List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors which, according to the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the benefactor of the prize, has produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".^[1] It is one of the five Nobel Prizes which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.^[2]

Every year, the Swedish Academy sends out requests regularly for nominations of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Members of the Academy, members of literature academies and societies, professors of literature and language, former Nobel literature laureates, and the presidents of writers' organizations are all allowed to nominate a candidate. Nomination of oneself is not permitted.^[3] Despite the yearly invitations for nominations, there have been some years wherein the prize was not conferred due to particular reasons (1914, 1918, 1935) and due to the outbreak of World War II (1940–1943). Besides the prize has been delayed for a year seven times (1915, 1919, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1936, 1949).

Records of nominations are strictly kept secret for 50 years until they are made publicly available. Currently, the nominations submitted from 1901 to 1974 are available.^[4][5] Between those two years there have been 853 writers coming from different parts of the world nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 72 of which were awarded the prize^[6] including Albert Schweitzer who was awarded by Nobel Peace Prize on 1953. 19 more writers from these nominees were awarded after 1974 including Elie Wiesel who was awarded by Nobel Peace Prize on 1986. Only 81 women had been nominated for the prize starting with Malwida von Meysenburg who was nominated once for the year 1901^[7] and 8 of them have been awarded after all. Only one literary society has been nominated, the Pali Text Society for the year 1916. Of the 853 revealed nominated writers, only the following are currently living:

• for 1967, the Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko (born 1930)
• for 1969, the Finnish author Hannu Salama (born 1936)
• for 1973, the Indian poet Indira Devi Dhanrajgir (born 1930) and Indian writer Pratap Narayan Tandon (born 1935).
• for 1974, the Chinese poet Chen Minghua (born 1950).

Though the following list consists of notable literary figures deemed worthy of the prize, there have been some celebrated writers who were not considered nor even nominated such as Anton Chekhov,^[8] Jules Verne, Robert Hugh Benson, Franz Kafka, Fernando Pessoa, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexander Blok, Marcel Proust, Joseph Conrad, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico García Lorca, Lu Xun, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Edmund Husserl, Antonio Machado, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Christopher Dawson, Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Simone Weil, Willa Cather, George Orwell, Galaktion Tabidze, Edith Hamilton, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Langston Hughes, Manuel Bandeira, Jack Kerouac, Nancy Mitford, Rosario Castellanos, Hannah Arendt and Agatha Christie.^[9][10][11]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1901
	Sully Prudhomme	March 16, 1839 Paris, France	September 6, 1907 Châtenay-Malabry, France	1901	Awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature.[12]
	Frédéric Mistral	September 8, 1830 Maillane, France	March 25, 1914 Maillane, France	1901, 1902, 1903, 1904	Shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature with José Echegaray.[13]
	Henryk Sienkiewicz	May 5, 1846 Wola Okrzejska, Poland	November 15, 1916 Vevey, Switzerland	1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905	Awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature.[14]
	René Vallery-Radot[a]	October 1, 1853 Paris, France	January 24, 1933 Paris, France	1901	[16]
	Edmond Rostand[b]	April 1, 1868 Marseille, France	December 2, 1918 Paris, France	1901	[17]
	Julius Gersdorff[c]	June 15, 1849 Szczecin, Poland	November 7, 1907 Weimar, Germany	1901	Nominated by Carl Heinrich Döring (1834–1916) the only time.[18]
	Oscar le Pin[d]	June 23, 1838 Saint Petersburg, Russia	November 16, 1912 Geneva, Switzerland	1901	Nominated by P. L. Bonnaviat (?) the only time.[19]
	Louis Ducros[e]	December 27, 1846 Nîmes, France	1927 Strasbourg, France[20]	1901	Nominated by Michel Clerc (1857–1931) the only time .[21]
	Carl Gustaf Estlander[f]	January 31, 1834 Lappfjärd, Finland	August 28, 1910 Helsinki, Finland	1901	Nominated by Johan Gustaf Frosterus (1826–1901) the only time.[22]
	Auguste Sabatier[g]	October 22, 1839 Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France	April 12, 1901 Strasbourg, France	1901	Nominated by Gabriel Monod (1844–1912) the only time.[23] Died before his only chance to be awarded.
	Paul Duproix[h]	August 14, 1851 France	January 24, 1912 France	1901	Nominated by Émile Redard (1848–1913) the only time.[24]
	Charles Borgeaud[i]	August 15, 1861 Le Chenit, Switzerland	October 6, 1940 Onex, Switzerland	1901	[25]
	Charles Renouvier[j]	January 1, 1815 Montpellier, France	September 1, 1903 Prades, France	1901	Nominated by Antoine Benoist (1846–1922) the only time.[26]
	Giacomo Stampa[k]	? Italy	? Italy	1901	Nominated by Ármin Vámbéry (1832–1913) the only time.[27]
	Ossip Lourié[l]	January 28, 1868 Dubroŭna, Belarus	July 2, 1955 Paris, France	1901	Nominated by Kristian Birch-Reichenwald Aars (1868–1917) the only time.[28]
	João da Câmara[m]	December 27, 1852 Lisbon, Portugal	January 2, 1908 Lisbon, Portugal	1901	Nominated by Joaquim José Coelho de Carvalho (1855–1934) the only time.[29]
	Malwida von Meysenbug[n]	October 28, 1816 Kassel, Germany	April 23, 1903 Rome, Italy	1901	Nominated by Gabriel Monod (1844–1912) the only time through Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910).[30]
	Émile Zola[o]	April 2, 1840 Paris, France	September 29, 1902 Paris, France	1901, 1902	Nominated by Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907) each time.[31]
	Ferenc Kemény[p]	July 17, 1860 Zrenjanin Serbia	November 21, 1944 Budapest, Hungary	1901, 1902	[32]
	Gaston Paris[q]	August 9, 1839 Avenay-Val-d'Or, France	March 5, 1903 Cannes, France	1901, 1902, 1903	Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) each time.[33]
	Gaspar Núñez de Arce[r]	August 4, 1834 Valladolid, Spain	June 9, 1903 Madrid, Spain	1901, 1902, 1903	[34]
	Alexander Baumgartner[s]	June 27, 1841 St. Gallen, Switzerland	October 5, 1910 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	1901, 1902, 1903	Nominated by Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (1842–1911) each time.[35]
	Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol[t]	March 23, 1847 Iași, Romania	February 27, 1920 Bucharest, Romania	1901, 1909	Nominated by Ion Găvănescu (1859–1949) each time.[36]
	Antonio Fogazzaro[u]	March 25, 1842 Vicenza, Italy	March 7, 1911 Vicenza, Italy	1901, 1902, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911	[37]
	Paul Sabatier[v]	August 3, 1858 Saint-Michel-de-Chabrillanoux, France	March 4, 1928 Strasbourg, France	1901, 1902, 1903, 1924, 1925	Nominated by Carl Bildt (1850–1931) each time.[38]
1902
	Theodor Mommsen	November 30, 1817 Garding, Germany	November 1, 1903 Berlin, Germany	1902	Awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature.[39]
	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	December 8, 1832 Kvikne, Norway	April 26, 1910 Paris, France	1902, 1903	Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature.[40]
	José Echegaray	April 19, 1832 Madrid, Spain	September 14, 1916 Madrid, Spain	1902, 1903, 1904	Shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature with Frédéric Mistral.[41]
	Giosuè Carducci	July 27, 1835 Pietrasanta, Italy	February 16, 1907 Bologna, Italy	1902, 1903, 1905, 1906	Awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature.[42]
