carveth Read (1848–1931) the only time.[156]
	Émile Faguet	December 17, 1847 La Roche-sur-Yon, France	June 7, 1916 Paris, France	1913, 1914	[157]
	Jakob Knudsen	September 14, 1858 Rødding, Denmark	January 21, 1917 Birkerød, Denmark	1913, 1916	[158]
	Edmond Picard	December 15, 1836 Brussels, Belgium	February 19, 1924 Namur, Belgium	1913, 1914, 1916, 1917	[159]
1914[bi]
	Antonio Serra y Morant	December 17, 1866 Alicante, Spain	August 7, 1939 Madrid, Spain	1914	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[160]
	Josef Svatopluk Machar	February 29, 1864 Kolin, Czechia	March 17, 1942 Prague, Czechia	1914, 1915	[161]
	René François Nicolas Marie Bazin	December 26, 1853 Angers, France	July 20, 1932 Paris, France	1914, 1915	[162]
	Dora Melegari	June 27, 1849 Lausanne, Switzerland	July 31, 1924 Rome, Italy	1914, 1923	[163]
	Willem Kloos	May 6, 1859 Amsterdam, Netherlands	March 3, 1938 The Hague, Netherlands	1914, 1915, 1925, 1926, 1928	[164]
	Dmitry Merezhkovsky	August 2, 1865 Saint Petersburg, Russia	December 9, 1941 Paris, France	1914, 1915, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937	[165]
	Vilhelm Grønbech	June 14, 1873 Allinge, Denmark	April 21, 1948 Helsingør, Denmark	1914, 1915, 1927, 1928, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944	[166]
1915[bj]
	Romain Rolland	January 29, 1866 Clamecy, France	December 30, 1944 Vézelay, France	1915, 1916	Awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916.[167]
	Charles Montagu Doughty	August 19, 1843 Saxmundham, England	January 20, 1926 Sissinghurst, England	1915	Nominated by Herbert Warren (1853–1930) the only time.[168]
	Ferdinand Avenarius	December 20, 1856 Berlin, Germany	September 22, 1923 Kampen, Germany	1915, 1921	[169]
1916
	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	July 20, 1864 Avesta, Sweden	April 8, 1931 Stockholm, Sweden	1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1929, 1931	Posthumously awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature.[170]
	Rabindranath Datta	October 1, 1883 Kolkata, India	July 6, 1917 Kolkata, India	1916	[171]
	Ivan Franko	August 27, 1856 Lviv, Ukraine	May 28, 1916 Lviv, Ukraine	1916	Died before his only chance to be awarded.[172]
	Gunnar Heiberg	November 18, 1857 Oslo, Norway	February 22, 1929 Oslo, Norway	1916	Nominated by Jens Thiis (1870–1942) the only time.[173]
	Troels Troels-Lund	September 5, 1840 Copenhagen, Denmark	February 12, 1921 Copenhagen, Denmark	1916	Nominated by Frits Läffler (1847–1921) the only time.[174]
	The Pāli Text Society[bk]	founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids		1916	Nominated by Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843–1922) the only time.[175]
	Otokar Březina	September 13, 1868 Počátky, Czechia	March 25, 1929 Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou, Czechia	1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1925, 1928, 1929	[176]
	Henrik Schück	November 2, 1855 Stockholm, Sweden	October 3, 1947 Uppsala, Sweden	1916, 1929	[177]
	Per Hallström	September 29, 1866 Stockholm, Sweden	February 18, 1960 Nacka, Sweden	1916, 1919, 1931[bl]	[178]
1917
	Ivan Vazov	July 9, 1850 Sopot, Bulgaria	September 22, 1921 Sofia, Bulgaria	1917	Nominated by Ivan Shishmanov (1862–1928) the only time.[179]
	Otto Ernst Schmidt ("Otto Ernst")	October 7, 1862 Hamburg, Germany	March 5, 1926 Hamburg, Germany	1917	Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time.[180]
	Jeppe Aakjær	September 10, 1866 Aakjaer, Denmark	April 22, 1930 Roslev, Denmark	1917	Nominated by Christen Collin (1857–1926) the only time.[181]
	Johan Bojer	March 6, 1872 Orkdal, Norway	July 3, 1959 Oslo, Norway	1917, 1925, 1929, 1932	[182]
	Olaf Bull	November 10, 1883 Oslo, Norway	June 29, 1933 Oslo, Norway	1917, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932	[183]
	Bertel Gripenberg	September 19, 1878 Saint Petersburg, Russia	May 6, 1947 Sävsjö, Sweden	1917, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1937	[184]
1918[bi]
	Knut Hamsun	August 4, 1859 Lom, Norway	February 19, 1952 Grimstad, Norway	1918, 1920	Awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature.[185]
	Alois Jirásek	August 23, 1851 Hronov, Czechia	March 12, 1930 Prague, Czechia	1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1930	[186]
	Gustav Frenssen	October 19, 1863 Barlt, Germany	April 11, 1945 Barlt, Germany	1918	Nominated jointly with Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) by Bengt Hesselman (1875–1952) the only time.[187]
	Maxim Gorky	March 28, 1868 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia	June 18, 1936 Moscow Oblast, Russia	1918, 1923, 1928, 1933	[188]
