List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature

Leo Tolstoy, one of the most widely read writers who never won 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". It is one of the five Nobel Prizes which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.

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. 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 1973 are available. Between those two years there have been 829 writers coming from different parts of the world nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 70 of which were awarded the prize including Albert Schweitzer who was awarded by Nobel Peace Prize on 1953. 17 more writers from these nominees were awarded after 1973 including Elie Wiesel who was awarded by Nobel Peace Prize on 1986. Only 77 women had been nominated for the prize starting with Malwida von Meysenburg who was nominated once for the year 1901 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 829 revealed nominated writers, only the 1967-nominated Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko (born 1930), the 1969-nominated Finnish author Hannu Salama (born 1936) and the 1973-nominated Indian poet Indira Devi Dhanrajgir (born 1930) are currently living.

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, 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.

Nominees by their first nomination

1901–1909

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.
	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.
	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.
	René Vallery-Radot	October 1, 1853 Paris, France	January 24, 1933 Paris, France	1901
	Edmond Rostand	April 1, 1868 Marseille, France	December 2, 1918 Paris, France	1901
	Julius Gersdorff	June 15, 1849 Szczecin, Poland	November 7, 1907 Weimar, Germany	1901	Nominated by Carl Heinrich Döring (1834–1916) the only time.
	Oscar le Pin	? Switzerland	? Switzerland	1901	Nominated by P. L. Bonnaviat (?) the only time.
	Louis Ducros	December 27, 1846 Nîmes, France	1927 Strasbourg, France	1901	Nominated by Michel Clerc (1857–1931) the only time .
	Carl Gustaf Estlander	January 31, 1834 Lappfjärd, Finland	August 28, 1910 Helsinki, Finland	1901	Nominated by Johan Gustaf Frosterus (1826–1901) the only time.
	Auguste Sabatier	October 22, 1839 Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France	April 12, 1901 Strasbourg, France	1901	Nominated by Gabriel Monod (1844–1912) the only time. Died before his only chance to be awarded.
	Paul Duproix	August 14, 1851 France	January 24, 1912 France	1901	Nominated by Émile Redard (1848–1913) the only time.
	Charles Borgeaud	August 15, 1861 Le Chenit, Switzerland	October 6, 1940 Onex, Switzerland	1901
	Charles Renouvier	January 1, 1815 Montpellier, France	September 1, 1903 Prades, France	1901	Nominated by Antoine Benoist (1846–1922) the only time.
	Giacomo Stampa	? Italy	? Italy	1901	Nominated by Ármin Vámbéry (1832–1913) the only time.
	Ossip Lourié	January 28, 1868 Dubroŭna, Belarus	July 2, 1955 Paris, France	1901	Nominated by Kristian Birch-Reichenwald Aars (1868–1917) the only time.
	João da Câmara	December 27, 1852 Lisbon, Portugal	January 2, 1908 Lisbon, Portugal	1901	Nominated by Joaquim José Coelho de Carvalho (1855–1934) the only time.
	Malwida von Meysenbug	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).
	Émile Zola	April 2, 1840 Paris, France	September 29, 1902 Paris, France	1901, 1902	Nominated by Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907) each time.
	Ferenc Kemény	July 17, 1860 Zrenjanin Serbia	November 21, 1944 Budapest, Hungary	1901, 1902
	Gaston Paris	August 9, 1839 Avenay-Val-d'Or, France	March 5, 1903 Cannes, France	1901, 1902, 1903	Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) each time.
	Gaspar Núñez de Arce	August 4, 1834 Valladolid, Spain	June 9, 1903 Madrid, Spain	1901, 1902, 1903
	Alexander Baumgartner	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.
	Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol	March 23, 1847 Iași, Romania	February 27, 1920 Bucharest, Romania	1901, 1909	Nominated by Ion Găvănescu (1859–1949) each time.
	Antonio Fogazzaro	March 25, 1842 Vicenza, Italy	March 7, 1911 Vicenza, Italy	1901, 1902, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911
	Paul Sabatier	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.
1902
	Theodor Mommsen	November 30, 1817 Garding, Germany	November 1, 1903 Berlin, Germany	1902	Awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	December 8, 1832 Kvikne, Norway	April 26, 1910 Paris, France	1902, 1903	Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	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.
	Giosuè Carducci	July 27, 1835 Pietrasanta, Italy	February 16, 1907 Bologna, Italy	1902, 1903, 1905, 1906	Awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Gerhart Hauptmann	November 15, 1862 Szczawno-Zdrój, Poland	June 6, 1946 Jelenia Góra, Poland	1902, 1906, 1912	Awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	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.
	Anatoly Koni	January 28, 1844 Saint Petersburg, Russia	September 17, 1927 Saint Petersburg, Russia	1902	Nominated by Anton Karlovich Wulfert (1843–1918) the only time.
	Ventura Fernández López	July 14, 1866 Bárcena de Pie de Concha, Spain	November 17, 1944 Toledo, Spain	1902	Nominated by Emmanuel Casado Salas (?) the only time.
	Carl Weitbrecht	December 8, 1847 Althengstett, Germany	June 10, 1904 Stuttgart, Germany	1902	Nominated by Hermann Fischer (1851–1920) the only time.
	Hartmann Grisar	September 22, 1845 Koblenz, Germany	February 25, 1932 Innsbruck, Austria	1902	Nominated by Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (1842–1911) the only time.
	Herbert Spencer	April 27, 1820 Derby, England	December 8, 1903 Brighton, England	1902	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Bernard Bosanquet	June 14, 1848 Alnwick, England	February 8, 1923 London, England	1902	Nominated by William Macneile Dixon (1866–1946) the only time.
	Marcel Barrière	November 3, 1860 Limoux, France	February 18, 1954 Paris, France	1902	Nominated by Émile Faguet (1847–1916) the only time.
	Gustav Falke	January 11, 1853 Lübeck, Germany	February 8, 1916 Marburg, Germany	1902	Nominated by August Sauer (1855–1926) the only time.
	Archibald Robertson	June 29, 1853 Northamptonshire, England	January 29, 1931 Oxford, England	1902	Nominated by John Wesley Hales (1836–1914) the only time.
	Henrik Ibsen	March 20, 1828 Skien, Norway	May 23, 1906 Oslo, Norway	1902, 1903, 1904
	Houston Stewart Chamberlain	September 9, 1855 Portsmouth, England	January 9, 1927 Bayreuth, Germany	1902, 1906
	Leo Tolstoy	September 9, 1828 Yasnaya Polyana, Russia	November 20, 1910 Astapovo, Russia	1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	George Meredith	February 12, 1828 Hampshire, England	May 18, 1909 Surrey, England	1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907
	Lewis Morris	January 23, 1833 Carmarthen, Wales	November 12, 1907 Penbryn, Wales	1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907
	Theodor Zahn	October 10, 1838 Moers, Germany	March 5, 1933 Erlangen, Germany	1902, 1904, 1908	Nominated by Lars Dahle (1843–1925) each time.
	Charles Wagner	January 3, 1852 Alsace, France	May 12, 1918 Alsace, France	1902, 1903, 1909
	John Morley	December 24, 1838 Blackburn, England	September 23, 1923 London, England	1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913
	Juhani Aho	September 11, 1861 Lapinlahti, Finland	August 8, 1921 Helsinki, Finland	1902, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920
	Arne Garborg	January 25, 1851 Jæren, Norway	January 14, 1924 Asker, Norway	1902, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921
1903
	Rudyard Kipling	December 30, 1865 Mumbai, India	January 18, 1936 London, England	1903, 1904, 1905, 1907	Awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Maurice Maeterlinck	August 29, 1862 Ghent, Belgium	May 6, 1949 Nice, France	1903, 1904, 1909, 1910, 1911	Awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	François Coppée	January 26, 1842 Paris, France	May 23, 1908 Paris, France	1903	Nominated by Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) the only time.
	Carl Friedrich Glasenapp	October 3, 1847 Riga, Latvia	April 14, 1915 Riga, Latvia	1903
	Robert Langton Douglas	1864 Cheshire, England	1951 Fiesole, Italy	1903, 1904
	Albert Sorel	August 13, 1842 Honfleur, France	June 29, 1906 Paris, France	1903, 1904, 1905, 1906
	Iwan Gilkin	January 7, 1858 Brussels, Belgium	September 28, 1924 Brussels, Belgium	1903, 1909
	Algernon Charles Swinburne	April 5, 1837 London, England	April 10, 1909 London, England	1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909
	Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo	November 3, 1856 Santander, Spain	May 19, 1912 Santander, Spain	1903, 1905, 1907, 1910
	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.
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.
	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.
	Émilie Lerou	18 May 1855 Rouen, France	11 June 1935 Paris, France	1904	Nominated by Jules Claretie (1840–1913) the only time.
	Demetrios Bernardakis	December 3, 1833 Mitilini, Greece	January 12, 1907 Mitilini, Greece	1904, 1905	Nominated by Athanasios Bernardakis (1844–1912) each time.
	Jaroslav Vrchlický (Emil Frida)	February 17, 1853 Louny, Czechia	September 9, 1912 Domazlice, Czechia	1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912
	William Chapman	December 13, 1850 Beauceville, Canada	February 23, 1917 Ottawa, Canada	1904, 1910, 1912, 1917
1905
	Eliza Orzeszkowa	June 6, 1841 Mil'kovshchina, Belarus	May 18, 1910 Grodno, Belarus	1905
	Godfrey Sweven	May 5, 1845 Irvine, Scotland	January 18, 1935 Christchurch, New Zealand	1905	John Macmillan Brown has only been nominated under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven.
1906
	Louis Franck	November 28, 1868 Antwerp, Belgium	December 31, 1937 Wijnegem, Belgium	1906	Nominated by Ernest Nys (1851–1920) the only time.
	Gaston Boissier	August 15, 1823 Nîmes, France	June 10, 1908 Viroflay, France	1906	Nominated by Jacobus Johannaes Hartmann (1851–1924) the only time.
	William J. Neidig	1870 United States	1955 United States	1906	Nominated by Henry Burrowes Lathrop (1867-1936) the only time.
	Max Bewer	January 19, 1861 Düsseldorf, Germany	October 13, 1921 Meißen, Germany	1906
	Pedro Pablo Figueroa	December 25, 1857 Copiapó, Chile	January 4, 1909 Santiago, Chile	1906	Nominated by Leonardo Eliz (1861–1939) the only time.
	Max Haushofer	April 23, 1840 Munich, Germany	1907 Gries-San Quirino, Italy	1906	Nominated by Emil Milan (1859–1917) the only time.
	William Booth	April 10, 1829 Nottingham, England	August 20, 1912 London, England	1906	Nominated by Otto Classen (1868–1939) the only time.
	Joseph Viktor Widmann	February 20, 1842 Brno, Czechia	November 6, 1911 Bern, Switzerland	1906, 1908
	George Lansing Raymond	September 3, 1839 Illinois, United States	July 11, 1929 Washington D.C., United States	1906, 1907, 1908
	Angelo de Gubernatis	April 7, 1840 Turin, Italy	February 26, 1913 Rome, Italy	1906, 1907, 1909
	Borden Parker Bowne	January 14, 1847 Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States	April 1, 1910 Boston, United States	1906, 1907, 1909
1907
	João Bonança	ca. 1836 Lagos, Portugal	April 13, 1924 Lisbon, Portugal	1907	Nominated by Teófilo Braga (1843–1924) the only time.
	Holger Drachmann	October 9, 1846 Copenhagen, Denmark	January 14, 1908 Hornbæk, Denmark	1907	Nominated by Harald Høffding (1843–1931) the only time.
	Ian Maclaren	November 3, 1850 Manningtree, Essex, England	May 6, 1907 Iowa, United States	1907	Nominated by Waldemar Rudin (1833–1921) the only time. 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.
	Eduardo Benot	November 26, 1822 Cádiz, Spain	July 27, 1907 Madrid, Spain	1907	Nominated by Daniel Cortázar Larrubia (1844–1927) the only time. 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, 1908
	Georgios Souris	February 2, 1853 Ermoupoli, Greece	August 26, 1919 Athens, Greece	1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912
	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
	Paul Bourget	September 2, 1852 Amiens, France	December 25, 1935 Paris, France	1907, 1909, 1914, 1915, 1928
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.
	Julio Calcaño	December 4, 1840 Caracas, Venezuela	August 18, 1918 Caracas, Venezuela	1908	Nominated by José María Manrique (1846-1907) the only time..
	Alfred L. Hutchinson	1859 Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States	August 1930 Weyauwega, Wisconsin, United States	1908	Nominated by Luther Lamphere Wright (1856–1922).
	Edmondo De Amicis	October 21, 1846 Imperia, Italy	March 11, 1908 Bordighera, Italy	1908	Died before his only chance to be awarded.
	Adolf von Harnack	May 7, 1851 Tartu, Estonia	June 10, 1930 Heidelberg, Germany	1908, 1916
	Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche	July 10, 1846 Lützen, Germany	November 8, 1935 Weimar, Germany	1908, 1916, 1917, 1923
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.
	Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé	February 25, 1848 Nice, France	March 29, 1910 Paris, France	1909	Nominated by Albert Vandal (1853–1910) the only time.
	Martin Greif	June 18, 1839 Speyer, Germany	April 1, 1911 Kufstein, Austria	1909, 1910, 1911
	Francesco D'Ovidio	December 5, 1849 Campobasso, Italy	November 24, 1925 Naples, Italy	1909, 1910, 1911, 1912	Nominated by Ernesto Monaci (1844–1918) each time.
	Ernest Lavisse	December 17, 1842 Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, France	August 18, 1922 Paris, France	1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913
	Salvador Rueda	December 3, 1857 Benaque, Spain	April 1, 1933 Málaga, Spain	1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915
	Émile Verhaeren	May 21, 1855 Sint-Amands, Belgium	November 27, 1916 Rouen, France	1909, 1912, 1915, 1916