	Gerhart Hauptmann	November 15, 1862 Szczawno-Zdrój, Poland	June 6, 1946 Jelenia Góra, Poland	1902, 1906, 1912	Awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature.[43]
	William Butler Yeats	June 13, 1865 Sandymount, Ireland	January 28, 1939 Cannes, France	1902, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1921, 1922, 1923	Awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.[44]
	Anatoly Koni[w]	January 28, 1844 Saint Petersburg, Russia	September 17, 1927 Saint Petersburg, Russia	1902	Nominated by Anton Karlovich Wulfert (1843–1918) the only time.[45]
	Ventura Fernández López[x]	July 14, 1866 Bárcena de Pie de Concha, Spain	November 17, 1944 Toledo, Spain	1902	Nominated by Emmanuel Casado Salas (?) the only time.[46]
	Carl Weitbrecht	December 8, 1847 Althengstett, Germany	June 10, 1904 Stuttgart, Germany	1902	Nominated by Hermann Fischer (1851–1920) the only time.[47]
	Hartmann Grisar[y]	September 22, 1845 Koblenz, Germany	February 25, 1932 Innsbruck, Austria	1902	Nominated by Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (1842–1911) the only time.[48]
	Herbert Spencer	April 27, 1820 Derby, England	December 8, 1903 Brighton, England	1902	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[49]
	Bernard Bosanquet	June 14, 1848 Alnwick, England	February 8, 1923 London, England	1902	Nominated by William Macneile Dixon (1866–1946) the only time.[50]
	Marcel Barrière[z]	November 3, 1860 Limoux, France	February 18, 1954 Paris, France	1902	Nominated by Émile Faguet (1847–1916) the only time.[51]
	Gustav Falke[aa]	January 11, 1853 Lübeck, Germany	February 8, 1916 Marburg, Germany	1902	Nominated by August Sauer (1855–1926) the only time.[52]
	Archibald Robertson[ab]	June 29, 1853 Northamptonshire, England	January 29, 1931 Oxford, England	1902	Nominated by John Wesley Hales (1836–1914) the only time.[53]
	Henrik Ibsen	March 20, 1828 Skien, Norway	May 23, 1906 Oslo, Norway	1902, 1903, 1904	[54]
	Houston Stewart Chamberlain[ac]	September 9, 1855 Portsmouth, England	January 9, 1927 Bayreuth, Germany	1902, 1906	[55]
	Leo Tolstoy[ad]	September 9, 1828 Yasnaya Polyana, Russia	November 20, 1910 Astapovo, Russia	1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[56]
	George Meredith	February 12, 1828 Hampshire, England	May 18, 1909 Surrey, England	1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907	[57]
	Lewis Morris[ae]	January 23, 1833 Carmarthen, Wales	November 12, 1907 Penbryn, Wales	1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907	[58]
	Theodor Zahn[af]	October 10, 1838 Moers, Germany	March 5, 1933 Erlangen, Germany	1902, 1904, 1908	Nominated by Lars Dahle (1843–1925) each time.[59]
	Charles Wagner[ag]	January 3, 1852 Alsace, France	May 12, 1918 Alsace, France	1902, 1903, 1909	[60]
	John Morley[ah]	December 24, 1838 Blackburn, England	September 23, 1923 London, England	1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913	[61]
	Juhani Aho[ai]	September 11, 1861 Lapinlahti, Finland	August 8, 1921 Helsinki, Finland	1902, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920	[62]
	Arne Garborg[aj]	January 25, 1851 Jæren, Norway	January 14, 1924 Asker, Norway	1902, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921	[63]
1903
	Rudyard Kipling	December 30, 1865 Mumbai, India	January 18, 1936 London, England	1903, 1904, 1905, 1907	Awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature.[64]
	Maurice Maeterlinck	August 29, 1862 Ghent, Belgium	May 6, 1949 Nice, France	1903, 1904, 1909, 1910, 1911	Awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature.[65]
	François Coppée	January 26, 1842 Paris, France	May 23, 1908 Paris, France	1903	Nominated by Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) the only time.[66]
	Carl Friedrich Glasenapp[ak]	October 3, 1847 Riga, Latvia	April 14, 1915 Riga, Latvia	1903	[67]
	Robert Langton Douglas[al]	1 March 1864 Lavenham, Cheshire, England	14 August 1951 Fiesole, Florence Italy	1903, 1904	[68]
	Albert Sorel[am]	August 13, 1842 Honfleur, France	June 29, 1906 Paris, France	1903, 1904, 1905, 1906	[69]
	Iwan Gilkin[an]	January 7, 1858 Brussels, Belgium	September 28, 1924 Brussels, Belgium	1903, 1909	[70]
	Algernon Charles Swinburne	April 5, 1837 London, England	April 10, 1909 London, England	1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909	[71]
	Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo	November 3, 1856 Santander, Spain	May 19, 1912 Santander, Spain	1903, 1905, 1907, 1910	[72]
	Georg Brandes	February 4, 1842 Copenhagen, Denmark	February 19, 1927 Copenhagen, Denmark	1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[73]
1904
	Selma Lagerlöf	November 20, 1858 Värmland, Sweden	March 16, 1940 Värmland, Sweden	1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909	Awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature.[74]
	Anatole France	April 16, 1844 Paris, France	October 12, 1924 Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France	1904, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1921	Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature.[75]
	Émilie Lerou[ao]	18 May 1855 Rouen, France	11 June 1935 Paris, France	1904	Nominated by Jules Claretie (1840–1913) the only time.[76]
	Demetrios Bernardakis	December 3, 1833 Mitilini, Greece	January 12, 1907 Mitilini, Greece	1904, 1905	Nominated by Athanasios Bernardakis (1844–1912) each time.[77]
	Jaroslav Vrchlický (Emil Frida)	February 17, 1853 Louny, Czechia	September 9, 1912 Domazlice, Czechia	1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912	[78]
	William Chapman[ap]	December 13, 1850 Beauceville, Canada	February 23, 1917 Ottawa, Canada	1904, 1910, 1912, 1917	[79]
1905
	Eliza Orzeszkowa	June 6, 1841 Mil'kovshchina, Belarus	May 18, 1910 Grodno, Belarus	1905	[80]
	Godfrey Sweven[aq]	May 5, 1845 Irvine, Scotland	January 18, 1935 Christchurch, New Zealand	1905	John Macmillan Brown has only been nominated under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven.[81][82]
1906
	Louis Franck	November 28, 1868 Antwerp, Belgium	December 31, 1937 Wijnegem, Belgium	1906	Nominated by Ernest Nys (1851–1920) the only time.[83]
	Gaston Boissier	August 15, 1823 Nîmes, France	June 10, 1908 Viroflay, France	1906	Nominated by Jacobus Johannaes Hartmann (1851–1924) the only time.[84]
	William J. Neidig[ar]	1870 United States	1955 United States	1906	Nominated by Henry Burrowes Lathrop (1867-1936) the only time.[85]
	Max Bewer[as]	January 19, 1861 Düsseldorf, Germany	October 13, 1921 Meißen, Germany	1906	[86]
	Pedro Pablo Figueroa	December 25, 1857 Copiapó, Chile	January 4, 1909 Santiago, Chile	1906[at]	Nominated by Leonardo Eliz (1861–1939) the only time.[87]
	Max Haushofer[au]	April 23, 1840 Munich, Germany	1907 Gries-San Quirino, Italy	1906[av]	Nominated by Emil Milan (1859–1917) the only time.[88]
	William Booth[aw]	April 10, 1829 Nottingham, England	August 20, 1912 London, England	1906[ax]	Nominated by Otto Classen (1868–1939) the only time.[89]
	Joseph Viktor Widmann[ay]	February 20, 1842 Brno, Czechia	November 6, 1911 Bern, Switzerland	1906, 1908	[90]
	George Lansing Raymond[az]	September 3, 1839 Illinois, United States	July 11, 1929 Washington D.C., United States	1906, 1907, 1908	[91]
	Angelo de Gubernatis	April 7, 1840 Turin, Italy	February 26, 1913 Rome, Italy	1906, 1907, 1909	[92]
	Borden Parker Bowne	January 14, 1847 Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States	April 1, 1910 Boston, United States	1906, 1907, 1909	[93]
1907
	João Bonança[ba]	ca. 1836 Lagos, Portugal	April 13, 1924 Lisbon, Portugal	1907	Nominated by Teófilo Braga (1843–1924) the only time.[94]
	Holger Drachmann	October 9, 1846 Copenhagen, Denmark	January 14, 1908 Hornbæk, Denmark	1907	Nominated by Harald Høffding (1843–1931) the only time.[95]
	Ian Maclaren	November 3, 1850 Manningtree, Essex, England[96]	May 6, 1907 Iowa, United States	1907	Nominated by Waldemar Rudin (1833–1921) the only time.[97] Died before his only chance to be awarded.