	Gunnar Gunnarsson	May 18, 1889 Fljótsdalur, Iceland	November 21, 1975 Reykjavík, Iceland	1918, 1921, 1922, 1955, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1969	[189]
1919[bj]
	Władysław Reymont	May 7, 1867 Kobiele Wielkie, Poland	December 5, 1925 Warsaw, Poland	1919, 1920, 1922, 1924	Awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature.[190]
	John Galsworthy	August 14, 1867 Kingston upon Thames, England	January 31, 1933 London, England	1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1931, 1932	Awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.[191]
	Ebenezer Howard	January 29, 1850 London, England	May 1, 1928 Welwyn Garden City, England	1919, 1920	Nominated by Christen Collin (1857–1926) each time.[192]
	Hugo von Hofmannsthal	February 1, 1874 Vienna, Austria	July 15, 1929 Vienna, Austria	1919, 1924, 1926, 1927	[193]
	Arno Holz	April 26, 1863 Ketrzyn, Poland	October 26, 1929 Berlin, Germany	1919, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929	[194]

1920–1929[edit]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1920
	Wilbur Cortez Abbott	December 28, 1869 Indiana, United States	February 3, 1947 Massachusetts, United States	1920	Nominated by Dana Carleton Munro (1866–1933) the only time[195]
1921
	Jacinto Benavente	August 12, 1866 Madrid, Spain	July 14, 1954 Madrid, Spain	1921, 1922	Awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature.[196]
	Émile Boutroux	July 28, 1845 Montrouge, France	November 22, 1921 Paris, France	1921	Nominated by Harald Hjärne (1848–1922) the one time.[197]
	Jean Revel	September 22, 1848 Conteville, France	May 4, 1925 Conteville, France	1921	[198]
	Stefan Żeromski	October 14, 1864 Strawczyn, Poland	November 20, 1925 Warsaw, Poland	1921, 1922, 1923, 1924	[199]
	H. G. Wells	September 21, 1866 London, England	August 31, 1946 London, England	1921, 1932, 1935, 1946	[200]
1922
	Sigrid Undset	May 20, 1882 Kalundborg, Denmark	June 10, 1949 Lillehammer, Norway	1922, 1925, 1926, 1928	Awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature.[201]
	Darrell Figgis	September 17, 1882 Dublin, Ireland	October 27, 1925 London, England	1922	Nominated by Thomas Rudmose-Brown (1878–1942) the only time[202]
	Georg von Below	January 19, 1858 Gusev, Russia	October 20, 1927 Badenweiler, Germany	1922	Nominated by Hermann Bächtold (1882–1934) the only time.[203]
	Israel Zangwill	January 21, 1864 London, England	August 1, 1926 Midhurst, England	1922	Nominated by Adolf Noreen (1854–1925) the only time.[204]
	Michael Sadleir	December 25, 1888 Oxford, England	December 13, 1957 London, England	1922	Nominated by Nobel Committee the only time[205]
	Matilde Serao	March 7, 1856 Patras, Greece	July 25, 1927 Naples, Italy	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925	[206]
	Roberto Bracco	November 10, 1861 Naples, Italy	April 20, 1943 Sorrento, Italy	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925	[207]
	Ludwig von Pastor	January 31, 1854 Aachen, Germany	September 30, 1928 Innsbruck, Austria	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929	[208]
	William Inge	June 6, 1860 Crayke, England	February 26, 1954 Wallingford, England	1922, 1923, 1929	Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) each time.[209]
	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	[210]
1923
	Ivan Bunin	October 22, 1870 Voronezh, Russia	November 8, 1953 Paris, France	1923, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933	Awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature.[211]
	Konstantin Balmont	June 15, 1867 Shuya, Russia	December 23, 1942 Paris, France	1923	Nominated by Romain Rolland (1866–1944) the one time[212]
	Hermann Türck[213]	March 13, 1856 Georgenburg, now Russia	April 30, 1933 Weimar, Germany	1923, 1924	[214]
	Einar H. Kvaran	December 6, 1859 Vallanes, Iceland	May 21, 1938 Reykjavík, Iceland	1923, 1924	Nominated by Valtýr Guðmundsson (1860–1928) each time.[215]
	Guglielmo Ferrero	July 21, 1871 Portici, Italy	August 3, 1942 Chardonne, Switzerland	1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1933	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[216]
1924
	Thomas Mann	June 6, 1875 Lübeck, Germany	August 21, 1955 Zürich, Switzerland	1924, 1928, 1929, 1948	Awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature.[217]
	Max Neuburger	December 8, 1868 Vienna, Austria	March 15, 1955 Vienna, Austria	1924	Nominated by Adolf Fonahn (1873–1940) the only time.[218]
	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	[219]
1925[bj]
	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	Awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature.[220]
	Giovanni Schembari[221]	31 October 1894 Ragusa, Sicily, Italy	November 1959 Hillside, Illinois, United States	1925	Nominated by Achille Loria (1857–1943) the only time[222]
