Nominations by Nobel Laureates

Nominations made by Nobel Laureates in Literature (1901-1950)

All information concerning the nominations and selections of the Nobel Laureates is kept a secret for 50 years. That is why we only published information about the first 50 Nobel Prizes in Literature so far. Within the time period (1901-1950) 19 of the 45 Nobel Laureates in Literature submitted names for consideration.

Nobel Prize	Nobel Laureate	Nominated, name and year
1901	Sully Prudhomme	François Coppée (French author) 1903
1904	Frédéric Mistral	Jean Henri Fabre (French enthomologist) 1912
1904	José Echegaray	Benito Pérez Galdós (Spanish author) 1912, 1914
1908	Rudolf Eucken	Ferdinand Avenarius (German author) 1921
1909	Selma Lagerlöf	Georg Brandes (Danish critic and literature historian) 1922
1911	Maurice Maeterlinck	Eugène Baie (Belgian historian and author) 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949 Jean Henri Fabre (French entomologist, that is someone who makes scientific studies of insects) 1912 Willem Kloos (Dutch author) 1914 Edmond Picard (Belgian laywer and author) 1913, 1914
1912	Gerhart Hauptmann	Verner von Heidenstam 1916 Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Austrian author) 1919 Thomas Mann 1924
1915	Romain Rolland	Konstantin Balmont (Russian author) 1923 Ivan Bunin 1923 Sigmund Freud (Austrian physician and author) 1936 Thomas Hardy (English author) 1923 Rudolf Maria Holzapfel (German philosopher) 1925, 1927, 1928 Joseph Henri Rosny aîné (Belgian-French author) 1928, 1933,
1916	Verner von Heidenstam	Juhani Aho (Finnish author) 1919 Henri Bergson 1918, 1921 Georg Brandes (Danish critic and literature historian) 1922 Guglielmo Ferrero (Italian historian) 1925 Maxim Gorkij (Russian author) 1928 Bertel Gripenberg (Finnish author) 1934 Jarl Hemmer (Finnish author) 1934 Kostis Palamas (Greek author) 1928, 1930, 1935 Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1934 Carl Spitteler 1917, 1919
1922	Jacinto Benavente	Sofía Casanova (Spanish author) 1926 Concha Espina de la Serna (Spanish author) 1926, 1931
1927	Henri Bergson	Paul Valéry (French author) 1930
1928	Sigrid Undset	Johan Falkberget (Norwegian author) 1948
1929	Thomas Mann	Hermann Hesse 1931 Ivan Sjmeljov (Russian author) 1931
1930	Sinclair Lewis	Carl Sandburg (American author) 1940 Herbert George Wells (English author) 1932
1933	Ivan Bunin	Mark Aldanov (Russian author) 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950
1938	Pearl Buck	Lin Yutang (Chinese author) 1940, 1950
1945	Gabriela Mistral	Alfonso Reyes (Mexican author) 1949
1946	Hermann Hesse	Martin Buber (Austrian-Israeli religionphilosopher) 1950 Gertrud von Le Fort (German author) 1950
1948	T.S. Eliot	Riccardo Bacchelli (Italian author) 1949

 

Reference: Ur svenska akademiens arkiv, Nobelpriset i litteratur, Nomineringar och utlåtanden 1901-1950 utgivna av Bo Svensén, Svenska akademien (DISTR.:NORSTEDTS)

First published 5 October 2009.