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 854 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 854 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, 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, Jack Kerouac, Nancy Mitford 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	December 28, 1869 Kokomo, Indiana, United States	February 3, 1947 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1920	Nominated by Dana Carleton Munro (1866–1933) the only time[195]
1921
	Jacinto Benavente	August 12, 1866 Madrid, Spain	July 14, 1954 Madrid, Spain	1921, 1922	Awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature.[196]
	Émile Boutroux	July 28, 1845 Montrouge, France	November 22, 1921 Paris, France	1921	Nominated by Harald Hjärne (1848–1922) the one time.[197]
	Jean Revel	September 22, 1848 Conteville, France	May 4, 1925 Conteville, France	1921	[198]
	Stefan Żeromski	October 14, 1864 Strawczyn, Poland	November 20, 1925 Warsaw, Poland	1921, 1922, 1923, 1924	[199]
	Herbert George Wells	September 21, 1866 London, England	August 31, 1946 London, England	1921, 1932, 1935, 1946	[200]
1922
	Sigrid Undset	May 20, 1882 Kalundborg, Denmark	June 10, 1949 Lillehammer, Norway	1922, 1925, 1926, 1928	Awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature.[201]
	Darrell Figgis	September 17, 1882 Dublin, Ireland	October 27, 1925 London, England	1922	Nominated by Thomas Rudmose-Brown (1878–1942) the only time[202]
	Georg von Below	January 19, 1858 Gusev, Russia	October 20, 1927 Badenweiler, Germany	1922	Nominated by Hermann Bächtold (1882–1934) the only time.[203]
	Israel Zangwill	January 21, 1864 London, England	August 1, 1926 Midhurst, England	1922	Nominated by Adolf Noreen (1854–1925) the only time.[204]
	Michael Sadleir	December 25, 1888 Oxford, England	December 13, 1957 London, England	1922	Nominated by Nobel Committee the only time[205]
	Matilde Serao	March 7, 1856 Patras, Greece	July 25, 1927 Naples, Italy	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925	[206]
	Roberto Bracco	November 10, 1861 Naples, Italy	April 20, 1943 Sorrento, Italy	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925	[207]
	Ludwig von Pastor	January 31, 1854 Aachen, Germany	September 30, 1928 Innsbruck, Austria	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929	[208]
	William Inge	June 6, 1860 Crayke, England	February 26, 1954 Wallingford, England	1922, 1923, 1929	Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) each time.[209]
	Paul Ernst	March 7, 1866 Elbingerode, Germany	May 13, 1933 Sankt Georgen an der Stiefing, Austria	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933	[210]
1923
	Ivan Bunin	October 22, 1870 Voronezh, Russia	November 8, 1953 Paris, France	1923, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933	Awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature.[211]
	Konstantin Balmont	June 15, 1867 Shuya, Russia	December 23, 1942 Paris, France	1923	Nominated by Romain Rolland (1866–1944) the one time[212]
	Hermann Türck[213]	March 13, 1856 Georgenburg, now Russia	April 30, 1933 Weimar, Germany	1923, 1924	[214]
	Einar H. Kvaran	December 6, 1859 Vallanes, Iceland	May 21, 1938 Reykjavík, Iceland	1923, 1924	Nominated by Valtýr Guðmundsson (1860–1928) each time.[215]
	Guglielmo Ferrero	July 21, 1871 Portici, Italy	August 3, 1942 Chardonne, Switzerland	1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1933	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[216]
1924
	Thomas Mann	June 6, 1875 Lübeck, Germany	August 21, 1955 Zürich, Switzerland	1924, 1928, 1929, 1948	Awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature.[217]
	Max Neuburger	December 8, 1868 Vienna, Austria	March 15, 1955 Vienna, Austria	1924	Nominated by Adolf Fonahn (1873–1940) the only time.[218]
	Olav Duun	November 21, 1876 Namsos, Norway	September 13, 1939 Holmestrand, Norway	1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939	[219]
1925[bj]
	Johannes V. Jensen	January 20, 1873 Farsø, Denmark	November 25, 1950 Østerbro, 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, Sicily, Italy	November 1959 Hillside, Illinois, United States	1925	Nominated by Achille Loria (1857–1943) the only time[222]
	Paul Elmer More	December 12, 1864 Missouri, United States	March 9, 1937 New Jersey, United States	1925	Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) the only time.[223]
	Paul Raynal	July 25, 1885 Narbonne, France	August 18, 1971 Paris, France	1925, 1926	Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) each time.[224]
	Ferenc Herczeg	September 22, 1863 Vršac, Serbia	February 24, 1954 Budapest, Hungary	1925, 1926, 1927	[225]
	Rudolf Maria Holzapfel	April 26, 1874 Kraków, Poland	February 8, 1930 Muri bei Bern, Switzerland	1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929	[226]
1926[bj]
	Arnold Bennett	May 27, 1867 Stoke-on-Trent, England	March 27, 1931 London, England	1926	Nominated by Gerard De Geer (1858–1943) the only time.[227]
	Pyotr Krasnov	September 22, 1869 Saint Petersburg, Russia	January 16, 1947 Moscow, Russia	1926	Nominated by Vladimir Andreevich Frantsev (1867–1942) the only time.[228]
	Sofía Casanova	September 30, 1861 A Coruña, Spain	January 16, 1958 Poznań, Poland	1926	[229]
	Vicente Huidobro	January 10, 1893 Santiago, Chile	January 2, 1948 Cartagena, Chile	1926	Nominated by Enrique Nercasseau Morán (1854–1925) the only time.[230]
	Avetis Aharonian	January 9, 1866 Iğdır, Turkey	March 20, 1948 Paris, France	1926	Nominated by Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) the only time.[231]
	Edvard Westermarck	November 20, 1862 Helsinki, Finland	September 3, 1939 Tenala, Finland	1926, 1927	[232]
	Ada Negri	February 3, 1870 Lodi, Italy	January 11, 1945 Milan, Italy	1926, 1927	[233]
	Juan Zorrilla de San Martín	December 28, 1855 Montevideo, Uruguay	November 3, 1931 Montevideo, Uruguay	1926, 1928	[234]
	Karl Kraus	April 28, 1874 Jicin, Czechia	June 12, 1936 Vienna, Austria	1926, 1928, 1930	[235]
	Georg Bonne	August 12, 1859 Hamburg, Germany	May 1, 1945 Hamburg, Germany	1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[236]
	J.-H. Rosny aîné	February 17, 1856 Brussels, Belgium	February 11, 1940 Paris, France	1926, 1928, 1933	[237]
	Josip Kosor	January 27, 1879 Drniš, Croatia	January 23, 1961 Dubrovnik, Croatia	1926, 1927, 1939	[238]
	Kostis Palamas	January 13, 1859 Patras, Greece	February 27, 1943 Athens, Greece	1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940	[239]
	Johannes Jørgensen	November 6, 1866 Svendborg, Denmark	May 29, 1956 Svendborg, Denmark	1926, 1932, 1942, 1950	[240]
	Concha Espina	April 15, 1869 Santander, Spain	May 19, 1955 Madrid, Spain	1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1952, 1954	[241]
	Paul Claudel	August 6, 1868 Villeneuve-sur-Fère, France	February 23, 1955 Paris, France	1926, 1937, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1955	[242]
1927[bj]
	Cesare Pascarella	April 28, 1858 Rome, Italy	May 8, 1940 Rome, Italy	1927	[243]
	Eduard Meyer	January 25, 1855 Hamburg, Germany	August 31, 1930 Berlin, Germany	1927	Nominated by Georg Wittrock (1876–1957) the only time.[244]
	Samuel Parsons Scott	July 8, 1846 Ohio, United States	May 30, 1929 Ohio, United States	1927	Nominated by Edgar Ewing Brandon (1865–1957) the only time.[245]
	Edith Wharton	January 24, 1862 New York, United States	August 11, 1937 Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France	1927, 1928, 1930	[246]
	Édouard Estaunié	February 4, 1862 Dijon, France	April 2, 1942 Paris, France	1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931	Nominated by Erik Staaff (1867–1936) each time.[247]
	Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer	December 30, 1878 Budapest, Hungary	April 12, 1962 Munich, Germany	1927, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937	[248]
1928
	Armando Palacio Valdés	October 4, 1853 Entrialgo, Spain	January 29, 1938 Madrid, Spain	1928	[249]
	Blanca de los Ríos	August 15, 1859 Seville, Spain	April 13, 1956 Madrid, Spain	1928	[250]
	Edith Howes	August 29, 1872 London, England	July 9, 1954 Dunedin, New Zealand	1928	Nominated by Francis Prendeville Wilson (1874–?) the only time.[251]
	Theodor Däubler	August 17, 1876 Trieste, Italy	June 14, 1934 Sankt Blasien, Germany	1928	Nominated by Oskar Walzel (1864–1944) the only time.[252]
	Frederik van Eeden	April 3, 1860 Haarlem, Netherlands	June 16, 1932 Bussum, Netherlands	1928	Nominated by Gerard Brom (1882–1959) the only time.[253]
	Alf Larsen	July 22, 1885 Tjøme, Norway	December 12, 1967 Tjøme, Norway	1928	Nominated by Alexander Seippel (1851–1938) the only time.[254]
	Anna de Noailles	November 15, 1876 Paris, France	April 30, 1933 Paris, France	1928	Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) the only time.[255]
	Ivan Grozev	June 23, 1872 Sofia, Bulgaria	January 10, 1957 London, England	1928, 1929	Nominated by Mikhail Arnaudov (1878–1978) each time.[256]
	Hans Driesch	October 28, 1867 Bad Kreuznach, Germany	April 17, 1941 Leipzig, Germany	1928, 1930, 1932	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[257]
	Rudolf Hans Bartsch	February 11, 1873 Graz, Austria	February 7, 1952 Graz, Austria	1928, 1929, 1930, 1933	[258]
	Rufino Blanco Fombona	June 17, 1874 Caracas, Venezuela	October 16, 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1935	[259]
	Felix Timmermans	July 5, 1886 Lier, Belgium	January 24, 1947 Lier, Belgium	1928, 1940, 1941	[260]
	Ricarda Huch	July 18, 1864 Braunschweig, Germany	November 17, 1947 Kronberg, Germany	1928, 1935, 1937, 1946	[261]
1929
	Cale Young Rice	December 11, 1872 Kentucky, United States	January 24, 1943 Kentucky, United States	1929	Nominated by Edward Franklin Farquhar (1883–1960) the only time.[262]
	Knud Rasmussen	June 7, 1879 Ilulissat, Greenland	December 21, 1933 Copenhagen, Denmark	1929	Nominated by William Thalbitzer (1873–1958) the only time.[263]
	Stefan George	July 12, 1868 Büdesheim, Germany	December 4, 1933 Minusio, Switzerland	1929, 1931	[264]
	Edwin Arlington Robinson	December 22, 1869 Maine, United States	April 6, 1935 New York, United States	1929, 1930, 1932, 1934	Nominated by Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) each time.[265]
	Benedetto Croce	February 25, 1866 Pescasseroli, Italy	November 20, 1952 Naples, Italy	1929, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952	[266]
	Thornton Wilder	April 17, 1897 Wisconsin, United States	December 7, 1975 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	February 7, 1885 Minnesota, United States	January 10, 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	September 16, 1888 Hämeenkyrö, Finland	June 3, 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	(?) 1959 Caracas, Venezuela	1930	Nominated by Manuel María Villalobos (1858–1929) the only time.[270]
	Manfred Kyber	March 1, 1880 Riga, Latvia	March 10, 1933 Löwenstein, Germany	1930	[271]
	Arvid Järnefelt	November 16, 1861 Saint Petersburg, Russia	December 27, 1932 Helsinki, Finland	1930	Nominated by Oiva Tuulio (1878–1941) the only time.[272]
	Yrjö Hirn	December 7, 1870 Lappeenranta, Finland	February 23, 1952 Helsinki, Finland	1930	Nominated by Olaf Homén (1879–1949) the only time.[273]
	Theodore Dreiser	August 27, 1871 Indiana, United States	December 28, 1945 California, United States	1930	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) the only time.[274]
	Edgar Lee Masters	August 23, 1868 Kansas, United States	March 5, 1950 Pennsylvania, United States	1930	Nominated by Martin Lamm (1880–1950) the only time.[275]
	Nathanael Jünger	October 23, 1871 Hamburg, Germany	September 29, 1941 Potsdam, Germany	1930, 1931	Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) each time.[276]
	Anton Wildgans	April 17, 1881 Vienna, Austria	May 3, 1932 Mödling, Austria	1930, 1931, 1932	[277]
	Paul Valéry	October 30, 1871 Sète, France	July 20, 1945 Paris, France	1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945	[278]
	Lion Feuchtwanger	July 7, 1884 Munich, Germany	December 21, 1958 California, United States	1930, 1955, 1956, 1957	[279]
	Rudolf Kassner	September 11, 1873 Velké Pavlovice, Czechia	April 1, 1959 Sierre, Switzerland	1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1959	[280][281]
1931
	Hermann Hesse	July 2, 1877 Calw, Germany	August 9, 1962 Collina d’Oro, Switzerland	1931, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1946	Awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature.[282]
	Laura Mestre Hevia	April 6, 1867 Havana, Cuba	January 11, 1944 Havana, Cuba	1931	Nominated by Juan Miguel Dihigo Mestre (1866–1952) the only time.[283]
	Francis Jammes	December 2, 1868 Tournay, France	November 1, 1938 Hasparren, France	1931	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) the only time.[284]
	Ole Edvart Rølvaag	April 22, 1876 Dønna, Norway	November 5, 1931 Minnesota, United States	1931	Nominated by Laurence M. Larson (1868–1938) the only time.[285]
	Erich Maria Remarque	June 22, 1898 Osnabrück, Germany	September 25, 1970 Locarno, Switzerland	1931	Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[286]
	Ivan Shmelyov	October 3, 1873 Moscow, Russia	June 24, 1950 Paris, France	1931, 1932	[287]
	Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić	April 18, 1874 Ogulin, Croatia	September 21, 1938 Zagreb, Croatia	1931, 1935, 1937, 1938	[288]
	Ramón Pérez de Ayala	August 9, 1880 Oviedo, Spain	August 5, 1962 Madrid, Spain	1931, 1934, 1947	[289]
	Martin Andersen Nexø	June 26, 1869 Christianshavn, Denmark	June 1, 1954 Dresden, Germany	1931, 1950	[290]
	Ramón Menéndez Pidal	March 13, 1869 A Coruña, Spain	November 14, 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	September 23, 1865 Christkindl, Austria	January 29, 1936 Steyr, Austria	1932	Nominated by Oswald Redlich (1858–1944) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[292]
	Francesco Orestano	April 14, 1873 Alia, Italy	August 20, 1945 Rome, Italy	1932	Nominated by Pietro Bonfante (1864–1932) the only time.[293]
	Axel Munthe	October 31, 1857 Oskarshamn, Sweden	February 11, 1949 Stockholm, Sweden	1932	Nominated by Rolf Lagerborg (1874–1959) the only time.[294]
	Percival Elgood	July 3, 1863 Marlborough, England	December 20, 1941 Cairo, Egypt	1932	Nominated by Arthur James Grant (1862–1948) the only time.[295]
	Grigol Robakidze	October 28, 1880 Imereti, Georgia	November 19, 1962 Geneva, Switzerland	1932	Nominated by Richard Meckelein (1880–1948) the only time.[296]
	Karel Čapek	January 9, 1890 Malé Svatoňovice, Czechia	December 25, 1938 Prague, Czechia	1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938	[297]
	Vilhelm Ekelund	October 14, 1880 Scania, Sweden	September 3, 1949 Saltsjöbaden, Sweden	1932, 1941	[298]
	Manuel Gálvez	May 6, 1882 Parana, Argentina	November 14, 1962 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1932, 1933, 1934, 1951, 1952	[299]
	Upton Sinclair	September 20, 1878 Maryland, United States	November 25, 1968 New Jersey, United States	1932, 1933, 1934, 1965	[300]
1933
	Henrique Coelho Neto	February 21, 1864 Maranhão, Brazil	November 28, 1934 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1933	[301]
	Max Beerbohm	August 24, 1872 London, England	May 20, 1956 Rapallo, Italy	1933	Nominated by Tancred Borenius (1885–1948) the only time.[302]
	Hayim Nahman Bialik	January 9, 1873 Volhynia, Russia	July 4, 1934 Vienna, Austria	1933, 1934	Nominated by Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) each time.[303]
	Ernest Roguin	May 27, 1851 Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland	May 5, 1939 Lausanne, Switzerland	1933, 1934	Nominated by Edmond Rossier (1865–1945) each time.[304]
	Joseph Bédier	January 28, 1864 Paris, France	August 29, 1938 Le Grand-Serre, France	1933, 1934	Nominated by Henrik Schück (1855–1947) each time.[305]
	Hermann Stehr	February 16, 1864 Bystrzyca Klodzka, Poland	September 11, 1940 Szklarska Poręba, Poland	1933, 1934, 1935, 1936	[306]
	António Correia de Oliveira	July 30, 1878 São Pedro do Sul, Portugal	February 20, 1960 Esposende, Portugal	1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942	[307]
	Carlos María Ocantos	August 24, 1860 Buenos Aires, Argentina	March 29, 1949 Madrid, Spain	1933, 1943	[308]
	José Ortega y Gasset	May 9, 1883 Madrid, Spain	October 18, 1955 Madrid, Spain	1933, 1951	[309]
	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	September 5, 1888 Thiruttani, India	April 17, 1975 Chennai, 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	June 28, 1867 Agrigento, Italy	December 10, 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	October 16, 1888 New York, United States	November 27, 1953 Massachusetts, United States	1934, 1935, 1936	Awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1937.[312]
	Roger Martin du Gard	March 23, 1881 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France	August 22, 1958 Belforêt-en-Perche, France	1934, 1935, 1936, 1937	Awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.[313]
	Francisco García Calderón Rey	April 8, 1883 Valparaíso, Chile	July 1, 1953 Lima, Peru	1934	[314]
	Ventura García Calderón	February 23, 1886 Paris, France	October 27, 1959 Paris, France	1934	[315]
	Ole Hallesby	August 5, 1879 Aremark, Norway	November 22, 1961 Oslo, Norway	1934	Nominated jointly by Olai Skulerud (1881–1963) the only time.[316][317]
	Ewald Magnus Engebrethsen Sundberg	October 8, 1886 Kristiansand, Norway	April 1967 Norway	1934
	Hans Henrik Holm	January 18, 1896 Oslo, Norway	September 27, 1980 Oslo, Norway	1934	Nominated by Alexander Seippel (1851–1938) the only time.[318]
	Franz Karl Ginzkey	September 8, 1871 Pula, Croatia	April 11, 1963 Vienna, Austria	1934, 1935	[319]
	Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński	September 14, 1859 Kiev, Ukraine	May 8, 1944 Schondorf, Germany	1934, 1935	[320]
	Jarl Hemmer	September 18, 1893 Vaasa, Finland	December 6, 1944 Porvoo, Finland	1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939	[321]
	Maria Madalena Valdez Trigueiros de Martel Patrício	April 19, 1884 Lisbon, Portugal	November 3, 1947 Lisbon, Portugal	1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947	[322]
	Jean Schlumberger	May 26, 1877 Guebwiller, France	October 25, 1968 Paris, France	1934, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1964	[323]
1935[bi]
	James Cousins	July 22, 1873 Belfast, Northern Ireland	February 20, 1956 Madanapalle, India	1935	Nominated by Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) the only time.[324]
	Sven Erik Lönborg	March 16, 1871 Motala, Sweden	April 11, 1959 Uppsala, Sweden	1935	Nominated by Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) the only time.[325]
	Émile Mâle	June 2, 1862 Commentry, France	October 6, 1954 Fontaine-Chaalis, France	1935	Nominated by Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) the only time.[326]
	Guðmundur Kamban	June 8, 1888 Reykjavík, Iceland	May 5, 1945 Copenhagen, Denmark	1935	Nominated by Bengt Hesselman (1875–1952) the only time.[327]
	Violet Clifton	November 2, 1883 Rome, Italy	November 20, 1961 Lytham St Annes, England	1935	Nominated by Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) the only time.[328]
	Elise Richter	March 2, 1865 Vienna, Austria	June 23, 1943 Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechia	1935	[329]
	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	May 29, 1874 Kensington, England	June 14, 1936 Beaconsfield, England	1935	Nominated by Torsten Fogelqvist (1880–1941) the only time.[330]
	Dezső Szabó	June 10, 1879 Kolozsvár, Hungary	January 13, 1945 Budapest, Hungary	1935	Nominated by Björn Collinder (1894–1983) the only time.[331]
	Víctor Manuel Rendón	December 5, 1859 Guayaquil, Ecuador	October 9, 1940 Guayaquil, Ecuador	1935	Nominated by Celiano Monge Navarrete (1856–1940) the only time.[332]
	Edvarts Virza	December 27, 1883 Ozolnieki, Latvia	March 1, 1940 Riga, Latvia	1935, 1936	[333]
	Miguel de Unamuno	September 29, 1864 Bilbao, Spain	December 31, 1936 Salamanca, Spain	1935, 1936	[334]
	Shaul Tchernichovsky	August 20, 1875 Kiev, Ukraine	October 14, 1943 Jerusalem, Israel	1935, 1937	Nominated by Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) each time.[335]
	John Masefield	June 1, 1878 Ledbury, England	May 12, 1967 Abingdon, England	1935, 1937	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) each time.[336]
	Jules Romains	August 26, 1885 Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, France	August 14, 1972 Paris, France	1935, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1963, 1966	[337]
1936[bj]
	Asis Domet	June 25, 1890 Cairo, Egypt	June 27, 1943 Berlin, Germany	1936	Nominated by G. E. Khoury (?) the only time.[338]
