| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1972 |
| Number: | 5 - 2 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Wystan Hugh Auden |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1907 |
| Year, Death: | 1973 |
| Profession: | Poet |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Thomas James Fleming |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1927 |
| Year, Death: | 2017 |
| Profession: | Historian and historical novelist, Chairman of the American P.E.N. Centre |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |