1942 Nobel Prize in Literature
"in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction".
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
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WebsiteOfficial website

The 1942 Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded due to the ongoing World War II.[1] 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.[2] This was the sixth occasion in Nobel history that the prize was not conferred.

Nominations

Despite no author(s) being awarded for the 1941 prize 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.[3]

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.[3]

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)
1 Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948)  Soviet Union
( Ukraine)		 philosophy, theology Alf Nyman (1884–1968)
2 Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)  United Kingdom poetry, essays, biography Heinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904-1980)
3 Hans Carossa (1878–1956)  Germany poetry, autobiography, essays Anders Österling (1884–1981)
4 António Correia de Oliveira (1878–1960)  Portugal poetry
5 Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício (1884–1947)  Portugal poetry, essays António Baião (1878–1961)
6 Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877–1952)  Portugal poetry João António Mascarenhas Júdice (1898–1957)
7 Georges Duhamel (1884–1966)  France novel, short story, poetry, drama, literary criticism Anders Österling (1884–1981)
8 Johan Falkberget (1879–1967)  Norway novel, short story, essays
9 Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)  Germany
  Switzerland		 novel, poetry, essays, short story Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970)
10 Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)  Netherlands history Willem van Eysinga (1878–1961)
11 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873–1950)  Denmark novel, short story, essays
12 Johannes Jørgensen (1866–1956)  Denmark novel, poetry, biography Claes Lindskog (1870–1954)
13 Enrique Larreta (1875–1961)  Argentina history, essays, drama, novel
14 Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957)  Chile poetry
15 Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958)  United Kingdom drama, novel, essays, poetry Anders Österling (1884–1981)
16 Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970)  Sweden novel, short story, drama, poetry Carl Olaf Bøggild-Andersen (1898–1967)

References

  1. ↑ "Nobel literature row: usually it takes a world war to disrupt the prize". The Conversation. 4 May 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  2. ↑ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1942 nobelprize.org
  3. 1 2 Nomination archive – 1942 nobelprize.org
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