	Paul Elmer More	December 12, 1864 Missouri, United States	March 9, 1937 New Jersey, United States	1925	Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) the only time.[223]
	Paul Raynal	July 25, 1885 Narbonne, France	August 18, 1971 Paris, France	1925, 1926	Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) each time.[224]
	Ferenc Herczeg	September 22, 1863 Vršac, Serbia	February 24, 1954 Budapest, Hungary	1925, 1926, 1927	[225]
	Rudolf Maria Holzapfel	April 26, 1874 Kraków, Poland	February 8, 1930 Muri bei Bern, Switzerland	1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929	[226]
1926[bj]
	Arnold Bennett	May 27, 1867 Stoke-on-Trent, England	March 27, 1931 London, England	1926	Nominated by Gerard De Geer (1858–1943) the only time.[227]
	Pyotr Krasnov	September 22, 1869 Saint Petersburg, Russia	January 16, 1947 Moscow, Russia	1926	Nominated by Vladimir Andreevich Frantsev (1867–1942) the only time.[228]
	Sofía Casanova	September 30, 1861 A Coruña, Spain	January 16, 1958 Poznań, Poland	1926	[229]
	Vicente Huidobro	January 10, 1893 Santiago, Chile	January 2, 1948 Cartagena, Chile	1926	Nominated by Enrique Nercasseau Morán (1854–1925) the only time.[230]
	Avetis Aharonian	January 9, 1866 Iğdır, Turkey	March 20, 1948 Paris, France	1926	Nominated by Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) the only time.[231]
	Edvard Westermarck	November 20, 1862 Helsinki, Finland	September 3, 1939 Tenala, Finland	1926, 1927	[232]
	Ada Negri	February 3, 1870 Lodi, Italy	January 11, 1945 Milan, Italy	1926, 1927	[233]
	Juan Zorrilla de San Martín	December 28, 1855 Montevideo, Uruguay	November 3, 1931 Montevideo, Uruguay	1926, 1928	[234]
	Karl Kraus	April 28, 1874 Jicin, Czechia	June 12, 1936 Vienna, Austria	1926, 1928, 1930	[235]
	Georg Bonne	August 12, 1859 Hamburg, Germany	May 1, 1945 Hamburg, Germany	1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[236]
	J.-H. Rosny aîné	February 17, 1856 Brussels, Belgium	February 11, 1940 Paris, France	1926, 1928, 1933	[237]
	Josip Kosor	January 27, 1879 Drniš, Croatia	January 23, 1961 Dubrovnik, Croatia	1926, 1927, 1939	[238]
	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	[239]
	Johannes Jørgensen	November 6, 1866 Svendborg, Denmark	May 29, 1956 Svendborg, Denmark	1926, 1932, 1942, 1950	[240]
	Concha Espina	April 15, 1869 Santander, Spain	May 19, 1955 Madrid, Spain	1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1952, 1954	[241]
	Paul Claudel	August 6, 1868 Villeneuve-sur-Fère, France	February 23, 1955 Paris, France	1926, 1937, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1955	[242]
1927[bj]
	Cesare Pascarella	April 28, 1858 Rome, Italy	May 8, 1940 Rome, Italy	1927	[243]
	Eduard Meyer	January 25, 1855 Hamburg, Germany	August 31, 1930 Berlin, Germany	1927	Nominated by Georg Wittrock (1876–1957) the only time.[244]
	Samuel Parsons Scott	July 8, 1846 Ohio, United States	May 30, 1929 Ohio, United States	1927	Nominated by Edgar Ewing Brandon (1865–1957) the only time.[245]
	Edith Wharton	January 24, 1862 New York, United States	August 11, 1937 Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France	1927, 1928, 1930	[246]
	Édouard Estaunié	February 4, 1862 Dijon, France	April 2, 1942 Paris, France	1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931	Nominated by Erik Staaff (1867–1936) each time.[247]
	Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer	December 30, 1878 Budapest, Hungary	April 12, 1962 Munich, Germany	1927, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937	[248]
1928
	Armando Palacio Valdés	October 4, 1853 Entrialgo, Spain	January 29, 1938 Madrid, Spain	1928	[249]
	Blanca de los Ríos	August 15, 1859 Seville, Spain	April 13, 1956 Madrid, Spain	1928	[250]
	Edith Howes	August 29, 1872 London, England	July 9, 1954 Dunedin, New Zealand	1928	Nominated by Francis Prendeville Wilson (1874–?) the only time.[251]
	Theodor Däubler	August 17, 1876 Trieste, Italy	June 14, 1934 Sankt Blasien, Germany	1928	Nominated by Oskar Walzel (1864–1944) the only time.[252]
	Frederik van Eeden	April 3, 1860 Haarlem, Netherlands	June 16, 1932 Bussum, Netherlands	1928	Nominated by Gerard Brom (1882–1959) the only time.[253]
	Alf Larsen	July 22, 1885 Tjøme, Norway	December 12, 1967 Tjøme, Norway	1928	Nominated by Alexander Seippel (1851–1938) the only time.[254]
	Anna de Noailles	November 15, 1876 Paris, France	April 30, 1933 Paris, France	1928	Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) the only time.[255]
	Ivan Grozev	June 23, 1872 Sofia, Bulgaria	January 10, 1957 London, England	1928, 1929	Nominated by Mikhail Arnaudov (1878–1978) each time.[256]
	Hans Driesch	October 28, 1867 Bad Kreuznach, Germany	April 17, 1941 Leipzig, Germany	1928, 1930, 1932	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[257]
