The right to submit proposals for the Nobel Prize in Literature shall, by statute, be enjoyed by:
| 1. | Members of the Swedish Academy and of other academies, institutions and societies which are similar to it in construction and purpose; |
| 2. | Professors of literature and of linguistics at universities and university colleges; |
| 3. | Previous Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature; |
| 4. | Presidents of those societies of authors that are representative of the literary production in their respective countries. |