	Andrés Manjón	November 30, 1846 Sargentes de la Lora, Spain	July 10, 1923 Granada, Spain	1907	Nominated by Angel Sanchez Rubio Ibanez (1852–1910) the only time.[98]
	Eduardo Benot	November 26, 1822 Cádiz, Spain	July 27, 1907 Madrid, Spain	1907	Nominated by Daniel Cortázar Larrubia (1844–1927) the only time.[99] Died before his only chance to be awarded.
	Mark Twain	November 30, 1835 Florida, Missouri, United States	April 21, 1910 Redding, Connecticut, United States	1907,[bb] 1908[bb]
	Georgios Souris[bc]	February 2, 1853 Ermoupoli, Greece	August 26, 1919 Athens, Greece	1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912	[102]
	Àngel Guimerà	May 6, 1835 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain	July 18, 1924 Barcelona, Spain	1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923	[103]
	Paul Bourget	September 2, 1852 Amiens, France	December 25, 1935 Paris, France	1907, 1909, 1914, 1915, 1928	[104]
1908
	Rudolf Christoph Eucken	January 5, 1846 Aurich, Germany	September 15, 1926 Jena, Germany	1908	Nominated by Vitalis Norström (1856–1916) the only time and awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature.[105]
	Julio Calcaño[bd]	December 4, 1840 Caracas, Venezuela	August 18, 1918 Caracas, Venezuela	1908	Nominated by José María Manrique (1846-1907) the only time..[106]
	Alfred L. Hutchinson[be]	1859 Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States	August 1930 Weyauwega, Wisconsin, United States	1908	Nominated by Luther Lamphere Wright (1856–1922).[107]
	Edmondo De Amicis	October 21, 1846 Imperia, Italy	March 11, 1908 Bordighera, Italy	1908	Died before his only chance to be awarded.[108]
	Adolf von Harnack	May 7, 1851 Tartu, Estonia	June 10, 1930 Heidelberg, Germany	1908, 1916	[109]
	Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche	July 10, 1846 Lützen, Germany	November 8, 1935 Weimar, Germany	1908, 1916, 1917, 1923	[110]
1909
	Verner von Heidenstam	July 6, 1859 Olshammar, Sweden	May 20, 1940 Övralid, Sweden	1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916	Awarded the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature.[111]
	Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé	February 25, 1848 Nice, France	March 29, 1910 Paris, France	1909	Nominated by Albert Vandal (1853–1910) the only time.[112]
	Martin Greif	June 18, 1839 Speyer, Germany	April 1, 1911 Kufstein, Austria	1909, 1910, 1911	[113]
	Francesco D'Ovidio[bf]	December 5, 1849 Campobasso, Italy	November 24, 1925 Naples, Italy	1909, 1910, 1911, 1912	Nominated by Ernesto Monaci (1844–1918) each time.[114]
	Ernest Lavisse	December 17, 1842 Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, France	August 18, 1922 Paris, France	1909, 1910, 1911,[bg] 1912, 1913	[115]
	Salvador Rueda	December 3, 1857 Benaque, Spain	April 1, 1933 Málaga, Spain	1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915	[116]
	Émile Verhaeren	May 21, 1855 Sint-Amands, Belgium	November 27, 1916 Rouen, France	1909, 1912, 1915, 1916	[117]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1910
	Paul Heyse	March 13, 1830 Berlin, Germany	April 2, 1914 Munich, Germany	1910	Awarded the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature.[118]
	Gustav Warneck	March 6, 1834 Naumburg, Germany	December 26, 1910 Halle (Saale), Germany	1910	[119]
	Wilhelm Hermann Heinrich Benignus	February 17, 1861 Heilbronn, Germany	June 5, 1930 Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	1910	Nominated by Marion Dexter Learned (1857–1917) the only time.[120]
	Alfred Fouillée	October 18, 1838 Erdre-en-Anjou, France	June 16, 1912 Lyon, France	1910	Nominated by Carl David af Wirsén (1842–1912) the only time.[121]
	Édouard Rod	March 31, 1857 Nyon, Switzerland	January 29, 1910 Grasse, France	1910	Nominated by Edmond Rossier (1865–1945) the only time.[122] Died before his chance to be considered.
	William Dean Howells	March 1, 1837 Ohio, United States	May 11, 1920 New York, United States	1910	Nominated by Brander Matthews (1852–1929) the only time.[123]
	Robert Bridges	October 23, 1844 Walmer, England	April 21, 1930 Boars Hill, England	1910	Nominated by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) the only time.[124]
	Andrew Lang	March 31, 1844 Selkirk, Scotland	July 20, 1912 Banchory, Scotland	1910	Nominated by Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) the only time.[125]
	Molly Elliot Seawell	October 23, 1860 Virginia, United States	November 15, 1916 Washington, D.C., United States	1910, 1911	Nominated by Charles W. Kent (1860–1917) each time.[126]
	Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach	September 13, 1830 Troubky-Zdislavice, Czechia	March 12, 1916 Vienna, Austria	1910, 1911	Nominated by Emil Reich (1854–1910) each time.[127]
	Pierre Loti	January 14, 1850 Rochefort, France	June 10, 1923 Hendaye, France	1910, 1911, 1912, 1913	[128]
	Thomas Hardy	June 2, 1840 Stinsford, England	January 11, 1928 Dorchester, England	1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927	[129]
1911
	Karl Adolph Gjellerup	June 2, 1857 Roholte, Denmark	October 13, 1919 Dresden, Germany	1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917	Shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Henrik Pontoppidan[130]
	George Bernard Shaw	July 26, 1856 Dublin, Ireland	November 2, 1950 Ayot St Lawrence, England	1911, 1912, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1926	Awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926.[131]
	Albert de Mun	February 28, 1841 Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, France	October 6, 1914 Bordeaux, France	1911	Nominated by René Bazin (1853–1932) the only time.[132]
	Gustaf Fröding	August 22, 1860 Alster, Sweden	February 8, 1911 Stockholm, Sweden	1911	Died before his only chance to be awarded.[133]
	August Strindberg	January 22, 1849 Stockholm, Sweden	May 14, 1912 Stockholm, Sweden	1911[bh]	Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) the only time.[134]
	Rafael Altamira y Crevea	February 10, 1866 Alicante, Spain	June 1, 1951 Mexico City, Mexico	1911, 1912	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[135]
	Henry James	April 15, 1843 New York, United States	February 28, 1916 London, England	1911, 1912, 1916	[136]
	Harald Høffding	March 11, 1843 Copenhagen, Denmark	July 2, 1931 Copenhagen, Denmark	1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916	[137]
	Peter Rosegger	July 31, 1843 Krieglach, Austria	June 26, 1918 Krieglach, Austria	1911, 1913, 1918	[138]
	Ernst von der Recke	August 14, 1848 Copenhagen, Denmark	December 2, 1933 Zealand, Denmark	1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1930	[139]
	Karl Schönherr	February 24, 1867 Axams, Austria	March 15, 1943 Vienna, Austria	1911, 1912, 1933, 1938	[140]
1912
	Carl Spitteler	April 24, 1845 Liestal, Switzerland	December 29, 1924 Lucerne, Switzerland	1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920	Awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.[141]
	Henri Bergson	October 18, 1859 Paris, France	January 4, 1941 Paris, France	1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1921, 1928	Awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.[142]
	Pencho Slaveykov	April 27, 1866 Tryavna, Bulgaria	June 10, 1912 Brunate, Italy	1912	Nominated by Alfred Jensen (1859–1921) the only time.[143] Died before his chance to be considered.
