Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature
Year:1903
Number:4 - 3
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Lev Nikolaevich (Leo) Tolstoy
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1828
Year, Death:1910
Profession:Author
Country:RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1842
Year, Death:1927
Profession:Professor of history of literature
City:Copenhagen
Country:DENMARK (DK)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Maurice Maeterlinck
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1862
Year, Death:1949
Profession:Author
City:Paris
Country:FRANCE (FR)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1911
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Anatole (Jacques) France (Thibault)
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1844
Year, Death:1924
Profession:Member of the French Academy (Académie française)
City:Paris
Country:FRANCE (FR)
 
Comments: The candidates were nominated both separately (see entry 4-4 1903, 5-1 1903 and 6 1903) and jointly in the above order by Anatole France. Anatole France: pen-name of Jacques Thibault.
 

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