1910–1919

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.
	Gustav Warneck	March 6, 1834 Naumburg, Germany	December 26, 1910 Halle (Saale), Germany	1910
	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.
	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.
	Édouard Rod	March 31, 1857 Nyon, Switzerland	January 29, 1910 Grasse, France	1910	Nominated by Edmond Rossier (1865–1945) the only time. 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.
	Robert Bridges	October 23, 1844 Walmer, England	April 21, 1930 Boars Hill, England	1910	Nominated by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) the only time.
	Andrew Lang	March 31, 1844 Selkirk, Scotland	July 20, 1912 Banchory, Scotland	1910	Nominated by Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) the only time.
	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.
	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.
	Pierre Loti	January 14, 1850 Rochefort, France	June 10, 1923 Hendaye, France	1910, 1911, 1912, 1913
	Thomas Hardy	June 2, 1840 Stinsford, England	January 11, 1928 Dorchester, England	1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927
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
	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.
	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.
	Gustaf Fröding	August 22, 1860 Alster, Sweden	February 8, 1911 Stockholm, Sweden	1911	Died before his only chance to be awarded.
	August Strindberg	January 22, 1849 Stockholm, Sweden	May 14, 1912 Stockholm, Sweden	1911	Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) the only time.
	Rafael Altamira y Crevea	February 10, 1866 Alicante, Spain	June 1, 1951 Mexico City, Mexico	1911, 1912	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Henry James	April 15, 1843 New York, United States	February 28, 1916 London, England	1911, 1912, 1916
	Harald Høffding	March 11, 1843 Copenhagen, Denmark	July 2, 1931 Copenhagen, Denmark	1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916
	Peter Rosegger	July 31, 1843 Krieglach, Austria	June 26, 1918 Krieglach, Austria	1911, 1913, 1918
	Ernst von der Recke	August 14, 1848 Copenhagen, Denmark	December 2, 1933 Zealand, Denmark	1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1930
	Karl Schönherr	February 24, 1867 Axams, Austria	March 15, 1943 Vienna, Austria	1911, 1912, 1933, 1938
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.
	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.
	Pencho Slaveykov	April 27, 1866 Tryavna, Bulgaria	June 10, 1912 Brunate, Italy	1912	Nominated by Alfred Jensen (1859–1921) the only time. 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.
	Jean-Henri Fabre	December 21, 1823 Aveyron, France	October 11, 1915 Sérignan-du-Comtat, France	1912, 1914
	Salvatore Farina	January 10, 1846 Sorso, Italy	December 15, 1918 Milan, Italy	1912, 1913, 1914
	Benito Pérez Galdós	May 10, 1843 Las Palmas, Spain	January 4, 1920 Madrid, Spain	1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916
	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.
	Hans E. Kinck	October 11, 1865 Øksfjord, Norway	October 13, 1926 Oslo, Norway	1912, 1919, 1920, 1926
	James George Frazer	January 1, 1854 Glasgow, Scotland	May 7, 1941 Cambridge, England	1912, 1926, 1928, 1935
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.
	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.
	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.
	Edward Dowden	May 3, 1843 Cork, Ireland	April 4, 1913 Dublin, Ireland	1913	Nominated by James Lindsay (1852–1923) the only time. 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. 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.
	Émile Faguet	December 17, 1847 La Roche-sur-Yon, France	June 7, 1916 Paris, France	1913, 1914
	Jakob Knudsen	September 14, 1858 Rødding, Denmark	January 21, 1917 Birkerød, Denmark	1913, 1916
	Edmond Picard	December 15, 1836 Brussels, Belgium	February 19, 1924 Namur, Belgium	1913, 1914, 1916, 1917
1914
	Antonio Serra y Morant	December 17, 1866 Alicante, Spain	August 7, 1939 Madrid, Spain	1914	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Josef Svatopluk Machar	February 29, 1864 Kolin, Czechia	March 17, 1942 Prague, Czechia	1914, 1915
	René François Nicolas Marie Bazin	December 26, 1853 Angers, France	July 20, 1932 Paris, France	1914, 1915
	Dora Melegari	June 27, 1849 Lausanne, Switzerland	July 31, 1924 Rome, Italy	1914, 1923
	Willem Kloos	May 6, 1859 Amsterdam, Netherlands	March 3, 1938 The Hague, Netherlands	1914, 1915, 1925, 1926, 1928
	Dmitry Merezhkovsky	August 2, 1865 Saint Petersburg, Russia	December 9, 1941 Paris, France	1914, 1915, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937
	Vilhelm Grønbech	June 14, 1873 Allinge, Denmark	April 21, 1948 Helsingør, Denmark	1914, 1915, 1927, 1928, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944
1915
	Romain Rolland	January 29, 1866 Clamecy, France	December 30, 1944 Vézelay, France	1915, 1916	Awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916.
	Charles Montagu Doughty	August 19, 1843 Saxmundham, England	January 20, 1926 Sissinghurst, England	1915	Nominated by Herbert Warren (1853–1930) the only time.
	Ferdinand Avenarius	December 20, 1856 Berlin, Germany	September 22, 1923 Kampen, Germany	1915, 1921
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.
	Rabindranath Datta	October 1, 1883 Kolkata, India	July 6, 1917 Kolkata, India	1916
	Ivan Franko	August 27, 1856 Lviv, Ukraine	May 28, 1916 Lviv, Ukraine	1916	Died before his only chance to be awarded.
	Gunnar Heiberg	November 18, 1857 Oslo, Norway	February 22, 1929 Oslo, Norway	1916	Nominated by Jens Thiis (1870–1942) the only time.
	Troels Troels-Lund	September 5, 1840 Copenhagen, Denmark	February 12, 1921 Copenhagen, Denmark	1916	Nominated by Frits Läffler (1847–1921) the only time.
	The Pāli Text Society	founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids		1916	Nominated by Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843–1922) the only time.
	Otokar Březina	September 13, 1868 Počátky, Czechia	March 25, 1929 Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou, Czechia	1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1925, 1928, 1929
	Henrik Schück	November 2, 1855 Stockholm, Sweden	October 3, 1947 Uppsala, Sweden	1916, 1929
	Per Hallström	September 29, 1866 Stockholm, Sweden	February 18, 1960 Nacka, Sweden	1916, 1919, 1931
1917
	Ivan Vazov	July 9, 1850 Sopot, Bulgaria	September 22, 1921 Sofia, Bulgaria	1917	Nominated by Ivan Shishmanov (1862–1928) the only time.
	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.
	Jeppe Aakjær	September 10, 1866 Aakjaer, Denmark	April 22, 1930 Roslev, Denmark	1917	Nominated by Christen Collin (1857–1926) the only time.
	Johan Bojer	March 6, 1872 Orkdal, Norway	July 3, 1959 Oslo, Norway	1917, 1925, 1929, 1932
	Olaf Bull	November 10, 1883 Oslo, Norway	June 29, 1933 Oslo, Norway	1917, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932
	Bertel Gripenberg	September 19, 1878 Saint Petersburg, Russia	May 6, 1947 Sävsjö, Sweden	1917, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1937
1918
	Knut Hamsun	August 4, 1859 Lom, Norway	February 19, 1952 Grimstad, Norway	1918, 1920	Awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Alois Jirásek	August 23, 1851 Hronov, Czechia	March 12, 1930 Prague, Czechia	1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1930
	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.
	Maxim Gorky	March 28, 1868 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia	June 18, 1936 Moscow Oblast, Russia	1918, 1923, 1928, 1933
	Gunnar Gunnarsson	May 18, 1889 Fljótsdalur, Iceland	November 21, 1975 Reykjavík, Iceland	1918, 1921, 1922, 1955, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1969
1919
	Władysław Reymont	May 7, 1867 Kobiele Wielkie, Poland	December 5, 1925 Warsaw, Poland	1919, 1920, 1922, 1924	Awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	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.
	Ebenezer Howard	January 29, 1850 London, England	May 1, 1928 Welwyn Garden City, England	1919, 1920	Nominated by Christen Collin (1857–1926) each time.
	Hugo von Hofmannsthal	February 1, 1874 Vienna, Austria	July 15, 1929 Vienna, Austria	1919, 1924, 1926, 1927
	Arno Holz	April 26, 1863 Ketrzyn, Poland	October 26, 1929 Berlin, Germany	1919, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929

1920–1929

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1920
	Wilbur Cortez Abbott	December 28, 1869 Indiana, United States	February 3, 1947 Massachusetts, United States	1920	Nominated by Dana Carleton Munro (1866–1933) the only time
1921
	Jacinto Benavente	August 12, 1866 Madrid, Spain	July 14, 1954 Madrid, Spain	1921, 1922	Awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Émile Boutroux	July 28, 1845 Montrouge, France	November 22, 1921 Paris, France	1921	Nominated by Harald Hjärne (1848–1922) the one time.
	Jean Revel	September 22, 1848 Conteville, France	May 4, 1925 Conteville, France	1921
	Stefan Żeromski	October 14, 1864 Strawczyn, Poland	November 20, 1925 Warsaw, Poland	1921, 1922, 1923, 1924
	H. G. Wells	September 21, 1866 London, England	August 31, 1946 London, England	1921, 1932, 1935, 1946
1922
	Sigrid Undset	May 20, 1882 Kalundborg, Denmark	June 10, 1949 Lillehammer, Norway	1922, 1925, 1926, 1928	Awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Darrell Figgis	September 17, 1882 Dublin, Ireland	October 27, 1925 London, England	1922	Nominated by Thomas Rudmose-Brown (1878–1942) the only time
	Georg von Below	January 19, 1858 Gusev, Russia	October 20, 1927 Badenweiler, Germany	1922	Nominated by Hermann Bächtold (1882–1934) the only time.
	Israel Zangwill	January 21, 1864 London, England	August 1, 1926 Midhurst, England	1922	Nominated by Adolf Noreen (1854–1925) the only time.
	Michael Sadleir	December 25, 1888 Oxford, England	December 13, 1957 London, England	1922	Nominated by Nobel Committee the only time
	Matilde Serao	March 7, 1856 Patras, Greece	July 25, 1927 Naples, Italy	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925
	Roberto Bracco	November 10, 1861 Naples, Italy	April 20, 1943 Sorrento, Italy	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925
	Ludwig von Pastor	January 31, 1854 Aachen, Germany	September 30, 1928 Innsbruck, Austria	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929
	William Inge	June 6, 1860 Crayke, England	February 26, 1954 Wallingford, England	1922, 1923, 1929	Nominated by Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) each time.
	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
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.
	Konstantin Balmont	June 15, 1867 Shuya, Russia	December 23, 1942 Paris, France	1923	Nominated by Romain Rolland (1866–1944) the one time
	Hermann Türck	March 13, 1856 Georgenburg, now Russia	April 30, 1933 Weimar, Germany	1923, 1924
	Einar H. Kvaran	December 6, 1859 Vallanes, Iceland	May 21, 1938 Reykjavík, Iceland	1923, 1924	Nominated by Valtýr Guðmundsson (1860–1928) each time.
	Guglielmo Ferrero	July 21, 1871 Portici, Italy	August 3, 1942 Chardonne, Switzerland	1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1933	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
1924
	Thomas Mann	June 6, 1875 Lübeck, Germany	August 21, 1955 Zürich, Switzerland	1924, 1928, 1929, 1948	Awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Max Neuburger	December 8, 1868 Vienna, Austria	March 15, 1955 Vienna, Austria	1924	Nominated by Adolf Fonahn (1873–1940) the only time.
	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
1925
	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.
	Giovanni Schembari	31 October 1894 Ragusa, Sicily, Italy	November 1959 Hillside, Illinois, United States	1925	Nominated by Achille Loria (1857–1943) the only time
	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.
	Paul Raynal	July 25, 1885 Narbonne, France	August 18, 1971 Paris, France	1925, 1926	Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) each time.
	Ferenc Herczeg	September 22, 1863 Vršac, Serbia	February 24, 1954 Budapest, Hungary	1925, 1926, 1927
	Rudolf Maria Holzapfel	April 26, 1874 Kraków, Poland	February 8, 1930 Muri bei Bern, Switzerland	1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929
1926
	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.
	Pyotr Krasnov	September 22, 1869 Saint Petersburg, Russia	January 16, 1947 Moscow, Russia	1926	Nominated by Vladimir Andreevich Frantsev (1867–1942) the only time.
	Sofía Casanova	September 30, 1861 A Coruña, Spain	January 16, 1958 Poznań, Poland	1926
	Vicente Huidobro	January 10, 1893 Santiago, Chile	January 2, 1948 Cartagena, Chile	1926	Nominated by Enrique Nercasseau Morán (1854–1925) the only time.
	Avetis Aharonian	January 9, 1866 Iğdır, Turkey	March 20, 1948 Paris, France	1926	Nominated by Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) the only time.
	Edvard Westermarck	November 20, 1862 Helsinki, Finland	September 3, 1939 Tenala, Finland	1926, 1927
	Ada Negri	February 3, 1870 Lodi, Italy	January 11, 1945 Milan, Italy	1926, 1927
	Juan Zorrilla de San Martín	December 28, 1855 Montevideo, Uruguay	November 3, 1931 Montevideo, Uruguay	1926, 1928
	Karl Kraus	April 28, 1874 Jicin, Czechia	June 12, 1936 Vienna, Austria	1926, 1928, 1930
	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.
	J.-H. Rosny aîné	February 17, 1856 Brussels, Belgium	February 11, 1940 Paris, France	1926, 1928, 1933
	Josip Kosor	January 27, 1879 Drniš, Croatia	January 23, 1961 Dubrovnik, Croatia	1926, 1927, 1939
	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
	Johannes Jørgensen	November 6, 1866 Svendborg, Denmark	May 29, 1956 Svendborg, Denmark	1926, 1932, 1942, 1950
	Concha Espina	April 15, 1869 Santander, Spain	May 19, 1955 Madrid, Spain	1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1952, 1954
	Paul Claudel	August 6, 1868 Villeneuve-sur-Fère, France	February 23, 1955 Paris, France	1926, 1937, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1955
1927
	Cesare Pascarella	April 28, 1858 Rome, Italy	May 8, 1940 Rome, Italy	1927
	Eduard Meyer	January 25, 1855 Hamburg, Germany	August 31, 1930 Berlin, Germany	1927	Nominated by Georg Wittrock (1876–1957) the only time.
	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.
	Edith Wharton	January 24, 1862 New York, United States	August 11, 1937 Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France	1927, 1928, 1930
	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.
	Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer	December 30, 1878 Budapest, Hungary	April 12, 1962 Munich, Germany	1927, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937
1928
	Armando Palacio Valdés	October 4, 1853 Entrialgo, Spain	January 29, 1938 Madrid, Spain	1928
	Blanca de los Ríos	August 15, 1859 Seville, Spain	April 13, 1956 Madrid, Spain	1928
	Edith Howes	August 29, 1872 London, England	July 9, 1954 Dunedin, New Zealand	1928	Nominated by Francis Prendeville Wilson (1874–?) the only time.
	Theodor Däubler	August 17, 1876 Trieste, Italy	June 14, 1934 Sankt Blasien, Germany	1928	Nominated by Oskar Walzel (1864–1944) the only time.
	Frederik van Eeden	April 3, 1860 Haarlem, Netherlands	June 16, 1932 Bussum, Netherlands	1928	Nominated by Gerard Brom (1882–1959) the only time.
	Alf Larsen	July 22, 1885 Tjøme, Norway	December 12, 1967 Tjøme, Norway	1928	Nominated by Alexander Seippel (1851–1938) the only time.
	Anna de Noailles	November 15, 1876 Paris, France	April 30, 1933 Paris, France	1928	Nominated by Tor Hedberg (1862–1931) the only time.
	Ivan Grozev	June 23, 1872 Sofia, Bulgaria	January 10, 1957 London, England	1928, 1929	Nominated by Mikhail Arnaudov (1878–1978) each time.
	Hans Driesch	October 28, 1867 Bad Kreuznach, Germany	April 17, 1941 Leipzig, Germany	1928, 1930, 1932	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Rudolf Hans Bartsch	February 11, 1873 Graz, Austria	February 7, 1952 Graz, Austria	1928, 1929, 1930, 1933
	Rufino Blanco Fombona	June 17, 1874 Caracas, Venezuela	October 16, 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1935
	Felix Timmermans	July 5, 1886 Lier, Belgium	January 24, 1947 Lier, Belgium	1928, 1940, 1941
	Ricarda Huch	July 18, 1864 Braunschweig, Germany	November 17, 1947 Kronberg, Germany	1928, 1935, 1937, 1946
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.
	Knud Rasmussen	June 7, 1879 Ilulissat, Greenland	December 21, 1933 Copenhagen, Denmark	1929	Nominated by William Thalbitzer (1873–1958) the only time.
	Stefan George	July 12, 1868 Büdesheim, Germany	December 4, 1933 Minusio, Switzerland	1929, 1931
	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.
	Benedetto Croce	February 25, 1866 Pescasseroli, Italy	November 20, 1952 Naples, Italy	1929, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952
	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