	Sven Hedin	February 19, 1865 Stockholm, Sweden	November 26, 1952 Stockholm, Sweden	1912, 1913	Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) only.[144]
	Jean-Henri Fabre	December 21, 1823 Aveyron, France	October 11, 1915 Sérignan-du-Comtat, France	1912, 1914	[145]
	Salvatore Farina	January 10, 1846 Sorso, Italy	December 15, 1918 Milan, Italy	1912, 1913, 1914	[146]
	Benito Pérez Galdós	May 10, 1843 Las Palmas, Spain	January 4, 1920 Madrid, Spain	1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916	[147]
	Adolf Frey	February 18, 1855 Küttigen, Switzerland	February 12, 1920 Zürich, Switzerland	1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920	Nominated jointly with Carl Spitteler by Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919) each time.[148]
	Hans E. Kinck	October 11, 1865 Øksfjord, Norway	October 13, 1926 Oslo, Norway	1912, 1919, 1920, 1926	[149]
	James George Frazer	January 1, 1854 Glasgow, Scotland	May 7, 1941 Cambridge, England	1912, 1926, 1928, 1935	[150]
1913
	Rabindranath Tagore	May 7, 1861 Kolkata, India	August 7, 1941 Kolkata, India	1913	Nominated by Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944) the only time and awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.[151]
	Henrik Pontoppidan	July 24, 1857 Fredericia, Denmark	August 21, 1943 Charlottenlund, Denmark	1913, 1916, 1917	Shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Karl Adolph Gjellerup.[152]
	Grazia Deledda	September 28, 1871 Nuoro, Italy	August 15, 1936 Rome, Italy	1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927	Awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927.[153]
	Edward Dowden	May 3, 1843 Cork, Ireland	April 4, 1913 Dublin, Ireland	1913	Nominated by James Lindsay (1852–1923) the only time.[154] Died before his chance to be considered.
	John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury	April 30, 1834 London, England	May 28, 1913 Broadstairs, England	1913	Nominated by Hans Hildebrand (1842–1913) the only time.[155] Died before his chance to be considered.
	Francis Сhanning Miles Welles	April 21, 1887 Richmond, London, England	Aug 29, 1956 Cheltenham General Hospital, England	1913	Nominated by Carveth Read (1848–1931) the only time.[156]
	Émile Faguet	December 17, 1847 La Roche-sur-Yon, France	June 7, 1916 Paris, France	1913, 1914	[157]
	Jakob Knudsen	September 14, 1858 Rødding, Denmark	January 21, 1917 Birkerød, Denmark	1913, 1916	[158]
	Edmond Picard	December 15, 1836 Brussels, Belgium	February 19, 1924 Namur, Belgium	1913, 1914, 1916, 1917	[159]
1914[bi]
	Antonio Serra Morant	December 17, 1866 Alicante, Spain	August 7, 1939 Madrid, Spain	1914	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[160]
	Josef Svatopluk Machar	February 29, 1864 Kolin, Czechia	March 17, 1942 Prague, Czechia	1914, 1915	[161]
	René François Nicolas Marie Bazin	December 26, 1853 Angers, France	July 20, 1932 Paris, France	1914, 1915	[162]
	Dora Melegari	June 27, 1849 Lausanne, Switzerland	July 31, 1924 Rome, Italy	1914, 1923	[163]
	Willem Kloos	May 6, 1859 Amsterdam, Netherlands	March 3, 1938 The Hague, Netherlands	1914, 1915, 1925, 1926, 1928	[164]
	Dmitry Merezhkovsky	August 2, 1865 Saint Petersburg, Russia	December 9, 1941 Paris, France	1914, 1915, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937	[165]
	Vilhelm Grønbech	June 14, 1873 Allinge, Denmark	April 21, 1948 Helsingør, Denmark	1914, 1915, 1927, 1928, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944	[166]
1915[bj]
	Romain Rolland	January 29, 1866 Clamecy, France	December 30, 1944 Vézelay, France	1915, 1916	Awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916.[167]
	Charles Montagu Doughty	August 19, 1843 Saxmundham, England	January 20, 1926 Sissinghurst, England	1915	Nominated by Herbert Warren (1853–1930) the only time.[168]
	Ferdinand Avenarius	December 20, 1856 Berlin, Germany	September 22, 1923 Kampen, Germany	1915, 1921	[169]
1916
	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	July 20, 1864 Avesta, Sweden	April 8, 1931 Stockholm, Sweden	1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1929, 1931	Posthumously awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature.[170]
	Rabindranath Datta	October 1, 1883 Kolkata, India	July 6, 1917 Kolkata, India	1916	[171]
	Ivan Franko	August 27, 1856 Lviv, Ukraine	May 28, 1916 Lviv, Ukraine	1916	Died before his only chance to be awarded.[172]
	Gunnar Heiberg	November 18, 1857 Oslo, Norway	February 22, 1929 Oslo, Norway	1916	Nominated by Jens Thiis (1870–1942) the only time.[173]
	Troels Troels-Lund	September 5, 1840 Copenhagen, Denmark	February 12, 1921 Copenhagen, Denmark	1916	Nominated by Frits Läffler (1847–1921) the only time.[174]
	The Pāli Text Society[bk]	founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids		1916	Nominated by Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843–1922) the only time.[175]
	Otokar Březina	September 13, 1868 Počátky, Czechia	March 25, 1929 Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou, Czechia	1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1925, 1928, 1929	[176]
	Henrik Schück	November 2, 1855 Stockholm, Sweden	October 3, 1947 Uppsala, Sweden	1916, 1929	[177]
	Per Hallström	September 29, 1866 Stockholm, Sweden	February 18, 1960 Nacka, Sweden	1916, 1919, 1931[bl]	[178]
1917
	Ivan Vazov	July 9, 1850 Sopot, Bulgaria	September 22, 1921 Sofia, Bulgaria	1917	Nominated by Ivan Shishmanov (1862–1928) the only time.[179]
	Otto Ernst Schmidt ("Otto Ernst")	October 7, 1862 Hamburg, Germany	March 5, 1926 Hamburg, Germany	1917	Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time.[180]
	Jeppe Aakjær	September 10, 1866 Aakjaer, Denmark	April 22, 1930 Roslev, Denmark	1917	Nominated by Christen Collin (1857–1926) the only time.[181]
	Johan Bojer	March 6, 1872 Orkdal, Norway	July 3, 1959 Oslo, Norway	1917, 1925, 1929, 1932	[182]
	Olaf Bull	November 10, 1883 Oslo, Norway	June 29, 1933 Oslo, Norway	1917, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932	[183]
	Bertel Gripenberg	September 19, 1878 Saint Petersburg, Russia	May 6, 1947 Sävsjö, Sweden	1917, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1937	[184]
1918[bi]
	Knut Hamsun	August 4, 1859 Lom, Norway	February 19, 1952 Grimstad, Norway	1918, 1920	Awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature.[185]
	Alois Jirásek	August 23, 1851 Hronov, Czechia	March 12, 1930 Prague, Czechia	1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1930	[186]
	Gustav Frenssen	October 19, 1863 Barlt, Germany	April 11, 1945 Barlt, Germany	1918	Nominated jointly with Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) by Bengt Hesselman (1875–1952) the only time.[187]
	Maxim Gorky	March 28, 1868 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia	June 18, 1936 Moscow Oblast, Russia	1918, 1923, 1928, 1933	[188]
	Gunnar Gunnarsson	May 18, 1889 Fljótsdalur, Iceland	November 21, 1975 Reykjavík, Iceland	1918, 1921, 1922, 1955, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1969	[189]
1919[bj]
	Władysław Reymont	May 7, 1867 Kobiele Wielkie, Poland	December 5, 1925 Warsaw, Poland	1919, 1920, 1922, 1924	Awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature.[190]
	John Galsworthy	August 14, 1867 Kingston upon Thames, England	January 31, 1933 London, England	1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1931, 1932	Awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.[191]
	Ebenezer Howard	January 29, 1850 London, England	May 1, 1928 Welwyn Garden City, England	1919, 1920	Nominated by Christen Collin (1857–1926) each time.[192]
	Hugo von Hofmannsthal	February 1, 1874 Vienna, Austria	July 15, 1929 Vienna, Austria	1919, 1924, 1926, 1927	[193]