	Hari Mohan Banerjee	? India	September 3, 1960 Kolkata, India	1936	Nominated by Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar (1875–1950) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[339]
	Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti	January 10, 1871 Vienna, Austria	April 8, 1955 Linz, Austria	1936	[340]
	Sigmund Freud	May 6, 1856 Příbor, Czechia	September 23, 1939 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	April 22, 1870 Littlehampton, England	May 31, 1941 Tasmania, Australia	1936	Nominated by Elias Edward Miller (1878–1937) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[342]
	Ludwig Klages	December 10, 1872 Hanover, Germany	July 29, 1956 Kilchberg, Switzerland	1936, 1937	Nominated by Wilhelm Pinder (1878–1947) each time.[343]
	Cécile Tormay	October 8, 1875 Budapest, Hungary	April 2, 1937 Gyöngyös, Hungary	1936, 1937	[344]
	Hans Fallada	July 21, 1893 Greifswald, Germany	February 5, 1947 Berlin, Germany	1936, 1939	[345]
	Arvid Mörne	May 6, 1876 Kuopio, Finland	June 15, 1946 Kauniainen, Finland	1936, 1945, 1946	[346]
	Georges Duhamel	June 30, 1884 Paris, France	April 13, 1966 Valmondois, France	1936, 1937, 1940, 1942, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1961	[347]
1937
	Maurice Magre	March 2, 1877 Toulouse, France	December 11, 1941 Nice, France	1937	[348]
	Jules Payot	April 10, 1859 Chamonix, France	January 30, 1940 Aix-en-Provence, France	1937	Nominated by Alfred Baudrillart (1859–1942) the only time.[349]
	Arnold Schering	April 2, 1877 Wrocław, Poland	March 7, 1941 Berlin, Germany	1937	Nominated by Ilmari Krohn (1867–1960) the only time.[350]
	Maria Jotuni	April 9, 1880 Kuopio, Finland	September 30, 1943 Helsinki, Finland	1937	Nominated by Viljo Tarkiainen (1879–1951) the only time.[351]
	Albert Verwey	May 15, 1865 Amsterdam, Netherlands	March 8, 1937 Noordwijk, Netherlands	1937	Died before the only chance to be rewarded.[352]
	William Burchell/Bashyr Pickard	July 31, 1889 London, England	January 25, 1973 Hertford, England	1937	Nominated by Arthur Bernard Cook (1868–1952) the only time.[353]
	Valdemar Rørdam	September 23, 1872 Fakse, Denmark	July 13, 1946 Holbæk, Denmark	1937, 1938	[354]
	Bijay Chandra Majumdar	October 27, 1861 Khanakul, Faridpur, Bangladesh	December 30, 1942 Kolkata, West Bengal, India	1937, 1939	[355]
	Sally Salminen	April 25, 1906 Vårdö, Åland, Finland	July 18, 1976 Copenhagen, Denmark	1937, 1938, 1939	[356]
	Maila Talvio	October 17, 1871 Hartola, Finland	January 6, 1951 Helsinki, Finland	1937, 1939, 1947	[357]
	René Béhaine	June 17, 1880 Vervins, France	January 2, 1966 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France	1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1944 1948, 1965	[358]
	Johan Falkberget	September 30, 1879 Røros, Norway	April 5, 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	October 3, 1871 Kortrijk, Belgium	August 15, 1969 Anzegem, Belgium	1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1969	[360]
	Jean Giono	March 30, 1895 Manosque, France	October 9, 1970 Manosque, France	1937, 1952, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969	[361]
1938
	Pearl Buck	June 26, 1892 West Virginia, United States	March 6, 1973 Vermont, United States	1938	Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature.[362]
	Robert Ritchie Racey	May 3, 1873 Canada	September 15, 1956 Paris, Ontario, Canada	1938	Nominated by Arthur Leonard Phelps (1887–1970) the only time.[363]
	Mohammad Khan (prob. Mohammad Habib (1895–1971))	? India	? India	1938	Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time.[364]
	Margaret Mitchell	November 8, 1900 Georgia, United States	August 16, 1949 Georgia, United States	1938	Nominated by Sven Hedin (1865–1952) the only time.[365]
	Arthur van Schendel	March 5, 1874 Jakarta, Indonesia	September 11, 1946 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1938	[366]
	Veikko Antero Koskenniemi	July 8, 1885 Oulu, Finland	August 4, 1962 Turku, Finland	1938	Nominated by Aapeli Saarisalo (1896–1986) the only time.[367]
	Sanjib Chaudhuri	? India	? India	1938, 1939	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[368]
	Mark Aldanov	November 7, 1886 Kiev, Ukraine	February 24, 1957 Nice, France	1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957	[369]
	Henriette Charasson	February 13, 1884 Le Havre, France	May 29, 1972 Châteauroux, France	1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945,[bm] 1947, 1949, 1954, 1957	[370]
	Herman Teirlinck	February 24, 1879 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium	February 4, 1967 Beersel, Belgium	1938, 1954, 1957, 1960	[371]
	Aldous Huxley	July 26, 1894 Godalming, England	November 22, 1963 California, United States	1938, 1939, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963	[372]
1939
	Flávio de Carvalho	August 10, 1899 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	June 4, 1973 São Paulo, Brazil	1939	Nominated by Paul Vanorden Shaw (1898–1970) the only time.[373]
	Egidio Poblete Escudero	November 7, 1868 Valparaíso, Chile	October 18, 1940 Valparaíso, Chile	1939	Nominated by Miguel Luís Amunátegui Reyes (1862–1949) the only time.[374]
	Ethel Florence Richardson	January 3, 1870 East Melbourne, Australia	March 20, 1946 Hastings, England	1939	Nominated by Sten Bodvar Liljegren (1885–1984) the only time.[375]
	Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel	November 6, 1870 Liverpool, England	February 5, 1963 London, England	1939	Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time.[376]
	Hugh Walpole	March 13, 1884 Auckland, New Zealand	June 1, 1941 Keswick, England	1939	Nominated by Sten Bodvar Liljegren (1885–1984) the only time.[377]
	Johan Huizinga	December 7, 1872 Groningen, Netherlands	February 1, 1945 De Steeg, Netherlands	1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1953, 1944, 1945	[378]
	Henriette Roland Holst	December 24, 1869 Noordwijk, Netherlands	November 21, 1952 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1939, 1950, 1952	[379][380]
	Eugène Baie	August 3, 1874 Anderlecht, Belgium	September 10, 1964 Anderlecht, Belgium	1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956	[381]
	Hu Shih	December 17, 1891 Songjiang, China	February 24, 1962 Taipei, Taiwan	1939, 1957	[382]
	Maria Dąbrowska	October 6, 1889 Russów, Poland	May 19, 1965 Warsaw, Poland	1939, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965	[383]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1940[bi]
	Gabriela Mistral	7 April 1889 Vicuña, Elqui, Chile	10 January 1957 Hempstead, New York, United States	1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945	Awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature.[384]
	Alfonso Strafile	c. 1872 Cerignola, Italy	—	1940	Nominated by Domenico Vittorini (1892–1958) the only time.[385]
	Gösta Albert Carlberg	23 September 1909 Norrköping, Sweden	13 March 1973 Stockholm, Sweden	1940	Nominated by Einar Tegen (1884–1965) the only time.[386]
	Bert Bailey	11 June 1868 Auckland, New Zealand	30 March 1953 Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia	1940	Nominated by Georges Rency (1875–1951) the only time.[387]
	Edmund Blunden	1 November 1896 London, England	20 January 1974 Long Melford, Suffolk, England	1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945	Nominated by Heinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904-1980) each time.[388]
	Carl Sandburg	6 January 1878 Galesburg, Illinois, United States	22 July 1967 Flat Rock, North Carolina, United States	1940, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1959	[389]
	Lin Yutang	10 October 1895 Banzai, Fujian, China	26 March 1976 Hong Kong	1940, 1950, 1970, 1972, 1973	[390]
1941[bi]
	Manoel Cyrillo Wanderley	—	—	1941	Nominated by Francisco de Aquino Correia, S.D.B. (1885–1956) the only time.[391]
	Ruth Comfort Young	21 July 1882 San Francisco, California, United States	18 February 1954 Los Gatos, California, United States	1941	[392]
	Branislav Petronijević	25 March 1875 Sovljak, Ub, Serbia	4 March 1954 Belgrade, Serbia	1941, 1947	[393]
1942[bi]
	Sigfrid Siwertz	24 January 1882 Stockholm, Sweden	26 November 1970 Stockholm, Sweden	1942	Nominated by Carl Olaf Bøggild-Andersen (1898–1967) the only time.[394]
	Teixeira de Pascoaes	2 November 1877 Amarante, Porto, Portugal	14 December 1952 Amarante, Porto, Portugal	1942, 1943, 1944, 1945,[bn] 1947, 1948	Nominated by João António Mascarenhas Júdice (1898–1957) each time.[395]
	Nikolai Berdyaev	18 March 1874 Obukhiv, Kyiv, Ukraine	24 March 1948 Clamart, Paris, France	1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948	Nominated by Alf Nyman (1884–1968) each time.[396]
	Charles Langbridge Morgan	22 January 1894 Bromley, London, England	6 February 1958 London, England	1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949	[397]
	Enrique Larreta	4 March 1875 Buenos Aires, Argentina	6 July 1961 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1942, 1943, 1944, 1945,[bo] 1950	[398]
	Hans Carossa	15 December 1878 Bad Tölz, Bavaria, Germany	12 September 1956 Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany	1942, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1955, 1956	[399]
1943[bi]
	John Steinbeck	27 February 1902 Salinas, California, United States	20 December 1968 New York City, United States	1943, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962	Awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature.[400]
	Sri Aurobindo	15 August 1872 Kolkata, West Bengal, India	5 December 1950 Pondicherry, Puducherry, India	1943	Nominated by Francis Younghusband (1863–1942) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[401]
	Franz Werfel	10 September 1890 Prague, Czechia	26 August 1945 Beverly Hills, California, United States	1943, 1945	[402]
	Franz Hellens	8 September 1881 Brussels, Belgium	20 January 1972 Brussels, Belgium	1943, 1948, 1958, 1954	[403]
	Elisaveta Bagryana	16 April 1893 Sofia, Bulgaria	23 March 1991 Sofia, Bulgaria	1943, 1944, 1945, 1969	[404]
1944
	Abol-Gassem E’tessam Zadeh[405]	—	—	1944	Nominated by Issa Sepahbodi (1896–?) the only time.[406]
	Luis Nueda y Santiago	1883 Madrid, Spain	1952 Madrid, Spain	1944	Nominated by Julio Casares (1877–1964) the only time.[407]
	Charles Ferdinand Ramuz	24 September 1878 Lausanne, Switzerland	23 May 1947 Pully, Vaud, Switzerland	1944, 1945, 1946, 1947	[408]
	Arnulf Øverland	27 April 1889 Kristiansund, Norway	25 March 1968 Oslo, Norway	1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1965, 1966, 1967	[409]
1945
	Thomas Sterns Eliot	26 September 1888 St. Louis, Missouri, United States	4 January 1965 Kensington, London, England	1945, 1946, 1947, 1948	Awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.[410]
	Yiorgos Theotokas	27 April 1906 Istanbul, Türkiye	30 October 1966 Athens, Greece	1945	Nominated by Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) the only time.[411]
	Armando Alvares Pedroso	29 June 1907 Havana, Cuba	9 September 1990 Dade City, Florida, United States	1945[bp]
	Edward Morgan Forster	1 January 1879 Marylebone, London, England	7 June 1970 Coventry, England	1945, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969	[412][413]
	Marie Under	27 March 1883 Tallinn, Estonia	25 September 1980 Stockholm, Sweden	1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[414]
1946
	André Gide	22 November 1869 Paris, France	19 February 1951 Paris, France	1946, 1947	Awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.[415]
	François Mauriac	11 October 1885 Bordeaux, Gironde, France	1 September 1970 Paris, France	1946, 1949, 1950, 1952	Awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.[416]
	Winston Churchill	30 November 1874 Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England	24 January 1965 Kensington, London, England	1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940–45, 1951–55). Awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature.[417]
	Boris Pasternak	10 February 1890 Moscow, Russia	30 May 1960 Moscow, Russia	1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1957, 1958	Awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature.[418]
	Herbert John Clifford Grierson	16 January 1866 Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland	19 February 1960 Cambridge, England	1946	Nominated by William James Entwistle (1895–1952) the only time.[419]
	Sholem Asch	1 November 1880 Kutno, Poland	10 July 1957 London, England	1946, 1947	Nominated by Walter Arthur Berendsohn (1884–1984) each time.[420]
	Angelos Sikelianos	28 March 1884 Lefkada, Greece	19 June 1951 Athens, Greece	1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951	[421]
	Tarjei Vesaas	20 August 1897 Vinje, Telemark, Norway	15 March 1970 Oslo, Norway	1946, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970	[422]
	Ignazio Silone	1 May 1900 Pescina, L'Aquila, Italy	22 August 1978 Geneva, Switzerland	1946, 1947, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969, 1974	[423]
1947
	Pär Lagerkvist	23 May 1891 Växjö, Sweden	11 July 1974 Lidingö, Sweden	1947, 1949, 1950, 1951	Awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.[424]
	Ernest Hemingway	21 July 1899 Oak Park, Illinois, United States	2 July 1961 Ketchum, Idaho, United States	1947, 1950, 1953, 1954	Awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.[425]
	Mikhail Sholokhov	24 May 1905 Vyoshenskaya, Rostov, Russia	21 February 1984 Vyoshenskaya, Rostov, Russia	1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965	Awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.,[426][427]
	Shmuel Yosef Agnon	8 August 1887 Buchach, Ternopil, Ukraine	17 February 1970 Jerusalem, Israel	1947, 1948, 1951, 1965, 1966	Shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Nelly Sachs[428]
	Bernard O'Dowd	11 April 1866 Beaufort, Victoria, Australia	1 September 1953 Melbourne, Australia	1947	[429]
	Horace Kallen	11 August 1882 Bierutów, Oleśnica, Poland	16 February 1974 Palm Beach, Florida, United States	1947	Nominated by Louise Rosenblatt (1904–2005) the only time.[430]
	Gregorios Xenopoulos	9 December 1867 Istanbul, Türkiye	14 January 1951 Athens, Greece	1947	Nominated by Iōannēs Kalitsounakēs (1878–1966) the only time.[431]
	Toyohiko Kagawa	10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan	23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan	1947, 1948	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.[432]
	Georgios Drosinis	9 December 1859 Plaka, Athens, Greece	3 January 1951 Kifisia, Athens, Greece	1947, 1948	[433]
	Nikos Kazantzakis	18 February 1883 Heraklion, Greece	26 October 1957 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	1947, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957	[434]
	André Malraux	3 November 1901 Paris, France	23 November 1976 Créteil, Paris, France	1947, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[435]
1948
	Halldór Laxness	23 April 1902 Reykjavík, Iceland	8 February 1998 Reykjavík, Iceland	1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955	Awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.[436]
	Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette	28 January 1873 Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, France	3 August 1954 Paris, France	1948	Nominated by Claude Farrère (1876–1957) the only time.[437]
	Dorothy Canfield Fisher	17 February 1879 Lawrence, Kansas, United States	9 November 1958 Arlington, Vermont, United States	1948, 1949	Nominated by David Baumgardt (1890–1963) each time.[438]
	George Santayana	16 December 1863 Madrid, Spain	26 September 1952 Rome, Italy	1948, 1949	[439]
	Zalman Shneur	11 February 1887 Shklow, Mogilev, Belarus	20 February 1959 New York City, United States	1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957	[440][441]
	George Macauley Trevelyan	16 February 1876 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England	21 July 1962 Cambridge, England	1948, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960	[442]
	Riccardo Bacchelli	19 April 1891 Bologna, Italy	8 October 1985 Monza, Monza e Brianza, Italy	1948, 1949, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[443]
1949[bj]
	Albert Camus	7 November 1913 Dréan, El Taref, Algeria	4 January 1960 Villeblevin, Yonne, France	1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957	Awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature.[444]
	Jacinto Grau	6 April 1877 Barcelona, Spain	14 August 1958 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1949	Nominated by Hjalmar Gullberg (1898–1961) the only time.[445]
	Reinaldo Temprano Azcona	1911 Pajares de la Lampreana, Zamora, Spain	1954 Spain	1949	Nominated by Emilio Alarcos García (1895–1986) the only time.[446]
	Leonid Leonov	31 May 1899 Moscow, Russia	8 August 1994 Moscow, Russia	1949, 1950	Nominated by Valentin Kiparsky (1904–1983) each time.[447]
	Enrique González Martínez	13 April 1871 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico	19 February 1952 Mexico City, Mexico	1949, 1952	[448]
	Alfonso Reyes	17 May 1889 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico	27 December 1959 Mexico City, Mexico	1949, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959	[449]
	Seán O'Casey	30 March 1880 Dublin, Ireland	18 September 1964 Torquay, Devon, England	1949, 1950, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963	[450]
	Taha Hussein	15 November 1889 Maghagha, Minya, Egypt	28 October 1973 Cairo, Egypt	1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973	[451]
	Alberto Moravia	28 November 1907 Rome, Italy	26 September 1990 Rome, Italy	1949, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[452]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1950
	William Faulkner	25 September 1897 New Albany, Mississippi, United States	6 July 1962 Byhalia, Mississippi, United States	1950	Nominated by Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland (1884–1965) the only time and awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.[453]
	Bertrand Russell	18 May 1872 Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales	2 February 1970 Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales	1950	Nominated by Eugen Tigerstedt (1907–1979) the only time, awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[454]
	Edward Plunkett	24 July 1878 London, England	25 October 1957 Dublin, Ireland	1950	[455]
	Leopold Staff	4 November 1878 Lviv, Ukraine	31 May 1957 Skarżysko-Kamienna, Skarżysko, Poland	1950	Nominated by Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) the only time.[456]
	Thomas Head Raddall	13 November 1903 Hythe, Kent, England	1 April 1994 Liverpool, England	1950	Nominated by Will Richard Bird (1891–1984) the only time.[457]
	Albert Steffen	10 December 1884 Wynau, Bern, Switzerland	13 July 1963 Dornach, Solothurn, Switzerland	1950	Nominated by Kersti Bergroth (1886–1975) the only time.[458]
	John Dewey	20 October 1859 Burlington, Vermont, United States	1 June 1952 New York City, United States	1950	Nominated by Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) the only time.[459]
	Hermann Broch	1 November 1886 Vienna, Austria	30 May 1951 New Haven, Connecticut, United States	1950	[460]
	Júlio Dantas	19 May 1876 Lagos, Faro, Portugal	25 May 1962 Lisbon, Portugal	1950, 1951	[461]
	Alfred Noyes	16 September 1880 Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England	25 June 1958 Isle of Wight, England	1950, 1951	[462]
	Jakobus Cornelis Bloem	10 May 1887 Oudshoorn, South Holland, Netherlands	10 August 1966 Kalenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands	1950, 1952	[463]
	Arnold Joseph Toynbee	14 April 1889 London, England	22 October 1975 York, England	1950, 1957	[464]
	Karl Jaspers	23 February 1883 Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany	26 February 1969 Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland	1950, 1960	[465]
	Karen Blixen	17 April 1885 Rungsted, Hørsholm, Denmark	7 September 1962 Rungsted, Hørsholm, Denmark	1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962	[466]
	Robert Frost	26 March 1874 San Francisco, California, United States	29 January 1963 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963	[467]
	Gertrud von Le Fort	11 October 1876 Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany	1 November 1971 Oberstdorf, Bavaria, Germany	1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963	[468][469]
	Martin Buber	8 February 1878 Vienna, Austria	13 June 1965 Jerusalem, Israel	1950, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[470]
	Simon Vestdijk	17 October 1898 Harlingen, Netherlands	23 March 1971 Utrecht, Netherlands	1950, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971	[471]
