1914 Nobel Prize in Literature

20px 1914 Nobel Prize in Literature 1901 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1914/summary/ Nobel Prize.png 3 November 1914notes By Royal Decree of 3rd November 1914, the decision of the Swedish Academy regarding the 1914 Nobel Prize in Literature was postponed until the following year.http://libris.kb.se/bib/8345517 Nobelpriset i litteratur. Nomineringar och utlåtanden 1901–1950 Bo Svensén 2001 Svenska Akademien 9789113010076 1 November 2025 (postponement) 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature 1915 The 1914 Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded when the committee's deliberations were upset by the beginning of World War I (1914–1918).https://theconversation.com/nobel-literature-row-usually-it-takes-a-world-war-to-disrupt-the-prize-96146 Nobel literature row: usually it takes a world war to disrupt the prize The Conversation 4 May 2018 21 May 2021 Thus, the prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.The Nobel Prize in Literature 1914 nobelprize.org This was the first occasion in Nobel history that the prize was not conferred. Nominations The Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy received received 26 nominations for 24 writers.Nomination archive – 1914 nobelprize.org Seven of the nominees were nominated first-time including Willem Kloos, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Antonio Serra Morant, Vilhelm Grønbech, René Bazin, and Josef Svatopluk Machar. The highest number of nominations – two nominations each – were for Harald Høffding, Ángel Guimerá Jorge, and Carl Spitteler (awarded in 1919). Two Italian female writers were nominated Dora Melegari and Grazia Deledda (awarded in 1926). The authors Delmira Agustini, Dimitrie Anghel, Jakub Arbes, Robert Hugh Benson, Robert Jones Burdette, Nikolai Chayev, Mariana Cox Méndez, Alessandro d'Ancona, Danske Dandridge, Mircea Demetriade, Augusto dos Anjos, Edith Maude Eaton, Henri-Alban Fournier (known as Alain-Fournier), Jules Lemaître, Theodor Lipps, Isabella Fyvie Mayo, Christian Morgenstern, Charles Sanders Peirce, Charles Péguy, Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Brandon Thomas, Georg Trakl, Bertha von Suttner (who won the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize), Theodore Watts-Dunton, and Peyo Yavorov died in 1914 without having been nominated for the prize. Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize No. Nominee Country Genre(s) Nominator(s)1Juhani Aho (1861–1921) Russian Empire Russia(Finland)novel, short storyErik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931)2René Bazin (1853–1932)French Third Republic FrancenovelPierre Loti (1850–1923)3Henri Bergson (1859–1941)French Third Republic FrancephilosophyVitalis Norström (1856–1916)4Paul Bourget (1852–1935) French Third Republic Francenovel, short story, literary criticism, essays René Bazin (1853–1932)5Grazia Deledda (1871–1936)Kingdom of Italy Italynovel, short story, essaysCarl Bildt (1850–1931)6Jean-Henri Fabre (1823–1915)French Third Republic Franceshort story, essays, poetryJohan Vising (1855–1942)7Émile Faguet (1847–1916)French Third Republic Franceliterary criticism, essaysHarald Hjärne (1848–1922)8Salvatore Farina (1846–1918)Kingdom of Italy Italynovel, short storymembers of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere9Adolf Frey (1855–1920) Switzerlandbiography, history, essaysWilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919)10Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857–1919) Denmarkpoetry, drama, novelHarald Høffding (1843–1931) Several members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters11Vilhelm Grønbech (1873–1948)Denmarkhistory, essays, poetryHarald Hjärne (1848–1922)12Ángel Guimerá Jorge (1845–1924) Restoration (Spain) Spaindrama, poetryFredrik Wulff (1845–1930) members of the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras13Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britainnovel, short story, poetry, dramamembers of the Royal Society of Literature14Harald Høffding (1843–1931) Denmark philosophy, theologyClaudius Wilkens (1844–1929) Valdemar Vedel (1865–1942)15Willem Kloos (1859–1938)Kingdom of the Netherlands Netherlandspoetry, essays, literary criticism20px Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) Several professors in Leiden and Groningen16Josef Svatopluk Machar (1864–1942)Austria-Hungary(Czechoslovakia)poetry, essays, novelArnošt Kraus (1859–1943) Several professors from Prague, Czechia17Dora Melegari (1849–1924)SwitzerlandKingdom of Italy Italynovel, short story, essays, literary criticismLouis Duchesne (1843–1922)18Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941) Russian Empire Russianovel, essays, poetry, dramaNestor Kotlyarevsky (1863–1925)19Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) Restoration (Spain) Spainnovel, short story, drama, essays20px José Echegaray Eizaguirre (1832–1916) 2 members of the Royal Spanish Academy20Edmond Picard (1836–1924) Belgiumdrama, law, essays20px Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)21Antonio Serra Morant (1866–1939)Restoration (Spain) SpainessaysEloy Señán Alonso (1858–1923)22Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) Switzerlandpoetry, essays49 members of The Nobel Prize Committee of the Society of Authors Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919)23Ernst von der Recke (1848–1933) Denmarkpoetry, drama11 professors from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters24William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Irelandpoetry, drama, essaysGeorge Noble Plunkett (1851–1948) Prize decision In their report to the Swedish Academy dated 1 October 1914, the Nobel committee proposed that the 1914 Nobel Prize in Literature should be awarded to the Swiss author Carl Spitteler, but on 3 November 1914 the Swedish Academy decided that that year's prize should be postponed to the following year.Nobelpriset i litteratur. Nomineringar och utlåtanden 1901-1920 1914 Svensén, Bo Svenska Akademien 2001 Carl Spitteler was subsequently awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature. Notes References 1914 Category:Cultural history of World War I Nobel