| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1905 |
| Number: | 15 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Godfrey Sweven |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1846 |
| Year, Death: | 1935 |
| Profession: | English language philologist |
| Country: | NEW ZEALAND (NZ) |
| Motivation: | "Limanora, the island of progress". |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | John M Brown |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Formerly professor of English literature |
| University: | Canterbury College |
| Country: | NEW ZEALAND (NZ) |
| Comments: | Godfrey Sweven has later turned out to be a pseudonym for John Brown. |