Nominations made by Nobel Prize laureates in literature (1901-1950)
All information concerning the nominations and selections of the Nobel Prize laureates is kept a secret for 50 years. That is why we only published information about the first 50 Nobel Prizes in Literature so far. Within the time period (1901-1950) 19 of the 45 Nobel Prize laureates in literature submitted names for consideration.
| Nobel Prize | Nobel Laureate | Nominated, name and year |
| 1901 | Sully Prudhomme | François Coppée (French author) 1903 |
| 1904 | Fréderic Mistral | Jean Henri Fabre (French enthomologist) 1912 |
| 1904 | José Echegaray | Benito Pérez Galdós (Spanish author) 1912, 1914 |
| 1908 | Rudolf Eucken | Ferdinand Avenarius (German author) 1921 |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Georg Brandes (Danish critic and literature historian) 1922 |
| 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck |
Eugène Baie (Belgian historian and author) 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949 Jean Henri Fabre (French entomologist, that is someone who makes scientific studies of insects) 1912 Willem Kloos (Dutch author) 1914 Edmond Picard (Belgian laywer and author) 1913, 1914 |
| 1912 | Gerhart Hauptmann |
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Austrian author) 1919 |
| 1915 | Romain Rolland | Konstantin Balmont (Russian author) 1923 Ivan Bunin 1923Sigmund Freud (Austrian physician and author) 1936Thomas Hardy (English author) 1923Rudolf Maria Holzapfel (German philosopher) 1925, 1927, 1928Joseph Henri Rosny aîné (Belgian-French author) 1928, 1933, |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | Juhani Aho (Finnish author) 1919 Henri Bergson 1918, 1921Georg Brandes (Danish critic and literature historian) 1922Guglielmo Ferrero (Italian historian) 1925Maxim Gorkij (Russian author) 1928Bertel Gripenberg (Finnish author) 1934Jarl Hemmer (Finnish author) 1934Kostis Palamas (Greek author) 1928, 1930, 1935 Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1934 Carl Spitteler 1917, 1919 |
| 1922 | Jacinto Benavente |
Sofía Casanova (Spanish author) 1926 Concha Espina de la Serna (Spanish author) 1926, 1931 |
| 1927 | Henri Bergson | Paul Valéry (French author) 1930 |
| 1928 | Sigrid Undset | Johan Falkberget (Norwegian author) 1948 |
| 1929 | Thomas Mann |
Hermann Hesse 1931 Ivan Sjmeljov (Russian author) 1931 |
| 1930 | Sinclair Lewis |
Carl Sandburg (American author) 1940 Herbert George Wells (English author) 1932 |
| 1933 | Ivan Bunin | Mark Aldanov (Russian author) 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950 |
| 1938 | Pearl Buck | Lin Yutang (Chinese author) 1940, 1950 |
| 1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Alfonso Reyes (Mexican author) 1949 |
| 1946 | Hermann Hesse |
Martin Buber (Austrian-Israeli religionphilosopher) 1950 Gertrud von Le Fort (German author) 1950 |
| 1948 | T.S. Eliot | Riccardo Bacchelli (Italian author) 1949 |
Reference: Ur svenska akademiens arkiv, Nobelpriset i litteratur, Nomineringar och utlåtanden 1901-1950 utgivna av Bo Svensén, Svenska akademien (DISTR.:NORSTEDTS)
First published 5 October 2009.