	Mika Waltari	19 September 1908 Helsinki, Finland	26 August 1979 Helsinki, Finland	1950, 1951, 1952, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971	[472]
	Robert Graves	24 July 1895 Wimbledon, London, England	7 December 1985 Deià, Islas Baleares, Spain	1950, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974	[473]
	Graham Greene	2 October 1904 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England	3 April 1991 Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland	1950, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[474]
1951
	Ezequiel Martínez Estrada	14 September 1895 Buenos Aires, Argentina	4 November 1964 Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina	1951	[475]
	Sotíris Skípis	c. 1881 Athens, Greece	29 September 1952 Rognac, Bouches-du-Rhône, France	1951	Nominated by an unnamed nominator[bq] the only time.[476]
	Katharine Susannah Prichard	4 December 1883 Levuka, Lomaiviti, Fiji	2 October 1969 Greenmount, Western Australia, Australia	1951	Nominated by Leavitt Olds Wright (1891–1980) the only time.[477]
	María Enriqueta Camarillo	19 February 1872 Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico	13 February 1968 Mexico City, Mexico	1951	[478]
	Rómulo Gallegos	2 August 1884 Caracas, Venezuela	5 April 1969 Caracas, Venezuela	1951, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967	President of Venezuela (1948)[479]
	José Maria Ferreira de Castro	24 May 1898 Ossela, Aveiro, Portugal	29 June 1974 Porto, Portugal	1951, 1952, 1969, 1970, 1973	[480][481]
1952
	Juan Ramón Jiménez	24 December 1881 Moguer, Huelva, Spain	29 May 1958 San Juan, Puerto Rico	1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956	Awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature.[482]
	Albert Schweitzer	14 January 1875 Kaysersberg-Vignoble, Haut-Rhin, France	4 September 1965 Lambarene, Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon	1952	Nominated by Nils Ahnlund (1889–1957) the only time and awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.[483]
	John Dover Wilson	13 July 1881 Mortlake, London, England	15 January 1969 Balerno, Edinburgh, Scotland	1952	Nominated by Charles Jasper Sisson (1885–1966) the only time.[484]
	Charles Plisnier	13 December 1896 Ghlin, Hainaut, Belgium	17 July 1952 Brussels, Belgium	1952	Died before the only chance to be rewarded.[485]
	Paul Vialar	18 September 1898 Saint-Denis, Paris, France	8 January 1996 Vaucresson, Paris, France	1952	[486]
	Louis Artus	10 January 1870 Paris, France	11 May 1960 Paris, France	1952	[487]
	Van Wyck Brooks	16 February 1886 Plainfield, New Jersey, United States	2 May 1963 Bridgewater, Connecticut, United States	1952	[488]
	Charlie Chaplin	16 April 1889 London, United Kingdom	25 December 1977 Corsier-sur-Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland	1952[br]
	Walter de la Mare	April 25, 1873 Charlton, London, England	June 22, 1956 Twickenham, London, England	1952, 1953	Nominated by Harry Martinson (1904–1978) each time.[490]
	Julien Benda	December 26, 1867 Paris, France	June 7, 1956 Fontenay-aux-Roses, Paris, France	1952, 1953, 1954, 1955	[491]
	Werner Bergengruen	September 16, 1892 Riga, Latvia	September 4, 1964 Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg Germany	1952, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1963	[492][493]
	Salvador de Madariaga	23 July 1886 A Coruña, Spain	14 December 1978 Locano, Ticino, Switzerland	1952, 1963, 1971, 1973, 1974	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[494]
1953
	Gottfried Benn	2 May 1886 Putlitz, Brandenburg, Germany	7 July 1956 Berlin, Germany	1953, 1954, 1955, 1956	[495]
	Max Mell	10 November 1882 Maribor, Slovenia	12 December 1971 Vienna, Austria	1953, 1954, 1960, 1962	[496]
	Alberto Hidalgo Lobato	23 May 1897 Arequipa, Peru	12 November 1967 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1953, 1966, 1968	[497]
1954
	Jaroslav Seifert	23 September 1901 Prague, Czechia	10 January 1986 Prague, Czechia	1954, 1968, 1969, 1974	Awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature.[498]
	Ricardo Rojas	16 September 1882 San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina	29 July 1957 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1954	[499]
	Gustave Vanzype	10 June 1869 Brussels, Belgium	12 September 1955 Brussels, Belgium	1954	Nominated by Gustave Charlier (1885–1959) the only time.[500]
	Georgios Vouyouklatis	1903 Greece	1956 Paris, France	1954	[501]
	Carl Jung	26 July 1875 Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland	6 June 1961 Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland	1954	Nominated by Ernst Alker (1895–1972) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine too.[502]
1955
	Saint-John Perse	31 May 1887 Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe	20 September 1975 Hyères, Var, France	1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960	Awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature.[503]
	Giorgos Seferis	13 March 1900 Urla, İzmir, Turkey	20 September 1971 Athens, Greece	1955, 1961, 1962, 1963	Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature.[504]
	Eugenio Montale	12 October 1896 Genoa, Italy	12 September 1981 Milan, Italy	1955, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	Won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.[505]
	Igor Gouzenko	13 January 1919 Dmitrov, Moscow, Russia	28 June 1982 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	1955	[506]
	Gustav Suits	18 November 1883 Võnnu, Tartu, Estonia	23 May 1956 Stockholm, Sweden	1955	Nominated by William Kleesmann Matthews (1901–1958) the only time.[507]
	Reinhold Schneider	13 May 1903 Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	6 April 1958 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	1955	Nominated by Eduard von Jan (1885–1971) the only time.[508]
	Ernst Robert Curtius	14 April 1886 Thann, Haut-Rhin, France	19 April 1956 Rome, Italy	1955	Nominated by Max Vasmer (1886–1962) the only time.[509]
	Carlos Vaz Ferreira	15 October 1872 Montevideo, Uruguay	3 January 1958 Montevideo, Uruguay	1955	[510]
	Arthur Bryant	18 February 1899 Dersingham, Norfolk, England	22 January 1985 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England	1955	Nominated by Eric Reginald Vincent (1894–1978) the only time.[511]
	Giovanni Papini	9 January 1881 Florence, Italy	8 July 1956 Florence, Italy	1955	Nominated by Henri de Ziégler (1885–1970) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[512]
	Fernando González Ochoa	24 April 1895 Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia	16 February 1964 Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia	1955[bs]
	Edith Sitwell	7 September 1887 Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England	9 December 1964 London, England	1955, 1958, 1959	[514]
	Adriaan Roland Holst	23 May 1888 Amsterdam, Netherlands	5 August 1976 Bergen, North Holland, Netherlands	1955, 1961	[515][516]
	William Somerset Maugham	25 January 1874 Paris, France	16 December 1965 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France	1955, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965	[517]
	Leslie Poles Hartley	30 December 1895 Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England	13 December 1972 London, England	1955, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966	[518]
	Henri Bosco	16 November 1888 Avignon, Vaucluse, France	4 May 1976 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France	1955, 1956, 1965, 1966, 1968	[519]
	Giuseppe Ungaretti	8 February 1888 Alexandria, Egypt	1 June 1970 Milan, Italy	1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970	[520]
	Ezra Pound	30 October 1885 Hailey, Idaho, United States	1 November 1972 Venice, Italy	1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972	[521]
1956
	Pablo Neruda	12 July 1904 Parral, Linares, Chile	23 September 1973 Santiago, Chile	1956, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971	Awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.[522]
	Marthe Bibesco	28 January 1886 Bucharest, Romania	28 November 1973 Paris, France	1956	[523]
	Bertolt Brecht	10 February 1898 Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany	14 August 1956 East Berlin, Germany	1956	Nominated by André Bonnard (1888–1959) the only time.[524] Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Francesco Chiesa	5 July 1871 Sagno, Ticino, Switzerland	13 June 1973 Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland	1956	[525]
	Melpo Axioti	15 July 1905 Athens, Greece	22 May 1973 Athens, Greece	1956	Nominated by André Bonnard (1888–1959) the only time.[526]
	Elizabeth Goudge	24 April 1900 Wells, Somerset, England	1 April 1984 Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire, England	1956, 1959	Nominated by Edmond Privat (1889–1962) the only time.[527]
	Jules Supervielle	16 January 1884 Montevideo, Uruguay	17 May 1960 Paris, France	1956, 1957, 1960	[528]
	Gonzague de Reynold	15 July 1880 Cressier, Fribourg, Switzerland	9 April 1970 Fribourg, Switzerland	1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960	[529]
	Armand Godoy	1 April 1880 Havana, Cuba	11 March 1964 Lausanne, Switzerland	1956, 1957, 1960, 1961	[530]
	Vasco Pratolini	19 October 1913 Florence, Italy	12 January 1991 Rome, Italy	1956, 1959, 1963	Nominated by Paul Renucci (1915–1976) each time.[531]
	Christopher Fry	18 December 1907 Bristol, England	30 June 2005 Chichester, West Sussex, England	1956, 1959, 1960, 1964	[532]
	Jean Guitton	18 August 1901 Saint-Étienne, Loire, France	21 March 1999 Paris, France	1956, 1965	Nominated by Édouard Delebecque (1910–1990) each time.[533]
	Marcel Pagnol	28 February 1895 Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône, France	18 April 1974 Paris, France	1956, 1959, 1966	[534]
	Ernst Jünger	29 March 1895 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	17 February 1998 Riedlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	1956, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967	[535]
	Henry de Montherlant	20 April 1895 Paris, France	21 September 1972 Paris, France	1956, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971	[536]
	Gabriel Marcel	7 December 1889 Paris, France	8 October 1973 Paris, France	1956, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1972	[537]
	Jorge Luis Borges	24 August 1899 Buenos Aires, Argentina	14 June 1986 Geneva, Switzerland	1956, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[538]
1957
	Jean-Paul Sartre	21 June 1905 Paris, France	15 April 1980 Paris, France	1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964	Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but declined the prize.[539]
	Samuel Beckett	13 April 1906 Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland	22 December 1989 Paris, France	1957, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969	Awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.[540]
	Lennox Robinson	4 October 1886 Douglas, County Cork, Ireland	15 October 1958 Dublin, Ireland	1957	[541]
	Valery Larbaud	29 August 1881 Vichy, Allier, France	2 February 1957 Vichy, Allier, France	1957	Nominated by Pierre Costil (1901–1968) the only time.[542] Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Knuth Becker	21 January 1891 Hjørring, Denmark	30 October 1974 Vår, Aalborg, Denmark	1957	Nominated by Sven Clausen (1893–1961) the only time.[543]
	Jan Parandowski	11 May 1895 Lviv, Ukraine	26 September 1978 Warsaw, Poland	1957, 1959	[544]
	Frank Thiess	13 March 1890 Ikšķile, Ogre, Latvia	22 December 1977 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany	1957, 1962	[545]
	Carlo Levi	29 November 1902 Turin, Italy	4 January 1975 Rome, Italy	1957, 1966	[546]
	Mircea Eliade	13 March 1907 Bucharest, Romania	22 April 1986 Chicago, Illinois, United States	1957, 1968	[547]
	Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz	20 February 1894 Kalnyk, Vinnytsia, Ukraine	2 March 1980 Warsaw, Poland	1957, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1969	[548]
	Väinö Linna	20 December 1920 Urjala, Finland	21 April 1992 Kangasala, Finland	1957, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[549]
	André Chamson	6 June 1900 Nîmes, Gard, France	9 November 1983 Paris, France	1957, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[550]
1958
	Salvatore Quasimodo	20 August 1901 Modica, Ragusa, Italy	14 June 1968 Naples, Italy	1958, 1959	Awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature.[551]
	Ivo Andrić	10 October 1892 Travnik, Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina	13 March 1975 Belgrade, Serbia	1958, 1959, 1960, 1961	Awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature.[552]
	Elio Vittorini	23 July 1908 Syracuse, Italy	12 February 1966 Milan, Italy	1958	Nominated by Stuart Pratt Atkins (1914–2000) the only time.[553]
	James Gould Cozzens	19 August 1903 Chicago, Illinois, United States	9 August 1978 Stuart, Florida, United States	1958	Nominated by Gordon S. Haight (1901–1985) the only time.[554]
	John Hersey	17 June 1914 Tianjin, China	24 March 1993 Key West, Florida, United States	1958	Nominated by Helen Rose Hull (1888–1971) the only time.[555]
	Fernand Baldensperger	4 May 1871 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Vosges, France	24 February 1958 Paris, France	1958	Nominated by Alan Carey Taylor (1905–1975) the only time.[556] Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Elizabeth Bowen	7 June 1899 Dublin, Ireland	22 February 1973 London, England	1958	Nominated by Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) the only time.[557]
	John Cowper Powys	8 October 1872 Shirley, Derbyshire, England	17 June 1963 Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd Wales	1958, 1959, 1962	[558]
	Rudolf Alexander Schröder	26 January 1878 Bremen, Germany	22 August 1962 Bad Wiessee, Bavaria, Germany	1958, 1960, 1962	[559][560]
	Maurice Bowra	8 April 1898 Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China	4 July 1971 Oxford, England	1958, 1961, 1965	[561]
	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki	24 July 1886 Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan	30 July 1965 Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan	1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965	[562]
	Lionel Trilling	4 July 1905 Queens, New York, United States	5 November 1975 New York City, United States	1958, 1963, 1965	[563]
	Robert Penn Warren	24 April 1905 Guthrie, Kentucky, United States	15 September 1989 Stratton, Vermont, United States	1958, 1965, 1967	[564]
	Junzaburō Nishiwaki	20 January 1894 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan	5 June 1982 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan	1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968	[565][566]
	Tennessee Williams	26 March 1911 Columbus, Mississippi, United States	25 February 1983 New York City, United States	1958, 1971	[567]
	Georges Simenon	13 February 1903 Liège, Belgium	4 September 1989 Lausanne, Switzerland	1958, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1974	[568]
	Miroslav Krleža	7 July 1893 Zagreb, Croatia	29 December 1981 Zagreb, Croatia	1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[569]
1959
	Ernest Claes	24 October 1885 Zichem, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Belgium	2 September 1968 Ixelles, Belgium	1959	Nominated by W. F. Mainland (?) the only time.[570]
	Sachidananda Routray	13 May 1916 Gurujang, Odisha, India	21 August 2004 Cuttack, Odisha, India	1959	Nominated by Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968) the only time.[571]
	Osbert Sitwell	6 December 1892 London, England	4 May 1969 Florence, Italy	1959	Nominated jointly with Edith Sitwell by Alexander Gillies (1907–1982) the only time.[572][573]
	Sacheverell Sitwell	15 November 1897 Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England	1 October 1988 Towcester, Northamptonshire, England	1959
	Charles Mauron	27 June 1899 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France	4 December 1966 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France	1959	Nominated by Charles Rostaing (1904–1999) the only time.[574]
	Mario Roques	1 July 1875 Callao, Peru	8 March 1961 Paris, France	1959, 1960	Nominated by Ida-Marie Frandon (1907–1997) each time.[575]
	Martin Heidegger	26 September 1889 Meßkirch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	26 May 1976 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	1959, 1960	[576]
	Stefan Andres	26 June 1906 Trittenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany	29 June 1970 Rome, Italy	1959, 1963	[577]
	Juana de Ibarbourou	8 March 1892 Melo, Cerro Largo, Uruguay	15 July 1979 Montevideo, Uruguay	1959, 1960, 1963	[578]
	Heimito von Doderer	5 September 1896 Vienna, Austria	23 December 1966 Vienna Austria	1959, 1960, 1962, 1964	[579]
	María Raquel Adler	c. 1900 Argentine Sea	28 July 1974 Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina	1959, 1965	[580]
	Miguel Torga	12 August 1907 São Martinho de Anta, Sabrosa, Portugal	17 January 1995 Coimbra, Portugal	1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966	[581]
	Arnold Zweig	10 November 1887 Głogów, Poland	26 November 1968 East Berlin, Germany	1959, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[582]
	Hans Egon Holthusen	15 April 1913 Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany	21 January 1997 Munich, Germany	1959, 1968	[583]
	Étienne Gilson	13 June 1884 Paris, France	19 September 1978 Auxerre, Yonne, France	1959, 1964, 1969	[584]
	Louis Aragon	3 October 1897 Paris, France	24 December 1982 Paris, France	1959, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972	[585]
	Anna Seghers	19 November 1900 Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany	1 June 1983 East Berlin, Germany	1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972	[586]
	Frank Raymond Leavis	14 July 1895 Cambridge, England	14 April 1978 Cambridge, England	1959, 1962, 1973	[587]
	Julien Gracq	27 July 1910 Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Maine-et-Loire, France	22 December 2007 Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France	1959, 1960, 1961, 1972, 1973, 1974	[588]
	Max Frisch	15 May 1911 Zürich, Switzerland	4 April 1991 Zürich, Switzerland	1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974	[589]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1960
	Heinrich Böll	21 December 1917 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany	16 July 1985 Kreuzau, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany	1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972	Awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature.[590]
	Wesley LaViolette	4 January 1894 St. James, Minnesota, United States	29 July 1978 Escondido, California, United States	1960	Nominated by Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (1909–1992) the only time.[591]
	Karl Heinrich Waggerl	10 December 1897 Bad Gastein, Salzburg, Austria	4 November 1973 Schwarzach im Pongau, Salzburg, Austria	1960	Nominated by Friedrich Wild (1888–1966) the only time.[592]
	Aquilino Ribeiro	13 September 1885 Sernancelhe, Viseu, Portugal	27 May 1963 Lisbon, Portugal	1960	[593]
	Wilhelm Lehmann	4 May 1882 Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela	17 November 1968 Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany	1960	Nominated by Friedrich Sengle (1909–1994) the only time.[594]
	Marie Noël	16 February 1883 Auxerre, Yonne, France	23 December 1967 Auxerre, Yonne, France	1960	Nominated by Maurice Bémol (1900–1961) the only time.[595]
	Jean Price-Mars	15 October 1876 Grande Rivière du Nord, Nord, Haiti	1 March 1969 Petion-Ville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti	1960	[596]
	James Thurber	8 December 1894 Columbus, Ohio, United States	2 November 1961 New York City, United States	1960	[597]
	Franz Theodor Csokor	6 September 1885 Vienna, Austria	5 January 1969 Vienna, Austria	1960, 1962	[598]
	Stratis Myrivilis	30 June 1890 Lesbos, Greece	19 July 1969 Athens, Greece	1960, 1962, 1963	[599]
	Elias Venezis	4 March 1904 Ayvalık, Balıkesir, Türkiye	3 August 1974 Athens, Greece	1960, 1963	[600]
	Aksel Sandemose	19 March 1899 Nykobing Mors, Denmark	6 August 1965 Copenhagen, Denmark	1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965	[601]
	John Boyton Priestley	13 September 1894 Bradford, West Yorkshire, England	14 August 1984 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England	1960, 1964, 1966	[602]
