| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1915 |
| Number: | 17 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | William B Yeats |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1865 |
| Year, Death: | 1939 |
| Profession: | Poet |
| Country: | IRELAND (IE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Per G Hallström |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1866 |
| Year, Death: | 1960 |
| Profession: | Member of the Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien) |
| University: | Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien) |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
| Comments: | Very few nominations were received for the Prize of 1915. Therefore, the Nobel Committee decided at a meeting on Feb.1, 1915, to carry over a number of nominated candidates from the previous year, with members of the Nobel Committee acting as nominator (see entries 1915-12 through 1915-22). |