In 1973 Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature" and now when 50 years have passed the list of nominees for 1973 has been released.
101 writers were suggested. The same number as in 1972, but more compared with 91 writers in 1971 and 77 writers in 1970 and fewer than the 104 writers suggested in 1969.
Kaj Schueler from Svenska Dagbladet has visited the archives and written this article (see translation of it in my next post).
The shortlist for the 1973 prize turned out to be:
From the list of suggestions we can also learn the the following:
Nominees who would be awarded in coming years:
Nominations from members of the Swedish Academy:
101 writers were suggested. The same number as in 1972, but more compared with 91 writers in 1971 and 77 writers in 1970 and fewer than the 104 writers suggested in 1969.
Kaj Schueler from Svenska Dagbladet has visited the archives and written this article (see translation of it in my next post).
The shortlist for the 1973 prize turned out to be:
- Saul Bellow (awarded in 1976)
- Anthony Burgess
- William Golding (awarded in 1983)
- Eugenio Montale (awarded in 1975)
- Yiannis Ritsos
- Patrick White (awarded this year)
From the list of suggestions we can also learn the the following:
Nominees who would be awarded in coming years:
- Patrick White (awarded in 1973)
- Eyvind Johnson (awarded in 1974)
- Harry Martinson (awarded in 1974)
- Eugenio Montale (awarded in 1975)
- Saul Bellow (awarded in 1976)
- Vicente Aleixandre (awarded in 1977)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (awarded in 1978)
- Odysseas Elytis (awarded in 1979)
- Elias Canetti (awarded in 1981)
- William Golding (awarded in 1983)
- Claude Simon (awarded in 1985)
- Elie Wiesel (awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986)
- Camilo José Cela (awarded in 1989)
- Nadine Gordimer (awarded in 1991)
- Günter Grass (awarded in 1999)
- V. S. Naipaul (awarded in 2001)
- Doris Lessing (awarded in 2007)
- Elie Wiesel, 32 nominations
- W.H. Auden, 12 nominations (passed away in September 1973)
- André Malraux, 8 nominations
- Patrick White, 6 nominations
- André Chamson, 5 nominations
- Julien Green, 5 nominations
- Gyula Illyés, 5 nominations
- Vladimir Nabokov, 5 nominations
- André Malraux - 24th year
- Alberto Moravia - 19th year
- Graham Greene - 18th year
- Thornton Wilder - 16th year
- Taha Hussein - 15th year (passed away in October 1973)
- Miroslav Krleza - 15th year
- Conrad Aiken (passed away in August 1973)
- Vicente Aleixandre (awarded in 1977)
- Antonio Aniante
- Miodrag Bulatovic
- Albert Cohen
- Adolfo Costa du Rels
- Indira Devi Dhanrajgir
- Eugen Jebeleanu
- Yasar Kemal
- Zenta Maurina
- Henry Miller
- John Crow Ransom
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (awarded in 1978)
- Pratapnarayan Tandon
- Paul Voivenel
- Martin Wickramasinghe
- Chiang Yee
- Xu You
Nominations from members of the Swedish Academy:
- Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (by the Nobel Committee) (had passed away in 1971!)
- Louis Paul Boon (by Artur Lundkvist
- Anthony Burgess (by Artur Lundkvist)
- Suniti Kumar Chatterji (by the Nobel Committee)
- Odysseas Elytis (by the Nobel Committee)
- Nadine Gordimer (by Artur Lundkvist)
- Julien Green (by Johannes Edfelt)
- Vladimír Holan (by the Nobel Committee)
- Gyula Illyés (by Artur Lundkvist)
- Eyvind Johnson (by Johannes Edfelt and Pär Lagerkvist) - Johnson was at the time of nomination a member of the SA (just as Lagerkvist had been when he was awarded in 1951)
- Ferenc Juhász (by Artur Lundkvist)
- Miroslav Krleza (by the Nobel Committee)
- Manbohdan Lal (by the Nobel Committee)
- Doris Lessing (by Artur Lundkvist)
- Norman Mailer (by Artur Lundkvist)
- Bernard Malamud (by the Nobel Committee)
- Harry Martinson (by Johannes Edfelt and Pär Lagerkvist) - Martinson was at the time of nomination a member of the SA (just as Lagerkvist had been when he was awarded in 1951)
- Veijo Meri (by the Nobel Committee)
- Henri Michaux (by Lars Forssell)
- V. S. Naipaul (by Artur Lundkvist)
- Yiannis Ritsos (by the Nobel Committee)
- Claude Simon (by the Nobel Committee)
- Patrick White (by Artur Lundkvist)
- Yasar Kemal - by Per Wästberg, as chairman of Swedish PEN (Wästberg is a current member of the SA since 1997 and was chairman of the Nobel Committee 2004-2017)
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Indira Devi Dhanrajgir
- Nadine Gordimer (awarded in 1991)
- Doris Lessing (awarded in 2007)
- Zenta Maurina
- Marie Under
- Graham Greene (by 1972 laureate Heinrich Böll)
- Eyvind Johnson (by 1951 laureate Pär Lagerkvist) - Johnson was at the time of nomination a member of the SA (just as Lagerkvist had been when he was awarded)
- Harry Martinson (by 1951 laureate Pär Lagerkvist) - Martinson was at the time of nomination a member of the SA (just as Lagerkvist had been when he was awarded)
- Vladimir Nabokov (by 1970 laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
- Zaharia Stancu (by 1967 laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias)
- Marie Under - 90 years old
- Hannu Salama - 37 years old (Salama is still alive and could hence be in the running for the 2024 Nobel Prize)