	René Char	14 June 1907 L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Vaucluse, France	19 February 1988 Paris, France	1960, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973	[603]
1961
	Yasunari Kawabata	14 June 1899 Osaka, Japan	16 April 1972 Kanagawa, Japan	1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968	Awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature.[604]
	Michel de Ghelderode	3 April 1898 Ixelles, Belgium	1 April 1962 Brussels, Belgium	1961	Nominated by Eric Bentley (1916–2020) the only time.[605]
	Cora Sandel	20 December 1880 Oslo, Norway	3 April 1974 Uppsala, Sweden	1961	Nominated by Harald Ofstad (1920–1994) the only time.[606]
	Gaston Bachelard	27 June 1884 Bar-sur-Aube, Aube, France	16 October 16, 1962 Paris, France	1961	Nominated by Georges May (1920–2003) the only time.[607]
	Giulia Scappino Murena	1902 Ferrara, Italy	1982 Bologna, Italy	1961, 1962	Nominated by Alfredo Galletti (1872–1962) each time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[608]
	Arthur Waley	19 August 1889 Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England	27 June 1966 London, England	1961, 1962, 1964	[609]
	Jean Anouilh	23 June 1910 Bordeaux, Gironde, France	3 October 1987 Lausanne, Switzerland	1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968	[610]
	Pierre Jean Jouve	11 October 1887 Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France	8 January 1976 Paris, France	1961, 1964, 1968, 1969	[611]
	John Ronald Reuel Tolkien	3 January 1892 Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa	2 September 1973 Bournemouth, Dorset, England	1961, 1967, 1969	[612]
	Edmund Wilson	8 May 1895 Red Bank, New Jersey, United States	12 June 1972 Talcottville, New York, United States	1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970	[613]
	Lawrence Durrell	27 February 1912 Jalandhar, Punjab, India	7 November 1990 Sommières, Gard, France	1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971	[614]
	Charles Percy Snow	15 October 1905 Leicester, Leicestershire, England	1 July 1980 London, England	1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1971	[615][616][617]
	Wystan Hugh Auden	21 February 1907 York, Yorkshire, England	29 September 1973 Vienna, Austria	1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	[618]
	Simone de Beauvoir	9 January 1908 Paris, France	14 April 1986 Paris, France	1961, 1969, 1973	[619]
	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	5 January 1921 Konolfingen, Bern, Switzerland	14 December 1990 Neuchâtel, Switzerland	1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[620]
1962
	Eyvind Johnson	29 July 1900 Svartbjörnsbyn, Boden, Sweden	25 August 1976 Stockholm, Sweden	1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	Shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson.[621]
	Boris Zaytsev	10 February 1881 Oryol, Russia	22 January 1972 Paris, France	1962	Nominated by Rostislav Pletnv (1903–1985) the only time.[622]
	Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto	6 February 1897 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England	21 January 1982 Bristol, England	1962	Nominated by William Beare (1933–2019) the only time.[623]
	André Schwarz-Bart	23 May 1928 Metz, Moselle, France	30 September 2006 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe	1962	Nominated by Ingerid Dal (1895–1985) the only time.[624]
	Hans Erich Nossack	30 January 1901 Hamburg, Germany	2 November 1977 Hamburg, Germany	1962	Nominated by Josef Math (?) the only time.[625]
	Manfred Georg Andreas Hausmann	10 September 1898 Kassel, Hesse, Germany	6 August 1986 Bremen, Germany	1962	Nominated by Heinrich Dörrie (1911–1983) the only time.[626]
	Ronald Syme	11 March 1903 Eltham, South Taranaki, New Zealand	4 September 1989 Oxford, England	1962	Nominated by Albrecht Dihle (1923–2020) the only time.[627]
	Pietro Ubaldi	18 August 1886 Foligno, Perugia Italy	29 February 1972 São Paulo, Brazil	1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969	[628]
	Josep Carner	9 February 1884 Barcelona, Spain	4 June 1970 Brussels, Belgium	1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1970	[629]
	Roman Jakobson	10 October 1896 Moscow, Russia	18 July 1982 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1962, 1971, 1972	[630]
	Erich Kästner	23 February 1899 Dresden, Saxony, Germany	29 July 1974 Munich, Germany	1962, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	[631]
	Vilhelm Moberg	20 August 1898 Algutsboda, Sweden	8 August 1973 Väddö, Sweden	1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	[632]
	Carl Zuckmayer	27 December 1896 Nackenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany	18 January 1977 Saas Fee, Valais, Switzerland	1962, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973	[633]
	William Heinesen	15 January 1900 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	12 March 1991 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	1962, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[634]
	Jorge Guillén	18 January 1893 Valladolid, Spain	6 February 1984 Málaga, Spain	1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974	[635]
1963
	Nelly Sachs	10 December 1891 Berlin, Germany	12 May 1970 Stockholm, Sweden	1963, 1964, 1965, 1966	Shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Shmuel Yosef Agnon.[636]
	Ingeborg Bachmann	25 June 1926 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Carinthia, Austria	17 October 1973 Rome, Italy	1963	Nominated by Harald Patzer (1910–2005) the only time.[637]
	Emilio Cecchi	14 July 1884 Florence, Italy	5 September 1966 Rome, Italy	1963	Nominated by Howard Rosario Marraro (1897–1972) the only time.[638]
	Jean Cocteau	5 July 1889 Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, France	11 October 1963 Milly-la-Forêt, Essonne, France	1963	Nominated by Léon Cellier (1911–1976) the only time.[639]
	Ingemar Düring	2 September 1903 Gothenburg, Sweden	23 December 1984 Gothenburg, Sweden	1963	Nominated by Franz Dirlmeier (1904–1977) the only time.[640]
	René Étiemble	26 January 1909 Mayenne, France	7 January 2002 Vigny, Val-d'Oise, France	1963	Nominated by Auguste Haury (1910–2002) the only time.[641]
	Yevgeny Yevtushenko	18 July 1932 Zima, Irkutsk, Russia	1 April 2017 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States	1963	Nominated by Konrad Bittner (1890–1967) the only time.[642]
	Rudolf Pfeiffer	20 September 1889 Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany	5 May 1979 Dachau, Bavaria, Germany	1963	Nominated by Will Richter (1910–1984) the only time.[643]
	Kate Roberts	13 February 1891 Rhosgadfan, Gwynedd, Wales	14 April 1985 Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales	1963	Nominated by Idris Foster (1911–1984) the only time.[644]
	André Breton	18 February 1896 Tinchebray-Bocage, Orne, France	28 September 1966 Paris, France	1963, 1964	[645]
	Ramón José Sender	3 February 1901 Chalamera, Huesca, Spain	16 February 1982 San Diego, California, United States	1963, 1964	[646]
	Jean Guéhenno	25 March 1890 Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine, France	22 September 1978 Paris, France	1963, 1964, 1965	Nominated by Edmond Jarno (1905–1985) each time.[647]
	Karl Löwith	9 January 1897 Munich, Germany	26 May 1973 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	1963, 1964, 1967	Nominated by Franz Dirlmeier (1904–1977) each time.[648]
	Charles de Gaulle	22 November 1890 Lille, Nord, France	9 November 1970 Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, Haute-Marne, France	1963, 1968	President of France (1959–1969).[649]
	Yukio Mishima	14 January 1925 Tokyo, Japan	25 November 1970 Tokyo, Japan	1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968	[650]
	Gustave Thibon	2 September 1903 Saint-Marcel-d'Ardèche, Ardèche, France	19 January 2001 Saint-Marcel-d'Ardèche, Ardèche, France	1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968	Nominated by Édouard Delebecque (1910–1990) each time.[651]
	Marcel Jouhandeau	26 July 1888 Guéret, Creuse, France	7 April 1979 Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, France	1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969	Nominated by Jean Gaulmier (1905–1997) each time.[652]
	Henri Queffélec	29 January 1910 Brest, Finistère, France	12 January 1992 Paris, France	1963, 1972	[653]
	Michel Butor	14 September 1926 Mons-en-Barœul, Nord, France	24 August 2016 Contamine-sur-Arve, Haute-Savoie, France	1963, 1964, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973	[654]
	Erico Verissimo	17 December 1905 Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	28 November 1975 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	1963, 1968, 1974	[655]
	Vladimir Nabokov	22 April 1899 Saint Petersburg, Russia	2 July 1977 Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland	1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974	[656]
	Léopold Sédar Senghor	9 October 1906 Joal-Fadiout, M'bour, Senegal	20 December 2001 Verson, Calvados, France	1963, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	1st President of Senegal (1960 – 1980). Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[657]
1964
	Miguel Ángel Asturias	19 October 1899 Guatemala City, Guatemala	9 June 1974 Madrid, Spain	1964, 1965, 1966, 1967	Awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature.[658]
	Harry Martinson	6 May 1904 Jämshög, Sweden	11 February 1978 Solna, Sweden	1964, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	Shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Eyvind Johnson[659]
	Camilo José Cela	11 May 1916 Padrón, A Coruña, Spain	17 January 2002 Madrid, Spain	1964, 1973, 1974	Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature.[660]
	Jérôme Carcopino	27 June 1881 Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure, France	17 March 1970 Paris, France	1964	Nominated by Pierre Grimal (1912–1996) the only time.[661]
	Jacques Perret	8 September 1901 Trappes, Yvelines, France	10 December 1992 Paris, France	1964	Nominated by Paul Pédech (1912–2005) the only time.[662]
	Jacques Pirenne	26 June 1891 Ghent, Belgium	7 September 1972 Hierges, Ardennes, France	1964	Nominated by Pierre Nothomb (1887–1966) the only time.[663]
	Ina Seidel	15 September 1885 Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany	2 October 1974 Schäftlarn, Bavaria, Germany	1964	Nominated by Günther Jachmann (1887–1979) the only time.[664]
	Pierre Emmanuel	3 May 1916 Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France	24 September 1984 Paris, France	1964, 1966	[665]
	Hossein Ghods-Nakhai	c. 1894 Sanur, Mazandaran, Iran	30 December 1977 Shiraz, Fars, Iran	1964, 1966	[666]
	Judith Wright	31 May 1915 Armidale, New South Wales, Australia	25 June 25, 2000 Canberra, Australia	1964, 1965, 1967	[667]
	Gunnar Ekelöf	15 September 1907 Stockholm, Sweden	16 March 1968 Sigtuna, Sweden	1964, 1968	[668]
	Hugh MacDiarmid	11 August 1892 Langholm, Dumfrieshire, Scotland	9 September 1978 Edinburgh, Scotland	1964, 1968	Nominated by David Daiches (1912–2005) each time.[669]
	Katherine Anne Porter	15 May 1890 Indian Creek, Texas, United States	18 September 1980 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States	1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968	[670]
	Paul Celan	23 November 1920 Chernivtsi, Bukovina, Ukraine	20 April 1970 Paris, France	1964, 1966, 1968, 1969	[671]
	James Thomas Farrell	27 February 1904 Chicago, Illinois, United States	22 August 1979 New York City, United States	1964, 1973	[672]
	Henri Michaux	24 May 1899 Namur, Belgium	19 October 1984 Paris, France	1964, 1973, 1974	[673]
	Robert Lowell	1 March 1917 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	12 September 1977 New York, United States	1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974	[674]
	José María Pemán	8 May 1897 Cádiz, Spain	19 July 1981 Cádiz, Spain	1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974	[675]
	Eugène Ionesco	26 November 1909 Slatina, Olt, Romania	28 March 1994 Paris, France	1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974	[676]
1965[677]
	Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno	11 September 1903 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany	6 August 1969 Visp, Valais, Switzerland	1965	Nominated by Helmut Viebrock (1912–1997) the only time.[678]
	Alceu Amoroso Lima	11 December 1893 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	14 August 1983 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1965	[679]
	Tudor Arghezi	21 May 1880 Bucharest, Romania	14 July 1967 Bucharest, Romania	1965	Nominated by Angelo Monteverdi (1886–1967) the only time.[680]
	Gilbert Cesbron	13 January 1913 Paris, France	12 August 1979 Paris, France	1965	Nominated by Pierre Jonin (1912–1997) the only time.[681]
	Sudhindra Nath Ghose	30 July 1899 Bardhaman, West Bengal, India	30 December 1965 London, England[682]	1965	Nominated by Henri de Ziégler (1885–1970) the only time.[683]
	Gopal Singh	29 November 1917 Amritsar, Punjab, India	8 August 1990 New Delhi, India	1965	[684]
	Giovannino Guareschi	1 May 1908 Roccabianca, Parma, Italy	22 July 1968 Cervia, Ravenna Italy	1965	Nominated by Mario Manlio Rossi (1895–1971) the only time.[685]
	Pêr-Jakez Helias	17 February 1914 Pouldreuzic, Finistère, France	13 August 1995 Quimper, Finistère, France	1965	Nominated by André Lebois (1915–1978) the only time.[686]
	Wilhelm Röpke	10 October 1899 Schwarmstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany	12 February 1966 Geneva, Switzerland	1965	Nominated by Olof Gigon (1912–1998) the only time.[687]
	Alan Sillitoe	4 March 1928 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England	25 April 2010 London, England	1965	Nominated by Robert Graves (1895–1985) the only time.[688]
	Carl Erik Soya	30 October 1896 Copenhagen, Denmark	10 November 1983 Rudkøbing, Langeland, Denmark	1965	[689]
	Henri Troyat	1 November 1911 Moscow, Russia	2 March 2007 Paris, France	1965	Nominated by Ernst Dickenmann (1902–1985) the only time.[690]
	Marguerite Yourcenar	8 June 1903 Brussels, Belgium	17 December 1987 Bar Harbor, Maine, United States	1965	Nominated by Ida-Marie Frandon (1907–1997) the only time.[691]
	Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui	21 December 1901 Portugalete, Biscay, Spain	31 May 1982 Madrid, Spain	1965	Nominated by Elie Poulenard (1901–1985) the only time.[692]
	Anna Akhmatova	23 June 1889 Odesa, Ukraine	5 March 1966 Domodedovo, Russia	1965, 1966	[693]
	Marie Luise Kaschnitz	31 January 1901 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	10 October 1974 Rome, Italy	1965, 1967	Nominated by Hermann Tiemann (1899–1981) each time.[694]
	Konstantin Paustovsky	31 May 1892 Moscow, Russia	14 July 1968 Moscow, Russia	1965, 1966, 1967, 1968	[695]
	Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh	13 January 1892 Isfahan, Iran	8 November 1997 Geneva, Switzerland	1965, 1967, 1969	[696]
	Alejo Carpentier	26 December 1904 Lausanne, Switzerland	24 April 1980 Paris, France	1965, 1966, 1967, 1971	[697]
	Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn Rahnamā	15 December 1894 Karbala, Iraq	1 July 1990 Tehran, Iran	1965, 1967, 1973, 1974	[698]
	Gyula Illyés	2 November 1902 Pálfa, Tolna, Hungary	15 April 1983 Budapest, Hungary	1965, 1966, 1972, 1973, 1974	[699]
1966[700]
	Günter Grass	16 October 1927 Free City of Danzig, Germany	13 April 2015 Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany	1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	Awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.[701]
	Carlo Emilio Gadda	14 November 1893 Milan, Italy	21 May 1973 Rome, Italy	1966	Nominated by Mario Pei (1901–1978) the only time.[702]
	Thierry Maulnier	1 October 1909 Alès, Gard, France	26 September 1988 Marnes-la-Coquette, Paris, France	1966	Nominated by Félix Carrère (1911–1991) the only time.[703]
	Henry Muller	21 August 1902 Muhlbach-sur-Bruche, Bas-Rhin, France	15 November 1980 Paris, France	1966	Nominated by Pierre Lyautey (1893–1976) the only time.[704]
	Walter Pabst	9 March 1907 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany	18 November 1992 Berlin, Germany	1966	Nominated by Günther Reichenkron (1907–1966) the only time.[705]
	Alexandre Arnoux	27 February 1884 Digne, France	5 January 1973 Paris, France	1966, 1968	Nominated by François Bar (?) each time.[706]
	Pierre-Henri Simon	16 January 1903 Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde, Charente-Maritime, France	20 September 1972 Ville-d'Avray, Paris, France	1966, 1968	[707]
	Arnold Wesker	24 May 1932 London, England	12 April 2016 Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England	1966, 1969	[708]
	Witold Gombrowicz	4 August 1904 Małoszyce, Świętokrzyskie, Poland	24 July 1969 Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France	1966, 1967, 1968, 1969	[709]
	Johan Borgen	28 April 1902 Oslo, Norway	16 October 1979 Hvaler, Norway	1966, 1974	Nominated by Harry Martinson (1904–1978) the only time.[710]
1967[711]
	Saul Bellow	10 June 1915 Lachine, Quebec, Canada	5 April 2005 Brookline, Massachusetts, United States	1967, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	Awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature.[712][713]
	Claude Simon	10 October 1913 Antananarivo, Madagascar	6 Jule 2005 Paris, France	1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	Awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature.[714][715]
	Arturo Capdevila	14 March 1889 Córdoba	20 December 1967 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1967	[716]
	Jean Genet	19 December 1910 Paris, France	15 April 1986 Paris, France	1967	Nominated by Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) the only time.[717]
	Lawrence Sargent Hall	23 April 1915 Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States	28 October 1993 Orr's Island, Maine, United States	1967	Nominated by Robert Brumbaugh (1918–1992) the only time.[718]
	Friedrich Georg Jünger	1 September 1898 Hanover, Germany	20 July 1977 Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	1967	Nominated by Fritz Schalk (1902–1980) the only time.[719]
	Basij Khalkhali	16 April 1918 Khalkhal, Iran	31 December 1995 Tehran, Iran	1967	Nominated by Sadeq Rezazadeh Shafaq (1892–1971) the only time.[720]
	György Lukács	13 April 1885 Budapest, Hungary	4 June 1971 Budapest, Hungary	1967	Nominated by Erik Lindegren (1910–1968) the only time.[721]
	André Pézard	22 June 1893 Paris, France	26 August 1984 Sault, Vaucluse, France	1967	Nominated by Wilhelm Theodor Elwert (1906–1997) the only time.[722]
	Pavlo Tychyna	23 January 1891 Pisky, Chernihiv, Ukraine	16 September 1967 Kiev, Ukraine	1967	Tychyna has died before the only chance to be rewarded. Nominated jointly with Ivan Drach by Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) the only time.[723][724]
	Lina Kostenko	19 March 1930 Rzhyshchiv, Obukhiv, Ukraine	—
	Ivan Drach	14 March 1936 Telizhyntsi, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine	19 June 2018 Kyiv, Ukraine	1967, 1969	Nominated by Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) each time.[725]
	Emil Boyson	4 September 1897 Bergen, Norway	2 June 1979 Oslo, Norway	1967, 1969	Nominated by Asbjørn Aarnes (1923–2013) each time.[726]
	Jorge Amado	10 August 1912 Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil	6 August 2001 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	[727]
	Hans Magnus Enzensberger	11 November 1929 Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, Germany	24 November 2022 Munich, Germany	1967, 1974	[728]
	Carlos Drummond de Andrade	31 October 1902 Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil	17 August 1987 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1967, 1969, 1974	[729]
	Germán Pardo García	19 July 1902 Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia	23 August 1991 Mexico City, Mexico	1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974	[730]
	Rabbe Enckell	3 March 1903 Tammela, Kanta-Häme, Finland	17 June 1974 Helsinki, Finland	1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[731]
1968[732]
	Patrick White	28 May 1912 Knightsbridge, London, England	30 September 1990 Sydney, Australia	1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	Awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.[733][734]
	Mildred Mathews Breedlove	27 May 1904 Coal Hill, Arkansas, United States	14 August 1994 Ferron, Utah, United States	1968	[735]
	Konstantin Fedin	24 February 1892 Saratov, Russia	15 July 1977 Moscow, Russia	1968	[736]
	Zbigniew Herbert	29 October 1924 Lviv, Ukraine	28 July 1998 Warsaw, Poland	1968	Nominated jointly with Graham Greene and Sławomir Mrożek by Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) the only time.[737]
