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

Year:	1931
Number:	17-0
Nominee 1:
Name:	Dmitry S Merezhkovsky
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1866
Year, death:	1941
Profession:	Author
Country:	SU (U.S.S.R.)
Nominee 2:
Name:	Ivan A Bunin
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1870
Year, death:	1953
Profession:	Author
Country:	SU (U.S.S.R.)
Received prize:	lit 1933 »
Nominator:
Name:	Sigurd Agrell
Gender:	M
Profession:	Professor of Slavic languages
City:	Lund
Country:	SE (SWEDEN)
Comment:	Sigurd Agrell proposes that the Prize be shared by both candidates.