	Rudolf Hans Bartsch	February 11, 1873 Graz, Austria	February 7, 1952 Graz, Austria	1928, 1929, 1930, 1933	[258]
	Rufino Blanco Fombona	June 17, 1874 Caracas, Venezuela	October 16, 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1935	[259]
	Felix Timmermans	July 5, 1886 Lier, Belgium	January 24, 1947 Lier, Belgium	1928, 1940, 1941	[260]
	Ricarda Huch	July 18, 1864 Braunschweig, Germany	November 17, 1947 Kronberg, Germany	1928, 1935, 1937, 1946	[261]
1929
	Cale Young Rice	December 11, 1872 Kentucky, United States	January 24, 1943 Kentucky, United States	1929	Nominated by Edward Franklin Farquhar (1883–1960) the only time.[262]
	Knud Rasmussen	June 7, 1879 Ilulissat, Greenland	December 21, 1933 Copenhagen, Denmark	1929	Nominated by William Thalbitzer (1873–1958) the only time.[263]
	Stefan George	July 12, 1868 Büdesheim, Germany	December 4, 1933 Minusio, Switzerland	1929, 1931	[264]
	Edwin Arlington Robinson	December 22, 1869 Maine, United States	April 6, 1935 New York, United States	1929, 1930, 1932, 1934	Nominated by Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) each time.[265]
	Benedetto Croce	February 25, 1866 Pescasseroli, Italy	November 20, 1952 Naples, Italy	1929, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952	[266]
	Thornton Wilder	April 17, 1897 Wisconsin, United States	December 7, 1975 Connecticut, United States	1929, 1949, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	[267]

1930–1939[edit]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1930
	Sinclair Lewis	February 7, 1885 Minnesota, United States	January 10, 1951 Rome, Italy	1930	Nominated by Henrik Schück (1855–1947) the only time and awarded 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	Awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature.[269]
	Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo	September 19, 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela	(?) 1959 Caracas, Venezuela	1930	Nominated by Manuel María Villalobos (1858–1929) the only time.[270]
	Manfred Kyber	March 1, 1880 Riga, Latvia	March 10, 1933 Löwenstein, Germany	1930	[271]
	Arvid Järnefelt	November 16, 1861 Saint Petersburg, Russia	December 27, 1932 Helsinki, Finland	1930	Nominated by Oiva Tuulio (1878–1941) the only time.[272]
	Yrjö Hirn	December 7, 1870 Lappeenranta, Finland	February 23, 1952 Helsinki, Finland	1930	Nominated by Olaf Homén (1879–1949) the only time.[273]
	Theodore Dreiser	August 27, 1871 Indiana, United States	December 28, 1945 California, United States	1930	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) the only time.[274]
	Edgar Lee Masters	August 23, 1868 Kansas, United States	March 5, 1950 Pennsylvania, United States	1930	Nominated by Martin Lamm (1880–1950) the only time.[275]
	Nathanael Jünger	October 23, 1871 Hamburg, Germany	September 29, 1941 Potsdam, Germany	1930, 1931	Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) each time.[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]
1931
	Hermann Hesse	July 2, 1877 Calw, Germany	August 9, 1962 Collina d’Oro, Switzerland	1931, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1946	Awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature.[282]
	Laura Mestre Hevia	April 6, 1867 Havana, Cuba	January 11, 1944 Havana, Cuba	1931	Nominated by Juan Miguel Dihigo Mestre (1866–1952) the only time.[283]
	Francis Jammes	December 2, 1868 Tournay, France	November 1, 1938 Hasparren, France	1931	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) the only time.[284]
	Ole Edvart Rølvaag	April 22, 1876 Dønna, Norway	November 5, 1931 Minnesota, United States	1931	Nominated by Laurence M. Larson (1868–1938) the only time.[285]
	Erich Maria Remarque	June 22, 1898 Osnabrück, Germany	September 25, 1970 Locarno, Switzerland	1931	Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) the only time and nominated for the 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, 1968	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]
1932
	Michael Blümelhuber	September 23, 1865 Christkindl, Austria	January 29, 1936 Steyr, Austria	1932	Nominated by Oswald Redlich (1858–1944) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[292]
	Francesco Orestano	April 14, 1873 Alia, Italy	August 20, 1945 Rome, Italy	1932	Nominated by Pietro Bonfante (1864–1932) the only time.[293]
	Axel Munthe	October 31, 1857 Oskarshamn, Sweden	February 11, 1949 Stockholm, Sweden	1932	Nominated by Rolf Lagerborg (1874–1959) the only time.[294]
	Percival Elgood	July 3, 1863 Marlborough, England	December 20, 1941 Cairo, Egypt	1932	Nominated by Arthur James Grant (1862–1948) the only time.[295]
