| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1972 |
| Number: | 77 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Alan Stewart Paton |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1903 |
| Year, Death: | 1988 |
| Profession: | Writer |
| Country: | SOUTH AFRICA (ZA) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | A C Partridge |
| Profession: | Chairman of the South African Republic P.E.N. Club |
| City: | Johannesburg |
| Country: | SOUTH AFRICA (ZA) |