	Marianne Moore	15 November 1887 Kirkwood, Missouri, United States	5 February 1972 New York City, United States	1968	Nominated by Erik Lindegren (1910–1968) the only time.[738]
	Peter Vansittart	27 August 1920 Bedford, Bedfordshire, England	4 October 2008 Ipswich, Suffolk, England	1968	Nominated by Herbert Howarth (1900-1971) the only time.[739]
	Kazimierz Wierzyński	27 August 1894 Drohobych, Ukraine	13 February 1969 London, England	1968	Nominated by unnamed nominator the only time.[740]
	Joseph Delteil	20 April 1894 Villar-en-Val, Aude, France	16 April 1978 Grabels, Hérault, France	1968, 1969	[741]
	Claude Lévi-Strauss	28 November 1908 Brussels, Belgium	30 October 2009 Paris, France	1968, 1969	[742]
	Agustí Bartra	8 November 1908 Barcelona, Spain	7 July 1982 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain	1968, 1969, 1970	Nominated by Manuel Durán (1925–2020) each time.[743]
	Friedebert Tuglas	2 March 1886 Ahja, Põlva, Estonia	15 April 1971 Tallinn, Estonia	1968, 1969, 1970	[744][745]
	Angus Wilson	11 August 1913 Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England	31 May 1991 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England	1968, 1971	[746]
	Luis Buñuel	22 February 1900 Calanda, Teruel, Spain	29 July 1983 Mexico City, Mexico	1968, 1972	[747]
	Edward Compton Mackenzie	17 January 1883 West Hartlepool, Durham, England	30 November 1972 Edinburgh, Scotland	1968, 1970, 1971, 1972	[748]
	Sławomir Mrożek	29 June 1930 Borzęcin, Brzesko, Poland	15 August 2013 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France	1968, 1972	[749]
	G. L. Martin-Saint-René	22 November 1888 Paris, France	21 January 1973 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France	1968, 1969, 1972, 1973	[750]
	Segismundo Masel	1895 Argentina	1985 Argentina	1968, 1974	Nominated by Antonio de Tornes Ballesteros (?) each time.[751]
	Tadeusz Różewicz	9 October 1921 Radomsko, Poland	24 April 2014 Wrocław, Poland	1968, 1971, 1973, 1974	[752]
	Vladimír Holan	16 September 1905 Prague, Czech Republic	31 March 1980 Kampa Island, Prague, Czech Republic	1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[753]
1969[754]
	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	11 December 1918 Kislovodsk, Russia	3 August 2008 Moscow, Russia	1969, 1970	Awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature.[755]
	Elias Canetti	25 July 1905 Ruse, Bulgaria	14 August 1994 Zürich, Switzerland	1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	Awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature.[756]
	Jean Cassou	9 July 1897 Bilbao, Biscay, Spain	16 January 1986 Paris, France	1969	Nominated by Giannēs Koutsocheras (1904–1994) the only time.[757]
	Georges Dumézil	4 March 1898 Paris, France	11 October 1986 Paris, France	1969	Nominated by Marcel Bataillon (1895–1977) the only time.[758]
	Louis Guilloux	15 January 1899 Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, France	14 October 1980 Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, France	1969	Nominated by Jean-Bertrand Barrère (1914–1985).[759]
	Yasushi Inoue	6 May 1907 Asahikawa, Kamikawa, Japan	29 January 1991 Tokyo, Japan	1969	Nominated by Erich Ruprecht (1906–1997) the only time.[760]
	Bernhard Karlgren	15 October 1889 Jönköping, Sweden	20 October 1978 Stockholm, Sweden	1969	Nominated by Walter Fuchs (1914–1993) the only time.[761]
	Robert Pinget	19 July 1919 Geneva, Switzerland	25 August 1997 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France	1969	Nominated jointly with Vladimír Holan and Carlos Drummond de Andrade by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) the only time.[762]
	Anthony Powell	21 December 1905 Westminster, England	19 October 1999 Frome, Somerset, England	1969	Nominated by Jean Hamard (1920-2012) the only time.[763]
	Raymond Queneau	21 February 1903 Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France	25 October 1976 Paris, France	1969	Nominated by T. van den Heuvel (?) the only time.[764]
	Jean Rateau-Landeville	23 December 1894 Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France	14 February 1972 Bordeaux, Gironde, France	1969	Nominated by Pierre Flottes (1895–1994) the only time.[765]
	Gustave Roud	20 April 1897 Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz, Vaud, Switzerland	10 November 1976 Moudon, Vaud, Switzerland	1969	Nominated by Henri Perrochon (1899–1990) the only time.[766]
	Nathalie Sarraute	18 July 1900 Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Russia	19 October 1999 Paris, France	1969	Nominated by Lars Gyllensten (1921–2006) the only time.[767]
	Ton Smerdel	21 April 1904 Silba, Croatia	20 August 1970 Zagreb, Croatia	1969	Nominated by Christiaan Alphonsus van den Berk (1919–1979) the only time.[768]
	Hồ Hữu Tường	8 May 1910 Thường Thạnh, Cái Răng, Vietnam	26 June 1980 Saigon, Vietnam	1969	Nominated by Đông Hồ (1906–1969) the only time.[769]
	Jerzy Andrzejewski	19 August 1909 Warsaw, Poland	19 April 1983 Warsaw, Poland	1969, 1970, 1971	[770]
	Karl Krolow	11 March 1915 Hanover, Germany	26 July 1999 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany	1969, 1971	Nominated by Emil Ernst Ploss (1925–1972) each time.[771]
	Jacques Maritain	18 November 1882 Paris, France	28 April 1973 Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France	1969, 1971	Nominated by Charles Dédéyan (1910–2003) each time.[772]
	Alain Robbe-Grillet	18 August 1922 Brest, Finistère, France	18 February 2008 Caen, Calvados, France	1969, 1971	Nominated by Henry Olsson (1896–1985) each time.[773]
	Edward Albee	12 March 1928 Washington, D.C., United States	16 September 2016 Montauk, New York, United States	1969, 1971, 1972	[774]
	Aimé Césaire	26 June 1913 Basse-Pointe, Martinique	17 April 2008 Fort-de-France, Martinique	1969, 1970, 1971, 1972	[775]
	Tawfiq al-Hakim	9 October 1898 Alexandria, Egypt	26 July 1987 Cairo, Egypt	1969, 1972	[776][777]
	Hugh MacLennan	20 March 1907 Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada	9 November 1990 Montreal, Quebec, Canada	1969, 1970, 1971, 1972	Nominated by Lawrence Lande (1906–1998) each time.[778]
	Arthur Miller	17 October 1915 Harlem, New York City, United States	10 February 2005 Roxbury, Connecticut, United States	1969, 1971, 1973	[779]
	Hans Ruin	18 June 1891 Helsinki, Finland	3 November 1980 Stockholm, Sweden	1969, 1970, 1971, 1973	Nominated by Arthur Arnholtz (1901–1973) each time.[780]
	Hannu Salama	4 October 1936 Kouvola, Kymenlaakso, Finland	—	1969, 1973	[781]
	Siegfried Lenz	17 March 1926 Lyck, Poland	7 October 2014 Hamburg, Germany	1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974	[782]
	Mécs László	17 January 1895 Kostoľany nad Hornádom, Košice-okolie, Slovakia	9 November 1978 Pannonhalma, Hungary	1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974	[783]
	Zaharia Stancu	7 October 1902 Salcia, Teleorman, Romania	5 December 1974 Bucharest, Romania	1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[784]
	Gerard Walschap	9 July 1898 Londerzeel-Sint-Jozef, Belgium	25 October 1989 Antwerp, Belgium	1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[785]

Nominees are published 50 years later so 1975 nominees should be published at the beginning of 2026.

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1970[786]
	Eugen Barbu	20 February 1924 Bucharest, Romania	7 September 1993 Bucharest, Romania	1970	Nominated by Alexandru Rosetti (1895–1990) the only time.[787]
	Hugo Bergmann	25 December 1883 Prague, Czech Republic	18 June 1975 Jerusalem, Israel	1970	Nominated by André Neher (1914–1988) the only time.[788]
	Heðin Brú	17 August 1901 Skálavík, Faroe Islands	18 May 1987 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	1970	Nominated by Ólavur Michelsen (1933–1978) the only time.[789]
	Robert Ganzo	22 August 1898 Caracas, Venezuela	6 April 1995 Boulogne-Billancourt, France	1970	Nominated by André Lebois (1915–1978) the only time.[790]
	Youssef Durra al-Haddad	1913 Yabroud, Rif Dimashq, Syria	1979 Lebanon	1970	Nominated by Fouad E. Boustany (1904–1994) the only time.[791]
	Sei Itō	16 January 1905 Otaru, Japan	15 November 1969 Tokyo, Japan	1970	Nominated jointly (Itō - posthumously) by Serizawa Kōjirō (1897–1993) the only time.[792][793]
	Tatsuzō Ishikawa	2 July 1905 Yokote, Akita, Japan	31 January 1985 Tokyo, Japan
	Yi Kwang-su	1 February 1892 Chongju, North P'yŏngan, North Korea	25 October 1950 Manpo, Chagang, North Korea	1970	Posthumously nominated by Chull Paik (1908–1985) the only time.[794]
	Alexander Lernet-Holenia	21 October 1897 Vienna, Austria	3 July 1976 Vienna, Austria	1970	Nominated by Hilde Spiel (1911–1990) the only time.[795]
	Emilio Oribe	13 April 1893 Melo, Cerro Largo, Uruguay	24 May 1975 Montevideo, Uruguay	1970	Nominated by Sarah Bollo (1904–1987) the only time.[796]
	Lluís Valeri i Sahís	18 September 1891 Barcelona, Spain	April 1971 Barcelona, Spain	1970	Nominated by Antoni Griera i Gaja (1887–1973) the only time.[797]
	Frank Waters	25 July 1902 Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States	3 June 1995 Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, United States	1970	Nominated by Thomas J. Lyon (born 1937) the only time.[798]
	Saunders Lewis	15 July 1893 Wallasey, Merseyside, England	1 September 1985 Cardiff, Wales	1970, 1972	Nominated by John Ellis Caerwyn Williams (1912–1999) each time.[799]
	Harold Macmillan	10 February 1894 Belgravia, London, England	29 December 1986 Chelwood Gate, East Sussex, England	1970, 1972	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1957–1963) Nominated by Carl Becker (1925–1973) each time.[800]
	Pandelis Prevelakis	18 February 1909 Rethymno, Greece	15 March 1986 Ekali, Kifisia, Greece	1970, 1972	Nominated by Kariophilēs Mētsakēs (1932–2013) each time.[801]
	Denis de Rougemont	8 September 1906 Couvet, Neuchâtel, Switzerland	6 December 1985 Geneva, Switzerland	1970, 1972	[802]
	Evaristo Ribera Chevremont	16 February 1890 San Juan, Puerto Rico	1 March 1976 San Juan, Puerto Rico	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	[803]
	Amado Magcalas Yuzon	30 August 1906 Guagua, Pampanga, Philippines	17 January 1979 Manila, Philippines	1970, 1973	[804]
	Victoria Ocampo	7 April 1890 Buenos Aires, Argentina	27 January 1979 Béccar, Buenos Aires, Argentina	1970, 1974	[805]
	Abraham Sutzkever	15 July 1913 Smarhoń, Belarus	20 January 2010 Tel Aviv, Israel	1970, 1972, 1974	Nominated by Joseph Leftwich (1892–1984) each time.[806]
	Mikhail Naimy	17 October 1889 Baskinta, Matn, Lebanon	28 February 1988 Beirut, Lebanon	1970, 1971, 1972, 1974	[807]
	Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca	26 August 1914 Istanbul, Türkiye	15 October 2008 Istanbul, Türkiye	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[808]
	Salvador Espriu	10 July 1913 Santa Coloma de Farners, Girona, Spain	22 February 1985 Barcelona, Spain	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[809]
	Paavo Juhani Haavikko	25 January 1931 Helsinki, Finland	6 October 2008 Helsinki, Finland	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[810]
	Sándor Weöres	22 June 1913 Szombathely, Vas, Hungary	22 January 1989 Budapest, Hungary	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	Nominated by Áron Kibédi Varga (1930–2018) each time.[811]
1971[812]
	William Golding	19 September 1911 Newquay, Cornwall, England	19 June 1993 Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England	1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	Awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.[813]
	Elie Wiesel	30 September 1928 Sighet, Maramureș, Romania	2 July 2016 Manhattan, New York City, United States	1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	Awarded the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.[814]
	José María Arguedas	18 January 1911 Andahuaylas, Peru	2 December 1969 Jesús María District, Lima, Peru	1971	Posthumously nominated by Elie Poulenard (1901–1985) the only time.[815]
	James Baldwin	2 August 1924 New York City, United States	1 December 1987 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France	1971	Nominated by Jacob Louis Mey (1926–2023) the only time.[816]
	Mykola Platonovych Bazhan	9 October 1904 Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine	23 November 1983 Kiev, Ukraine	1971	Nominated by Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) the only time.[817]
	Jawad Boulos	1 January 1900 Zghorta, Lebanon	16 September 1982 Beirut, Lebanon	1971	Nominated jointly with Georges Schéhadé by Camille Aboussouan (1919–2013) the only time.[818]
	Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil	9 April 1902 Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England	1 January 1986 Cranborne, East Dorset, England	1971	Nominated by Leslie Poles Hartley (1895–1972) the only time.[819]
	Tsendiin Damdinsüren	14 September 1908 Matad, Dornod, Mongolia	27 May 1986 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	1971	Nominated by Walther Heissig (1913–2005) the only time.[820]
	Paul Demiéville	13 September 1894 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland	23 March 1979 Paris, France	1971	Nominated by Martin Gimm (born 1930) the only time.[821]
	Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix	29 November 1890 Decize, Nièvre, France	8 September 1980 Alicante, Spain	1971	Nominated by Yves Gandon (1899–1975) the only time.[822]
	Younghill Kang	5 June 1898 Hongwon, South Hamgyŏng, North Korea	2 December 1972 Satellite Beach, Florida, United States	1971	Nominated by Robert Payne (1911–1983) the only time.[823]
	Richard Eun Kook Kim	13 March 1932 Hamhung, South Hamgyŏng, North Korea	23 June 2009 Shutesbury, Massachusetts, United States	1971	Nominated by Chull Paik (1908–1985) the only time.[824]
	Archibald MacLeish	7 May 1892 Glencoe, Illinois, United States	20 April 1982 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1971	Nominated by William Scovil Anderson (1927–2022) the only time.[825]
	Miquel Melendres i Rué	11 March 1902 Girona, Spain	10 March 1974 Tarragona, Spain	1971	Nominated by Antoni Griera i Gaja (1887–1973) the only time.[826]
	Fritiof Nilsson Piraten	4 December 1895 Vollsjö, Sweden	31 January 1972 Malmö, Sweden	1971	Nominated by Bertil Ejder (1916–2005) the only time.[827]
	Shih Robert (Shi Jieyun)[828]	19 May 1926 Zhejiang, China	5 May 1983	1971	Nominated by Étienne Lamotte (1903–1983) the only time.[829]
	Henry William Williamson	1 December 1895 Brockley, London, England	13 August 1977 Twyford Abbey, London, England	1971	Nominated by Petronella O'Flanagan (?) the only time.[830]
	Philip A. Larkin	9 August 1922 Coventry, West Midlands, England	2 December 1985 Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England	1971, 1972	Nominated by Jørgen Læssøe (1924–1993) each time.[831]
	Georges Schéhadé	2 November 1905 Alexandria, Egypt	17 January 1989 Paris, France	1971, 1972	[832]
	Arno Schmidt	18 January 1914 Hamburg, Germany	3 June 1979 Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany	1971, 1972	[833]
	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay	23 July 1898 Labhpur, West Bengal, India	14 September 1971 Kolkata, West Bengal, India	1971, 1972, 1973	Died before the only chance to be awarded.[834]
	Romain Gary	21 May 1914 Vilnius, Lithuania	2 December 1980 Paris, France	1971, 1972, 1973	Nominated by Walther Hinz (1906–1992) each time.[835]
	Arthur Koestler	5 September 1905 Budapest, Hungary	1 March 1983 London, England	1971, 1974	[836]
	Yiannis Ritsos	1 May 1909 Monemvasia, Greece	11 November 1990 Athens, Greece	1971, 1972, 1973, 1974	[837]
	José García Villa	5 August 1908 Manila, Philippines	7 February 1997 New York City, United States	1971, 1973, 1974	[838]
1972[839]
	Odysseas Elytis	2 November 1911 Heraklion, Crete, Greece	18 March 1996 Athens, Greece	1972, 1973, 1974	Awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature.[840]
	Nadine Gordimer	20 November 1923 Springs, Gauteng, South Africa	13 July 2014 Johannesburg, South Africa	1972, 1973, 1974	Awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.[841]
	Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul	17 August 1932 Chaguanas, Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago	11 August 2018 London, England	1972, 1973, 1974	Awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature.[842]
	Doris Lessing	22 October 1919 Kermanshah, Iran	17 November 2013 London, England	1972, 1973, 1974	Awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.[843]
	Said Akl	4 July 1911 Zahlé, Beqaa, Lebanon	28 November 2014 Beirut, Lebanon	1972	[844]
	Austin Clarke	9 May 1896 Stoneybatter, Dublin, Ireland	19 March 1974 Templeogue, Dublin, Ireland	1972	[845]
	Jacob Glatstein	20 August 1896 Lublin, Poland	19 November 1971 New York City, United States	1972	Nominatedby Moshe Starkman (1906–1975) the only time.[846] Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Joseph Heller	1 May 1923 Brooklyn, New York, United States	12 December 1999 East Hampton, New York, United States	1972	Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) the only time.[847]
	Stanislaus Lynch	1907 Ballyjamesduff, Ireland	15 July 1983 Dunsany, Ireland	1972	Nominated by Desmond Clarke (1907–1979) the only time.[848]
	Pak Tu-jin	10 March 1916 Anseong, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea	16 September 1998 Seoul, South Korea	1972	Nominated by Chull Paik (1908–1985) the only time.[849]
	Alan Paton	11 January 1903 Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	12 April 1988 Botha's Hill, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	1972	Nominated by Astley Cooper Partridge (1901–?) the only time.[850]
	Philip Roth	19 March 1933 Newark, New Jersey, United States	22 May 2018 New York City, United States	1972	Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) the only time.[851]
	Francis Stuart	29 April 1902 Townsville, Queensland, Australia	2 February 2000 Fanore, County Clare, Ireland	1972	Nominated by Desmond Clarke (1907–1979) the only time.[852]
	Vu Hoang Chuong	14 May 1915 Phù Ủng, Vietnam	6 September 1976 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	1972	Nominated by Thanh Lãng (1924–1978) the only time.[853]
	Aaron Zeitlin	3 June 1898 Uvarovichi, Belarus	28 September 1973 Queens, New York, United States	1972	Nominated by Moshe Starkman (1906–1975) the only time.[854]
	Suniti Kumar Chatterji	26 November 1890 Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal, India	29 May 1977 Calcutta, West Bengal, India	1972, 1973	[855]
	Manbohdan Lal	—	—	1972, 1973	[856]
	Veijo Meri	31 December 1928 Viipuri, Finland	21 June 2015 Helsinki, Finland	1972, 1973	[857]
	Astrid Lindgren	14 November 1907 Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden	28 January 2002 Stockholm, Sweden	1972, 1974	[858]
	Louis Paul Boon	15 March 1912 Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium	10 May 1979 Erembodegem, East Flanders, Belgium	1972, 1973, 1974	[859]
	Anthony Burgess	25 February 1917 Harpurhey, Manchester, England	22 November 1993 St John's Wood, London, England	1972, 1973, 1974	Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) each time.[860]
	Sri Chinmoy	27 August 1931 Chittagong, Bangladesh	11 October 2007 New York City, United States	1972, 1973, 1974	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.[861]
	Julien Green	6 September 1900 Paris, France	13 August 1998 Paris, France	1972, 1973, 1974	[862]
	Ferenc Juhász	16 August 1928 Biatorbágy, Pest, Hungary	2 December 2015 Budapest, Hungary	1972, 1973, 1974	Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) each time.[863]
	Norman Mailer	31 January 1923 Long Branch, New Jersey, United States	10 November 2007 Manhattan, New York City, United States	1972, 1973, 1974	[864]
	Bernard Malamud	26 April 1914 Brooklyn, New York, United States	18 March 1986 Manhattan, New York City, United States	1972, 1973, 1974	[865]
	Frederick Manfred	6 January 1912 Doon, Iowa, United States	7 September 1994 Luverne, Minnesota, United States	1972, 1973, 1974	[866]
1973[867]
	Vicente Aleixandre	26 April 1898 Seville, Spain	14 December 1984 Madrid, Spain	1973, 1974	Awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Literature.[868]
	Isaac Bashevis Singer	21 November 1902 Leoncin, Nowy Dwór, Poland	24 July 1991 Surfside, Florida, United States	1973, 1974	Awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature.[869]
	Conrad Potter Aiken	5 August 1889 Savannah, Georgia, United States	17 August 1973 Savannah, Georgia, United States	1973	Nominated by Samuel Frederick Johnson (1918–2005) the only time.[870] Died before the only chance to be awarded.