	Grigol Robakidze	October 28, 1880 Imereti, Georgia	November 19, 1962 Geneva, Switzerland	1932	Nominated by Richard Meckelein (1880–1948) the only time.[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]
1933
	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	Nominated by Tancred Borenius (1885–1948) the only time.[302]
	Hayim Nahman Bialik	January 9, 1873 Volhynia, Russia	July 4, 1934 Vienna, Austria	1933, 1934	Nominated by Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) each time.[303]
	Ernest Roguin	May 27, 1851 Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland	May 5, 1939 Lausanne, Switzerland	1933, 1934	Nominated by Edmond Rossier (1865–1945) each time.[304]
	Joseph Bédier	January 28, 1864 Paris, France	August 29, 1938 Le Grand-Serre, France	1933, 1934	Nominated by Henrik Schück (1855–1947) each time.[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, 1860 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]
1934
	Luigi Pirandello	June 28, 1867 Agrigento, Italy	December 10, 1936 Rome, Italy	1934	Nominated by Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) the only time and awarded 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	Awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1937.[312]
	Roger Martin du Gard	March 23, 1881 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France	August 22, 1958 Belforêt-en-Perche, France	1934, 1935, 1936, 1937	Awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.[313]
	Francisco García Calderón Rey	April 8, 1883 Valparaíso, Chile	July 1, 1953 Lima, Peru	1934	[314]
	Ventura García Calderón	February 23, 1886 Paris, France	October 27, 1959 Paris, France	1934	[315]
	Ole Hallesby	August 5, 1879 Aremark, Norway	November 22, 1961 Oslo, Norway	1934	Nominated jointly by Olai Skulerud (1881–1963) the only time.[316][317]
	Ewald Magnus Engebrethsen Sundberg	October 8, 1886 Kristiansand, Norway	April 1967 Norway	1934
	Hans Henrik Holm	January 18, 1896 Oslo, Norway	September 27, 1980 Oslo, Norway	1934	Nominated by Alexander Seippel (1851–1938) the only time.[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]
1935[bi]
	James Cousins	July 22, 1873 Belfast, Northern Ireland	February 20, 1956 Madanapalle, India	1935	Nominated by Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) the only time.[324]
	Sven Erik Lönborg	March 16, 1871 Motala, Sweden	April 11, 1959 Uppsala, Sweden	1935	Nominated by Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) the only time.[325]
	Émile Mâle	June 2, 1862 Commentry, France	October 6, 1954 Fontaine-Chaalis, France	1935	Nominated by Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) the only time.[326]
	Guðmundur Kamban	June 8, 1888 Reykjavík, Iceland	May 5, 1945 Copenhagen, Denmark	1935	Nominated by Bengt Hesselman (1875–1952) the only time.[327]
	Violet Clifton	November 2, 1883 Rome, Italy	November 20, 1961 Lytham St Annes, England	1935	Nominated by Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) the only time.[328]
	Elise Richter	March 2, 1865 Vienna, Austria	June 23, 1943 Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechia	1935	[329]
	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	May 29, 1874 Kensington, England	June 14, 1936 Beaconsfield, England	1935	Nominated by Torsten Fogelqvist (1880–1941) the only time.[330]
	Dezső Szabó	June 10, 1879 Kolozsvár, Hungary	January 13, 1945 Budapest, Hungary	1935	Nominated by Björn Collinder (1894–1983) the only time.[331]
	Víctor Manuel Rendón	December 5, 1859 Guayaquil, Ecuador	October 9, 1940 Guayaquil, Ecuador	1935	Nominated by Celiano Monge Navarrete (1856–1940) the only time.[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	Nominated by Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) each time.[335]
	John Masefield	June 1, 1878 Ledbury, England	May 12, 1967 Abingdon, England	1935, 1937	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) each time.[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]
1936[bj]
	Asis Domet	June 25, 1890 Cairo, Egypt	June 27, 1943 Berlin, Germany	1936	Nominated by G. E. Khoury (?) the only time.[338]
	Hari Mohan Banerjee	? India	September 3, 1960 Kolkata, India	1936	Nominated by Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar (1875–1950) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[339]
	Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti	January 10, 1871 Vienna, Austria	April 8, 1955 Linz, Austria	1936	[340]
	Sigmund Freud	May 6, 1856 Příbor, Czechia	September 23, 1939 London, England	1936	Nominated by Romain Rolland (1866–1944) the only time and nominated for Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine too.[341]