	Arno Holz	April 26, 1863 Ketrzyn, Poland	October 26, 1929 Berlin, Germany	1919, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929	[194]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1920
	Wilbur Cortez Abbott	28 December 1869 Kokomo, Indiana, United States	3 February 1947 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1920	Nominated by Dana Carleton Munro (1866–1933) the only time[195]
1921
	Jacinto Benavente	12 August 1866 Madrid, Spain	14 July 1954 Madrid, Spain	1921, 1922	Awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature.[196]
	Émile Boutroux	28 July 1845 Montrouge, Seine, France	22 November 1921 Paris, France	1921	Nominated by Harald Hjärne (1848–1922) the one time.[197]
	Jean Revel	22 September 1848 Conteville, Eure, France	4 May 1925 Conteville, Eure, France	1921	[198]
	Stefan Żeromski	14 October 1864 Strawczyn, Kielce, Poland	20 November 1925 Warsaw, Poland	1921, 1922, 1923, 1924	[199]
	Herbert George Wells	21 September 1866 Bromley, London, England	31 August 1946 London, England	1921, 1932, 1935, 1946	[200]
1922
	Sigrid Undset	20 May 1882 Kalundborg, Denmark	10 June 1949 Lillehammer, Norway	1922, 1925, 1926, 1928	Awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature.[201]
	Darrell Figgis	17 September 1882 Dublin, Ireland	27 October 1925 Islington, London, England	1922	Nominated by Thomas Rudmose-Brown (1878–1942) the only time[202]
	Georg von Below	19 January 1858 Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia	20 October 1927 Badenweiler, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	1922	Nominated by Hermann Bächtold (1882–1934) the only time.[203]
	Israel Zangwill	21 January 1864 London, England	1 August 1926 Midhurst, West Sussex, England	1922	Nominated by Adolf Noreen (1854–1925) the only time.[204]
	Michael Sadleir	25 December 1888 Oxford, England	13 December 1957 London, England	1922	Nominated by Nobel Committee the only time[205]
	Matilde Serao	7 March 1856 Patras, Greece	25 July 1927 Naples, Italy	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925	[206]
	Roberto Bracco	10 November 1861 Naples, Italy	2020 April 1943 Sorrento, Naples, Italy	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925	[207]
	Ludwig von Pastor	31 January 1854 Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany	30 September 1928 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929	[208]
	William Ralph Inge	6 June 6, 1860 Crayke, Yorkshire, England	26 February 26, 1954 Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England	1922, 1923, 1929	Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) each time.[209]
	Paul Ernst	7 March 1866 Elbingerode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany	13 May 1933 Sankt Georgen an der Stiefing, Styria, Austria	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933	[210]
1923
	Ivan Bunin	22 October 1870 Voronezh, Russia	8 November 1953 Paris, France	1923, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933	Awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature.[211]
	Konstantin Balmont	15 June 1867 Shuya, Ivanovo, Russia	23 December 1942 Paris, France	1923	Nominated by Romain Rolland (1866–1944) the one time[212]
	Hermann Türck[213]	13 March 1856 Mayovka, Kaliningrad, Russia	30 April 1933 Weimar, Thuringia, Germany	1923, 1924	[214]
	Einar H. Kvaran	6 December 1859 Vallanes, Fljótsdalshérað, Iceland	21 May 1938 Reykjavík, Iceland	1923, 1924	Nominated by Valtýr Guðmundsson (1860–1928) each time.[215]
	Guglielmo Ferrero	21 July 1871 Portici, Naples Italy	3 August 1942 Mont Pèlerin, Vaud, Switzerland	1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1933	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[216]
1924
	Thomas Mann	6 June 1875 Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany	21 August 1955 Zürich, Switzerland	1924, 1928, 1929, 1948	Awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature.[217]
	Max Neuburger	8 December 1868 Vienna, Austria	15 March 1955 Vienna, Austria	1924	Nominated by Adolf Fonahn (1873–1940) the only time.[218]
	Olav Duun	21 November 1876 Namsos, Norway	13 September 1939 Holmestrand, Norway	1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939	[219]
1925[bj]
	Johannes V. Jensen	20 January 1873 Farsø, Vesthimmerland, Denmark	25 November 1950 Copenhagen, Denmark	1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944	Awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature.[220]
	Giovanni Schembari[221]	31 October 1894 Ragusa, Italy	November or December 1959 Hillside, Illinois, United States	1925	Nominated by Achille Loria (1857–1943) the only time[222]
	Paul Elmer More	12 December 1864 St. Louis, Missouri, United States	9 March 1937 Princeton, New Jersey, United States	1925	Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) the only time.[223]
	Paul Raynal	25 July 1885 Narbonne, Aude, France	18 August 1971 Paris, France	1925, 1926	Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) each time.[224]
	Ferenc Herczeg	22 September 1863 Vršac, Vojvodina, Serbia	24 February 1954 Budapest, Hungary	1925, 1926, 1927	[225]
	Rudolf Maria Holzapfel	26 April 1874 Kraków, Poland	8 February 1930 Muri bei Bern, Bern, Switzerland	1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929	[226]
1926[bj]
	Arnold Bennett	27 May 1867 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England	27 March 1931 London, England	1926	Nominated by Gerard De Geer (1858–1943) the only time.[227]
	Pyotr Krasnov	22 September 1869 Saint Petersburg, Russia	16 January 1947 Moscow, Russia	1926	Nominated by Vladimir Andreevich Frantsev (1867–1942) the only time.[228]
	Sofía Casanova	30 September 1861 Culleredo, A Coruña, Spain	16 January 1958 Poznań, Poland	1926	[229]
	Vicente Huidobro	10 January 1893 Santiago, Chile	2 January 1948 Catagena, San Antonio, Chile	1926	Nominated by Enrique Nercasseau Morán (1854–1925) the only time.[230]
	Avetis Aharonian	9 January 1866 Iğdır, Türkiye	20 March 1948 Paris, France	1926	Nominated by Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) the only time.[231]
	Edvard Westermarck	20 November 1862 Helsinki, Finland	3 September 1939 Tenala, Uusimaa, Finland	1926, 1927	[232]
	Ada Negri	3 February 1870 Lodi, Italy	11 January 1945 Milan, Italy	1926, 1927	[233]
	Juan Zorrilla de San Martín	28 December 1855 Montevideo, Uruguay	3 November 1931 Montevideo, Uruguay	1926, 1928	[234]
	Karl Kraus	28 April 1874 Jicin, Czech Republic	12 June 1936 Vienna, Austria	1926, 1928, 1930	[235]
	Georg Bonne	12 August 1859 Hamburg, Germany	1 May 1945 Hamburg, Germany	1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[236]
	J.-H. Rosny aîné	17 February 1856 Brussels, Belgium	11 February 1940 Paris, France	1926, 1928, 1933	[237]
	Josip Kosor	27 January 1879 Drniš, Šibenik-Knin, Croatia	23 January 1961 Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik-Neretva, Croatia	1926, 1927, 1939	[238]
	Kostis Palamas	13 January 1859 Patras, Greece	27 February 1943 Athens, Greece	1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940	[239]
	Johannes Jørgensen	6 November 1866 Svendborg, Denmark	29 May 1956 Svendborg, Denmark	1926, 1932, 1942, 1950	[240]
	Concha Espina de la Serna	15 April 1869 Santander, Cantabria, Spain	19 May 1955 Madrid, Spain	1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1952, 1954	[241]
	Paul Claudel	6 August 1868 Villeneuve-sur-Fère, Aisne, France	23 February 1955 Paris, France	1926, 1937, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1955	[242]
1927[bj]
	Cesare Pascarella	28 April 1858 Rome, Italy	9 May 1940 Rome, Italy	1927	[243]
	Eduard Meyer	25 January 1855 Hamburg, Germany	31 August 1930 Berlin, Germany	1927	Nominated by Georg Wittrock (1876–1957) the only time.[244]