1930–1939

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.
	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.
	Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo	September 19, 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela	(?) 1959 Caracas, Venezuela	1930	Nominated by Manuel María Villalobos (1858–1929) the only time.
	Manfred Kyber	March 1, 1880 Riga, Latvia	March 10, 1933 Löwenstein, Germany	1930
	Arvid Järnefelt	November 16, 1861 Saint Petersburg, Russia	December 27, 1932 Helsinki, Finland	1930	Nominated by Oiva Tuulio (1878–1941) the only time.
	Yrjö Hirn	December 7, 1870 Lappeenranta, Finland	February 23, 1952 Helsinki, Finland	1930	Nominated by Olaf Homén (1879–1949) the only time.
	Theodore Dreiser	August 27, 1871 Indiana, United States	December 28, 1945 California, United States	1930	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) the only time.
	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.
	Nathanael Jünger	October 23, 1871 Hamburg, Germany	September 29, 1941 Potsdam, Germany	1930, 1931	Nominated by Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930) each time.
	Anton Wildgans	April 17, 1881 Vienna, Austria	May 3, 1932 Mödling, Austria	1930, 1931, 1932
	Paul Valéry	October 30, 1871 Sète, France	July 20, 1945 Paris, France	1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945
	Lion Feuchtwanger	July 7, 1884 Munich, Germany	December 21, 1958 California, United States	1930, 1955, 1956, 1957
	Rudolf Kassner	September 11, 1873 Velké Pavlovice, Czechia	April 1, 1959 Sierre, Switzerland	1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1959
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.
	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.
	Francis Jammes	December 2, 1868 Tournay, France	November 1, 1938 Hasparren, France	1931	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) the only time.
	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.
	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.
	Ivan Shmelyov	October 3, 1873 Moscow, Russia	June 24, 1950 Paris, France	1931, 1932
	Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić	April 18, 1874 Ogulin, Croatia	September 21, 1938 Zagreb, Croatia	1931, 1935, 1937, 1938
	Ramón Pérez de Ayala	August 9, 1880 Oviedo, Spain	August 5, 1962 Madrid, Spain	1931, 1934, 1947
	Martin Andersen Nexø	June 26, 1869 Christianshavn, Denmark	June 1, 1954 Dresden, Germany	1931, 1950
	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.
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.
	Francesco Orestano	April 14, 1873 Alia, Italy	August 20, 1945 Rome, Italy	1932	Nominated by Pietro Bonfante (1864–1932) the only time.
	Axel Munthe	October 31, 1857 Oskarshamn, Sweden	February 11, 1949 Stockholm, Sweden	1932	Nominated by Rolf Lagerborg (1874–1959) the only time.
	Percival Elgood	July 3, 1863 Marlborough, England	December 20, 1941 Cairo, Egypt	1932	Nominated by Arthur James Grant (1862–1948) the only time.
	Grigol Robakidze	October 28, 1880 Imereti, Georgia	November 19, 1962 Geneva, Switzerland	1932	Nominated by Richard Meckelein (1880–1948) the only time.
	Karel Čapek	January 9, 1890 Malé Svatoňovice, Czechia	December 25, 1938 Prague, Czechia	1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938
	Vilhelm Ekelund	October 14, 1880 Scania, Sweden	September 3, 1949 Saltsjöbaden, Sweden	1932, 1941
	Manuel Gálvez	May 6, 1882 Parana, Argentina	November 14, 1962 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1932, 1933, 1934, 1951, 1952
	Upton Sinclair	September 20, 1878 Maryland, United States	November 25, 1968 New Jersey, United States	1932, 1933, 1934, 1965
1933
	Henrique Coelho Neto	February 21, 1864 Maranhão, Brazil	November 28, 1934 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1933
	Max Beerbohm	August 24, 1872 London, England	May 20, 1956 Rapallo, Italy	1933	Nominated by Tancred Borenius (1885–1948) the only time.
	Hayim Nahman Bialik	January 9, 1873 Volhynia, Russia	July 4, 1934 Vienna, Austria	1933, 1934	Nominated by Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) each time.
	Ernest Roguin	May 27, 1851 Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland	May 5, 1939 Lausanne, Switzerland	1933, 1934	Nominated by Edmond Rossier (1865–1945) each time.
	Joseph Bédier	January 28, 1864 Paris, France	August 29, 1938 Le Grand-Serre, France	1933, 1934	Nominated by Henrik Schück (1855–1947) each time.
	Hermann Stehr	February 16, 1864 Bystrzyca Klodzka, Poland	September 11, 1940 Szklarska Poręba, Poland	1933, 1934, 1935, 1936
	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
	Carlos María Ocantos	August 24, 1860 Buenos Aires, Argentina	March 29, 1949 Madrid, Spain	1933, 1943
	José Ortega y Gasset	May 9, 1883 Madrid, Spain	October 18, 1955 Madrid, Spain	1933, 1951
	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	Second President of India (1962 – 1967). Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.
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.
	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.
	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.
	Francisco García Calderón Rey	April 8, 1883 Valparaíso, Chile	July 1, 1953 Lima, Peru	1934
	Ventura García Calderón	February 23, 1886 Paris, France	October 27, 1959 Paris, France	1934
	Ole Hallesby	August 5, 1879 Aremark, Norway	November 22, 1961 Oslo, Norway	1934	Nominated jointly by Olai Skulerud (1881–1963) the only time.
	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.
	Franz Karl Ginzkey	September 8, 1871 Pula, Croatia	April 11, 1963 Vienna, Austria	1934, 1935
	Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński	September 14, 1859 Kiev, Ukraine	May 8, 1944 Schondorf, Germany	1934, 1935
	Jarl Hemmer	September 18, 1893 Vaasa, Finland	December 6, 1944 Porvoo, Finland	1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939
	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
	Jean Schlumberger	May 26, 1877 Guebwiller, France	October 25, 1968 Paris, France	1934, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1964
1935
	James Cousins	July 22, 1873 Belfast, Northern Ireland	February 20, 1956 Madanapalle, India	1935	Nominated by Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) the only time.
	Sven Erik Lönborg	March 16, 1871 Motala, Sweden	April 11, 1959 Uppsala, Sweden	1935	Nominated by Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) the only time.
	Émile Mâle	June 2, 1862 Commentry, France	October 6, 1954 Fontaine-Chaalis, France	1935	Nominated by Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) the only time.
	Guðmundur Kamban	June 8, 1888 Reykjavík, Iceland	May 5, 1945 Copenhagen, Denmark	1935	Nominated by Bengt Hesselman (1875–1952) the only time.
	Violet Clifton	November 2, 1883 Rome, Italy	November 20, 1961 Lytham St Annes, England	1935	Nominated by Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) the only time.
	Elise Richter	March 2, 1865 Vienna, Austria	June 23, 1943 Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechia	1935
	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	May 29, 1874 Kensington, England	June 14, 1936 Beaconsfield, England	1935	Nominated by Torsten Fogelqvist (1880–1941) the only time.
	Dezső Szabó	June 10, 1879 Kolozsvár, Hungary	January 13, 1945 Budapest, Hungary	1935	Nominated by Björn Collinder (1894–1983) the only time.
	Víctor Manuel Rendón	December 5, 1859 Guayaquil, Ecuador	October 9, 1940 Guayaquil, Ecuador	1935	Nominated by Celiano Monge Navarrete (1856–1940) the only time.
	Edvarts Virza	December 27, 1883 Ozolnieki, Latvia	March 1, 1940 Riga, Latvia	1935, 1936
	Miguel de Unamuno	September 29, 1864 Bilbao, Spain	December 31, 1936 Salamanca, Spain	1935, 1936
	Shaul Tchernichovsky	August 20, 1875 Kiev, Ukraine	October 14, 1943 Jerusalem, Israel	1935, 1937	Nominated by Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) each time.
	John Masefield	June 1, 1878 Ledbury, England	May 12, 1967 Abingdon, England	1935, 1937	Nominated by Anders Österling (1884–1981) each time.
	Jules Romains	August 26, 1885 Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, France	August 14, 1972 Paris, France	1935, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1963, 1966
1936
	Asis Domet	June 25, 1890 Cairo, Egypt	June 27, 1943 Berlin, Germany	1936	Nominated by G. E. Khoury (?) the only time.
	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.
	Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti	January 10, 1871 Vienna, Austria	April 8, 1955 Linz, Austria	1936
	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.
	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.
	Ludwig Klages	December 10, 1872 Hanover, Germany	July 29, 1956 Kilchberg, Switzerland	1936, 1937	Nominated by Wilhelm Pinder (1878–1947) each time.
	Cécile Tormay	October 8, 1875 Budapest, Hungary	April 2, 1937 Gyöngyös, Hungary	1936, 1937
	Hans Fallada	July 21, 1893 Greifswald, Germany	February 5, 1947 Berlin, Germany	1936, 1939
	Arvid Mörne	May 6, 1876 Kuopio, Finland	June 15, 1946 Kauniainen, Finland	1936, 1945, 1946
	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
1937
	Maurice Magre	March 2, 1877 Toulouse, France	December 11, 1941 Nice, France	1937
	Jules Payot	April 10, 1859 Chamonix, France	January 30, 1940 Aix-en-Provence, France	1937	Nominated by Alfred Baudrillart (1859–1942) the only time.
	Arnold Schering	April 2, 1877 Wrocław, Poland	March 7, 1941 Berlin, Germany	1937	Nominated by Ilmari Krohn (1867–1960) the only time.
	Maria Jotuni	April 9, 1880 Kuopio, Finland	September 30, 1943 Helsinki, Finland	1937	Nominated by Viljo Tarkiainen (1879–1951) the only time.
	Albert Verwey	May 15, 1865 Amsterdam, Netherlands	March 8, 1937 Noordwijk, Netherlands	1937	Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	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.
	Valdemar Rørdam	September 23, 1872 Fakse, Denmark	July 13, 1946 Holbæk, Denmark	1937, 1938
	Bensadhar Majumdar	? India	? India	1937, 1939
	Sally Salminen	April 25, 1906 Vårdö, Åland, Finland	July 18, 1976 Copenhagen, Denmark	1937, 1938, 1939
	Maila Talvio	October 17, 1871 Hartola, Finland	January 6, 1951 Helsinki, Finland	1937, 1939, 1947
	René Béhaine	June 17, 1880 Vervins, France	January 2, 1966 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France	1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1944 1948, 1965
	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
	Stijn Streuvels	October 3, 1871 Kortrijk, Belgium	August 15, 1969 Anzegem, Belgium	1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1969
	Jean Giono	March 30, 1895 Manosque, France	October 9, 1970 Manosque, France	1937, 1952, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
1938
	Pearl Buck	June 26, 1892 West Virginia, United States	March 6, 1973 Vermont, United States	1938	Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Robert Ritchie Racey	May 3, 1873 Canada	September 15, 1956 Paris, Ontario, Canada	1938	Nominated by Arthur Leonard Phelps (1887–1970) the only time.
	Mohammad Khan (prob. Mohammad Habib (1895–1971))	? India	? India	1938	Nominated by Per Hallström (1866–1960) the only time.
	Margaret Mitchell	November 8, 1900 Georgia, United States	August 16, 1949 Georgia, United States	1938	Nominated by Sven Hedin (1865–1952) the only time.
	Arthur van Schendel	March 5, 1874 Jakarta, Indonesia	September 11, 1946 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1938
	Veikko Antero Koskenniemi	July 8, 1885 Oulu, Finland	August 4, 1962 Turku, Finland	1938	Nominated by Aapeli Saarisalo (1896–1986) the only time.
	Sanjib Chaudhuri	? India	? India	1938, 1939	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.
	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
	Henriette Charasson	February 13, 1884 Le Havre, France	May 29, 1972 Châteauroux, France	1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1957
	Herman Teirlinck	February 24, 1879 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium	February 4, 1967 Beersel, Belgium	1938, 1954, 1957, 1960
	Aldous Huxley	July 26, 1894 Godalming, England	November 22, 1963 California, United States	1938, 1939, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963
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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Hugh Walpole	March 13, 1884 Auckland, New Zealand	June 1, 1941 Keswick, England	1939	Nominated by Sten Bodvar Liljegren (1885–1984) the only time.
	Johan Huizinga	December 7, 1872 Groningen, Netherlands	February 1, 1945 De Steeg, Netherlands	1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1953, 1944, 1945
	Henriette Roland Holst	December 24, 1869 Noordwijk, Netherlands	November 21, 1952 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1939, 1950, 1952
	Eugène Baie	August 3, 1874 Anderlecht, Belgium	September 10, 1964 Anderlecht, Belgium	1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956
	Hu Shih	December 17, 1891 Songjiang, China	February 24, 1962 Taipei, Taiwan	1939, 1957
	Maria Dąbrowska	October 6, 1889 Russów, Poland	May 19, 1965 Warsaw, Poland	1939, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965

1940–1949

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1940
	Gabriela Mistral	April 7, 1889 Vicuña, Chile	January 10, 1957 New York, United States	1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945	Awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Alfonso Strafile	1872 Cerignola, Italy	? Italy	1940	Nominated by Domenico Vittorini (1892–1958) the only time.
	Gösta Albert Carlberg	September 23, 1909 Norrköping, Sweden	March 13, 1973 Stockholm, Sweden	1940	Nominated by Einar Tegen (1884–1965) the only time.
	Bert Bailey	June 11, 1868 Auckland, New Zealand	March 30, 1953 Darlinghurst, Australia	1940	Nominated by Georges Rency (1875–1951) the only time.
	Edmund Blunden	November 1, 1896 London, England	January 20, 1974 Long Melford, England	1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945	Nominated by Heinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904-1980) each time.
	Carl Sandburg	January 6, 1878 Illinois, United States	July 22, 1967 North Carolina, United States	1940, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1959
	Lin Yutang	October 10, 1895 Zhangzhou, China	March 26, 1976 Hong Kong	1940, 1950, 1970, 1972, 1973
1941
	Manoel Cyrillo Wanderley (prob. Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968))	Brazil	Brazil	1941	Nominated by Francisco de Aquino Correia, S.D.B. (1885–1956) the only time.
	Ruth Comfort Young	July 21, 1882 California, United States	February 18, 1954 California, United States	1941
	Branislav Petronijević	March 25, 1875 Sovljak, Serbia	March 4, 1954 Belgrade, Serbia	1941, 1947
1942
	Sigfrid Siwertz	January 24, 1882 Stockholm, Sweden	November 26, 1970 Stockholm, Sweden	1942	Nominated by Carl Olaf Bøggild-Andersen (1898–1967) the only time.
	Teixeira de Pascoaes	November 2, 1877 Amarante, Portugal	December 14, 1952 Amarante, Portugal	1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948	Nominated by João António Mascarenhas Júdice (1898–1957) each time.
	Nikolai Berdyaev	March 18, 1874 Kiev, Ukraine	March 24, 1948 Clamart, France	1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948	Nominated by Alf Nyman (1884–1968) each time.
	Charles Langbridge Morgan	January 22, 1894 Bromley, England	February 6, 1958 London, England	1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949
	Enrique Larreta	March 4, 1875 Buenos Aires, Argentina	July 6, 1961 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1950
	Hans Carossa	December 15, 1878 Bad Tölz, Germany	September 12, 1956 Lower Bavaria, Germany	1942, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1955, 1956
1943
	John Steinbeck	February 27, 1902 California, United States	December 20, 1968 New York, United States	1943, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962	Awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Sri Aurobindo	August 15, 1872 Kolkata, India	December 5, 1950 Puducherry, India	1943	Nominated by Francis Younghusband (1863–1942) the only time and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Franz Werfel	September 10, 1890 Prague, Czechia	August 26, 1945 California, United States	1943, 1945
	Franz Hellens	September 8, 1881 Brussels, Belgium	January 20, 1972 Brussels, Belgium	1943, 1948, 1958, 1954
	Elisaveta Bagryana	April 16, 1893 Sofia, Bulgaria	March 23, 1991 Sofia, Bulgaria	1943, 1944, 1945, 1969
1944
	Abol-Gassem E’tessam Zadeh	? Iran	? Iran	1944	Nominated by Issa Sepahbodi (1896–?) the only time.
	Luis Nueda y Santiago	1883 Madrid, Spain	1952 Madrid, Spain	1944	Nominated by Julio Casares (1877–1964) the only time.
	Charles Ferdinand Ramuz	September 24, 1878 Lausanne, Switzerland	May 23, 1947 Pully, Switzerland	1944, 1945, 1946, 1947
	Arnulf Øverland	April 27, 1889 Kristiansund, Norway	March 25, 1968 Oslo, Norway	1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1965, 1966, 1967
1945
	Thomas Sterns Eliot	September 26, 1888 Missouri, United States	January 4, 1965 Kensington, England	1945, 1946, 1947, 1948	Awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Yiorgos Theotokas	April 27, 1906 Constantinople, Turkey	October 30, 1966 Athens, Greece	1945	Nominated by Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) the only time.
	Armando Alvares Pedroso	June 29, 1907 Havana, Cuba	September 9, 1990 Miami, United States	1945
	Edward Morgan Forster	January 1, 1879 London, England	June 7, 1970 Coventry, England	1945, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
	Marie Under	March 27, 1883 Reval, Estonia	September 25, 1980 Stockholm, Sweden	1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
1946
	André Gide	November 22, 1869 Paris, France	February 19, 1951 Paris, France	1946, 1947	Awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	François Mauriac	October 11, 1885 Bordeaux, France	September 1, 1970 Paris, France	1946, 1949, 1950, 1952	Awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Winston Churchill	November 30, 1874 Blenheim Palace, England	January 24, 1965 Kensington, 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.
	Boris Pasternak	February 10, 1890 Moscow, Russia	May 30, 1960 Moscow, Russia	1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1957, 1958	Awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Herbert John Clifford Grierson	January 16, 1866 Lerwick, Scotland	February 19, 1960 Cambridge, England	1946	Nominated by William James Entwistle (1895–1952) the only time.
	Sholem Asch	November 1, 1880 Kutno, Poland	July 10, 1957 London, England	1946, 1947	Nominated by Walter Arthur Berendsohn (1884–1984) each time.
	Angelos Sikelianos	March 28, 1884 Lefkada, Greece	June 19, 1951 Athens, Greece	1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951
	Ignazio Silone	May 1, 1900 Pescina, Italy	August 22, 1978 Geneva, Switzerland	1946, 1947, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969
	Tarjei Vesaas	August 20, 1897 Vinje, Norway	March 15, 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
1947
	Pär Lagerkvist	May 23, 1891 Växjö, Sweden	July 11, 1974 Lidingö, Sweden	1947, 1949, 1950, 1951	Awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Ernest Hemingway	July 21, 1899 Illinois, United States	July 2, 1961 Idaho, United States	1947, 1950, 1953, 1954	Awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Mikhail Sholokhov	May 24, 1905 Vyoshenskaya, Russia	February 21, 1984 Vyoshenskaya, Russia	1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965	Awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.,
	Shmuel Yosef Agnon	August 8, 1887 Buchach, Ukraine	February 17, 1970 Jerusalem, Israel	1947, 1948, 1951, 1965, 1966	Shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Nelly Sachs
	Bernard O'Dowd	April 11, 1866 Beaufort, Australia	September 1, 1953 Melbourne, Australia	1947
	Horace Kallen	August 11, 1882 Bierutow, Poland	February 16, 1974 Florida, United States	1947	Nominated by Louise Rosenblatt (1904–2005) the only time.
	Gregorios Xenopoulos	December 9, 1867 Constantinople, Turkey	January 14, 1951 Athens, Greece	1947	Nominated by Iōannēs Kalitsounakēs (1878–1966) the only time.
	Toyohiko Kagawa	July 10, 1888 Hyogo, Japan	April 23, 1960 Tokyo, Japan	1947, 1948	Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Georgios Drosinis	December 9, 1859 Athens, Greece	January 3, 1951 Kifisia, Greece	1947, 1948
	Nikos Kazantzakis	February 18, 1883 Heraklion, Greece	October 26, 1957 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	1947, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957
	André Malraux	November 3, 1901 Paris, France	November 23, 1976 Créteil, France	1947, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
1948
	Halldór Laxness	April 23, 1902 Reykjavík, Iceland	February 8, 1998 Reykjavík, Iceland	1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955	Awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette	January 28, 1873 Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France	August 3, 1954 Paris, France	1948	Nominated by Claude Farrère (1876–1957) the only time.
	Dorothy Canfield Fisher	February 17, 1879 Kansas, United States	November 9, 1958 Vermont, United States	1948, 1949	Nominated by David Baumgardt (1890–1963) each time.
	George Santayana	December 16, 1863 Madrid, Spain	September 26, 1952 Rome, Italy	1948, 1949
	Zalman Shneur	ca. 1887 Shkloŭ, Belarus	February 20, 1959 New York, United States	1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957
	George Macauley Trevelyan	February 16, 1876 Stratford-upon-Avon, England	July 21, 1962 Cambridge, England	1948, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960
	Riccardo Bacchelli	April 19, 1891 Bologna, Italy	October 8, 1985 Monza, Italy	1948, 1949, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
1949
	Albert Camus	November 7, 1913 Algiers, Algeria	January 4, 1960 Villeblevin, France	1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957	Awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Jacinto Grau	ca. 1877 Barcelona, Spain	August 14, 1958 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1949	Nominated by Hjalmar Gullberg (1898–1961) the only time.
	Reinaldo Temprano Azcona	1911 Pajares de la Lampreana, Spain	1954 Spain	1949	Nominated by Emilio Alarcos García (1895–1986) the only time.
	Leonid Leonov	May 31, 1899 Moscow, Russia	August 8, 1994 Moscow, Russia	1949, 1950	Nominated by Valentin Kiparsky (1904–1983) each time.
	Enrique González Martínez	April 13, 1871 Guadalajara, Mexico	February 19, 1952 Mexico City, Mexico	1949, 1952
	Alfonso Reyes	May 17, 1889 Monterrey, Mexico	December 27, 1959 Mexico City, Mexico	1949, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959
	Seán O'Casey	March 30, 1880 Dublin, Ireland	September 18, 1964 Torquay, England	1949, 1950, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963
	Taha Hussein	November 15, 1889 Maghagha, Egypt	October 28, 1973 Cairo, Egypt	1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973
	Alberto Moravia	November 28, 1907 Rome, Italy	September 26, 1990 Rome, Italy	1949, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973