	Alfred Edward Evershed	April 22, 1870 Littlehampton, England	May 31, 1941 Tasmania, Australia	1936	Nominated by Elias Edward Miller (1878–1937) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[342]
	Ludwig Klages	December 10, 1872 Hanover, Germany	July 29, 1956 Kilchberg, Switzerland	1936, 1937	Nominated by Wilhelm Pinder (1878–1947) each time.[343]
	Cécile Tormay	October 8, 1875 Budapest, Hungary	April 2, 1937 Gyöngyös, Hungary	1936, 1937	[344]
	Hans Fallada	July 21, 1893 Greifswald, Germany	February 5, 1947 Berlin, Germany	1936, 1939	[345]
	Arvid Mörne	May 6, 1876 Kuopio, Finland	June 15, 1946 Kauniainen, Finland	1936, 1945, 1946	[346]
	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	[347]
1937
	Maurice Magre	March 2, 1877 Toulouse, France	December 11, 1941 Nice, France	1937	[348]
	Jules Payot	April 10, 1859 Chamonix, France	January 30, 1940 Aix-en-Provence, France	1937	Nominated by Alfred Baudrillart (1859–1942) the only time.[349]
	Arnold Schering	April 2, 1877 Wrocław, Poland	March 7, 1941 Berlin, Germany	1937	Nominated by Ilmari Krohn (1867–1960) the only time.[350]
	Maria Jotuni	April 9, 1880 Kuopio, Finland	September 30, 1943 Helsinki, Finland	1937	Nominated by Viljo Tarkiainen (1879–1951) the only time.[351]
	Albert Verwey	May 15, 1865 Amsterdam, Netherlands	March 8, 1937 Noordwijk, Netherlands	1937	Died before the only chance to be rewarded.[352]
	William Burchell/Bashyr Pickard	July 31, 1889 London, England	January 25, 1973 Hertford, England	1937	Nominated by Arthur Bernard Cook (1868–1952) the only time.[353]
	Valdemar Rørdam	September 23, 1872 Fakse, Denmark	July 13, 1946 Holbæk, Denmark	1937, 1938	[354]
	Bensadhar Majumdar	? India	? India	1937, 1939	[355]
	Sally Salminen	April 25, 1906 Vårdö, Åland, Finland	July 18, 1976 Copenhagen, Denmark	1937, 1938, 1939	[356]
	Maila Talvio	October 17, 1871 Hartola, Finland	January 6, 1951 Helsinki, Finland	1937, 1939, 1947	[357]
	René Béhaine	June 17, 1880 Vervins, France	January 2, 1966 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France	1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1944 1948, 1965	[358]
	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	[359]
	Stijn Streuvels	October 3, 1871 Kortrijk, Belgium	August 15, 1969 Anzegem, Belgium	1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1969	[360]
	Jean Giono	March 30, 1895 Manosque, France	October 9, 1970 Manosque, France	1937, 1952, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969	[361]
1938
	Pearl Buck	June 26, 1892 West Virginia, United States	March 6, 1973 Vermont, United States	1938	Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature.[362]
	Robert Ritchie Racey	May 3, 1873 Canada	September 15, 1956 Paris, Ontario, Canada	1938	Nominated by Arthur Leonard Phelps (1887–1970) the only time.[363]
	Mohammad Khan (prob. Mohammad Habib (1895–1971))	? India	? India	1938	Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time.[364]
	Margaret Mitchell	November 8, 1900 Georgia, United States	August 16, 1949 Georgia, United States	1938	Nominated by Sven Hedin (1865–1952) the only time.[365]
	Arthur van Schendel	March 5, 1874 Jakarta, Indonesia	September 11, 1946 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1938	[366]
	Veikko Antero Koskenniemi	July 8, 1885 Oulu, Finland	August 4, 1962 Turku, Finland	1938	Nominated by Aapeli Saarisalo (1896–1986) the only time.[367]
	Sanjib Chaudhuri	? India	? India	1938, 1939	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[368]
	Mark Aldanov	November 7, 1886 Kiev, Ukraine	February 24, 1957 Nice, France	1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957	[369]
	Henriette Charasson	February 13, 1884 Le Havre, France	May 29, 1972 Châteauroux, France	1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945,[bm] 1947, 1949, 1954, 1957	[370]
	Herman Teirlinck	February 24, 1879 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium	February 4, 1967 Beersel, Belgium	1938, 1954, 1957, 1960	[371]
	Aldous Huxley	July 26, 1894 Godalming, England	November 22, 1963 California, United States	1938, 1939, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963	[372]
1939
	Flávio de Carvalho	August 10, 1899 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	June 4, 1973 São Paulo, Brazil	1939	Nominated by Paul Vanorden Shaw (1898–1970) the only time.[373]
	Egidio Poblete Escudero	November 7, 1868 Valparaíso, Chile	October 18, 1940 Valparaíso, Chile	1939	Nominated by Miguel Luís Amunátegui Reyes (1862–1949) the only time.[374]
	Ethel Florence Richardson	January 3, 1870 East Melbourne, Australia	March 20, 1946 Hastings, England	1939	Nominated by Sten Bodvar Liljegren (1885–1984) the only time.[375]
	Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel	November 6, 1870 Liverpool, England	February 5, 1963 London, England	1939	Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time.[376]
