Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature
Year:1960
Number:41 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Graham Greene
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1904
Year, Death:1991
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Jean-Paul Sartre
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1905
Year, Death:1980
Profession:Writer
City:Paris
Country:FRANCE (FR)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1964
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Johan Falkberget
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1879
Year, Death:1967
Profession:Writer
City:Bergen
Country:NORWAY (NO)
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Kristian Smidt
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1916
Year, Death:2003
Profession:Professor of English Philology
University:University of Oslo
City:Oslo
Country:NORWAY (NO)
 
Comments: First choice: Johan Falkberget. Second choice: Graham Greene. Third Choice: Jean-Paul Sartre.
 

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