1950–1959

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1950
	William Faulkner	September 25, 1897 Mississippi, United States	July 6, 1962 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.
	Bertrand Russell	May 18, 1872 Trellech, Wales	February 2, 1970 Penrhyndeudraeth, 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.
	Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany	July 24, 1878 London, England	October 25, 1957 Dublin, Ireland	1950
	Leopold Staff	November 14, 1878 Lviv, Ukraine	May 31, 1957 Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland	1950	Nominated by Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) the only time.
	Thomas Head Raddall	November 13, 1903 Hythe, England	April 1, 1994 Liverpool, England	1950	Nominated by Will Richard Bird (1891–1984) the only time.
	Albert Steffen	December 10, 1884 Wynau, Switzerland	July 13, 1963 Dornach, Switzerland	1950	Nominated by Kersti Bergroth (1886–1975) the only time.
	John Dewey	October 20, 1859 Vermont, United States	June 1, 1952 New York, United States	1950	Nominated by Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) the only time.
	Hermann Broch	November 1, 1886 Vienna, Austria	May 30, 1951 Connecticut, United States	1950
	Júlio Dantas	May 19, 1876 Lagos, Portugal	May 25, 1962 Lisbon, Portugal	1950, 1951
	Alfred Noyes	September 16, 1880 Wolverhampton, England	June 25, 1958 Isle of Wight, England	1950, 1951
	Jakobus Cornelis Bloem	May 10, 1887 Oudshoorn, Netherlands	August 10, 1966 Kalenberg, Netherlands	1950, 1952
	Arnold Joseph Toynbee	April 14, 1889 London, England	October 22, 1975 York, England	1950, 1957
	Karl Jaspers	February 23, 1883 Oldenburg, Germany	February 26, 1969 Basel, Switzerland	1950, 1960
	Karen Blixen	April 17, 1885 Rungsted, Denmark	September 7, 1962 Rungsted, Denmark	1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962
	Robert Frost	March 26, 1874 California, United States	January 29, 1963 Massachusetts, United States	1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963
	Gertrud von Le Fort	October 11, 1876 Minden, Germany	November 1, 1971 Oberstdorf, Germany	1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963
	Martin Buber	February 8, 1878 Vienna, Austria	June 13, 1965 Jerusalem, Israel	1950, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Simon Vestdijk	October 17, 1898 Harlingen, Netherlands	March 23, 1971 Utrecht, Netherlands	1950, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971
	Mika Waltari	September 19, 1908 Helsinki, Finland	August 26, 1979 Helsinki, Finland	1950, 1951, 1952, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971
	Robert Graves	July 24, 1895 Wimbledon, England	December 7, 1985 Deià, Spain	1950, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973
	Graham Greene	October 2, 1904 Berkhamsted, England	April 3, 1991 Vevey, Switzerland	1950, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
1951
	Ezequiel Martínez Estrada	September 14, 1895 Buenos Aires, Argentina	November 4, 1964 Bahía Blanca, Argentina	1951
	Sotíris Skípis	ca. 1881 Athens, Greece	September 29, 1952 Provence, France	1951	Nominated by an unnamed nominator the only time.
	Katharine Susannah Prichard	December 4, 1883 Levuka, Fiji	October 2, 1969 Greenmount, Australia	1951	Nominated by Leavitt Olds Wright (1891–1980) the only time.
	María Enriqueta Camarillo	February 19, 1872 Coatepec, Mexico	February 13, 1968 Mexico City, Mexico	1951
	Rómulo Gallegos	August 2, 1884 Caracas, Venezuela	April 5, 1969 Caracas, Venezuela	1951, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967
	José Maria Ferreira de Castro	May 24, 1898 Ossela, Portugal	June 29, 1974 Porto, Portugal	1951, 1952, 1969, 1970, 1973
1952
	Juan Ramón Jiménez	December 24, 1881 Moguer, Spain	May 29, 1958 San Juan, Puerto Rico	1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956	Awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Albert Schweitzer	January 14, 1875 Kaysersberg-Vignoble, France	September 4, 1965 Lambarene, Gabon	1952	Nominated by Nils Ahnlund (1889–1957) the only time and awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
	John Dover Wilson	July 13, 1881 London, England	January 15, 1969 Balerno, Scotland	1952	Nominated by Charles Jasper Sisson (1885–1966) the only time.
	Charles Plisnier	December 13, 1896 Ghlin, Belgium	July 17, 1952 Brussels, Belgium	1952	Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Paul Vialar	September 18, 1898 Saint-Denis, France	January 8, 1996 Vaucresson, France	1952
	Louis Artus	January 10, 1870 Paris, France	May 11, 1960 Paris, France	1952
	Van Wyck Brooks	February 16, 1886 New Jersey, United States	May 2, 1963 Connecticut, United States	1952
	Charlie Chaplin	April 16, 1889 London, United Kingdom	December 25, 1977 Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland	1952
	Walter de la Mare	April 25, 1873 London, England	June 22, 1956 Twickenham, England	1952, 1953	Nominated by Harry Martinson (1904–1978) each time.
	Julien Benda	December 26, 1867 Paris, France	June 7, 1956 Fontenay-aux-Roses, France	1952, 1953, 1954, 1955
	Werner Bergengruen	September 16, 1892 Riga, Latvia	September 4, 1964 Baden-Baden, Germany	1952, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1963
	Salvador de Madariaga	July 23, 1886 A Coruña, Spain	December 14, 1978 Muralto, Switzerland	1952, 1963, 1971, 1973	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
1953
	Gottfried Benn	May 2, 1886 Putlitz, Germany	July 97, 1956 Berlin, Germany	1953, 1954, 1955, 1956
	Max Mell	November 10, 1882 Maribor, Slovenia	December 12, 1971 Vienna, Austria	1953, 1954, 1960, 1962
	Alberto Hidalgo Lobato	May 23, 1897 Arequipa, Peru	November 12, 1967 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1953, 1966, 1968
1954
	Jaroslav Seifert	September 23, 1901 Prague, Czechia	January 10, 1986 Prague, Czechia	1954, 1968, 1969	Awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Ricardo Rojas	September 16, 1882 Tucumán, Argentina	July 29, 1957 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1954
	Gustave Vanzype	June 10, 1869 Brussels, Belgium	September 12, 1955 Brussels, Belgium	1954	Nominated by Gustave Charlier (1885–1959) the only time.
	Georgios Vouyouklatis	1903 Greece	1956 Paris, France	1954
	Carl Jung	July 26, 1875 Kesswil, Switzerland	June 6, 1961 Küsnacht, Switzerland	1954	Nominated by Ernst Alker (1895–1972) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine too.
1955
	Saint-John Perse	May 31, 1887 Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe	September 20, 1975 Hyères, France	1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960	Awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Giorgos Seferis	March 13, 1900 Urla, Turkey	September 20, 1971 Athens, Greece	1955, 1961, 1962, 1963	Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Eugenio Montale	October 12, 1896 Genoa, Italy	September 12, 1981 Milan, Italy	1955, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	Won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Igor Gouzenko	January 13, 1919 Dmitrov, Russia	June 28, 1982 Mississauga, Canada	1955
	Gustav Suits	November 18, 1883 Võnnu, Estonia	May 23, 1956 Stockholm, Sweden	1955	Nominated by William Kleesmann Matthews (1901–1958) the only time.
	Reinhold Schneider	May 13, 1903 Baden-Baden, Germany	April 6, 1958 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	1955	Nominated by Eduard von Jan (1885–1971) the only time.
	Ernst Robert Curtius	April 14, 1886 Thann, France	April 19, 1956 Rome, Italy	1955	Nominated by Max Vasmer (1886–1962) the only time.
	Carlos Vaz Ferreira	October 15, 1872 Montevideo, Uruguay	January 3, 1958 Montevideo, Uruguay	1955
	Arthur Bryant	February 18, 1899 Dersingham, England	January 22, 1985 Wiltshire, England	1955	Nominated by Eric Reginald Vincent (1894–1978) the only time.
	Giovanni Papini	January 9, 1881 Florence, Italy	July 8, 1956 Florence, Italy	1955	Nominated by Henri de Ziégler (1885–1970) the only time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Fernando González Ochoa	April 24, 1895 Envigado, Colombia	February 16, 1964 Envigado, Colombia	1955
	Edith Sitwell	September 7, 1887 Scarborough, England	December 9, 1964 London, England	1955, 1958, 1959
	Adriaan Roland Holst	May 23, 1888 Amsterdam, Netherlands	August 5, 1976 Bergen, Netherlands	1955, 1961
	William Somerset Maugham	January 25, 1874 Paris, France	December 16, 1965 Nice, France	1955, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965
	Leslie Poles Hartley	December 30, 1895 Whittlesey, England	December 13, 1972 London, England	1955, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966
	Henri Bosco	November 16, 1888 Avignon, France	May 4, 1976 Nice, France	1955, 1956, 1965, 1966, 1968
	Giuseppe Ungaretti	February 8, 1888 Alexandria, Egypt	June 1, 1970 Milan, Italy	1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970
	Ezra Pound	October 30, 1885 Idaho, United States	November 1, 1972 Venice, Italy	1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972
1956
	Pablo Neruda	July 12, 1904 Parral, Chile	September 23, 1973 Santiago, Chile	1956, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971	Awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Marthe Bibesco	January 28, 1886 Bucharest, Romania	November 28, 1973 Paris, France	1956
	Bertolt Brecht	February 10, 1898 Augsburg, Germany	August 14, 1956 East Berlin, Germany	1956	Nominated by André Bonnard (1888–1959) the only time. Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Francesco Chiesa	July 5, 1871 Sagno, Switzerland	June 13, 1973 Lugano, Switzerland	1956
	Melpo Axioti	July 15, 1905 Athens, Greece	May 22, 1973 Athens, Greece	1956	Nominated by André Bonnard (1888–1959) the only time.
	Elizabeth Goudge	April 24, 1900 Wells, England	April 1, 1984 Oxfordshire, England	1956, 1959	Nominated by Edmond Privat (1889–1962) the only time.
	Jules Supervielle	January 16, 1884 Montevideo, Uruguay	May 17, 1960 Paris, France	1956, 1957, 1960
	Gonzague de Reynold	July 15, 1880 Cressier, Switzerland	April 9, 1970 Fribourg, Switzerland	1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960
	Armand Godoy	April 1, 1880 Havana, Cuba	March 11, 1964 Lausanne, Switzerland	1956, 1957, 1960, 1961
	Vasco Pratolini	October 19, 1913 Florence, Italy	January 12, 1991 Rome, Italy	1956, 1959, 1963	Nominated by Paul Renucci (1915–1976) each time.
	Christopher Fry	December 18, 1907 Bristol, England	June 30, 2005 Chichester, England	1956, 1959, 1960, 1964
	Jean Guitton	August 18, 1901 Saint-Étienne, France	March 21, 1999 Paris, France	1956, 1965	Nominated by Édouard Delebecque (1910–1990) the only time.
	Marcel Pagnol	February 28, 1895 Aubagne, France	April 18, 1974 Paris, France	1956, 1959, 1966
	Ernst Jünger	March 29, 1895 Heidelberg, Germany	February 17, 1998 Riedlingen, Germany	1956, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967
	Henry de Montherlant	April 20, 1895 Paris, France	September 21, 1972 Paris, France	1956, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971
	Gabriel Marcel	December 7, 1889 Paris, France	October 8, 1973 Paris, France	1956, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1972
	Jorge Luis Borges	August 24, 1899 Buenos Aires, Argentina	June 14, 1986 Geneva, Switzerland	1956, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
1957
	Jean-Paul Sartre	June 21, 1905 Paris, France	April 15, 1980 Paris, France	1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964	Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but declined the prize.
	Samuel Beckett	April 13, 1906 Foxrock, Ireland	December 22, 1989 Paris, France	1957, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969	Awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Lennox Robinson	October 4, 1886 Cork, Ireland	October 15, 1958 Dublin, Ireland	1957
	Valery Larbaud	August 29, 1881 Vichy, France	February 2, 1957 Vichy, France	1957	Nominated by Pierre Costil (1901–1968) the only time. Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Carl Hendrik Knuth Becker	January 21, 1891 Hjørring, Denmark	October 30, 1974 Vår, Denmark	1957	Nominated by Sven Clausen (1893–1961) the only time.
	Jan Parandowski	May 11, 1895 Lviv, Ukraine	September 26, 1978 Warsaw, Poland	1957, 1959
	Frank Thiess	March 13, 1890 Ikšķile, Latvia	December 22, 1977 Darmstadt, Germany	1957, 1962
	Carlo Levi	November 29, 1902 Turin, Italy	January 4, 1975 Rome, Italy	1957, 1966
	Mircea Eliade	March 13, 1907 Bucharest, Romania	April 22, 1986 Illinois, United States	1957, 1968
	Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz	February 20, 1894 Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine	March 2, 1980 Warsaw, Poland	1957, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1969
	André Chamson	June 6, 1900 Nîmes, France	November 9, 1983 Paris, France	1957, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Väinö Linna	December 20, 1920 Urjala, Finland	April 21, 1992 Kangasala, Finland	1957, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973
1958
	Salvatore Quasimodo	August 20, 1901 Modica, Italy	June 14, 1968 Naples, Italy	1958, 1959	Awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Ivo Andrić	October 10, 1892 Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina	March 13, 1975 Belgrade, Serbia	1958, 1959, 1960, 1961	Awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Elio Vittorini	July 23, 1908 Syracuse, Italy	February 12, 1966 Milan, Italy	1958	Nominated by Stuart Pratt Atkins (1914–2000) the only time.
	James Gould Cozzens	August 19, 1903 Illinois, United States	August 9, 1978 Florida, United States	1958	Nominated by Gordon S. Haight (1901–1985) the only time.
	John Hersey	June 17, 1914 Tianjin, China	March 24, 1993 Florida, United States	1958	Nominated by Helen Rose Hull (1888–1971) the only time.
	Fernand Baldensperger	May 4, 1871 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France	February 24, 1958 Paris, France	1958	Nominated by Alan Carey Taylor (1905–1975) the only time. Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Elizabeth Bowen	June 7, 1899 Dublin, Ireland	February 22, 1973 London, England	1958	Nominated by Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) the only time.
	John Cowper Powys	October 8, 1872 Shirley, England	June 17, 1963 Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales	1958, 1959, 1962
	Rudolf Alexander Schröder	January 26, 1878 Bremen, Germany	August 22, 1962 Bad Wessee, Germany	1958, 1960, 1962
	Maurice Bowra	April 8, 1898 Jiujiang, China	July 4, 1971 Oxford, England	1958, 1961, 1965
	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki	July 24, 1886 Tokyo, Japan	July 30, 1965 Kanagawa, Japan	1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
	Lionel Trilling	July 4, 1905 New York, United States	November 5, 1975 New York, United States	1958, 1963, 1965
	Robert Penn Warren	April 24, 1905 Kentucky, United States	September 15, 1989 Vermont, United States	1958, 1965, 1967
	Junzaburō Nishiwaki	January 20, 1894 Niigata, Japan	June 5, 1982 Niigata, Japan	1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
	Georges Simenon	February 13, 1903 Liège, Belgium	September 4, 1989 Lausanne, Switzerland	1958, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1970
	Tennessee Williams	March 26, 1911 Mississippi, United States	February 25, 1983 New York, United States	1958, 1971
	Miroslav Krleža	July 7, 1893 Zagreb, Croatia	December 29, 1981 Zagreb, Croatia	1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
1959
	Ernest Claes	October 24, 1885 Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Belgium	September 2, 1968 Ixelles, Belgium	1959	Nominated by W. F. Mainland (?) the only time.
	Sochi Raut Roy	May 13, 1916 Khordha district, India	August 21, 2004 Cuttack, India	1959	Nominated by Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968) the only time.
	Osbert Sitwell	December 6, 1892 London, England	May 4, 1969 Florence, Italy	1959	Nominated jointly with Edith Sitwell by Alexander Gillies (1907–1982) the only time.
	Sacheverell Sitwell	November 15, 1897 Scarborough, England	October 1, 1988 Towcester, England	1959
	Charles Mauron	June 27, 1899 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France	December 4, 1966 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France	1959	Nominated by Charles Rostaing (1904–1999) the only time.
	Mario Roques	July 1, 1875 Callao, Peru	March 8, 1961 Paris, France	1959, 1960	Nominated by Ida-Marie Frandon (1907–1997) each time.
	Martin Heidegger	September 26, 1889 Meßkirch, Germany	May 26, 1976 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	1959, 1960
	Stefan Andres	June 26, 1906 Trittenheim, Germany	June 29, 1970 Rome, Italy	1959, 1963
	Juana de Ibarbourou	March 8, 1892 Melo, Uruguay	July 15, 1979 Montevideo, Uruguay	1959, 1960, 1963
	Heimito von Doderer	September 5, 1896 Vienna, Austria	December 23, 1966 Vienna Austria	1959, 1960, 1962, 1964
	María Raquel Adler	ca. 1900 Argentine Sea	July 28, 1974 Bernal, Argentina	1959, 1965
	Miguel Torga	August 12, 1907 São Martinho de Anta, Portugal	January 17, 1995 Coimbra, Portugal	1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966
	Arnold Zweig	November 10, 1887 Glogow, Poland	November 26, 1968 East Berlin, Germany	1959, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Hans Egon Holthusen	April 15, 1913 Rendsburg, Germany	January 21, 1997 Munich, Germany	1959, 1968
	Étienne Gilson	June 13, 1884 Paris, France	September 19, 1978 Auxerre, France	1959, 1964, 1969
	Louis Aragon	October 3, 1897 Paris, France	December 24, 1982 Paris, France	1959, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972
	Anna Seghers	November 19, 1900 Mainz, Germany	June 1, 1983 East Berlin, Germany	1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972
	Frank Raymond Leavis	July 14, 1895 Cambridge, England	April 14, 1978 Cambridge, England	1959, 1962, 1973
	Max Frisch	May 15, 1911 Zürich, Switzerland	April 4, 1991 Zürich, Switzerland	1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973
	Julien Gracq	July 27, 1910 Mauges-sur-Loire, France	December 22, 2007 Angers, France	1959, 1960, 1961, 1972, 1973