	Antonio Aniante	2 January 1900 Viagrande, Catania, Italy	6 November 1983 Ventimiglia, Imperia, Italy	1973	Nominated by Vittorio Vettori (1920–2004) the only time.[871]
	Chiang Yee	19 May 1903 Chaisang, Jiujiang, China	26 October 1977 Beijing, China	1973	Nominated by Lo Hsiang-lin (1906–1978) the only time.[872]
	Albert Cohen	16 August 1895 Corfu, Greece	17 October 1981 Geneva, Switzerland	1973	Nominated by Joseph Kessel (1898–1979) the only time.[873]
	Indira Devi Dhanrajgir	17 August 1930 Hyderabad, Telangana, India	—	1973	Nominated by Krishna Srinivas (1913–2007) the only time.[874]
	Xu Xu	11 November 1908 Cixi, Zhejiang, China	5 October 1980 Hong Kong	1973	Nominated by Lee Chiu-seng (?) the only time.[875]
	Eugen Jebeleanu	24 April 1911 Câmpina, Prahova, Romania	21 August 1991 Bucharest, Romania	1973	[876]
	Zenta Mauriņa	15 December 1897 Lejasciems, Gulbene, Latvia	25 April 1978 Basel, Switzerland	1973	Nominated by Mārtiņš Zīverts (1903–1990) the only time.[877]
	Henry Miller	26 December 1891 Yorkville, New York, United States	7 June 1980 Los Angeles, California, United States	1973	Nominated by Allan Philip (1927–2004) the only time.[878]
	John Crowe Ransom	30 April 1888 Pulaski, Tennessee, United States	3 July 1974 Gambier, Ohio, United States	1973	Nominated by Samuel Frederick Johnson (1918–2005) the only time.[879]
	Martin Wickramasinghe	29 May 1890 Koggala, Sri Lanka	23 July 1976 Colombo, Sri Lanka	1973	Nominated by Ediriweera Sarachchandra (1914–1996) the only time.[880]
	Paul Voivenel	24 September 1880 Séméac, Hautes-Pyrénées, France	9 June 1975 Pamiers, Ariège, France	1973	Nominated by Roland Dorgelès (1885–1973) the only time.[881]
	Miodrag Bulatović	20 February 1930 Okladi, Bijelo Polje, Montenegro	15 March 1991 Igalo, Herceg Novi, Montenegro	1973, 1974	[882]
	Adolfo Costa du Rels	19 June 1891 Sucre, Chuquisaca, Bolivia	May 26, 1980 La Paz, Bolivia	1973, 1974	Nominated by Humberto Palza (1900–1975) each time.[883]
	Yaşar Kemal	6 October 1923 Gökçedam, Osmaniye, Türkiye	28 February 2015 Istanbul, Türkiye	1973, 1974	[884]
	Pratap Narayan Tandon	c. 1935 Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India	—	1973, 1974	[885]
1974[886]
	Czesław Miłosz	30 June 1911 Šeteniai, Kėdainiai, Lithuania	14 August 2004 Kraków, Poland	1974	Awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Octavio Paz	31 March 1914 Mexico City, Mexico	19 April 1998 Mexico City, Mexico	1974	Awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Kenzaburō Ōe	31 January 1935 Uchiko, Ehime, Japan	3 March 2023 Tokyo, Japan	1974	Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Harold Pinter	10 October 1930 London, England	24 December 2008 London, England	1974	Awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Rafael Alberti	16 December 1902 El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, Spain	28 October 1999 El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, Spain	1974	Nominated by Johannes Edfelt (1904–1997) the only time.
	Gwen Bristow	16 September 1903 Marion, South Carolina, United States	17 August 1980 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States	1974	Nominated by Lorenz B. Graham (1902–1989) the only time.
	Chen Minghua	December 1950 Zhengning, Gansu, China	—	1974	Nominated by Emeterio Barcelón Barceló-Soriano (1897-1978) the only time.
	Kamala Surayya-Das	31 March 1934 Punnayurkulam, Kerala, India	31 May 2009 Pune, Maharashtra, India	1974, 1984	Nominated by K. P. Kannan (?) the only time.[887]
	Argentina Díaz Lozano	5 December 1909 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras	13 August 1999 Tegucigalpa, Honduras	1974
	Ralph Ellison	1 March 1913 Oklahoma City, United States	16 April 1994 New York City, United States	1974	Nominated by Henri Peyre (1901–1988) the only time.
	Armand Gatti	26 January 1924 Monte Carlo, Monaco	6 April 2017 Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France	1974	Nominated by Volker Klotz (1930–2023) the only time.
	G. Floran	—	—	1974	Nominated by Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994) the only time.
	Uwe Johnson	20 July 1934 Kamień Pomorski, Kamień, Poland	22 February 1984 Sheerness, Kent, England	1974	Nominated by Sheila St. Clair (?) the only time.
	Brendan Kennelly	17 April 1936 Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland	17 October 2021 Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland	1974	Nominated by John B. Keane (1928–2002) the only time.
	Eduardo Mallea	14 August 1904 Bahia Blanca, Argentina	12 November 1982 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1974	Nominated by Manuel Durán (1925–2020) the only time.
	Herbert Marcuse	19 July 1898 Berlin, Germany	29 July 1979 Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany	1974	Nominated by Hans Mayer (1907–2001) the only time.
	R. K. Narayan	10 October 1901 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India	13 May 2001 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India	1974
	Francis Ponge	27 March 1899 Montpellier, Hérault, France	6 August 1988 Le Bar-sur-Loup, Alpes-Maritimes, France	1974	Nominated by Michael Riffaterre (1907–2001) the only time.
	Stephen Spender	28 February 1909 Kensington, England	16 July 1995 Westminster, England	1974	Nominated by Barbara Hardy (1924–2016) the only time.
	Isidor Feinstein Stone	24 December 1907 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	18 July 1989 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1974	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Antonio Buero Vallejo	29 September 1916 Guadalajara, Spain	29 April 2000 Madrid, Spain	1974	Nominated by Juan Contreras López de Ayala (1893–1978) the only time.
	Louise Weiss	25 January 1893 Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France	26 May 1983 Paris, France	1974	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
1975
	Jorge Carrera Andrade	18 September 1903 Quito, Ecuador	7 November 1978 Quito, Ecuador	1975	[888]
	Kim Chi-ha	4 February 1941 Mokpo, South Jeolla, South Korea	8 May 2022 Wonju, Gangwon, South Korea	1975	[889]
	Anja Lundholm	28 April 1918 Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany	4 August 2007 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany	1975	[890]
	Ba Jin	25 November 1904 Chengdu, Sichuan, China	17 October 2005 Shanghai, China	1975, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1996, 2001	[891][892]

Despite the rule of keeping the nominations secret for 50 years, a number of literary organizations and academies revealed publicly their favored nominees.^[893][894] The following names, though verified and features their respective years, are yet still to be organized as they may have been nominated in earlier years.

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1976
	Anaïs Nin	21 February 1903 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France	14 January 1977 Los Angeles, California, United States	1976	[895]
1977
	Francisco Matos Paoli	9 March 1915 Lares, Puerto Rico	10 July 2000 San Juan, Puerto Rico	1977	[896]
1978
1979
	Gerardo Melo Mourão	8 January 1917 Ipueiras, Ceará, Brazil	9 March 2007 Humaitá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1979	[897]
	Manuel Scorza	9 September 1928 Lima, Peru	27 November 1983 Mejorada del Campo, Madrid, Spain	1979	[898]
	Nichita Stănescu	31 March 1933 Ploiești, Prahova, Romania	13 December 1983 Bucharest, Romania	1979, 1980	[899]
	André Brink	19 May 1935 Vrede, Free State, South Africa	6 February 2015 on a flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to South Africa	1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1991, 2004	[900]
	Joyce Carol Oates	16 June 1938 Lockport, New York, United States	—	1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007	[901]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1980
	Gabriel García Márquez	6 March 1927 Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia	17 April 2014 Mexico City, Mexico	1980, 1981, 1982	Awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Mario Vargas Llosa	28 March 1936 Arequipa, Peru	—	1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010	Awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Peter Abrahams	3 March 1919 Vrededorp, Gauteng, South Africa	18 January 2017 Saint Andrew, Surrey, Jamaica	1980
	Leszek Kołakowski	23 October 1927 Radom, Poland	17 July 2009 Oxford, England	1980
	Giorgio Nurigiani	23 September 1892 Livorno, Italy	7 May 1981 Rome, Italy	1980	[902]
	Juan Carlos Onetti	1 July 1909 Montevideo, Uruguay	30 May 1994 Madrid, Spain	1980	[903]
	Mongo Beti	30 June 1932 Mbalmayo, Nyong-et-So'o, Cameroon	8 October 2001 Douala, Cameroon	1980, 1984
1981
	Irving Layton	12 March 1912 Târgu Neamț, Romania	4 January 2006 Montreal, Québec, Canada	1981	[904]
	Fernando Namora	15 April 1919 Condeixa-a-Nova, Coimbra, Portugal	31 January 1989 Lisbon, Portugal	1981	[905]
	Mary Kawena Pukui	20 April 1895 Kau, Hawaii, United States	21 May 1986 Honolulu, Hawaii, United States	1981	[906]
	Yury Trifonov	28 August 1925 Moscow, Russia	28 March 1981 Moscow, Russia	1981	[907]
	Biagio Marin	29 June 1891 Grado, Gorizia, Italy	24 December 1985 Grado, Gorizia, Italy	1981, 1982	[908]
1982
	Derek Walcott	23 January 1930 Castries, Saint Lucia	17 March 2017 Cap Estate, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia	1982, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992	Awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	John Barth	27 May 1930 Cambridge, Maryland, United States	2 April 2024 Bonita Springs, Florida, United States	1982
	Julio Cortázar	26 August 1914 Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium	12 February 1984 Paris, France	1982
	Manuel Puig	28 December 1932 General Villegas, Buenos Aires, Argentina	22 July 1990 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico	1982
	Juan Rulfo	16 May 1917 Apulco, Jalisco, Mexico	7 January 1986 Mexico City, Mexico	1982	[909]
	Josef Škvorecký	27 September 1924 Náchod, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic	3 January 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada	1982	[910]
	Kurt Vonnegut	11 November 1922 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States	11 April 2007 Manhattan, New York, United States	1982
1983
	Wole Soyinka	13 July 1934 Abeokuta, Ogun, Nigeria	—	1983, 1984, 1985, 1986	Awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Faiz Ahmad Faiz	13 February 1911 Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan	20 November 1984 Lahore, Pakistan	1983
	William Styron	11 June 1925 Newport News, Virginia, United States	1 November 2006 Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States	1983
	Breyten Breytenbach	16 September 1939 Bonnievale, Western Cape, South Africa	24 November 2024 Paris, France	1983, 1989, 1991
1984
	Andrée Chedid	20 March 1920 Cairo, Egypt	6 February 2011 Paris, France	1984
	Ahmad Shamlou	12 December 1925 Tehran, Iran	23 July 2000 Karaj, Alborz, Iran	1984	[911]
	Yusuf Idris	19 May 1927 Faqous, Sharqia, Egypt	1 August 1991 London, England	1984, 1988
	Kōbō Abe	7 March 1924 Kita, Tokyo, Japan	22 January 1993 Tokyo, Japan	1984, 1987, 1991
	Giuseppe Bonaviri	11 July 1924 Mineo, Catania, Italy	21 March 2009 Frosinone, Italy	1984, 2002, 2004	[912][913]
	Milan Kundera	1 April 1929 Královo Pole, Brno, Czechia	11 July 2023 Paris, France	1984, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
1985
	John Maxwell Coetzee	9 February 1940 Cape Town, South Africa	—	1985, 1989, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003	Awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Ding Ling	12 October 1904 Linli, Hunan, China	4 March 1986 Beijing, China	1985
	Édouard Glissant	21 September 1928 Sainte-Marie, Martinique	3 February 2011 Paris, France	1985, 1990, 1992, 2003, 2004
	Nicolás Guillén	10 July 1902 Camagüey, Cuba	16 July 1989 Havana, Cuba	1985	[914]
	Nick Joaquin	4 May 1917 Paco, Manila, Philippines	29 May 2004 San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines	1985	[915]
	Kim Dongni	24 November 1913 Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang, South Korea	17 June 1995 Seoul, South Korea	1985
	Patrick D. Smith	8 October 1927 D'Lo, Mississippi, United States	26 January 2014 Merritt Island, Florida, United States	1985	[916]
	Vasyl Stus	6 January 1938 Rakhnivka, Vinnytsia, Ukraine	4 September 1985 Perm-36, Kuchino, Vologda, Russia	1985, 1986	[917]
	Susan Howe	10 June 1937 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	—	1985, 1987
	Francisco Sionil Jose	3 December 1924 Rosales, Pangasinan, Philippines	6 January 2022 Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines	1985, 1994, 2006	[918][919]
	Pramoedya Ananta Toer	6 February 1925 Blora, Central Java, Indonesia	20 April 2006 Jakarta, Indonesia	1985, 1986, 1989, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2005	[920][921]
	Michel Tournier	19 December 1924 Paris, France	18 January 2016 Choisel, Yvelines, France	1985, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007
	Chinghiz Aitmatov	12 December 1928 Sheker, Kara-Buura, Kyrgyzstan	10 June 2008 Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany	1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2005, 2008	[922]
	Carlos Fuentes	11 November 1928 Panama City, Panama	15 May 2012 Mexico City, Mexico	1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
1986
	Albino Pierro	19 November 1916 Tursi, Matera, Italy	23 March 1995 Rome, Italy	1986, 1988	[923]
1987
	Joseph Brodsky	24 May 1940 Saint Petersburg, Russia	28 January 1996 Brooklyn Heights, New York, United States	1987	Awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Roman Brandstaetter	3 January 1906 Tarnów, Poland	28 September 1987 Poznań, Poland	1987	[924]
	Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi	25 December 1922 Fez, Morocco	23 August 1993 Rabat, Morocco	1987	[925]
	Thomas Bernhard	9 February 1931 Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands	12 February 1989 Gmunden, Austria	1987, 1988
	Danilo Kiš	22 February 1935 Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia	15 October 1989 Paris, France	1987, 1989	[926]
	Václav Havel	5 October 1936 Prague, Czech Republic	18 October 2011 Vlčice, Trutnov, Czech Republic	1987, 2005	Last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992)
	Christa Wolf	18 March 1929 Gorzów Wielkopolski, Lubusz, Poland	1 December 2011 Berlin, Germany	1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2007	[927]
	Hugo Claus	5 April 1929 Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium	19 March 2008 Antwerp, Belgium	1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
1988
	Naguib Mahfouz	11 December 1911 Cairo, Egypt	30 August 2006 Agouza, Giza, Egypt	1988	Awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Shen Congwen	28 December 1902 Fenghuang, Hunan, China	10 May 1988 Beijing, China	1988	[928][929]
	Marguerite Duras	4 April 1914 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam	3 March 1996 Paris, France	1988, 1990, 1991, 1992
	John Updike	18 March 1932 Reading, Pennsylvania, United States	27 January 2009 Danvers, Massachusetts, United States	1988, 1989, 1993, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
	Yves Bonnefoy	24 June 1923 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France	1 July 2016 Paris, France	1988, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007
	Ali Ahmad Said Esber	1 January 1930 Al-Qassabin, Latakia, Syria	—	1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011	[930][931]
1989
	Seamus Heaney	13 April 1939 Tamniaran, Northern Ireland	30 August 2013 Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland	1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995	Awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Joan Didion	5 December 1934 Sacramento, California, United States	23 December 2021 New York City, United States	1989
	Ana María Matute	26 July 1925 Barcelona, Spain	25 June 2014 Barcelona, Spain	1989
	Robertson Davies	28 August 1913 Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada	2 December 1995 Orangeville, Ontario, Canada	1989, 1990, 1992, 1993
	Miguel Delibes	17 October 1920 Valladolid, Spain	12 March 2010 Valladolid, Spain	1989, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010	[932]
	Ismail Kadare	28 January 1936 Gjirokastër, Albania	1 July 2024 Tirana, Albania	1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1990
	Masuji Ibuse	15 February 1898 Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan	20 July 1993 Suginami, Tokyo, Japan	1990
	Pira Sudham	1942 Na Pho, Buriram, Thailand	—	1990	[933]
	Maria Luisa Spaziani	7 December 1922 Turin, Italy	30 June 2014 Rome, Italy	1990, 1992, 1997
	Bei Dao	2 August 1949 Beijing, China	—	1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002
	Salman Rushdie	19 June 1947 Mumbai, India	—	1990, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
	Margaret Atwood	18 November 1939 Ottawa, Canada	—	1990, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
	Jaan Kross	19 February 1920 Tallinn, Estonia	27 December 2007 Tallinn, Estonia	1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007	[934]
1991
	Tomas Tranströmer	15 April 1931 Stockholm, Sweden	26 March 2015 Stockholm, Sweden	1991, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011	Awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Patricia Highsmith	19 January 1921 Fort Worth, Texas, United States	4 February 1995 Locarno, Switzerland	1991	[935]
	Milan Rúfus	10 December 1928 Závažná Poruba, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia	11 January 2009 Bratislava, Slovakia	1991	[936]
	Mario Luzi	20 October 1914 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy	28 February 2005 Florence, Italy	1991, 1997
	Bohumil Hrabal	28 March 1914 Židenice, Brno, Czech Republic	3 February 1997 Prague, Czech Republic	1991, 1992, 1995
	Gennadiy Aygi	21 August 1934 Shaymurzino, Chuvashia, Russia	21 February 2006 Moscow, Russia	1991, 1994, 2004
	Les Murray	17 October 1938 Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia	29 April 2019 Taree, New South Wales, Australia	1991, 2002, 2005, 2007
	Timur Zulfikarov	17 August 1936 Dushanbe, Tajikistan	—	1991, 2000, 2010	[937][938]
	Janet Frame	28 August 1924 Dunedin, New Zealand	29 January 2004 Dunedin, New Zealand	1991, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003	[939]
	John Ashbery	28 July 1927 Rochester, New York, United States	3 September 2017 Hudson, New York, United States	1991, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
1992
	José Saramago	16 November 1922 Azinhaga, Golegã, Portugal	18 June 2010 Tías, Las Palmas, Spain	1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1998	Awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Pablo Antonio Cuadra	4 November 1912 Managua, Nicaragua	2 January 2002 Managua, Nicaragua	1992	[940]
	Sorley MacLean	26 October 1911 Òsgaig, Raasay, Scotland	24 November 1996 Inverness, Scotland	1992	[941]
	Matilde Alba Swann	24 February 1912 Berisso, Buenos Aires, Argentina	13 September 2000 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina	1992	[942]
	Marin Sorescu	29 February 1936 Bulzești, Romania	8 December 1996 Bucharest, Romania	1992, 1996	[943]
	Wilson Harris	24 March 1921 New Amsterdam, Guyana	8 March 2018 Chelmsford, Essex, England	1992, 2001, 2005
	Milorad Pavić	15 October 1929 Belgrade, Serbia	30 November 2009 Belgrade, Serbia	1992, 2004, 2008	[944]