	Hugh Walpole	March 13, 1884 Auckland, New Zealand	June 1, 1941 Keswick, England	1939	Nominated by Sten Bodvar Liljegren (1885–1984) the only time.[377]
	Johan Huizinga	December 7, 1872 Groningen, Netherlands	February 1, 1945 De Steeg, Netherlands	1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1953, 1944, 1945	[378]
	Henriette Roland Holst	December 24, 1869 Noordwijk, Netherlands	November 21, 1952 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1939, 1950, 1952	[379][380]
	Eugène Baie	August 3, 1874 Anderlecht, Belgium	September 10, 1964 Anderlecht, Belgium	1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956	[381]
	Hu Shih	December 17, 1891 Songjiang, China	February 24, 1962 Taipei, Taiwan	1939, 1957	[382]
	Maria Dąbrowska	October 6, 1889 Russów, Poland	May 19, 1965 Warsaw, Poland	1939, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965	[383]

1940–1949[edit]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1940[bi]
	Gabriela Mistral	April 7, 1889 Vicuña, Chile	January 10, 1957 New York, United States	1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945	Awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature.[384]
	Alfonso Strafile	1872 Cerignola, Italy	? Italy	1940	Nominated by Domenico Vittorini (1892–1958) the only time.[385]
	Gösta Albert Carlberg	September 23, 1909 Norrköping, Sweden	March 13, 1973 Stockholm, Sweden	1940	Nominated by Einar Tegen (1884–1965) the only time.[386]
	Bert Bailey	June 11, 1868 Auckland, New Zealand	March 30, 1953 Darlinghurst, Australia	1940	Nominated by Georges Rency (1875–1951) the only time.[387]
	Edmund Blunden	November 1, 1896 London, England	January 20, 1974 Long Melford, England	1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945	Nominated by Heinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904-1980) each time.[388]
	Carl Sandburg	January 6, 1878 Illinois, United States	July 22, 1967 North Carolina, United States	1940, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1959	[389]
	Lin Yutang	October 10, 1895 Zhangzhou, China	March 26, 1976 Hong Kong	1940, 1950, 1970, 1972, 1973	[390]
1941[bi]
	Manoel Cyrillo Wanderley (prob. Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968))	Brazil	Brazil	1941	Nominated by Francisco de Aquino Correia, S.D.B. (1885–1956) the only time.[391]
	Ruth Comfort Young	July 21, 1882 California, United States	February 18, 1954 California, United States	1941	[392]
	Branislav Petronijević	March 25, 1875 Sovljak, Serbia	March 4, 1954 Belgrade, Serbia	1941, 1947	[393]
1942[bi]
	Sigfrid Siwertz	January 24, 1882 Stockholm, Sweden	November 26, 1970 Stockholm, Sweden	1942	Nominated by Carl Olaf Bøggild-Andersen (1898–1967) the only time.[394]
	Teixeira de Pascoaes	November 2, 1877 Amarante, Portugal	December 14, 1952 Amarante, Portugal	1942, 1943, 1944, 1945,[bn] 1947, 1948	Nominated by João António Mascarenhas Júdice (1898–1957) each time.[395]
	Nikolai Berdyaev	March 18, 1874 Kiev, Ukraine	March 24, 1948 Clamart, France	1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948	Nominated by Alf Nyman (1884–1968) each time.[396]
	Charles Langbridge Morgan	January 22, 1894 Bromley, England	February 6, 1958 London, England	1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949	[397]
	Enrique Larreta	March 4, 1875 Buenos Aires, Argentina	July 6, 1961 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1942, 1943, 1944, 1945,[bo] 1950	[398]
	Hans Carossa	December 15, 1878 Bad Tölz, Germany	September 12, 1956 Lower Bavaria, Germany	1942, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1955, 1956	[399]
1943[bi]
	John Steinbeck	February 27, 1902 California, United States	December 20, 1968 New York, United States	1943, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962	Awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature.[400]
	Sri Aurobindo	August 15, 1872 Kolkata, India	December 5, 1950 Puducherry, India	1943	Nominated by Francis Younghusband (1863–1942) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[401]
	Franz Werfel	September 10, 1890 Prague, Czechia	August 26, 1945 California, United States	1943, 1945	[402]
	Franz Hellens	September 8, 1881 Brussels, Belgium	January 20, 1972 Brussels, Belgium	1943, 1948, 1958, 1954	[403]
	Elisaveta Bagryana	April 16, 1893 Sofia, Bulgaria	March 23, 1991 Sofia, Bulgaria	1943, 1944, 1945, 1969	[404]
1944
	Abol-Gassem E’tessam Zadeh	? Iran	? Iran	1944	Nominated by Issa Sepahbodi (1896–?) the only time.[405]
	Luis Nueda y Santiago	1883 Madrid, Spain	1952 Madrid, Spain	1944	Nominated by Julio Casares (1877–1964) the only time.[406]
	Charles Ferdinand Ramuz	September 24, 1878 Lausanne, Switzerland	May 23, 1947 Pully, Switzerland	1944, 1945, 1946, 1947	[407]