1960–1969

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1960
	Heinrich Böll	December 21, 1917 Cologne, Germany	July 16, 1985 Kreuzau, Germany	1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972	Awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Wesley LaViolette	January 4, 1894 Minnesota, United States	July 29, 1978 California, United States	1960	Nominated by Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (1909–1992) the only time.
	Karl Waggerl	December 10, 1897 Badgestein, Austria	November 4, 1973 Schwarzach im Pongau, Austria	1960	Nominated by Friedrich Wild (1888–1966) the only time.
	Aquilino Ribeiro	September 13, 1885 Sernancelhe, Portugal	May 27, 1963 Lisbon, Portugal	1960
	Wilhelm Lehmann	May 4, 1882 Puerto Cabello, Venezuela	November 17, 1968 Eckernförde, Germany	1960	Nominated by Friedrich Sengle (1909–1994) the only time.
	Marie Noël	February 16, 1883 Auxerre, France	December 23, 1967 Auxerre, France	1960	Nominated by Maurice Bémol (1900–1961) the only time.
	Jean Price-Mars	October 15, 1876 Grande Rivière du Nord, Haiti	March 1, 1969 Petion-Ville, Haiti	1960
	James Thurber	December 8, 1894 Ohio, United States	November 2, 1961 New York, United States	1960
	Franz Theodor Csokor	September 6, 1885 Vienna, Austria	January 5, 1969 Vienna, Austria	1960, 1962
	Stratis Myrivilis	June 30, 1890 Lesbos, Greece	July 19, 1969 Athens, Greece	1960, 1962, 1963
	Elias Venezis	March 4, 1904 Ayvalık, Turkey	August 3, 1974 Athens, Greece	1960, 1963
	Aksel Sandemose	March 19, 1899 Nykobing Mors, Denmark	August 6, 1965 Copenhagen, Denmark	1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
	John Boyton Priestley	September 13, 1894 Bradford, England	August 14, 1984 Stratford-upon-Avon, England	1960, 1964, 1966
	René Char	June 14, 1907 L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France	February 19, 1988 Paris, France	1960, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973
1961
	Yasunari Kawabata	June 14, 1899 Osaka, Japan	April 16, 1972 Kanagawa, Japan	1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968	Awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Michel de Ghelderode	April 3, 1898 Ixelles, Belgium	April 1, 1962 Brussels, Belgium	1961	Nominated by Eric Bentley (1916–2020) the only time.
	Cora Sandel	December 20, 1880 Oslo, Norway	April 3, 1974 Uppsala, Sweden	1961	Nominated by Harald Ofstad (1920–1994) the only time.
	Gaston Bachelard	June 27, 1884 Bar-sur-Aube, France	October 16, 1962 Paris, France	1961	Nominated by Georges May (1920–2003) the only time.
	Giulia Scappino Murena	1902 Italy	1970s (or prob. 1967) Riccione, Rimini, Italy	1961, 1962	Nominated by Alfredo Galletti (1872–1962) each time and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Arthur Waley	August 19, 1889 Royal Tunbridge Wells, England	June 27, 1966 London, England	1961, 1962, 1964
	Jean Anouilh	June 23, 1910 Bordeaux, France	October 3, 1987 Lausanne, Switzerland	1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968
	Pierre Jean Jouve	October 11, 1887 Arras, France	January 8, 1976 Paris, France	1961, 1964, 1968, 1969
	John Ronald Reuel Tolkien	January 3, 1892 Bloemfontein, South Africa	September 2, 1973 Bournemouth, England	1961, 1967, 1969
	Edmund Wilson	May 8, 1895 New Jersey, United States	June 12, 1972 New York, United States	1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970
	Lawrence Durrell	February 27, 1912 Jalandhar, India	November 7, 1990 Sommières, France	1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971
	Charles Percy Snow	October 15, 1905 Leicester, England	July 1, 1980 London, England	1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1971
	Wystan Hugh Auden	February 21, 1907 York, England	September 29, 1973 Vienna, Austria	1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Simone de Beauvoir	January 9, 1908 Paris, France	April 14, 1986 Paris, France	1961, 1969, 1973
	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	January 5, 1921 Konolfingen, Switzerland	December 14, 1990 Neuchâtel, Switzerland	1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
1962
	Eyvind Johnson	July 29, 1900 Svartbjörnsbyn, Sweden	August 25, 1976 Stockholm, Sweden	1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	Shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson.
	Boris Zaytsev	February 10, 1881 Oryol, Russia	January 22, 1972 Paris, France	1962	Nominated by Rostislav Pletnv (1903–1985) the only time.
	Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto	February 6, 1897 Stroud, England	January 21, 1982 Bristol, England	1962	Nominated by William Beare (1933–2019) the only time.
	André Schwarz-Bart	May 23, 1928 Metz, France	September 30, 2006 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe	1962	Nominated by Ingerid Dal (1895–1985) the only time.
	Hans Erich Nossack	January 30, 1901 Hamburg, Germany	November 2, 1977 Hamburg, Germany	1962	Nominated by Josef Math (?) the only time.
	Manfred Georg Andreas Hausmann	September 10, 1898 Kassel, Germany	August 6, 1986 Bremen, Germany	1962	Nominated by Heinrich Dörrie (1911–1983) the only time.
	Ronald Syme	March 11, 1903 Eltham, New Zealand	September 4, 1989 Oxford, England	1962	Nominated by Albrecht Dihle (1923–2020) the only time.
	Pietro Ubaldi	August 18, 1886 Foligno, Italy	February 29, 1972 São Paulo, Brazil	1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
	Josep Carner	February 9, 1884 Barcelona, Spain	June 4, 1970 Brussels, Belgium	1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1970
	Roman Jakobson	October 10, 1896 Moscow, Russia	July 18, 1982 Massachusetts, United States	1962, 1971, 1972
	Jorge Guillén	January 18, 1893 Valladolid, Spain	February 6, 1984 Málaga, Spain	1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973
	William Heinesen	January 15, 1900 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	March 12, 1991 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	1962, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Erich Kästner	February 23, 1899 Dresden, Germany	July 29, 1974 Munich, Germany	1962, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Vilhelm Moberg	August 20, 1898 Algutsboda, Sweden	August 8, 1973 Väddö, Sweden	1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Carl Zuckmayer	December 27, 1896 Nackenheim, Germany	January 18, 1977 Saas Fee, Switzerland	1962, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973
1963
	Nelly Sachs	December 10, 1891 Berlin, Germany	May 12, 1970 Stockholm, Sweden	1963, 1964, 1965, 1966	Shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Shmuel Yosef Agnon.
	Ingeborg Bachmann	June 25, 1926 Klagenfurt, Austria	October 17, 1973 Rome, Italy	1963	Nominated by Harald Patzer (1910–2005) the only time.
	Emilio Cecchi	July 14, 1884 Florence, Italy	September 5, 1966 Rome, Italy	1963	Nominated by Howard Rosario Marraro (1897–1972) the only time.
	Jean Cocteau	July 5, 1889 Maisons-Laffitte, France	October 11, 1963 Milly-la-Forêt, France	1963	Nominated by Léon Cellier (1911–1976) the only time.
	Ingemar Düring	September 2, 1903 Gothenburg, Sweden	December 23, 1984 Gothenburg, Sweden	1963	Nominated by Franz Dirlmeier (1904–1977) the only time.
	René Étiemble	January 26, 1909 Mayenne, France	January 7, 2002 Vigny, France	1963	Nominated by Auguste Haury (1910–2002) the only time.
	Yevgeny Yevtushenko	July 18, 1932 Zima, Russia	April 1, 2017 Oklahoma, United States	1963	Nominated by Konrad Bittner (1890–1967) the only time.
	Rudolf Pfeiffer	September 20, 1889 Augsburg, Germany	May 5, 1979 Dachau, Germany	1963	Nominated by Will Richter (1910–1984) the only time.
	Kate Roberts	February 13, 1891 Rhosgadfan, Wales	April 14, 1985 Denbigh, Wales	1963	Nominated by Idris Foster (1911–1984) the only time.
	André Breton	February 18, 1896 Tinchebray-Bocage, France	September 28, 1966 Paris, France	1963, 1964
	Ramón José Sender	February 3, 1901 Chalamera, Spain	February 16, 1982 California, United States	1963, 1964
	Jean Guéhenno	March 25, 1890 Fougères, France	September 22, 1978 Paris, France	1963, 1964, 1965	Nominated by Edmond Jarno (1905–1985) each time.
	Karl Löwith	January 9, 1897 Munich, Germany	May 26, 1973 Heidelberg, Germany	1963, 1964, 1967	Nominated by Franz Dirlmeier (1904–1977) each time.
	Charles de Gaulle	November 22, 1890 Lille, France	November 9, 1970 Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, France	1963, 1968	President of France (1959–1969).
	Yukio Mishima	January 14, 1925 Tokyo, Japan	November 25, 1970 Tokyo, Japan	1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968
	Gustave Thibon	September 2, 1903 Saint-Marcel-d'Ardèche, France	January 19, 2001 Saint-Marcel-d'Ardèche, France	1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968	Nominated by Édouard Delebecque (1910–1990) each time.
	Erico Verissimo	December 17, 1905 Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	November 28, 1975 Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	1963, 1968
	Marcel Jouhandeau	July 26, 1888 Guéret, France	April 7, 1979 Rueil-Malmaison, France	1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969	Nominated by Jean Gaulmier (1905–1997) each time.
	Henri Queffélec	January 29, 1910 Brest, France	January 12, 1992 Paris, France	1963, 1972
	Michel Butor	September 14, 1926 Mons-en-Barœul, France	August 24, 2016 Contamine-sur-Arve, France	1963, 1964, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Vladimir Nabokov	April 22, 1899 Saint Petersburg, Russia	July 2, 1977 Montreux, Switzerland	1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973
	Léopold Sédar Senghor	October 9, 1906 Joal-Fadiout, Senegal	December 20, 2001 Verson, France	1963, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	1st President of Senegal (1960 – 1980). Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
1964
	Miguel Ángel Asturias	October 19, 1899 Guatemala City, Guatemala	June 9, 1974 Madrid, Spain	1964, 1965, 1966, 1967	Awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Harry Martinson	May 6, 1904 Jämshög, Sweden	February 11, 1978 Solna, Sweden	1964, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	Shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Eyvind Johnson
	Camilo José Cela	May 11, 1916 Iria Flavia, Spain	January 17, 2002 Madrid, Spain	1964, 1973	Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Jérôme Carcopino	June 27, 1881 Eure, France	March 17, 1970 Paris, France	1964	Nominated by Pierre Grimal (1912–1996) the only time.
	Jacques Perret	September 8, 1901 Trappes, France	December 10, 1992 Paris, France	1964	Nominated by Paul Pédech (1912–2005) the only time.
	Jacques Pirenne	June 26, 1891 Ghent, Belgium	September 7, 1972 Hierges, France	1964	Nominated by Pierre Nothomb (1887–1966) the only time.
	Ina Seidel	September 15, 1885 Halle (Saale), Germany	October 2, 1974 Schäftlarn, Germany	1964	Nominated by Günther Jachmann (1887–1979) the only time.
	Pierre Emmanuel	May 3, 1916 Gan, France	September 24, 1984 Paris, France	1964, 1966
	Hossein Ghods-Nakhai	ca. 1894 Mazandaran, Iran	December 30, 1977 Shiraz, Iran	1964, 1966
	Judith Wright	May 31, 1915 Armidale, Australia	June 25, 2000 Canberra, Australia	1964, 1965, 1967
	Gunnar Ekelöf	September 15, 1907 Stockholm, Sweden	March 16, 1968 Sigtuna, Sweden	1964, 1968
	Hugh MacDiarmid	August 11, 1892 Langholm, Scotland	September 9, 1978 Edinburgh, Scotland	1964, 1968	Nominated by David Daiches (1912–2005) each time.
	Katherine Anne Porter	May 15, 1890 Texas, United States	September 18, 1980 Maryland, United States	1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
	Paul Celan	November 23, 1920 Cernăuți, Romania	April 20, 1970 Paris, France	1964, 1966, 1968, 1969
	Eugène Ionesco	November 26, 1909 Slatina, Romania	March 28, 1994 Paris, France	1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972
	James Thomas Farrell	February 27, 1904 Illinois, United States	August 22, 1979 New York, United States	1964, 1973
	Robert Lowell	March 1, 1917 Boston, United States	September 12, 1977 New York, United States	1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1973
	Henri Michaux	May 24, 1899 Namur, Belgium	October 19, 1984 Paris, France	1964, 1973
	José María Pemán	May 8, 1897 Cádiz, Spain	July 19, 1981 Cádiz, Spain	1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973
1965
	Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno	September 11, 1903 Frankfurt, Germany	August 6, 1969 Visp, Switzerland	1965	Nominated by Helmut Viebrock (1912–1997) the only time.
	Alceu Amoroso Lima	December 11, 1893 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	August 14, 1983 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1965
	Tudor Arghezi	May 21, 1880 Bucharest, Romania	July 14, 1967 Bucharest, Romania	1965	Nominated by Angelo Monteverdi (1886–1967) the only time.
	Gilbert Cesbron	January 13, 1913 Paris, France	August 12, 1979 Paris, France	1965	Nominated by Pierre Jonin (1912–1997) the only time.
	Sudhindra Nath Ghose	July 30, 1899 Bardhaman, Bengal	December 30, 1965 London, England	1965	Nominated by Henri de Ziégler (1885–1970) the only time.
