List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature

[1] It is one of the five Nobel Prizes which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.

[2] Every year, the Swedish Academy sends out requests regularly for nominations of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Of the 853 revealed nominated writers, only the following are currently living: Though the following list consists of notable literary figures deemed worthy of the prize, there have been some celebrated writers who were not considered nor even nominated such as Anton Chekhov,[8] Jules Verne, Robert Hugh Benson, Franz Kafka, Fernando Pessoa, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexander Blok, Marcel Proust, Joseph Conrad, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico García Lorca, Lu Xun, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Edmund Husserl, Antonio Machado, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Christopher Dawson, Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Simone Weil, Willa Cather, George Orwell, Galaktion Tabidze, Edith Hamilton, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Langston Hughes, Manuel Bandeira, Jack Kerouac, Nancy Mitford, Rosario Castellanos, Hannah Arendt and Agatha Christie.

Despite the rule of keeping the nominations secret for 50 years, a number of literary organizations and academies revealed publicly their favored nominees.

With the annual revelation of nominated writers for the Nobel Prize in Literature, interesting facts are eventually uncovered between 1901 and 1974 such as the following:[1080]

Many widely read writers, like Leo Tolstoy , have never won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Spanish philologist Ramón Menéndez Pidal was never awarded despite the numerous nominations.