	Vizma Belševica	30 May 1931 Riga, Latvia	6 August 2005 Riga, Latvia	1992, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004	[945]
	Jaan Kaplinski	22 January 1941 Tartu, Estonia	8 August 2021 Tartu, Estonia	1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2016	[946][947]
1993
	Toni Morrison	18 February 1931 Lorain, Ohio, United States	5 August 2019 New York City, New York, United States	1993	Awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Nader Naderpour	6 June 1929 Tehran, Iran	18 February 2000 Los Angeles, California, United States	1993	[948]
	Arturo Uslar Pietri	16 May 1906 Caracas, Venezuela	26 February 2001 Caracas, Venezuela	1993	[949]
	Mahmoud Darwish	13 March 1941 Al-Birwa, Acre, Palestine	9 August 2008 Houston, Texas, United States	1993, 2005, 2006, 2007
	Thomas Pynchon	8 May 1937 Glen Cove, New York, United States	—	1993, 1995, 2002, 2005, 2007
1994
	Wisława Szymborska	2 July 1923 Kórnik, Poznań, Poland	1 February 2012 Kraków, Poland	1994, 1995, 1996	Awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Peter Handke	6 December 1942 Griffin, Völkermarkt, Carinthia, Austria	—	1994, 1994, 2002, 2004, 2018, 2019	Awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Wazir Agha	18 May 1922 Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan	8 September 2010 Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan	1994	[950]
	Shūsaku Endō	27 March 1923 Toshima, Tokyo, Japan	29 September 1996 Tokyo, Japan	1994	[951]
	Yehuda Amichai	3 May 1924 Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany	22 September 2000 Jerusalem, Israel	1994, 2000	[952]
	György Konrád	2 April 1933 Berettyóújfalu, Hajdú–Bihar, Hungary	13 September 2019 Budapest, Hungary	1994, 2002
	Ján Ondruš	11 March 1932 Nová Vieska, Nové Zámky, Slovakia	7 November 2000 Stupava, Malacky, Slovakia	1994, 1999, 2000	[953]
	William Trevor	24 May 1928 Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland	20 December 2016 Crediton, Devon, England	1994, 2000, 2005
	António Lobo Antunes	1 September 1942 Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal	—	1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
	Cees Nooteboom	31 July 1933 The Hague, Netherlands	—	1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
1995
	John Berger	5 November 1926 London, England	2 January 2017 Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France	1995
	Gaetano Camillo	1932 Rome, Italy	—	1995	[954]
	Ronald Stuart Thomas	29 March 1913 Cardiff, Wales	25 September 2000 Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales	1995, 1996	[955]
	Nicanor Parra	5 September 1914 San Fabián, Punilla, Chile	23 January 2018 La Reina, Santiago, Chile	1995, 1997, 2000	[956][957]
	Friederike Mayröcker	20 December 1924 Vienna, Austria	4 June 2021 Vienna, Austria	1995, 2004	[958]
1996
	Bob Dylan	24 May 1941 Duluth, Minnesota, United States	—	1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2016	Awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.[959][960]
	Licio Gelli	21 April 1919 Pistoia, Italy	15 December 2015 Arezzo, Italy	1996	[961]
	Iris Murdoch	15 July 1919 Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland	8 February 1999 Oxford, England	1996
	Alda Merini	21 March 1931 Milan, Italy	1 November 2009 Milan, Italy	1996, 2001	[962]
	Antonio Tabucchi	24 September 1943 Pisa, Italy	25 March 2012 Lisbon, Portugal	1996, 2000, 2004, 2007	[963]
	Inger Christensen	16 January 1935 Vejle, Denmark	2 January 2009 Copenhagen, Denmark	1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007	[964]
	Francisco Ayala	16 March 1906 Granada, Spain	3 November 2009 Madrid, Spain	1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009	[965]
1997
	Dario Fo	24 March 1926 Sangiano, Varese, Italy	13 October 2016 Milan, Italy	1997	Awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Alicia Ghiragossian	13 July 1936 Córdoba, Argentina	22 May 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States	1997	[966]
	Tahar Ben Jelloun	1 December 1944 Fez, Morocco	—	1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007
1998
	João Cabral de Melo Neto	9 January 1920 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil	9 October 1999 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1998
	Otar Chiladze	20 March 1933 Signagi, Georgia	1 October 2009 Tbilisi, Georgia	1998	[967]
	Nelson Estupiñán Bass	19 September 1912 Esmeraldas, Ecuador	3 March 2002 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States	1998	[888]
	Agustina Bessa-Luís	15 October 1922 Amarante, Portugal	3 June 2019 Porto, Portugal	1998, 2018	[968]
	Ernesto Sabato	24 June 1911 Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina	30 April 2011 Santos Lugares, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	1998, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010	[969]
1999
	Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio	13 April 1940 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France	—	1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008	Awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	John Fowles	31 March 1926 Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England	5 November 2005 Lyme Regis, Dorset, England	1999
	Enrique Laguerre	15 July 1905 Moca, Puerto Rico	16 June 2005 Carolina, Puerto Rico	1999	[970]
	Alfonso Rumazo González	1903 Latacunga, Cotopaxi, Ecuador	27 June 2002 Caracas, Venezuela	1999	[888]
	Winfried Georg Sebald	18 May 1944 Wertach, Bavaria, Germany	14 December 2001 near Norwich, Norfolk, England	1999
	Maurice Blanchot	22 September 1907 Devrouze, Saône-et-Loire, France	20 February 2003 Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, Yvelines, France	1999, 2000
	Simin Behbahani	20 July 1927 Tehran, Iran	19 August 2014 Tehran, Iran	1999, 2002	[971]
	William Auld	6 November 1924 Erith, London, England	11 September 2006 Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland	1999, 2004, 2006	[972]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
2000
	Gao Xingjian	4 January 1940 Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China	—	2000	Awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Alice Munro	10 July 1931 Wingham, Ontario, Canada	13 May 2024 Port Hope, Ontario, Canada	2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013	Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Li Ao	25 April 1935 Harbin, Heilongjiang, China	18 March 2018 Taipei, Taiwan	2000	[973]
	Ben Okri	15 March 1959 Minna, Niger, Nigeria	—	2000, 2002, 2003, 2005
	Juan Goytisolo	6 January 1931 Barcelona, Spain	4 June 2017 Marrakesh, Morocco	2000, 2004, 2005
	Chinua Achebe	16 November 1930 Ogidi, Anambra, Nigeria	21 March 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007
	Lev Rubinstein	19 February 1947 Moscow, Russia	14 January 2024 Moscow, Russia	2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
	Amos Oz	4 May 1939 Jerusalem, Israel	28 December 2018 Petah Tikva, Israel	2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
2001
	Herta Müller	17 August 1953 Nițchidorf, Romania	—	2001, 2006, 2007, 2009	Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen	6 November 1919 Porto, Portugal	2 July 2004 Lisbon, Portugal	2001
	Henrik Nordbrandt	21 March 1945 Frederiksberg, Denmark	31 January 2023 Copenhagen, Denamrk	2001
	Yordan Radichkov	24 October 1929 Kalimanitza, Montana, Bulgaria	21 January 2004 Sofia, Bulgaria	2001	[974]
	Richard Ford	16 February 1944 Jackson, Mississippi, United States	—	2001, 2002, 2006
	Li Kuei-hsien	19 June 1937 Taipei, Taiwan	—	2001, 2003, 2006	[975]
	Ko Un	1 August 1933 Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea	—	2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007	[976]
	Adam Zagajewski	21 June 1945 Lviv, Ukraine	21 March 2021 Kraków, Poland	2001, 2002, 2010	[977]
	Assia Djebar	30 June 1936 Cherchell, Tipaza, Algeria	6 February 2015 Paris, France	2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
2002
	Imre Kertész	9 November 1929 Budapest, Hungary	31 March 2016 Budapest, Hungary	2002	Awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Orhan Pamuk	7 June 1952 Istanbul, Türkiye	—	2002, 2005, 2006	Awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	John Banville	8 December 1945 Wexford, Ireland	—	2002
	Noam Chomsky	7 December 1928 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	—	2002	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Leyla Erbil	12 January 1931 Istanbul, Türkiye	19 July 2013 Istanbul, Türkiye	2002	[978]
	Ferreira Gullar	10 September 1930 São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil	4 December 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2002	[979]
	Arnošt Lustig	21 December 1926 Prague, Czech Republic	26 February 2011 Prague, Czech Republic	2002
	John Ralston Saul	19 June 1947 Ottawa, Canada	—	2002
	Jorge Semprún	10 December 1923 Madrid, Spain	7 June 2011 Paris, France	2002
	Harry Mulisch	29 July 1927 Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands	30 October 2010 Amsterdam, Netherlands	2002, 2003
	Susan Sontag	16 January 1933 New York City, United States	28 December 2004 New York City, United States	2002, 2003, 2004
	Aharon Appelfeld	16 February 1932 Stara Zhadova, Chernivtsi, Ukraine	4 January 2018 Petah Tikva, Israel	2002, 2005
	Nuruddin Farah	24 November 1945 Baidoa, Somalia	—	2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
	Umberto Eco	5 January 1932 Alessandria, Italy	19 February 2016 Milan, Italy	2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
	Don DeLillo	20 November 1936 The Bronx, New York, United States	—	2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
2003
	Elfriede Jelinek	20 October 1946 Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria	—	2003, 2004	Awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Svetlana Alexievich	31 May 1948 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine	—	2003, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2015	Awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Klára Jarunková	28 April 1922 Šumiac, Brezno, Slovakia	11 July 2005 Bratislava, Slovakia	2003	[980]
	Giovanna Mulas	6 May 1969 Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy	—	2003	[981]
	Kelinu Vella Haber	1 October 1913 Nadur, Gozo, Malta	28 January 2014 Qala, Gozo, Malta	2003	[982]
	Jacques Derrida	15 July 1930 El Biar, Algiers, Algeria	9 October 2004 Paris, France	2003, 2004
2004
	Isabel Allende	2 August 1942 Lima, Peru	—	2004
	Péter Esterházy	14 April 1950 Budapest, Hungary	14 July 2016 Budapest, Hungary	2004
	Oliver Friggieri	27 March 1947 Floriana, Malta	21 November 2020 Valletta, Malta	2004	[983]
	Álvaro Pombo	23 June 1939 Santander, Cantabria, Spain	—	2004
	Mykola Rohozhynskyy	28 August 1965 Kiev, Ukraine	—	2004
	Gunturu Seshendra Sarma	20 October 1927 Marripadu, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India	30 May 2007 Hyderabad, Telangana, India	2004	[984]
	Muriel Spark	1 February 1918 Edinburgh, Scotland	13 April 2006 Uliveto Terme, Pisa, Italy	2004
	Per Olov Enquist	23 September 1934 Skellefteå, Västerbotten, Sweden	25 April 2020 Vaxholm, Sweden	2004, 2005
	Claudio Magris	10 April 1939 Trieste, Italy	—	2004, 2005, 2007
	Frederick Turner	19 November 1943 Northamptonshire, England	—	2004, 2006, 2007, 2008	[985]
	Haruki Murakami	12 January 1949	—	2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
	Péter Nádas	14 October 1942 Budapest, Hungary	—	2004, 2016	[986]
2005
	Jon Fosse	29 September 1959 Haugesund, Norway	—	2005, 2023	Awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Anne-Marie Albiach	9 August 1937 Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France	4 November 2012 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France	2005
	Kamau Brathwaite	11 May 1930 Bridgetown, Barbados	4 February 2020 Christ Church, Barbados	2005
	Ernesto Cardenal	20 January 1925 Granada, Nicaragua	1 March 2020 Managua, Nicaragua	2005	[987]
	John le Carré	19 October 1931 Poole, Dorset, England	12 December 2020 Truro, Cornwall, England	2005
	Hélène Cixous	5 June 1937 Oran, Algeria	—	2005
	Michel Houellebecq	26 February 1956 Saint-Denis, Réunion, France	—	2005
	Nedžad Ibrišimović	20 October 1940 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	15 September 2011 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	2005
	Eeva Kilpi	18 February 1928 Khiytola, Karelia, Russia	—	2005
	Torgny Lindgren	16 June 1938 Norsjö, Västerbotten, Sweden	—	2005
	Javier Marías	20 September 1951 Madrid, Spain	11 September 2022 Madrid, Spain	2005
	Cormac McCarthy	20 July 1933 Providence, Rhode Island, United States	13 June 2023 Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States	2005
	Nancy Morejón	7 August 1944 Havana, Cuba	—	2005
	Adélia Prado	13 December 1935 Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil	—	2005
	Cecil Rajendra	1941 George Town, Penang, Malaysia	—	2005	[988]
	Adrienne Rich	16 May 1929 Baltimore, Maryland, United States	27 March 2012 Santa Cruz, California, United States	2005
	Tom Stoppard	3 July 1937 Zlín, Czech Republic	—	2005
	Luisa Valenzuela	26 November 1938 Buenos Aires, Argentina	—	2005
	Ian McEwan	21 June 1948 Aldershot, Hampshire, England	—	2005, 2006
	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	5 January 1938 Kamirithu, Kiambu, Kenya	—	2005, 2006
	Ryszard Kapuściński	4 March 1932 Pinsk, Belarus	23 January 2007 Warsaw, Poland	2005, 2006
	Maryse Condé	11 February 1934 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe	2 April 2024 Apt, Vaucluse, France	2005, 2007
	Dương Thu Hương	1947 Thái Bình, Vietnam	—	2005, 2009	[989]
	Umberto Piersanti	26 February 1941 Urbino, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy	—	2005, 2024	[990]
2006
	Paul Auster	3 February 1947 Newark, New Jersey, United States	30 April 2024 New York City, United States	2006
	Ryhor Baradulin	24 February 1935 Vierasoŭka, Ushachy, Belarus	2 March 2014 Minsk, Belarus	2006	[991]
	Julian Barnes	19 January 1946 Leicester, England	—	2006
	Eduardo Galeano	3 September 1940 Montevideo, Uruguay	13 April 2015 Montevideo, Uruguay	2006
	Hanna Krall	20 May 1935 Warsaw, Poland	—	2006
	Mikael Niemi	13 August 1959 Tärnaby, Storuman, Sweden	—	2006
	Elena Poniatowska	19 May 1932 Paris, France	—	2006
	Barry Unsworth	10 August 1930 Wingate, County Durham, England	4 June 2012 Perugia, Italy	2006
	Vijaydan Detha	1 September 1926 Borunda, Rajasthan, India	10 November 2013 Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India	2006, 2011	[992]
2007
	Carlos Germán Belli	15 September 1927 Lima, Peru	10 August 2024 Surquillo, Peru	2007	[993]
	Roberto Benigni	27 October 1952 Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo, Italy	—	2007	[994]
	Peter Carey	7 May 1943 Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia	—	2007
	Philippe Jaccottet	30 June 1925 Moudon, Vaud, Switzerland	24 February 2021 Grignan, Drôme, France	2007
	Luz Pozo Garza	21 July 1922 Ribadeo, Lugo, Spain	20 April 2020 A Coruña, Spain	2007	[995]
	Marcio Veloz Maggiolo	13 August 1936 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	10 April 2021 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	2007	[996]
	Boris Pahor	26 August 1913 Trieste, Italy	20 May 2022 Trieste, Italy	2007, 2008, 2009	[997][998]
2008
	Marjorie Boulton	7 May 1924 Teddington, Greater London, United Kingdom	30 August 2017 London, United Kingdom	2008	[999][1000]
	Shlomo Kalo	25 February 1928 Sofia, Bulgaria	30 August 2014 Tel Aviv, Israel	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014	[1001]
2009
	Georgi Vasilyevich Marchuk	1 January 1947 Davyd-Haradok, Belarus	23 August 2023 Minsk, Belarus	2009	[1002]
	Franck Étienne	12 April 1936 Ravine-Sèche, Artibonite, Haiti	—	2009, 2010	[1003]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
2010
	Néstor Amarilla	24 July 1980 Coronel Oviedo, Caaguazú, Paraguay	—	2010	[1004]
	Valentin Rasputin	15 March 1937 Ust-Uda, Ust-Udinsky, Russia	14 March 2015 Moscow, Russia	2010	[1005]
	Kanta Ibraguimov	9 July 1960 Grozny, Chechnya, Russia	—	2010, 2012	[1006]
2011
	Besik Kharanauli	11 November 1939 Tianeti, Georgia	—	2011, 2015	[1007]
	David Magradze	28 June 1962 Tbilisi, Georgia	—	2011, 2018, 2019	[1008]
	Nawal El Saadawi	22 October 1931 Kafr Tahla, Qalyubiyya, Egypt	21 March 2021 Cairo, Egypt	2011, 2012, 2021	[1009][1010]
2012
	Mo Yan	5 March 1955 Gaomi, Shandong, China	—	2012	Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Kamal Mehdi Abdullayev	4 December 1950 Baku, Azerbaijan	—	2012	[1011]
	Mahasweta Devi	14 January 1926 Dhaka, Bangladesh	28 July 2016 Kolkata, West Bengal, India	2012	[1012]
	Maksud Ibrahimbeyov	11 May 1935 Baku, Azerbaijan	22 March 2016 Baku, Azerbaijan	2012	[1013]
	Dacia Maraini	13 November 1936 Florence, Italy	—	2012	[1014]
	Ariano Suassuna	16 June 1927 João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil	23 July 2014 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil	2012	[1015][1016]
	Fazil Iskander	6 March 1929 Sukhumi, Georgia	31 July 2016 Peredelkino, Moscow, Russia	2012, 2013	[1017]
2013
	Paul Goma	2 October 1935 Seliște, Nisporeni, Moldova	25 March 2020 Paris, France	2013	[1018]
	Dante Maffia	17 January 1946 Roseto Capo Spulico, Cosenza, Italy	—	2013	[1019]
	Varujan Vosganian	25 July 1958 Craiova, Romania	—	2013, 2014, 2015	[1020][1021]
	Luiz de Miranda	6 April 1945 Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	29 July 2022 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020	[1022]
2014
	Patrick Modiano	30 July 1945 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France	—	2014	Awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Nicolae Breban	1 February 1934 Baia Mare, Romania	—	2014	[1021]
	Vasyl Holoborodko	7 April 1945 Adrianopil, Perevalsk, Ukraine	—	2014	[1023]
	Norman Manea	19 July 1936 Suceava, Romania	—	2014	[1021]
	Boualem Sansal	15 October 1949 Théniet El Had, Algeria	—	2014	[1024]
	Mircea Cărtărescu	1 June 1955 Bucharest, Romania	—	2014, 2015	[1021][1025]
2015
	Bernardo Atxaga	27 July 1951 Asteasu, Guipuzkoa, Spain	—	2015	[1026]
	Moniz Bandeira	30 December 1935 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	10 November 2017 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	2015	[1027]
	Sebastiano Vassalli	24 October 1941 Genoa, Italy	26 July 2015 Casale Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy	2015	[1028]
	Anna Nerkagi	15 February 1951 Yamalo-Nenets, Russia	—	2015, 2018, 2020	[1029][1030]
	Pierfranco Bruni	18 January 1955 San Lorenzo del Vallo, Cosenza, Italy	—	2015, 2023	[1031]
	Francesco Benozzo	22 February 1969 Modena, Italy	—	2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024	[1032][1033][1034]
2016
	Lygia Fagundes Telles	19 April 1918 São Paulo, Brazil	3 April 2022 São Paulo, Brazil	2016	[1035]
	José Manuel Caballero Bonald	11 November 1926 Jerez de la Frontera, Spain	9 May 2021 Madrid, Spain	2016	[1036]
	Predrag Matvejević	7 October 1932 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina	2 February 2017 Zagreb, Croatia	2016	[1037]
	Tess Osonye Onwueme	8 September 1955 Ogwashi Ukwu, Delta, Nigeria	—	2016	[1038]
2017
	Kazuo Ishiguro	8 November 1954 Nagasaki, Japan	—	2017	Awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Carlos Nejar	11 January 1939 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	—	2017	[1039]
	Jamal Qaiser	27 July 1972 Rawalpindi, Pakistan	—	2017	[1040]
2018
	Olga Tokarczuk	29 January 1962 Sulechów, Zielona Góra, Poland	—	2018, 2019	Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019.