	Gopal Singh	November 29, 1917 Goa, India	August 8, 1990 Goa, India	1965
	Giovannino Guareschi	May 1, 1908 Roccabianca, Italy	July 22, 1968 Cervia, Italy	1965	Nominated by Mario Manlio Rossi (1895–1971) the only time.
	Pêr-Jakez Helias	February 17, 1914 Pouldreuzic, France	August 13, 1995 Quimper, France	1965	Nominated by André Lebois (1915–1978) the only time.
	Wilhelm Röpke	October 10, 1899 Schwarmstedt, Germany	February 12, 1966 Geneva, Switzerland	1965	Nominated by Olof Gigon (1912–1998) the only time.
	Alan Sillitoe	March 4, 1928 Nottingham, England	April 25, 2010 London, England	1965	Nominated by Robert Graves (1895–1985) the only time.
	Carl Erik Soya	October 30, 1896 Copenhagen, Denmark	November 10, 1983 Rudkøbing, Denmark	1965
	Henri Troyat	November 1, 1911 Moscow, Russia	March 2, 2007 Paris, France	1965	Nominated by Ernst Dickenmann (1902–1985) the only time.
	Marguerite Yourcenar	June 8, 1903 Brussels, Belgium	December 17, 1987 Maine, United States	1965	Nominated by Ida-Marie Frandon (1907–1997) the only time.
	Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui	December 21, 1901 Portugalete, Spain	May 31, 1982 Madrid, Spain	1965	Nominated by Elie Poulenard (1901–1985) the only time.
	Anna Akhmatova	June 23, 1889 Odesa, Ukraine	March 5, 1966 Domodedovo, Russia	1965, 1966
	Marie Luise Kaschnitz	January 31, 1901 Karlsruhe, Germany	October 10, 1974 Rome, Italy	1965, 1967	Nominated by Hermann Tiemann (1899–1981) each time.
	Konstantin Paustovsky	May 31, 1892 Moscow, Russia	July 14, 1968 Moscow, Russia	1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
	Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh	January 13, 1892 Isfahan, Iran	November 8, 1997 Geneva, Switzerland	1965, 1967, 1969
	Alejo Carpentier	December 26, 1904 Lausanne, Switzerland	April 24, 1980 Paris, France	1965, 1966, 1967, 1971
	Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn Rahnamā	1894 Iran	1990 Iran	1965, 1967, 1973
	Gyula Illyés	November 2, 1902 Pálfa, Hungary	April 15, 1983 Budapest, Hungary	1965, 1966, 1972, 1973
1966
	Günter Grass	October 16, 1927 Free City of Danzig, Germany	April 13, 2015 Lübeck, Germany	1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	Awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Johan Borgen	April 28, 1902 Oslo, Norway	October 16, 1979 Hvaler, Norway	1966	Nominated by Harry Martinson (1904–1978) the only time.
	Carlo Emilio Gadda	November 14, 1893 Milan, Italy	May 21, 1973 Rome, Italy	1966	Nominated by Mario Pei (1901–1978) the only time.
	Thierry Maulnier	October 1, 1909 Alès, France	September 26, 1988 Marnes-la-Coquette, France	1966	Nominated by Félix Carrère (1911–1991) the only time.
	Henry Muller	August 21, 1902 Muhlbach-sur-Bruche, France	November 15, 1980 Paris, France	1966	Nominated by Pierre Lyautey (1893–1976) the only time.
	Walter Pabst	March 9, 1907 Darmstadt, Germany	November 18, 1992 Berlin, Germany	1966	Nominated by Günther Reichenkron (1907–1966) the only time.
	Alexandre Arnoux	February 27, 1884 Digne, France	January 5, 1973 Paris, France	1966, 1968	Nominated by François Bar (?) each time.
	Pierre-Henri Simon	January 16, 1903 Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde, France	September 20, 1972 Ville-d'Avray, France	1966, 1968
	Witold Gombrowicz	August 4, 1904 Małoszyce, Poland	July 24, 1969 Vence, France	1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
	Arnold Wesker	May 24, 1932 London, England	April 12, 2016 Brighton, England	1966, 1969
1967
	Saul Bellow	June 10, 1915 Lachine, Quebec, Canada	April 5, 2005 Brookline, Massachusetts, United States	1967, 1971, 1972, 1973	Awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Claude Simon	October 10, 1913 Tananarive, Madagascar	Jule 6, 2005 Paris, France	1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	Awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Arturo Capdevila	March 14, 1889 Córdoba, Argentina	December 20, 1967 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1967
	Hans Magnus Enzensberger	November 11, 1929 Kaufbeuren, Germany	November 24, 2022 Munich, Germany	1967	Nominated by Wolfgang Baumgart (1949–2011) the only time.
	Jean Genet	December 19, 1910 Paris, France	April 15, 1986 Paris, France	1967	Nominated by Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) the only time.
	Lawrence Sargent Hall	April 23, 1915 Haverill, Massachusetts, United States	October 28, 1993 Orr's Island, Maine, United States	1967	Nominated by Robert Brumbaugh (1918–1992) the only time.
	Friedrich Georg Jünger	September 1, 1898 Hanover, Germany	July 20, 1977 Überlingen, Germany	1967	Nominated by Fritz Schalk (1902–1980) the only time.
	Basij Khalkhali	April 16, 1918 Khalkhal, Iran	December 31, 1995 Tehran, Iran	1967	Nominated by Sadeq Rezazadeh Shafaq (1892–1971) the only time.
	György Lukács	April 13, 1885 Budapest, then Austria-Hungary	June 4, 1971 Budapest, Hungary	1967	Nominated by Erik Lindegren (1910–1968) the only time.
	André Pézard	June 22, 1893 Paris, France	August 26, 1984 Sault, Vaucluse, France	1967	Nominated by Wilhelm Theodor Elwert (1906–1997) the only time.
	Pavlo Tychyna	January 23, 1891 Pisky, Ukraine	September 16, 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.
	Lina Kostenko	March 19, 1930 Rzhyshchiv, Ukraine	—
	Ivan Drach	March 14, 1936 Telischynzi, Tetijiw district, Ukraine	June 19, 2018 Kyiv, Ukraine	1967, 1969	Nominated by Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) each time.
	Carlos Drummond de Andrade	October 31, 1902 Itabira, Brazil	August 17, 1987 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1967, 1969
	Emil Boyson	September 4, 1897 Bergen, Norway	June 2, 1979 Oslo, Norway	1967, 1969	Nominated by Asbjørn Aarnes (1923–2013) each time.
	Germán Pardo García	July 19, 1902 Ibagué, Colombia	August 23, 1991 Mexico City, Mexico	1967, 1968, 1969, 1970
	Jorge Amado	August 10, 1912 Itabuna, Brazil	August 6, 2001 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Rabbe Enckell	March 3, 1903 Tammela, Finland	June 17, 1974 Helsinki, Finland	1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
1968
	Patrick White	May 28, 1912 Knightsbridge, London, England	September 30, 1990 Sydney, Australia	1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	Awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Mildred Mathews Breedlove	May 27, 1904 Coal Hill, Arkansas, United States	August 14, 1994 Ferron, Utah, United States	1968
	Konstantin Fedin	February 24, 1892 Saratov, Russia	July 15, 1977 Moscow, Russia	1968
	Zbigniew Herbert	October 29, 1924 Lwów, then Poland	July 28, 1998 Warsaw, Poland	1968	Nominated jointly with Graham Greene and Sławomir Mrożek by Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) the only time.
	Segismundo Masel	1895	1985 Argentina	1968	Nominated by Antonio de Tornes Ballesteros (?) the only time.
	Marianne Moore	November 15, 1887 Kirkwood, Missouri, United States	February 5, 1972 New York City, United States	1968	Nominated by Erik Lindegren (1910–1968) the only time.
	Peter Vansittart	August 27, 1920 Bedford, England	October 4, 2008 Ipswich, England	1968	Nominated by Herbert Howarth (1900-1971) the only time.
	Kazimierz Wierzyński	August 27, 1894 Drohobych, now Ukraine	February 13, 1969 London, England	1968	Nominated by unnamed nominator the only time.
	Joseph Delteil	April 20, 1894 Villar-en-Val, France	April 16, 1978 Grabels, France	1968, 1969
	Claude Lévi-Strauss	November 28, 1908 Brussels, Belgium	October 30, 2009 Paris, France	1968, 1969
	Agustí Bartra	November 8, 1908 Barcelona, Spain	July 7, 1982 Terrassa, Spain	1968, 1969, 1970	Nominated by Manuel Durán (1925–2020) each time.
	Friedebert Tuglas	March 2, 1886 Ahja, now Estonia	April 15, 1971 Tallinn, Estonia	1968, 1969, 1970
	Angus Wilson	August 11, 1913 Bexhill-on-Sea, England	May 31, 1991 Bury St Edmunds, England	1968, 1971
	Luis Buñuel	February 22, 1900 Calanda, Spain	July 29, 1983 Mexico City, Mexico	1968, 1972
	Edward Compton Mackenzie	January 17, 1883 West Hartlepool, England	November 30, 1972 Edinburgh, Scotland	1968, 1970, 1971, 1972
	Sławomir Mrożek	June 29, 1930 Borzęcin, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, then Poland	August 15, 2013 Nice, France	1968, 1972
	Vladimír Holan	September 16, 1905 Prague, now Czech Republic	March 31, 1980 Kampa Island, Prague, Czech Republic	1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
	G.L.Martin-Saint-René	November 22, 1888 Paris, France	January 21, 1973 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France	1968, 1969, 1972, 1973
	Tadeusz Różewicz	October 9, 1921 Radomsko, Poland	April 24, 2014 Wrocław, Poland	1968, 1971, 1973
1969
	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	December 11, 1918 Kislovodsk, Russia	August 3, 2008 Moscow, Russia	1969, 1970	Awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Elias Canetti	July 25, 1905 Ruse, Bulgaria	August 14, 1994 Zürich, Switzerland	1969, 1971, 1972, 1973	Awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Jean Cassou	July 9, 1897 Deusto, Spain	January 16, 1986 Paris, France	1969	Nominated by Giannēs Koutsocheras (1904–1994) the only time.
	Georges Dumézil	March 4, 1898 Paris, France	October 11, 1986 Paris, France	1969	Nominated by Marcel Bataillon (1895–1977) the only time.
	Louis Guilloux	January 15, 1899 Saint-Brieuc, France	October 14, 1980 Saint-Brieuc, France	1969	Nominated by Jean-Bertrand Barrère (1914–1985).
	Yasushi Inoue	May 6, 1907 Asahikawa, Japan	January 29, 1991 Tokyo, Japan	1969	Nominated by Erich Ruprecht (1906–1997) the only time.
	Bernhard Karlgren	October 15, 1889 Jönköping, now Sweden	October 20, 1978 Stockholm, Sweden	1969	Nominated by Walter Fuchs (1914–1993) the only time.
	Robert Pinget	July 19, 1919 Geneva, Switzerland	August 25, 1997 Tours, France	1969	Nominated jointly with Vladimír Holan and Carlos Drummond de Andrade by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) the only time.
	Anthony Powell	December 21, 1905 Westminster, England	October 19, 1999 Frome, England	1969	Nominated by Jean Hamard (1920-2012) the only time.
	Raymond Queneau	February 21, 1903 Le Havre, France	October 25, 1976 Paris, France	1969	Nominated by T. van den Heuvel (?) the only time.
	Jean Rateau-Landeville	December 23, 1894 Chaville, France	February 14, 1972 Bordeaux, France	1969	Nominated by Pierre Flottes (1895–1994) the only time.
	Gustave Roud	April 20, 1897 Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz, Switzerland	November 10, 1976 Moudon, Switzerland	1969	Nominated by Henri Perrochon (1899–1990) the only time.
	Nathalie Sarraute	July 18, 1900 Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Russia	October 19, 1999 Paris, France	1969	Nominated by Lars Gyllensten (1921–2006) the only time.
	Ton Smerdel	April 21, 1904 Silba, now Croatia	August 20, 1970 Zagreb, now Croatia	1969	Nominated by Christiaan Alphonsus van den Berk (1919–1979) the only time.
	Hồ Hữu Tường	1910 Thường Thạnh, now Vietnam	June 26, 1980 Saigon, Vietnam	1969	Nominated by Đông Hồ (1906–1969) the only time.
	Jerzy Andrzejewski	August 19, 1909 Warsaw, now Poland	April 19, 1983 Warsaw, Poland	1969, 1970, 1971
	Karl Krolow	March 11, 1915 Hanover, Germany	July 26, 1999 Darmstadt, Germany	1969, 1971	Nominated by Emil Ernst Ploss (1925–1972) each time.
	Jacques Maritain	November 18, 1882 Paris, France	April 28, 1973 Toulouse, France	1969, 1971	Nominated by Charles Dédéyan (1910–2003) each time.
	Alain Robbe-Grillet	August 18, 1922 Brest, France	February 18, 2008 Caen, France	1969, 1971	Nominated by Henry Olsson (1896–1985) each time.
	Edward Albee	March 12, 1928 Virginia, United States	September 16, 2016 Montauk, New York, United States	1969, 1971, 1972
	Aimé Césaire	June 26, 1913 Basse-Pointe, Martinique	April 17, 2008 Fort-de-France, Martinique	1969, 1970, 1971, 1972
	Tawfiq al-Hakim	October 9, 1898 Alexandria, Egypt	July 26, 1987 Cairo, Egypt	1969, 1972
	Siegfried Lenz	March 17, 1926 Lyck, now Poland	October 7, 2014 Hamburg, Germany	1969, 1970, 1971, 1972
	Hugh MacLennan	March 20, 1907 Glace Bay, Canada	November 9, 1990 Montreal, Canada	1969, 1970, 1971, 1972	Nominated by Lawrence Lande (1906–1998) each time.
	Mécs László	January 17, 1895 Kostoľany nad Hornádom, now Slovakia	November 9, 1978 Pannonhalma, Hungary	1969, 1970, 1972, 1973
	Arthur Miller	October 17, 1915 Harlem, New York City, United States	February 10, 2005 Roxbury, Connecticut, United States	1969, 1971, 1973
	Hans Ruin	June 18, 1891 Helsinki, now Finland	November 3, 1980 Stockholm, Sweden	1969, 1970, 1971, 1973	Nominated by Arthur Arnholtz (1901–1973) each time.
	Hannu Salama	October 4, 1936 Kouvola, Finland	—	1969, 1973
	Zaharia Stancu	October 7, 1902 Salcia, Teleorman, Romania	December 5, 1974 Bucharest, Romania	1969, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Gerard Walschap	July 9, 1898 Londerzeel-Sint-Jozef, Belgium	October 25, 1989 Antwerp, Belgium	1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973

1970–1974

Nominees are published 50 years later so 1974 nominees should be published at the beginning of 2025.