	Samuel Parsons Scott	8 July 1846 Hillsboro, Ohio, United States	30 May 1929 Hillsboro, Ohio, United States	1927	Nominated by Edgar Ewing Brandon (1865–1957) the only time.[245]
	Edith Wharton	24 January 1862 New York, United States	11 August 1937 Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France	1927, 1928, 1930	[246]
	Édouard Estaunié	4 February 1862 Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France	2 April 1942 Paris, France	1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931	Nominated by Erik Staaff (1867–1936) each time.[247]
	Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer	30 December 1878 Budapest, Hungary	12 April 1962 Munich, Bavaria, Germany	1927, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937	[248]
1928
	Armando Palacio Valdés	4 October 1853 Entrialgo, Asturias, Spain	29 January 1938 Madrid, Spain	1928	[249]
	Blanca de los Ríos	15 August 1859 Seville, Spain	13 April 1956 Madrid, Spain	1928	[250]
	Edith Howes	29 August 1872 London, England	9 July 1954 Dunedin, New Zealand	1928	Nominated by Francis Prendeville Wilson (1874–?) the only time.[251]
	Theodor Däubler	17 August 1876 Trieste, Italy	14 June 1934 Sankt Blasien, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	1928	Nominated by Oskar Walzel (1864–1944) the only time.[252]
	Frederik van Eeden	3 April 1860 Haarlem, Netherlands	16 June 1932 Bussum, Netherlands	1928	Nominated by Gerard Brom (1882–1959) the only time.[253]
	Alf Larsen	22 July 1885 Tjøme, Vestfold, Norway	12 December 1967 Tjøme, Vestfold, Norway	1928	Nominated by Alexander Seippel (1851–1938) the only time.[254]
	Anna de Noailles	15 November 1876 Paris, France	30 April 1933 Paris, France	1928	Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) the only time.[255]
	Ivan Grozev	23 June 1872 Sofia, Bulgaria	10 January 1957 London, England	1928, 1929	Nominated by Mikhail Arnaudov (1878–1978) each time.[256]
	Hans Driesch	28 October 1867 Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany	17 April 1941 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany	1928, 1930, 1932	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[257]
	Rudolf Hans Bartsch	11 February 1873 Graz, Styria, Austria	7 February 1952 Graz, Styria, Austria	1928, 1929, 1930, 1933	[258]
	Rufino Blanco Fombona	17 June 1874 Caracas, Venezuela	16 October 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1935	[259]
	Felix Timmermans	5 July 1886 Lier, Antwerp, Belgium	24 January 1947 Lier, Antwerp, Belgium	1928, 1940, 1941	[260]
	Ricarda Huch	18 July 1864 Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany	17 November 1947 Kronberg im Taunus, Hesse, Germany	1928, 1935, 1937, 1946	[261]
1929
	Cale Young Rice	11 December 1872 Dixon, Kentucky, United States	24 January 1943 Louisville, Kentucky, United States	1929	Nominated by Edward Franklin Farquhar (1883–1960) the only time.[262]
	Knud Rasmussen	7 June 1879 Ilulissat, Avannaata, Greenland	21 December 1933 Copenhagen, Denmark	1929	Nominated by William Thalbitzer (1873–1958) the only time.[263]
	Stefan George	12 July 1868 Bingen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany	4 December 1933 Minusio, Ticino, Switzerland	1929, 1931	[264]
	Edwin Arlington Robinson	22 December 1869 Head Tide, Maine, United States	6 April 1935 New York, United States	1929, 1930, 1932, 1934	Nominated by Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) each time.[265]
	Benedetto Croce	25 February 1866 Pescasseroli, L'Aquila, Italy	20 November 1952 Naples, Italy	1929, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952	[266]
	Thornton Wilder	1897 April 1897 Madison, Wisconsin, United States	7 December 1975 Hamden, Connecticut, United States	1929, 1949, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	[267]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1930
	Sinclair Lewis	7 February 1885 Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States	10 January 1951 Rome, Italy	1930	Nominated by Henrik Schück (1855–1947) the only time and awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature.[268]
	Frans Eemil Sillanpää	16 September 1888 Hämeenkyrö, Pirkanmaa, Finland	3 June 1964 Helsinki, Finland	1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939	Awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature.[269]
	Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo	September 19, 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela	20 June 1959 Caracas, Venezuela	1930	Nominated by Manuel María Villalobos (1858–1929) the only time.[270]
	Manfred Kyber	1 March 1880 Riga, Latvia	10 March 1933 Löwenstein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	1930	[271]
	Arvid Järnefelt	16 November 1861 Saint Petersburg, Russia	27 December 1932 Helsinki, Finland	1930	Nominated by Oiva Tuulio (1878–1941) the only time.[272]
	Yrjö Hirn	7 December 1870 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland	23 February 1952 Helsinki, Finland	1930	Nominated by Olaf Homén (1879–1949) the only time.[273]
	Theodore Dreiser	27 August 1871 Terre Haute, Indiana, United States	28 December 1945 Hollywood, California, United States	1930	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) the only time.[274]
	Edgar Lee Masters	23 August 1868 Garnett, Kansas, United States	5 March 1950 Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, United States	1930	Nominated by Martin Lamm (1880–1950) the only time.[275]
	Nathanael Jünger	23 October 1871 Hamburg, Germany	29 September 1941 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany	1930, 1931	Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) each time.[276]
	Anton Wildgans	17 April 1881 Vienna, Austria	3 May 1932 Mödling, Lower Austria, Austria	1930, 1931, 1932	[277]
	Paul Valéry	30 October 1871 Sète, Hérault, France	20 July 1945 Paris, France	1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945	[278]
	Lion Feuchtwanger	7 July 1884 Munich, Bavaria, Germany	21 December 1958 Los Angeles, California, United States	1930, 1955, 1956, 1957	[279]
	Rudolf Kassner	11 September 1873 Velké Pavlovice, Břeclav, Czech Republic	1 April 1959 Sierre, Valais, Switzerland	1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1959	[280][281]
1931
	Hermann Hesse	2 July 1877 Calw, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	9 August 1962 Collina d'Oro, Ticino, Switzerland	1931, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1946	Awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature.[282]
	Laura Mestre Hevia	6 April 1867 Havana, Cuba	11 January 1944 Havana, Cuba	1931	Nominated by Juan Miguel Dihigo Mestre (1866–1952) the only time.[283]
	Francis Jammes	2 December 1868 Tournay, Hautes-Pyrénées, France	1 November 1938 Hasparren, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France	1931	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) the only time.[284]
	Ole Edvart Rølvaag	22 April 1876 Dønna, Nordland, Norway	5 November 1931 Northfield, Minnesota, United States	1931	Nominated by Laurence M. Larson (1868–1938) the only time.[285]
	Erich Maria Remarque	22 June 1898 Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany	25 September 1970 Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland	1931	Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[286]
	Ivan Shmelyov	3 October 1873 Moscow, Russia	24 June 1950 Paris, France	1931, 1932	[287]
	Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić	18 April 1874 Ogulin, Karlovac, Croatia	21 September 1938 Zagreb, Croatia	1931, 1935, 1937, 1938	[288]
	Ramón Pérez de Ayala	9 August 1880 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain	5 August 1962 Madrid, Spain	1931, 1934, 1947	[289]
	Martin Andersen Nexø	26 June 1869 Christianshavn, Copenhagen, Denmark	1 June 1954 Dresden, Saxony, Germany	1931, 1950	[290]