	Manuel Alegre	12 May 1936 Águeda, Aveiro, Portugal	—	2018	[968]
	Emanuel Medeiros Vieira	31 March 1945 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil	29 July 2019 Brasília, Brazil	2018	[1041]
	Ernő Polgár	27 January 1954 Bácsalmás, Bács-Kiskun, Hungary	28 October 2018 Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei	2018
	Damdinsurengiin Urainkhai	12 January 1940 Bulgan, Mongolia	—	2018	[1042]
2019
	Jamal Sanad Al Suwaidi	30 July 1959 Dubai, United Arab Emirates	—	2019	[1043]
	Leo Butnaru	5 January 1949 Negureni, Telenești, Moldova	—	2019	[1044]
	Kyriakos Kytoudis	1961 Larissa, Greece	—	2019	[1045]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
2020
	Louise Glück	22 April 1943 New York City, New York, United States	13 October 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	2020	Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Mário Cláudio	6 December 1941 Porto, Portugal	—	2020	[1046]
	Giovanna Giordano	12 November 1961 Milan, Italy	—	2020	[1047][1048]
	Scholastique Mukasonga	20 December 1956 Gikongoro, Rwanda	—	2020, 2021, 2022	[1049][1050]
2021
	Abdulrazak Gurnah	20 December 1948 Zanzibar, Tanzania	—	2021	Awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Denny Januar Ali	4 January 1963 Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia	—	2021	[1051]
	Indran Amirthanayagam	1960 Colombo, Sri Lanka	—	2021	[1052]
	Drago Jančar	13 April 1948 Maribor, Slovenia	—	2021	[1053]
	Guido Oldani	2 May 1947 Melegnano, Milan, Italy	—	2021	[1054]
	Vassilis Pappas	5 July 1958 Vrion, Sarandë, Albania	—	2021, 2023, 2024	[1055][1056]
2022
	Annie Ernaux	1 September 1940 Lillebonne, Seine-Maritime, France	—	2022	Awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Deonísio da Silva	30 November 1948 Siderópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil	—	2022	[1057][1058]
	Edwidge Danticat	19 January 1969 Port-au-Prince, Haiti	—	2022	[1059]
	Georgi Gospodinov	7 January 1968 Yambol, Bulgaria	—	2022	[1060]
	Noé Jitrik	23 January 1928 Rivera, Buenos Aires, Argentina	6 October 2022 Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia	2022	[1061][1062]
	Fatos Kongoli	12 January 1944 Elbasan, Albania	—	2022	[1063][1064]
	Serhiy Zhadan	23 August 1974 Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine	—	2022	[1065]
	Adam Kadir	1942 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia	—	2022, 2023, 2024	[1066]
2023
	José Humberto da Silva Henriques	17 December 1958 Cruzeiro da Fortaleza, Minas Gerais, Brazil	—	2023	[1067]
	Carlos Hugo Garrido Chalén	16 October 1951 Zorritos, Contralmirante Villar, Peru	—	2023	[1068]
	Ida Vitale	2 November 1923 Montevideo, Uruguay	—	2023	[1069]
2024
	Han Kang	27 November 1970 Gwangju, South Korea	—	2024	Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
	Nicolae Ciucă	7 February 1967 Plenița, Dolj, Romania	—	2024	[1070]
	Maciel de Aguiar	11 February 1952 Conceição da Barra, Espírito Santo, Brazil	—	2024	[1071]
	Aka Morchiladze	10 November 1966 Tbilisi, Georgia	—	2024	[1072][1073]
	Ihor Pavlyuk	1 January 1967 Rozhysche, Volyn, Ukraine	—	2024	[1074]
	Maria Tedeschi	3 January 1972 Naples, Italy	—	2024	[1075]
2025
	Lee Child	29 October 1954 in Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom	—	2025	[1076]
	Thomas Luke	31 December 1963 United States	—	2025	[1077]

With the annual revelation of nominated writers for the Nobel Prize in Literature, interesting facts are eventually uncovered between 1901 and 1974 such as the following:^[1078]

• Number of nominations: ---
• Highest nominations in a year: 205 nominations were made in 1973.
• Highest nominations for a nominee: Spanish philologist Ramón Menéndez Pidal received 92 nominations in 1956.
• Number of nominees: 854
• Most new nominees: 30 new writers were recommended in 1969.
• Highest number of nominates in a year: 103 writer were nominated in 1969.
• Literary societies: The Pali Text Society was nominated in 1916 and remains the only society.
• Number of women: 81
• Most women nominees in a year: 9 women were nominated in 1974.
• Oldest male nominee: At age 99, Spanish philologist Ramón Menéndez Pidal was nominated in 1968.
• Oldest female nominee: At age 91, Estonian poet Marie Under was nominated in 1974.
• Youngest male nominee: At age 24, Chinese poet Chen Minghua was nominated in 1974.
• Youngest female nominee: At age 31, Finnish writer Sally Salminen was nominated in 1937.

Official statistics of Nobel Prize in Literature nominees (1901–1975)

Year	Total		Nominees		Oldest	Youngest	Most nominated (by nominations)	Source
	Nominations	Nominees	Women	New
1901	37	26	1	26	Charles Renouvier (86)	Edmond Rostand (33)[bt]	Frédéric Mistral (5)
1902	44	34	0	25	Theodor Mommsen (85)	Ventura López Fernández (36)	Leo Tolstoy (4)
1903	43	24	0	10	George Meredith (75)[bu]	Rudyard Kipling (38)	Frédéric Mistral (5)
1904	29	21	2	6	George Meredith (76)[bu]	Rudyard Kipling (39)	Lewis Morris (3)
1905	35	15	2	2	Leo Tolstoy (77)	Rudyard Kipling (40)	Eliza Orzeszkowa (8)
1906	54	24	1	11	Gaston Boissier (83)	William J. Neidig (36)	Lewis Morris (5) Giosuè Carducci (5) Joseph Widmann (5) G. Lansing Raymond (5)
1907	37	21	1	8	Eduardo Benot (84)	Rudyard Kipling (42)	Angelo de Gubernatis (5)
1908	23	16	2	6	Theodor Zahn (70)[bv]	Alfred Hutchinson (49)	Selma Lagerlöf (6)
1909	38	21	1	7	John Morley (71)	Maurice Maeterlinck (47)	Selma Lagerlöf (11)
1910	27	25	2	12	Paul Heyse (80)[bw]	Maurice Maeterlinck (48)	Georg Brandes (2) Gustav Warneck (2)
1911	30	27	2	11	M. von Ebner-Eschenbach (81)	Karl Schönherr (42)	Salvador Rueda Santos (2) Ernst von der Recke (2) Gustaf Fröding (2) Karl Gjellerup (2) Juhani Aho (2)
1912	40	30	0	10	Jean-Henri Fabre (89)	Karl Schönherr (45)	Pierre Loti (4)
1913	32	28	1	9	John Lubbock (79)	Grazia Deledda (42)	Grazia Deledda (2) Pierre Loti (2) Karl Gjellerup (2) Ernest Lavisse (2)
1914	26	24	2	7	Jean-Henri Fabre (91)	Vilhelm Grønbech (42)	Harald Høffding (2) Ángel Guimerá Jorge (2) Carl Spitteler (2)
1915	26	22	1	3	Benito Pérez Galdós (72)[bx]	Vilhelm Grønbech (42)	Grazia Deledda (3)
1916	47	28	1	9[by]	Edmond Picard (80)	Rabindranath Datta (33)	Verner von Heidenstam (6)
1917	26	20	2	6	Edmond Picard (81)	Olaf Bull (34)	Georg Brandes (3)
1918	19	17	1	5	Georg Brandes (76)	Gunnar Gunnarsson (29)	Juhani Aho (3)
1919	18	12	0	5	Carl Spitteler (74)[bz]	Hugo von Hofmannsthal (45)	Hans Ernst Kinck (4)
1920	27	16	1	1	Thomas Hardy (80)	Grazia Deledda (49)	Thomas Hardy (9)
1921	22	18	1	5	Anatole France (77)	Gunnar Gunnarsson (32)	Anatole France (3)
1922	30	22	3	10	Thomas Hardy (82)	Gunnar Gunnarsson (33)	Georg Brandes (4)
1923	36	20	3	5	Thomas Hardy (83)	Bertel Gripenberg (45)	Guglielmo Ferrero (7)
1924	22	18	2	3	Thomas Hardy (84)	Olav Duun (48)	Guglielmo Ferrero (3)
1925	25	21	3	6	Thomas Hardy (85)	Giovanni Schembari (31)	Guglielmo Ferrero (5)
1926	37	29	4	16	Thomas Hardy (86)	Vicente Huidobro (33)	Concha Espina (4)
1927	29	21	4	6	Thomas Hardy (87)	Olaf Bull (44)	Ada Negri (4)
1928	48	36	6	13	Paul Bourget (76)	Felix Timmermans (42)	Paul Ernst (3) Henri Bergson (3)
1929	30	24	1	6	Ludwig von Pastor (75)	Knud Rasmussen (32)[ca]	Benedetto Croce (3)
1930	47	30	3	13	Ernst von der Recke (82)	Frans Eemil Sillanpää (42)	Paul Valéry (6)
1931	49	29	3	10	Kostis Palamas (72)[cb]	Erich Maria Remarque (33)	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (8)
1932	48	31	1	9	Axel Munthe (72)	Karel Čapek (42)	Ivan Bunin (5)
1933	47			10
1934	44	32	1	13	Ernest Roguin (83)	Karel Čapek (44)	A. Correia de Oliveira (5)
1935	52	38	5	14	James George Frazer (81)	Jarl Hemmer (43)	Frans Emil Sillanpää (4) Johannes V. Jensen (4)
1936	47	27	2	10	Sigmund Freud (80)	Jarl Hemmer (43)[cc]	Frans Emil Sillanpää (5)
1937	62	37	7	14	Kostis Palamas (78)[cd]	Sally Salminen (31)	Johannes V. Jensen (7)
1938	47	29	6	11	Kostis Palamas (79)	Sally Salminen (32)	Frans Eemil Sillanpää (6)
1939	45	33	7	10	Benedetto Croce (73)	Sally Salminen (33)	Johannes V. Jensen (4)
1940	26	19	3	7	Kostis Palamas (81)	Gösta Carlberg (31)	Henriette Charasson (3)
1941	21	15	4	3	Paul Claudel (73)	Edmund Blunden (45)	Johannes V. Jensen (3)
1942	30	16	2	6	Johannes Jørgensen (76)	Edmund Blunden (46)	Johannes V. Jensen (7)
1943	21	20	4	5	Carlos María Ocantos (83)	John Steinbeck (41)	Johannes V. Jensen (2)
1945	24	21	4	4	Paul Valéry (73)	John Steinbeck (42)	Enrique Larreta (2) Johannes V. Jensen (2) Henriette Charasson (2)
1945	23	18	4	4	Paul Valéry (74)	Yiorgos Theotokas (39)	Franz Werfel (3) Paul Valéry (3)
1946	32	22	2	9	Ricarda Huch (83)	Ignazio Silone (46)	Charles F. Ramus (4)
1947	43	35	4	11	Georgios Drossinis (88)	Mikhail Sholokhov (42)	Henriette Charasson (3) Charles F. Ramuz (3)
1948	45	32	3	7	Georgios Drossinis (89)	Mikhail Sholokhov (43)	Winston Churchill (6)
1949	43	35	3	9	George Santayana (86)	Albert Camus (36)	Arnulf Øverland (3)
1950	79	54	4	20	John Dewey (91)	Albert Camus (37)	Pär Lagerkvist (7)
1951	44	25	2	6	Paul Claudel (83)	Mika Waltari (43)	Pär Lagerkvist (9)
1952	57	40	1	14	Benedetto Croce (86)	Albert Camus (39)	Concha Espina (4) Ramón Menéndez Pidal (4)
1953	34	24	0	3	Julien Benda (86)	Graham Greene (49)	Rudolf Kassner (3) Tarjei Vesaas (3) Johan Falkberget (3)
1954	35	27	2	3	Julien Benda (87)	Albert Camus (41)	Halldór Laxness (6)
1955	59	46	3	17	Julien Benda (88)	Igor Gouzenko (36)	Halldór Laxness (5)
1956	158	44	4	14	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (87)	Albert Camus (43)[ce]	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (92)
1957	66	49	4	12	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (88)	Väinö Linna (37)	André Malraux (4)
1958	70	42	5	17	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (89)	John Hersey (44)	Robert Frost (5)
1959	83	56	8	20	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (90)	Sachidananda Routray (43)	Maria Dabrowska (7)
1960	70	58	4	14	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (91)	Heinrich Böll (43)	Johan Falkberget (4)
1961	93	56	5	15	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (92)	Friedrich Dürrenmatt (40)	Robert Frost (8)
1962	86	66	3	15	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (93)	André Schwarz-Bart (34)	E. Morgan Forster (4)
1963	121	81	5	22	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (94)	Yevgeny Yevtushenko (31)	Robert Frost (8)
1964	98	75	4	19	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (95)	Michel Butor (38)	Väinö Linna (3) Friedrich Dürrenmatt (3) André Malraux (3) Mikhail Sholokhov (3)
1965	120	93	8	21	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (96)	Alan Sillitoe (37)	André Malraux (6)
1968	99	72	3	10	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (97)	Arnold Wesker (37)	Samuel Beckett (4) André Malraux (4)
1967	112	69	5	18	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (98)	Ivan Drach (31)	José María Pemán (8)
1968	112	77	5	19	Ramón Menéndez Pidal (99)	Sławomir Mrożek (38)	Samuel Beckett (6) Compton Mackenzie (6) Tarjei Vesaas (6)
1969	184	103	5	30	Stijn Streuvels (98)	Ivan Drach (33)[cf]	André Malraux (8) Giuseppe Ungaretti (8) Tarjei Vesaas (8)
1970	128	77	2	25	Compton Mackenzie (87)	Paavo Haavikko (39)	Tarjei Vesaas (9)
1971	137	91	1	25	Jacques Maritain (89)	Richard E. Kim (39)	Jorge Luis Borges (6) Eugenio Montale (6)
1972	158	100	5	27	Compton Mackenzie (89)	Philip Roth (39)	W. Hugh Auden (10)
1973	205	101	6	18	Marie Under (90)	Hannu Salama (37)	Elie Wiesel (32)
1974	—	101	9	22	Marie Under (91)	Chen Minghua (24)	Elie Wiesel (17)
1975	to be determined by 2026

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