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1970
	Eugen Barbu	February 20, 1924 Bucharest, Romania	September 7, 1993 Bucharest, Romania	1970	Nominated by Alexandru Rosetti (1895–1990) the only time.
	Hugo Bergmann	December 25, 1883 Prague, now Czech Republic	June 18, 1975 Jerusalem, Israel	1970	Nominated by André Neher (1914–1988) the only time.
	Heðin Brú	August 17, 1901 Skálavík, Faroe Islands	May 18, 1987 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	1970	Nominated by Ólavur Michelsen (1933–1978) the only time.
	Robert Ganzo	August 22, 1898 Caracas, Venezuela	April 6, 1995 Boulogne-Billancourt, France	1970	Nominated by André Lebois (1915–1978) the only time.
	Joseph (Dorra-)Haddad	1913 Yabroud, Syria	1979	1970	Nominated by Fouad E. Boustany (1904–1994) the only time.
	Sei Itō	January 16, 1905 Otaru, Japan	November 15, 1969 Tokyo, Japan	1970	Nominated jointly (Itō - posthumously) by Serizawa Kōjirō (1897–1993) the only time.
	Tatsuzō Ishikawa	July 2, 1905 Yokote, Akita, Japan	January 31, 1985 Tokyo, Japan
	Yi Kwang-su	February 1, 1892 Chongju, Korea	October 25, 1950 Manpo, North Korea	1970	Posthumously nominated by Chull Paik (1908–1985) the only time.
	Alexander Lernet-Holenia	October 21, 1897 Vienna, now Austria	July 3, 1976 Vienna, Austria	1970	Nominated by Hilde Spiel (1911–1990) the only time.
	Victoria Ocampo	April 7, 1890 Buenos Aires, Argentina	January 27, 1979 Béccar, Argentina	1970	Nominated by Miguel Alfredo Olivera (1922–2008) the only time.
	Emilio Oribe	April 13, 1893 Melo, Uruguay	May 24, 1975 Montevideo, Uruguay	1970	Nominated by Sarah Bollo (1904–1987) the only time.
	Lluís Valeri i Sahís	September 18, 1891 Barcelona, Spain	April, 1971 Barcelona, Spain	1970	Nominated by Antoni Griera i Gaja (1887–1973) the only time.
	Frank Waters	July 25, 1902 Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States	June 3, 1995 Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, United States	1970	Nominated by Thomas J. Lyon (born 1937) the only time.
	Saunders Lewis	July 15, 1893 Wallasey, England	September 1, 1985 Cardiff, Wales	1970, 1972	Nominated by John Ellis Caerwyn Williams (1912–1999) each time.
	Harold Macmillan	February 10, 1894 Belgravia, London, England	December 29, 1986 Chelwood Gate, England	1970, 1972	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1957–1963) Nominated by Carl Becker (1925–1973) each time.
	Mikhail Naimy	October 17, 1889 Baskinta, Lebanon	February 28, 1988 Beirut, Lebanon	1970, 1971, 1972
	Pandelis Prevelakis	February 18, 1909 Rethymno, Greece	March 15, 1986 Ekali, Greece	1970, 1972	Nominated by Kariophilēs Mētsakēs (1932–2013) each time.
	Denis de Rougemont	September 8, 1906 Couvet, Switzerland	December 6, 1985 Geneva, Switzerland	1970, 1972
	Abraham Sutzkever	July 15, 1913 Smarhonʹ, now Belarus	January 20, 2010 Tel Aviv, Israel	1970, 1972	Nominated by Joseph Leftwich (1892–1984) each time.
	Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca	August 26, 1914 Istanbul, Turkey	October 15, 2008 Istanbul, Turkey	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Salvador Espriu	July 10, 1913 Santa Coloma de Farners, Spain	February 22, 1985 Barcelona, Spain	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Paavo Juhani Haavikko	January 25, 1931 Helsinki, Finland	October 6, 2008 Helsinki, Finland	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Evaristo Ribera Chevremont	February 16, 1890 San Juan, Puerto Rico	March 1, 1976 San Juan, Puerto Rico	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
	Sándor Weöres	June 22, 1913 Szombathely, Hungary	January 22, 1989 Budapest, Hungary	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973	Nominated by Áron Kibédi Varga (1930–2018) each time.
	Amado Magcalas Yuzon	August 30, 1906 Guagua, Philippines	January 17, 1979 Manila, Philippines	1970, 1973
1971
	William Golding	September 19, 1911 Newquay, England	June 19, 1993 Perranarworthal, England	1971, 1972, 1973	Awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Elie Wiesel	September 30, 1928 Sighet, Romania	July 2, 2016 Manhattan, New York City, United States	1971, 1972, 1973	Awarded the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.
	José María Arguedas	January 18, 1911 Andahuaylas, Peru	December 2, 1969 La Molina District, Peru	1971	Posthumously nominated by Elie Poulenard (1901–1985) the only time.
	James Baldwin	August 2, 1924 New York City, United States	December 1, 1987 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France	1971	Nominated by Jacob Louis Mey (1926–2023) the only time.
	Mykola Platonovych Bazhan	October 9, 1904 Kamianets-Podilskyi, now Ukraine	November 23, 1983 Kiev, now Ukraine	1971	Nominated by Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) the only time.
	Jawad Boulos	January 1, 1900 Zghorta, Lebanon	1982	1971	Nominated jointly with Georges Schéhadé by Camille Aboussouan (1919–2013) the only time.
	Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil	April 9, 1902 Hatfield House, England	January 1, 1986 Cranborne, England	1971	Nominated by Leslie Poles Hartley (1895–1972) the only time.
	Tsendiin Damdinsüren	September 14, 1908 Matad, Mongolia	May 27, 1986 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	1971	Nominated by Walther Heissig (1913–2005) the only time.
	Paul Demiéville	September 13, 1894 Lausanne, Switzerland	March 23, 1979 Paris, France	1971	Nominated by Martin Gimm (born 1930) the only time.
	Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix	November 29, 1890 Decize, France	September 8, 1980 Alicante, Spain	1971	Nominated by Yves Gandon (1899–1975) the only time.
	Younghill Kang	June 5, 1898 Hongwon County, Korea	December 2, 1972 Satellite Beach, Florida, United States	1971	Nominated by Robert Payne (1911–1983) the only time.
	Richard Eun Kook Kim	March 13, 1932 Kankō, Korea	June 23, 2009 Massachusetts, United States	1971	Nominated by Chull Paik (1908–1985) the only time.
	Arthur Koestler	September 5, 1905 Budapest, Hungary	March 1, 1983 London, England	1971	Nominated by Georges Matoré (1908–1998) the only time.
	Archibald MacLeish	May 7, 1892 Glencoe, Illinois, United States	April 20, 1982 Boston, United States	1971	Nominated by William Scovil Anderson (1927–2022) the only time.
	Miquel Melendres i Rué	March 11, 1902 Girona, Spain	March 10, 1974 Tarragona, Spain	1971	Nominated by Antoni Griera i Gaja (1887–1973) the only time.
	Fritiof Nilsson Piraten	December 4, 1895 Vollsjö, Sweden	January 31, 1972 Malmö, Sweden	1971	Nominated by Bertil Ejder (1916–2005) the only time.
	Shih Robert (Shi Jieyun)	May 19, 1926 Tche-kiang, China	May 5, 1983	1971	Nominated by Étienne Lamotte (1903–1983) the only time.
	Henry William Williamson	December 1, 1895 Brockley, London, England	August 13, 1977 Twyford Abbey, London, England	1971	Nominated by Petronella O'Flanagan (?) the only time.
	Philip A. Larkin	August 9, 1922 Coventry, England	December 2, 1985 Kingston upon Hull, England	1971, 1972	Nominated by Jørgen Læssøe (1924–1993) each time.
	Georges Schéhadé	November 2, 1905 Alexandria, Egypt	January 17, 1989 Paris, France	1971, 1972
	Arno Schmidt	January 18, 1914 Hamburg, Germany	June 3, 1979 Celle, Germany	1971, 1972
	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay	July 23, 1898 Labhpur, West Bengal, India	September 14, 1971 Calcutta, West Bengal, India	1971, 1972, 1973	Died before the only chance to be awarded.
	Romain Gary	May 21, 1914 Vilnius, now Lithuania	December 2, 1980 Paris, France	1971, 1972, 1973	Nominated by Walther Hinz (1906–1992) each time.
	Yiannis Ritsos	May 1, 1909 Monemvasia, Greece	November 11, 1990 Athens, Greece	1971, 1972, 1973
	José García Villa	August 5, 1908 Manila, Philippines	February 7, 1997 New York City, United States	1971, 1973
1972
	Odysseas Elytis	November 2, 1911 Heraklion, Crete	March 18, 1996 Athens, Greece	1972, 1973	Awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Nadine Gordimer	November 20, 1923 Springs, South Africa	July 13, 2014 Johannesburg, South Africa	1972, 1973	Awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul	August 17, 1932 Chaguanas, Caroni County, Trinidad and Tobago	August 11, 2018 London, England	1972, 1973	Awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Doris Lessing	October 22, 1919 Kermanshah, Iran	November 17, 2013 London, England	1972, 1973	Awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Said Akl	July 4, 1911 Zahlé, Lebanon	November 28, 2014 Beirut, Lebanon	1972
	Austin Clarke	May 9, 1896 Stoneybatter, Dublin, Ireland	March 19, 1974 Templeogue, Dublin, Ireland	1972
	Jacob Glatstein	August 20, 1896 Lublin, Poland	November 19, 1971 New York City, United States	1972	Nominatedby Moshe Starkman (1906–1975) the only time. Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Joseph Heller	May 1, 1923 Brooklyn, New York, United States	December 12, 1999 East Hampton, New York, United States	1972	Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) the only time.
	Astrid Lindgren	November 14, 1907 Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden	January 28, 2002 Stockholm, Sweden	1972
	Stanislaus Lynch	1907 Ballyjamesduff, Ireland	1983 ?	1972	Nominated by Desmond Clarke (1907–1979) the only time.
	Pak Tu-jin	March 10, 1916 Anseong, Gyeonggi-do, Korea	September 16, 1998 Seoul, South Korea	1972	Nominated by Chull Paik (1908–1985) the only time.
	Alan Paton	January 11, 1903 Pietermaritzburg, Colony of Natal, South Africa	April 12, 1988 Botha's Hill, South Africa	1972	Nominated by Astley Cooper Partridge (1901–?) the only time.
	Philip Roth	March 19, 1933 Newark, New Jersey, United States	May 22, 2018 New York City, United States	1972	Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) the only time.
	Francis Stuart	April 29, 1902 Townsville, Queensland, Australia	February 2, 2000 County Clare, Ireland	1972	Nominated by Desmond Clarke (1907–1979) the only time.
	Vu Hoang Chuong	May 14, 1915 Phù Ủng, Vietnam	September 6, 1976 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	1972	Nominated by Thanh Lãng (1924–1978) the only time.
	Aaron Zeitlin	June 3, 1898 Uvarovichi, now Belarus	September 28, 1973 Queens, New York, United States	1972	Nominated by Moshe Starkman (1906–1975) the only time.
	Louis Paul Boon	March 15, 1912 Aalst, Belgium	May 10, 1979 Erembodegem, Belgium	1972, 1973
	Anthony Burgess	February 25, 1917 Harpurhey, Manchester, England	November 22, 1993 St John's Wood, London, England	1972, 1973	Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) each time.
	Suniti Kumar Chatterji	November 26, 1890 Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal, India	May 29, 1977 Calcutta, West Bengal, India	1972, 1973
	Sri Chinmoy	August 27, 1931 Chittagong, Bengal, Bangladesh	October 11, 2007 New York City, United States	1972, 1973	Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Julien Green	September 6, 1900 Paris, France	August 13, 1998 Paris, France	1972, 1973
	Ferenc Juhász	August 16, 1928 Biatorbágy, Hungary	December 2, 2015 Budapest, Hungary	1972, 1973	Nominated by Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) each time.
	Manbohdan Lal	—	—	1972, 1973
	Norman Mailer	January 31, 1923 Long Branch, New Jersey, United States	November 10, 2007 Manhattan, New York City, United States	1972, 1973
	Bernard Malamud	April 26, 1914 Brooklyn, New York, United States	March 18, 1986 Manhattan, New York City, United States	1972, 1973
	Frederick Manfred	January 6, 1912 Doon, Iowa, United States	September 7, 1994 Luverne, Minnesota, United States	1972, 1973
	Veijo Meri	December 31, 1928 Viipuri, then Finland	June 21, 2015 Helsinki, Finland	1972, 1973
1973
	Vicente Aleixandre	April 26, 1898 Seville, Spain	December 14, 1984 Madrid, Spain	1973	Awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Isaac Bashevis Singer	November 21, 1902 Leoncin, Poland	July 24, 1991 Surfside, Florida, United States	1973	Awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Conrad Potter Aiken	August 5, 1889 Savannah, Georgia, United States	August 17, 1973 Savannah, Georgia, United States	1973	Nominated by Samuel Frederick Johnson (1918–2005) the only time. Died before the only chance to be awarded.
	Antonio Aniante	January 2, 1900 Viagrande, Italy	6 November 1983 Sanremo, Italy	1973	Nominated by Vittorio Vettori (1920–2004) the only time.
	Miodrag Bulatović	February 20, 1930 Okladi, Zeta Banovina, Yugoslavia	March 15, 1991 Igalo, Herceg Novi, Montenegro	1973	Nominated by Allan Philip (1927–2004) the only time.
	Chiang Yee	May 19, 1903 Chaisang, Jiujiang, China	October 26, 1977 Beijing, China	1973	Nominated by Lo Hsiang-lin (1906–1978) the only time.
	Albert Cohen	August 16, 1895 Corfu, Greece	October 17, 1981 Geneva, Switzerland	1973	Nominated by Joseph Kessel (1898–1979) the only time.
	Adolfo Costa du Rels	June 19, 1891 Sucre, Bolivia	May 26, 1980 La Paz, Bolivia	1973	Nominated by Humberto Palza (1900–1975) the only time.
	Indira Devi Dhanrajgir	August 17, 1930 Hyderabad, Telangana, India	—	1973	Nominated by Krishna Srinivas (1913–2007) the only time.
	Xu Xu	November 11, 1908 Cixi, Zhejiang, China	October 5, 1980 Hong Kong	1973	Nominated by Lee Chiu-seng (?) the only time.
	Eugen Jebeleanu	April 24, 1911 Câmpina, Prahova, Romania	August 21, 1991 Bucharest, Romania	1973
	Yaşar Kemal	October 6, 1923 Gökçedam, Turkey	February 28, 2015 Istanbul, Turkey	1973
	Zenta Mauriņa	December 15, 1897 Lejasciems, Latvia	April 25, 1978 Basel, Switzerland	1973	Nominated by Mārtiņš Zīverts (1903–1990) the only time.
	Henry Miller	December 26, 1891 Yorkville, New York, United States	June 7, 1980 Los Angeles, California, United States	1973	Nominated by Allan Philip (1927–2004) the only time.
	John Crowe Ransom	April 30, 1888 Pulaski, Tennessee, United States	July 3, 1974 Gambier, Ohio, United States	1973	Nominated by Samuel Frederick Johnson (1918–2005) the only time.
	Pratap Narayan Tandon	—	—	1973	Nominated by Brij Behari Nayak (?) the only time.
	Martin Wickramasinghe	May 29, 1890 Koggala, Sri Lanka	July 23, 1976 Colombo, Sri Lanka	1973	Nominated by Ediriweera Sarachchandra (1914–1996) the only time.
	Paul Voivenel	September 24, 1880 Séméac, France	June 9, 1975 Pamiers, France	1973	Nominated by Roland Dorgelès (1885–1973) the only time.
1974
to be revealed in 2025
	Argentina Díaz Lozano	5 December 1909 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras	13 August 1999 Tegucigalpa, Honduras	1974

