1942 Nobel Prize in Literature

20px 1942 Nobel Prize in Literature 1901 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1942/summary/ Nobel Prize.png 1941 Nobel Prize in Literature 1943 The 1942 Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded due to the ongoing Second World War.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 Instead, the prize money was allocated with 1/3 to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.The Nobel Prize in Literature 1942 nobelprize.org This was the sixth occasion in Nobel history that the prize was not conferred. Nominations Despite no author(s) being awarded since 1939 due to the ongoing Second World War, a number of literary critics, societies and academics continued sending nominations to the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy, hoping that their nominated candidate may be considered for the prize. In total, the academy received 30 nominations for 16 writers.Nomination archive – 1942 nobelprize.org Six of the nominees were newly nominated namely Nikolai Berdyaev, Sigfrid Siwertz, Teixeira de Pascoaes, Charles Langbridge Morgan, Enrique Larreta, Hans Carossa. The highest number of nominations was for the Danish author Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, who was awarded in 1944, with seven nomination. It was followed by Argentinian academic Enrique Larreta who received 5 nominations from literary academies and various universities. Two of the nominees were women namely the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral (awarded in 1945) and Portuguese writer Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício. The authors Yosano Akiko, Nini Roll Anker, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, Franz Boas, Libero Bovio, Léon Daudet, Fabio Fiallo, Rachel Field, Sakutarō Hagiwara, Cosmo Hamilton, Miguel Hernández, Daniil Kharms, Olha Kobylianska, Oskar Kraus, Clementine Krämer, Yanka Kupala, Bronisław Malinowski, Lucy Maud Montgomery Robert Musil, Irène Némirovsky, Bruno Schulz, Edith Stein, Jakob van Hoddis, Carolyn Wells, Xiao Hong, and Stefan Zweig died in 1942 without having been nominated for the prize. Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize No. Nominee Country Genre(s) Nominator(s)1Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948)Soviet Union(Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 1937 Ukraine)philosophy, theologyAlf Nyman (1884–1968)2Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) United Kingdompoetry, essays, biographyHeinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904–1980)3Hans Carossa (1878–1956) Nazi Germany Germanypoetry, autobiography, essaysAnders Österling (1884–1981)4António Correia de Oliveira (1878–1960) Estado Novo (Portugal) PortugalpoetryHjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) António Mendes Correia (1888–1960)5Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício (1884–1947) Estado Novo (Portugal) Portugalpoetry, essaysAntónio Baião (1878–1961)6Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877–1952) Estado Novo (Portugal) PortugalpoetryJoão António Mascarenhas Júdice (1898–1957)7Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) Vichy France Francenovel, short story, poetry, drama, literary criticismAnders Österling (1884–1981)8Johan Falkberget (1879–1967) Nazi Germany Norwaynovel, short story, essaysAndreas Hofgaard Winsnes (1889–1972) Rolv Laache (1886–1964) Eivind Berggrav (1884–1959)9Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)Nazi Germany GermanySwitzerlandnovel, poetry, essays, short storySigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970)10Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) Nazi Germany NetherlandshistoryWillem van Eysinga (1878–1961)11Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873–1950) Nazi Germany Denmarknovel, short story, essaysDidrik Arup Seip (1884–1963) Jens Thiis (1870–1942) Frederik Poulsen (1876–1950) Francis Bull (1887–1974) Heinrich Bach (1905–1984) Carl Adolf Bodelsen (1894–1978) Vilhelm Andersen (1864–1953)12Johannes Jørgensen (1866–1956) Nazi Germany Denmarknovel, poetry, biographyClaes Lindskog (1870–1954)13Enrique Larreta (1875–1961) Argentinahistory, essays, drama, novelSpanish-American and Spanish universities members of the Academia Brasileira de Letras 11 members of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas 5 members of the Royal Spanish Academy Ricardo Levene (1885–1959)14Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) ChilepoetryAfonso Costa (1885–1955) Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953)15Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) United Kingdomdrama, novel, essays, poetryAnders Österling (1884–1981)16Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970)Swedennovel, short story, drama, poetryCarl Olaf Bøggild-Andersen (1898–1967) Prize decision In the Nobel committee's deliberations on the nominated candidates for the 1942 Nobel Prize in Literature, the candidacy of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral won support from four of the five committee members and Danish author Johannes V. Jensen's candidacy was supported by a majority of three committee members, but no prize was awarded in 1942.Nobelpriset i litteratur. Nomineringar och utlåtanden 1920-1950 1942 Svensén, Bo Svenska Akademien 2001 Subsequently, Johannes V. Jensen was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature and Gabriela Mistral awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature. References 1942 Category:Cultural history of World War II Nobel