In addition to Osterling and Gierow's statements, these were the proposals by the then Nobel Committee members:
Osterling
Malraux
Greene
Ungaretti/Montale
Eyvnid Johnson
Malraux
Claude Simon
Patrick White
Gierow, Gyllensten, Lundkvist and Henry Olsson
Beckett
White
Simon
Lundkvist, speaking on the side of Gierow, felt that Malraux's major works were too far back and had lost some of its relevance. He also recommended to the Committee the Negritudinan poets Cesaire and Senghor for future considerations.