Others

Despite the rule of keeping the nominations secret for 50 years, a number of literary organizations and academies revealed publicly their favored nominees. 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
1975
	Jorge Carrera Andrade	18 September 1903 Quito, Ecuador	7 November 1978 Quito, Ecuador	1975
	Kim Chi-ha	4 February 1941 Mokpo, South Jeolla, South Korea	8 May 2022 Wonju, Gangwon, South Korea	1975
	Ba Jin	25 November 1904 Chengdu, Sichuan, China	17 October 2005 Shanghai, China	1975, 2001
1976
	Anaïs Nin	21 February 1903 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France	14 January 1977 Los Angeles, California, United States	1976
1977
	Francisco Matos Paoli	9 March 1915 Lares, Puerto Rico	10 July 2000 San Juan, Puerto Rico	1977
1979
	Gerardo Melo Mourão	8 January 1917 Ipueiras, Ceará, Brazil	9 March 2007 Humaitá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1979
	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
	Joyce Carol Oates	16 June 1938 Lockport, New York, United States	—	1979, 1999
1980
	Giorgio Nurigiani	23 September 1892 Livorno, Italy	7 May 1981 Rome, Italy	1980
1981
	Irving Layton	12 March 1912 Târgu Neamț, Romania	4 January 2006 Montreal, Québec, Canada	1981
	Fernando Namora	15 April 1919 Condeixa-a-Nova, Coimbra, Portugal	31 January 1989 Lisbon, Portugal	1981
	Mary Kawena Pukui	20 April 1895 Kau, Hawaii, United States	21 May 1986 Honolulu, Hawaii, United States	1981
	Yury Trifonov	28 August 1925 Moscow, Russia	28 March 1981 Moscow, Russia	1981
1982
	Gabriel García Márquez	6 March 1917 Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia	17 April 2014 Mexico City, Mexico	1982	Awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Josef Škvorecký	27 September 1924 Náchod, Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia	3 January 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada	1982
1984
	Ahmad Shamlou	12 December 1925 Tehran, Iran	23 July 2000 Karaj, Alborz, Iran	1984
	Kamala Surayya–Das	31 March 1934 Punnayurkulam, Kerala, India	31 May 2009 Pune, Maharashtra, India	1984
1985
	Patrick D. Smith	8 October 1927 D'Lo, Mississippi, United States	26 January 2014 Merritt Island, Florida, United States	1985
	Vasyl Stus	6 January 1938 Rakhnivka, Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine	4 September 1985 Perm-36, Kuchino, Vologda oblast, Russia	1985, 1986
1986
	Wole Soyinka	13 July 1934 Abeokuta, Ogun, Nigeria	—	1986	Awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Pramoedya Ananta Toer	6 February 1925 Blora, Central Java, Indonesia	20 April 2006 Jakarta, Indonesia	1986
	Albino Pierro	19 November 1916 Tursi, Matera, Italy	23 March 1995 Rome, Italy	1986, 1988
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.
	Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi	25 December 1922 Fez, Morocco	23 August 1993 Rabat, Morocco	1987
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
	Christa Wolf	18 March 1929 Gorzów Wielkopolski, Lubusz, Poland	1 December 2011 Berlin, Germany	1988
	Ali Ahmad Said Esber	1 January 1930 Al-Qassabin, Latakia, Syria	—	1988, 2010, 2011
1989
	Danilo Kiš	22 February 1935 Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia	15 October 1989 Paris, France	1989
1990
	Octavio Paz	31 March 1914 Mexico City, Mexico	19 April 1998 Mexico City, Mexico	1990	Awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Pira Sudham	1942 Na Pho, Buriram, Thailand	—	1990
	Maria Luisa Spaziani	7 December 1922 Turin, Italy	30 June 2014 Rome, Italy	1990, 1992, 1997
1991
	Patricia Highsmith	19 January 1921 Fort Worth, Texas, United States	4 February 1995 Locarno, Switzerland	1991
	Mario Luzi	20 October 1914 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy	28 February 2005 Florence, Italy	1991
	Milan Rúfus	10 December 1928 Závažná Poruba, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia	11 January 2009 Bratislava, Slovakia	1991
	Timur Zulfikarov	17 August 1936 Dushanbe, Tajikistan	—	1991, 2000, 2010
1992
	Derek Walcott	23 January 1930 Castries, Saint Lucia	17 March 2017 Cap Estate, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia	1992	Awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Pablo Antonio Cuadra	4 November 1912 Managua, Nicaragua	2 January 2002 Managua, Nicaragua	1992
	Matilde Alba Swann	24 February 1912 Berisso, Argentina	13 September 2000 La Plata, Argentina	1992
	Marin Sorescu	29 February 1936 Bulzești, Romania	8 December 1996 Bucharest, Romania	1992, 1996
	Milorad Pavić	15 October 1929 Belgrade, Serbia	30 November 2009 Belgrade, Serbia	1992, 2004, 2008
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
	Arturo Uslar Pietri	16 May 1906 Caracas, Venezuela	26 February 2001 Caracas, Venezuela	1993
1994
	Kenzaburō Ōe	31 January 1935 Uchiko, Ehime, Japan	3 March 2023 Tokyo, Japan	1994	Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Yehuda Amichai	3 May 1924 Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany	22 September 2000 Jerusalem, Israel	1994
	Shūsaku Endō	27 March 1923 Toshima, Tokyo, Japan	29 September 1996 Tokyo, Japan	1994
1995
	Seamus Heaney	13 April 1939 Tamniaran, Northern Ireland	30 August 2013 Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland	1995	Awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1996
	Wisława Szymborska	2 July 1923 Kórnik, Poznań, Poland	1 February 2012 Kraków, Poland	1996	Awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Bob Dylan	24 May 1941 Duluth, Minnesota, United States	—	1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2016	Awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Inger Christensen	16 January 1935 Vejle, Denmark	2 January 2009 Copenhagen, Denmark	1996
	Licio Gelli	21 April 1919 Pistoia, Italy	15 December 2015 Arezzo, Italy	1996
	Ronald Stuart Thomas	29 March 1913 Cardiff, Wales	25 September 2000 Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales	1996
	Alda Merini	21 March 1931 Milan, Italy	1 November 2009 Milan, Italy	1996, 2001
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
1998
	José Saramago	16 November 1922 Azinhaga, Golegã, Portugal	18 June 2010 Tías, Las Palmas, Spain	1998	Awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Otar Chiladze	20 March 1933 Signagi, Georgia	1 October 2009 Tbilisi, Georgia	1998
	Nelson Estupiñán Bass	19 September 1912 Esmeraldas, Ecuador	3 March 2002 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States	1998
	Janet Frame	28 August 1924 Dunedin, New Zealand	29 January 2004 Dunedin, New Zealand	1998, 2003
1999
	Enrique Laguerre	15 July 1905 Moca, Puerto Rico	16 June 2005 Carolina, Puerto Rico	1999
	Alfonso Rumazo González	1903 Latacunga, Cotopaxi, Ecuador	27 June 2002 Caracas, Venezuela	1999
	Simin Behbahani	20 July 1927 Tehran, Iran	19 August 2014 Tehran, Iran	1999, 2002
	William Auld	6 November 1924 Erith, London, England	11 September 2006 Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland	1999, 2004, 2006
2000
	Gao Xingjian	4 January 1940 Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China	—	2000	Awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Vizma Belševica	30 May 1931 Riga, Latvia	6 August 2005 Riga, Latvia	2000
	Antonio Tabucchi	24 September 1943 Pisa, Italy	25 March 2012 Lisbon, Portugal	2000
2001
	Li Kuei-hsien	19 June 1937 Taipei, Taiwan	—	2001, 2003, 2006
	Yordan Radichkov	24 October 1929 Kalimanitza, Montana, Bulgaria	21 January 2004 Sofia, Bulgaria	2001
2002
	Imre Kertész	9 November 1929 Budapest, Hungary	31 March 2016 Budapest, Hungary	2002	Awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Leyla Erbil	12 January 1931 Istanbul, Türkiye	19 July 2013 Istanbul, Türkiye	2002
	Ferreira Gullar	10 September 1930 São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil	4 December 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2002
	Ko Un	1 August 1933 Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea	—	2002, 2005, 2006
2003
	John Maxwell Coetzee	9 February 1940 Cape Town, South Africa	—	2003	Awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Giovanna Mulas	6 May 1969 Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy	—	2003
	Kelinu Vella Haber	1 October 1913 Nadur, Gozo, Malta	28 January 2014 Qala, Gozo, Malta	2003
2004
	Elfriede Jelinek	20 October 1946 Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria	—	2004	Awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Oliver Friggieri	27 March 1947 Floriana, Malta	21 November 2020 Valletta, Malta	2004
	Friederike Mayröcker	20 December 1924 Vienna, Austria	4 June 2021 Vienna, Austria	2004
	Gunturu Seshendra Sarma	20 October 1927 Marripadu, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India	30 May 2007 Hyderabad, Telangana, India	2004
	Frederick Turner	19 November 1943 Northamptonshire, England	—	2004, 2006, 2007, 2008
2005
	Harold Pinter	10 October 1930 London, England	24 December 2008 London, England	2005	Awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Ernesto Cardenal	20 January 1925 Granada, Nicaragua	1 March 2020 Managua, Nicaragua	2005
	Cecil Rajendra	1941 Penang, Malaysia	—	2005
	Umberto Piersanti	26 February 1941 Urbino, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy	—	2005, 2024
2006
	Orhan Pamuk	7 June 1952 Istanbul, Türkiye	—	2006	Awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Svetlana Alexievich	31 May 1948 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine	—	2006, 2014, 2015	Awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Ryhor Baradulin	24 February 1935 Vierasoŭka, Ushachy, Belarus	2 March 2014 Minsk, Belarus	2006
	Vijaydan Detha	1 September 1926 Borunda, Rajasthan, India	10 November 2013 Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India	2006, 2011
2007
	Luz Pozo Garza	21 July 1922 Ribadeo, Lugo, Spain	20 April 2020 A Coruña, Spain	2007
2008
	Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio	13 April 1940 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France	—	2008	Awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Chinghiz Aitmatov	12 December 1928 Sheker, Kara-Buura, Kyrgyzstan	10 June 2008 Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany	2008
	Marjorie Boulton	7 May 1924 Teddington, Greater London, United Kingdom	30 August 2017 London, United Kingdom	2008
	Shlomo Kalo	25 February 1928 Sofia, Bulgaria	30 August 2014 Tel Aviv, Israel	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014
2009
	Herta Müller	17 August 1953 Nițchidorf, Romania	—	2009	Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Dương Thu Hương	1947 Thái Bình, Vietnam	—	2009
	Georgi Vasilyevich Marchuk	1 January 1947 Davyd-Haradok, Belarus	23 August 2023 Minsk, Belarus	2009
	Franck Étienne	12 April 1936 Ravine-Sèche, Artibonite, Haiti	—	2009, 2010
2010
	Mario Vargas Llosa	28 March 1936 Arequipa, Peru	—	2010	Awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Néstor Amarilla	24 July 1980 Coronel Oviedo, Caaguazú, Paraguay	—	2010
	Adam Zagajewski	21 June 1945 Lviv, Ukraine	21 March 2021 Kraków, Poland	2010
	Kanta Ibraguimov	9 July 1960 Grozny, Chechnya, Russia	—	2010, 2012
2011
	Tomas Tranströmer	15 April 1931 Stockholm, Sweden	26 March 2015 Stockholm, Sweden	2011	Awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Besik Kharanauli	11 November 1939 Tianeti, Georgia	—	2011, 2015
	David Magradze	28 June 1962 Tbilisi, Georgia	—	2011, 2018, 2019
	Nawal El Saadawi	22 October 1931 Kafr Tahla, Qalyubiyya, Egypt	21 March 2021 Cairo, Egypt	2011, 2012, 2021
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
	Mahasweta Devi	14 January 1926 Dhaka, Bangladesh	28 July 2016 Kolkata, West Bengal, India	2012
	Maksud Ibrahimbeyov	11 May 1935 Baku, Azerbaijan	22 March 2016 Baku, Azerbaijan	2012
	Dacia Maraini	13 November 1936 Florence, Italy	—	2012
	Ariano Suassuna	16 June 1927 João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil	23 July 2014 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil	2012
	Fazil Iskander	6 March 1929 Sukhumi, Georgia	31 July 2016 Peredelkino, Moscow, Russia	2012, 2013
2013
	Alice Munro	10 July 1931 Wingham, Ontario, Canada	13 May 2024 Port Hope, Ontario, Canada	2013	Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Paul Goma	2 October 1935 Seliște, Nisporeni, Moldova	25 March 2020 Paris, France	2013
	Varujan Vosganian	25 July 1958 Craiova, Romania	—	2013, 2014, 2015
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
	Vasyl Holoborodko	7 April 1945 Adrianopil, Perevalsk, Ukraine	—	2014
	Norman Manea	19 July 1936 Suceava, Romania	—	2014
	Boualem Sansal	15 October 1949 Théniet El Had, Algeria	—	2014
	Mircea Cărtărescu	1 June 1955 Bucharest, Romania	—	2014, 2015
2015
	Moniz Bandeira	30 December 1935 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	10 November 2017 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	2015
	Sebastiano Vassalli	24 October 1941 Genoa, Italy	26 July 2015 Casale Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy	2015
	Anna Nerkagi	15 February 1951 Yamalo-Nenets, Russia	—	2015, 2018, 2020
	Francesco Benozzo	22 February 1969 Modena, Italy	—	2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024
2016
	Lygia Fagundes Telles	19 April 1918 São Paulo, Brazil	3 April 2022 São Paulo, Brazil	2016
	Tess Osonye Onwueme	8 September 1955 Ogwashi Ukwu, Delta, Nigeria	—	2016
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
	Jamal Qaiser	27 July 1972 Rawalpindi, Pakistan	—	2017
2018
	Olga Tokarczuk	29 January 1962 Sulechów, Zielona Góra, Poland	—	2018, 2019	Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019.
	Peter Handke	6 December 1942 Griffin, Völkermarkt, Carinthia, Austria	—	2018, 2019	Awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Manuel Alegre	12 May 1936 Águeda, Portugal	—	2018
	Agustina Bessa-Luís	15 October 1922 Amarante, Portugal	3 June 2019 Porto, Portugal	2018
	Emanuel Medeiros Vieira	31 March 1945 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil	29 July 2019 Brasília, Brazil	2018
	Damdinsurengiin Urainkhai	1940 Bulgan, Mongolia	—	2018
2019
	Jamal Sanad Al Suwaidi	1959 Dubai, United Arab Emirates	—	2019
	Leo Butnaru	5 January 1949 Negureni, Telenești, Moldova	—	2019
2020
	Louise Glück	22 April 1943 New York City, New York, United States	13 October 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	2020	Awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Giovanna Giordano	12 November 1961 Milan, Italy	—	2020
	Scholastique Mukasonga	20 December 1956 Gikongoro, Rwanda	—	2020, 2021, 2022
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
	Indran Amirthanayagam	1960 Colombo, Sri Lanka	—	2021
	Drago Jančar	13 April 1948 Maribor, Slovenia	—	2021
2022
	Annie Ernaux	1 September 1940 Lillebonne, Seine-Maritime, France	—	2022	Awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Deonísio da Silva	1948 Siderópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil	—	2022
	Edwidge Danticat	19 January 1969 Port-au-Prince, Haiti	—	2022
	Georgi Gospodinov	7 January 1968 Yambol, Bulgaria	—	2022
	Fatos Kongoli	12 January 1944 Elbasan, Albania	—	2022
	Serhiy Zhadan	23 August 1974 Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine	—	2022
	Adam Kadir	1942 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia	—	2022, 2023, 2024
2023
	Jon Fosse	29 September 1959 Haugesund, Norway	—	2023	Awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2024
	Aka Morchiladze	10 November 1966 Tbilisi, Georgia	—	2024
	Maria Tedeschi	3 January 1972 Naples, Italy	—	2024

See also

• List of Nobel laureates in Literature
• List of female nominees for the Nobel Prize