| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1971 |
| Number: | 17 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Alejo Carpentier y Valmont |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1904 |
| Year, Death: | 1980 |
| Profession: | Novelist, essayist, and musicologist |
| Country: | CUBA (CU) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Henri Maurice Peyre |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1901 |
| Year, Death: | 1988 |
| Profession: | Professor of French language |
| University: | Yale University |
| City: | New Haven |
| State: | CT |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |