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Nobel Prize In LiteratureThe Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency". The "work" in this case generally refers to an author's work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes cited in the awards. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Literature from 1901 to the present day. 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Notes - The women who have received the Nobel Prize for Literature are Selma Lagerlf, Grazia Deledda, Sigrid Undset, Pearl S. Buck, Gabriela Mistral, Nelly Sachs, Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison, Wisława Szymborska and Elfriede Jelinek. The other recipients are men.
- The Nobel Prize is not the sole measure of literary excellence and lasting worth. The following people, for instance, were not awarded the Nobel Prize despite being eligible: Anna Akhmatova, Jorge Amado, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Paul Celan, Ren Char, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, Julio Cortzar, Jacques Derrida, Theodore Dreiser, Lion Feuchtwanger, Robert Frost, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Nikos Kazantzakis, Arthur Koestler, D.H. Lawrence, William Somerset Maugham, Arthur Miller, Alberto Moravia, Robert Musil, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Fernando Pessoa, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, J.D. Salinger, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Leo Tolstoy, Arnold Toynbee, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mark Twain, Franz Werfel, Tennessee Williams and Virginia Woolf.
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