	Ramón Menéndez Pidal	13 March 1869 A Coruña, Spain	14 November 1968 Madrid, Spain	1931, 1932, 1934, 1938, 1939, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968	Menéndez Pidal earns the highest record as the most nominated person for the Nobel Prize in Literature but never won the prize. He was nominated 151 times.[291]
1932
	Michael Blümelhuber	23 September 1865 Unterhimmel-Christkindl, Upper Austria, Austria	29 January 1936 Steyr, Austria	1932	Nominated by Oswald Redlich (1858–1944) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[292]
	Francesco Orestano	14 April 1873 Alia, Palermo, Italy	20 August 1945 Rome, Italy	1932	Nominated by Pietro Bonfante (1864–1932) the only time.[293]
	Axel Munthe	31 October 1857 Oskarshamn, Kalmar, Sweden	11 February 1949 Stockholm, Sweden	1932	Nominated by Rolf Lagerborg (1874–1959) the only time.[294]
	Percival Elgood	3 July 1863 Marlborough, Wiltshire, England	20 December 1941 Cairo, Egypt	1932	Nominated by Arthur James Grant (1862–1948) the only time.[295]
	Grigol Robakidze	28 October 1880 Sviri, Imereti, Georgia	19 November 1962 Geneva, Switzerland	1932	Nominated by Richard Meckelein (1880–1948) the only time.[296]
	Karel Čapek	9 January 1890 Malé Svatoňovice, Trutnov, Czech Republic	25 December 1938 Prague, Czech Republic	1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938	[297]
	Vilhelm Ekelund	14 October 1880 Stehag, Eslöv, Sweden	3 September 1949 Saltsjöbaden, Nacka, Sweden	1932, 1941	[298]
	Manuel Gálvez	6 May 1882 Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina	14 November 1962 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1932, 1933, 1934, 1951, 1952	[299]
	Upton Sinclair	20 September 1878 Baltimore, Maryland, United States	25 November 1968 Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States	1932, 1933, 1934, 1965	[300]
1933
	Henrique Coelho Neto	21 February 1864 Caxias, Maranhão, Brazil	28 November 1934 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1933	[301]
	Max Beerbohm	24 August 1872 London, England	20 May 1956 Rapallo, Genoa, Italy	1933	Nominated by Tancred Borenius (1885–1948) the only time.[302]
	Hayim Nahman Bialik	9 January 1873 Zhytomyr, Ukraine	4 July 1934 Vienna, Austria	1933, 1934	Nominated by Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) each time.[303]
	Ernest Roguin	27 May 1851 Yverdon-les-Bains, Vaud, Switzerland	5 May 1939 Lausanne, Switzerland	1933, 1934	Nominated by Edmond Rossier (1865–1945) each time.[304]
	Joseph Bédier	28 January 1864 Paris, France	29 August 1938 Le Grand-Serre, Drôme, France	1933, 1934	Nominated by Henrik Schück (1855–1947) each time.[305]
	Hermann Stehr	16 February 1864 Bystrzyca Klodzka, Kłodzko, Poland	11 September 1940 Szklarska Poręba, Karkonosze, Poland	1933, 1934, 1935, 1936	[306]
	António Correia de Oliveira	30 July 1878 São Pedro do Sul, Viseu, Portugal	20 February 1960 Esposende, Braga, Portugal	1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942	[307]
	Carlos María Ocantos	24 August 1860 Buenos Aires, Argentina	29 March 1949 Madrid, Spain	1933, 1943	[308]
	José Ortega y Gasset	9 May 1883 Madrid, Spain	18 October 1955 Madrid, Spain	1933, 1951	[309]
	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	5 September 1888 Thiruttani, Tamil Nadu, India	17 April 1975 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India	1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963	2nd President of India (1962 – 1967). Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[310]
1934
	Luigi Pirandello	28 June 1867 Agrigento, Italy	10 December 1936 Rome, Italy	1934	Nominated by Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) the only time and awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature.[311]
	Eugene O’Neill	16 October 1888 New York, United States	27 November 1953 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1934, 1935, 1936	Awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1937.[312]
	Roger Martin du Gard	23 March 1881 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France	22 August 1958 Belforêt-en-Perche, Orne, France	1934, 1935, 1936, 1937	Awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.[313]
	Francisco García Calderón Rey	8 April 1883 Valparaíso, Chile	1 July 1953 Lima, Peru	1934	[314]
	Ventura García Calderón	23 February 1886 Paris, France	27 October 1959 Paris, France	1934	[315]
	Ole Hallesby	5 August 1879 Aremark, Østfold, Norway	11 November 1961 Oslo, Norway	1934	Nominated jointly by Olai Skulerud (1881–1963) the only time.[316][317]
	Ewald Sundberg	8 October 1886 Kristiansand, Norway	12 April 1967 Kristiansand Norway	1934
	Hans Henrik Holm	18 January 1896 Oslo, Norway	27 September 1980 Oslo, Norway	1934	Nominated by Alexander Seippel (1851–1938) the only time.[318]
	Franz Karl Ginzkey	8 September 1871 Pula, Istria, Croatia	11 April 1963 Vienna, Austria	1934, 1935	[319]
	Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński	14 September 1859 Uman, Cherkasy, Ukraine	8 May 1944 Schondorf, Bavaria, Germany	1934, 1935	[320]
	Jarl Hemmer	18 September 1893 Vaasa, Finland	6 December 1944 Porvoo, Finland	1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939	[321]
	Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício	19 April 1884 Lisbon, Portugal	3 November 1947 Lisbon, Portugal	1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947	[322]
	Jean Schlumberger	26 May 1877 Guebwiller, Haut-Rhin, France	25 October 1968 Paris, France	1934, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1964	[323]
1935[bi]
	James Cousins	22 July 1873 Belfast, Northern Ireland	20 February 1956 Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India	1935	Nominated by Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) the only time.[324]
	Sven Erik Lönborg	15 March 1871 Motala, Östergötland, Sweden	11 April 1959 Uppsala, Sweden	1935	Nominated by Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) the only time.[325]
	Émile Mâle	2 June 1862 Commentry, Allier, France	6 October 1954 Fontaine-Chaalis, Oise, France	1935	Nominated by Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) the only time.[326]
	Guðmundur Kamban	8 June 1888 Reykjavík, Iceland	5 May 1945 Copenhagen, Denmark	1935	Nominated by Bengt Hesselman (1875–1952) the only time.[327]
	Violet Clifton	2 November 1883 Rome, Italy	20 November 1961 Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England	1935	Nominated by Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) the only time.[328]
	Elise Richter	2 March 1865 Vienna, Austria	23 June 1943 Terezín, Litoměřice, Czech Republic	1935	[329]
	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	29 May 1874 Kensington, London, England	14 June 1936 Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England	1935	Nominated by Torsten Fogelqvist (1880–1941) the only time.[330]
	Dezső Szabó	10 June 1879 Cluj-Napoca, Romania	13 January 1945 Budapest, Hungary	1935	Nominated by Björn Collinder (1894–1983) the only time.[331]
	Víctor Manuel Rendón	5 December 1859 Guayaquil, Ecuador	9 October 1940 Guayaquil, Ecuador	1935	Nominated by Celiano Monge Navarrete (1856–1940) the only time.[332]
	Edvarts Virza	27 December 1883 Jelgava, Latvia	1 March 1940 Riga, Latvia	1935, 1936	[333]
	Miguel de Unamuno	29 September 1864 Bilbao, Biscay, Spain	31 December 1936 Salamanca, Spain	1935, 1936	[334]
	Shaul Tchernichovsky	20 August 1875 Kiev, Ukraine	14 October 1943 Jerusalem, Israel	1935, 1937	Nominated by Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) each time.[335]
	John Masefield	1 June 1878 Ledbury, Herefordshire, England	12 May 1967 Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England	1935, 1937	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) each time.[336]
