The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Literature, 1901-1950

Year:	1915
Number:	17-0
Nominee:
Name:	William B Yeats
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1865
Year, death:	1939
Profession:	Poet
Country:	IE (IRELAND)
Received prize:	lit 1923 »
Nominator:
Name:	Per A Hallström
Gender:	M
Profession:	Member of the Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien)
Affiliation:	Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien)
City:	Stockholm
Country:	SE (SWEDEN)
Comment:	Very few nominations were received for the Prize of 1915. Therefore, the Nobel Committee decided at a meeting on Feb.1, 1915, to carry over a number of nominated candidates from the previous year, with members of the Nobel Committee acting as nominator (see entries 1915-12 through 1915-22).