	Arnulf Øverland	April 27, 1889 Kristiansund, Norway	March 25, 1968 Oslo, Norway	1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1965, 1966, 1967	[408]
1945
	Thomas Sterns Eliot	September 26, 1888 Missouri, United States	January 4, 1965 Kensington, England	1945, 1946, 1947, 1948	Awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.[409]
	Yiorgos Theotokas	April 27, 1906 Constantinople, Turkey	October 30, 1966 Athens, Greece	1945	Nominated by Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) the only time.[410]
	Armando Alvares Pedroso	June 29, 1907 Havana, Cuba	September 9, 1990 Miami, United States	1945[bp]
	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, 1968, 1969	[411][412]
	Marie Under	March 27, 1883 Reval, Estonia	September 25, 1980 Stockholm, Sweden	1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	[413]
1946
	André Gide	November 22, 1869 Paris, France	February 19, 1951 Paris, France	1946, 1947	Awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.[414]
	François Mauriac	October 11, 1885 Bordeaux, France	September 1, 1970 Paris, France	1946, 1949, 1950, 1952	Awarded 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	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940–45, 1951–55). Awarded 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	Awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature.[417]
	Herbert John Clifford Grierson	January 16, 1866 Lerwick, Scotland	February 19, 1960 Cambridge, England	1946	Nominated by William James Entwistle (1895–1952) the only time.[418]
	Sholem Asch	November 1, 1880 Kutno, Poland	July 10, 1957 London, England	1946, 1947	Nominated by Walter Arthur Berendsohn (1884–1984) each time.[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	[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, 1968, 1969, 1970	[422]
1947
	Pär Lagerkvist	May 23, 1891 Växjö, Sweden	July 11, 1974 Lidingö, Sweden	1947, 1949, 1950, 1951	Awarded 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	Awarded 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	Awarded 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	Shared 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	Nominated by Louise Rosenblatt (1904–2005) the only time.[429]
	Gregorios Xenopoulos	December 9, 1867 Constantinople, Turkey	January 14, 1951 Athens, Greece	1947	Nominated by Iōannēs Kalitsounakēs (1878–1966) the only time.[430]
	Toyohiko Kagawa	July 10, 1888 Hyogo, Japan	April 23, 1960 Tokyo, Japan	1947, 1948	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, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	[434]
1948
	Halldór Laxness	April 23, 1902 Reykjavík, Iceland	February 8, 1998 Reykjavík, Iceland	1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955	Awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.[435]
	Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette	January 28, 1873 Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France	August 3, 1954 Paris, France	1948	Nominated by Claude Farrère (1876–1957) the only time.[436]
	Dorothy Canfield Fisher	February 17, 1879 Kansas, United States	November 9, 1958 Vermont, United States	1948, 1949	Nominated by David Baumgardt (1890–1963) each time.[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, 1971, 1972, 1973	[442]
1949[bj]
	Albert Camus	November 7, 1913 Algiers, Algeria	January 4, 1960 Villeblevin, France	1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957	Awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature.[443]
	Jacinto Grau	ca. 1877 Barcelona, Spain	August 14, 1958 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1949	Nominated by Hjalmar Gullberg (1898–1961) the only time.[444]
	Reinaldo Temprano Azcona	1911 Pajares de la Lampreana, Spain	1954 Spain	1949	Nominated by Emilio Alarcos García (1895–1986) the only time.[445]
	Leonid Leonov	May 31, 1899 Moscow, Russia	August 8, 1994 Moscow, Russia	1949, 1950	Nominated by Valentin Kiparsky (1904–1983) each time.[446]
	Enrique González Martínez	April 13, 1871 Guadalajara, Mexico	February 19, 1952 Mexico City, Mexico	1949, 1952	[447]
	Alfonso Reyes	May 17, 1889 Monterrey, Mexico	December 27, 1959 Mexico City, Mexico	1949, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959	[448]
	Seán O'Casey	March 30, 1880 Dublin, Ireland	September 18, 1964 Torquay, England	1949, 1950, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963	[449]
	Taha Hussein	November 15, 1889 Maghagha, Egypt	October 28, 1973 Cairo, Egypt	1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973	[450]
	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, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	[451]