	Jules Romains	26 August 1885 Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, Haute-Loire, France	14 August 1972 Paris, France	1935, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1963, 1966	[337]
1936[bj]
	Asis Domet	25 June 1890 Cairo, Egypt	27 June 1943 Berlin, Germany	1936	Nominated by G. E. Khoury (?) the only time.[338]
	Hari Mohan Banerjee	—	September 3, 1960 Kolkata, West Bengal, India	1936	Nominated by Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar (1875–1950) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[339]
	Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti	10 January 1871 Vienna, Austria	8 April 1955 Linz, Upper Austria, Austria	1936	[340]
	Sigmund Freud	6 May 1856 Příbor, Nový Jičín, Czech Republic	23 September 1939 Hampstead, London, England	1936	Nominated by Romain Rolland (1866–1944) the only time and nominated for Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine too.[341]
	Alfred Edward Evershed	22 April 1870 Littlehampton, Sussex, England	31 May 1941 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	1936	Nominated by Elias Edward Miller (1878–1937) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[342]
	Ludwig Klages	10 December 1872 Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany	29 July 1956 Kilchberg, Zürich, Switzerland	1936, 1937	Nominated by Wilhelm Pinder (1878–1947) each time.[343]
	Cécile Tormay	8 October 1875 Budapest, Hungary	2 April 1937 Gyöngyös, Heves, Hungary	1936, 1937	[344]
	Hans Fallada	21 July 1893 Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany	5 February 1947 Berlin, Germany	1936, 1939	[345]
	Arvid Mörne	6 May 1876 Kuopio, Finland	15 June 1946 Kauniainen, Espoo, Finland	1936, 1945, 1946	[346]
	Georges Duhamel	30 June 1884 Paris, France	13 April 1966 Valmondois, Val-d'Oise, France	1936, 1937, 1940, 1942, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1961	[347]
1937
	Maurice Magre	2 March 1877 Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France	11 December 1941 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France	1937	[348]
	Jules Payot	10 April 1859 Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France	30 January 1940 Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France	1937	Nominated by Alfred Baudrillart (1859–1942) the only time.[349]
	Arnold Schering	2 April 1877 Wrocław, Poland	7 March 1941 Berlin, Germany	1937	Nominated by Ilmari Krohn (1867–1960) the only time.[350]
	Maria Jotuni	9 April 1880 Kuopio, Finland	30 September 1943 Helsinki, Finland	1937	Nominated by Viljo Tarkiainen (1879–1951) the only time.[351]
	Albert Verwey	15 May 1865 Amsterdam, Netherlands	8 March 1937 Noordwijk, Netherlands	1937	Died before the only chance to be rewarded.[352]
	William Burchell Bashyr-Pickard	31 July 1889 London, England	25 January 1973 Hertford, Hertfordshire, England	1937	Nominated by Arthur Bernard Cook (1868–1952) the only time.[353]
	Valdemar Rørdam	23 September 1872 Fakse, Zealand, Denmark	13 July 1946 Holbæk, Denmark	1937, 1938	[354]
	Bijay Chandra Majumdar	27 October 1861 Khanakul, Faridpur, Bangladesh	30 December 1942 Kolkata, West Bengal, India	1937, 1939	[355]
	Sally Salminen	25 April 1906 Vårdö, Åland, Finland	18 July 1976 Copenhagen, Denmark	1937, 1938, 1939	[356]
	Maila Talvio	17 October 1871 Hartola, Finland	6 January 1951 Helsinki, Finland	1937, 1939, 1947	[357]
	René Béhaine	17 June 1880 Vervins, Aisne, France	2 January 1966 Villefranche-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France	1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1944 1948, 1965	[358]
	Johan Falkberget	30 September 1879 Røros, Norway	5 April 1967 Røros, Norway	1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965	[359]
	Stijn Streuvels	3 October 1871 Heule, Kortrijk, Belgium	15 August 1969 Anzegem, Belgium	1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1969	[360]
	Jean Giono	30 March 1895 Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France	9 October 1970 Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France	1937, 1952, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969	[361]
1938
	Pearl Buck	26 June 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States	6 March 1973 Danby, Vermont, United States	1938	Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature.[362]
	Robert Ritchie Racey	3 May 1873 Québec City, Canada	15 September 1956 Paris, Ontario, Canada	1938	Nominated by Arthur Leonard Phelps (1887–1970) the only time.[363]
	Mohammad Khan (prob. Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938))	—	—	1938	Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time.[364]
	Margaret Mitchell	8 November 1900 Atlanta, Georgia, United States	16 August 1949 Atlanta, Georgia, United States	1938	Nominated by Sven Hedin (1865–1952) the only time.[365]
	Arthur van Schendel	5 March 1874 Jakarta, Indonesia	11 September 1946 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1938	[366]
	Veikko Antero Koskenniemi	8 July 1885 Oulu, Finland	4 August 1962 Turku, Finland	1938	Nominated by Aapeli Saarisalo (1896–1986) the only time.[367]
	Sanjib Chaudhuri	—	—	1938, 1939	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[368]
	Mark Aldanov	7 November 1886 Kiev, Ukraine	24 February 1957 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France	1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957	[369]
	Henriette Charasson	13 February 1884 Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France	29 May 1972 Châteauroux, Indre, France	1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945,[bm] 1947, 1949, 1954, 1957	[370]
	Herman Teirlinck	24 February 1879 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels, Belgium	4 February 1967 Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium	1938, 1954, 1957, 1960	[371]
	Aldous Huxley	26 July 1894 Godalming, Surrey, England	22 November 1963 Los Angeles, California, United States	1938, 1939, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963	[372]
1939
	Flávio de Carvalho	10 August 1899 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	4 June 1973 São Paulo, Brazil	1939	Nominated by Paul Vanorden Shaw (1898–1970) the only time.[373]
	Egidio Poblete Escudero	7 November 1868 Los Andes, Chile	18 October 1940 Valparaíso, Chile	1939	Nominated by Miguel Luís Amunátegui Reyes (1862–1949) the only time.[374]
	Ethel Florence Richardson	3 January 1870 East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	20 March 1946 Hastings, East Sussex, England	1939	Nominated by Sten Bodvar Liljegren (1885–1984) the only time.[375]
	Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel	6 November 1870 Liverpool, England	5 February 1963 London, England	1939	Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time.[376]
	Hugh Walpole	13 March 1884 Auckland, New Zealand	1 June 1941 Keswick, Cumbria, England	1939	Nominated by Sten Bodvar Liljegren (1885–1984) the only time.[377]
	Johan Huizinga	7 December 1872 Groningen, Netherlands	1 February 1945 De Steeg, Rheden, Netherlands	1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1953, 1944, 1945	[378]
	Henriette Roland Holst	24 December 1869 Noordwijk, South Holland, Netherlands	21 November 1952 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1939, 1950, 1952	[379][380]
	Eugène Baie	3 August 1874 Anderlecht, Belgium	10 September 1964 Anderlecht, Belgium	1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956	[381]
	Hu Shih	17 December 1891 Shanghai, China	24 February 1962 Taipei, Taiwan	1939, 1957	[382]
	Maria Dąbrowska	6 October 1889 Russów, Kalisz, Poland	19 May 1965 Warsaw, Poland	1939, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965	[383]