1914 Nobel Prize in Literature
{{Infobox award
| name = 20px 1914 Nobel Prize in Literature
| year = 1901
| website = {{oweb|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1914/summary/}}
| image = Nobel Prize.png
| previous = 1913
| main = Nobel Prize in Literature
| next = 1915
}}
The 1914 Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded when the committee's deliberations were upset by the beginning of World War I (1914–1918).{{cite web|url=https://theconversation.com/nobel-literature-row-usually-it-takes-a-world-war-to-disrupt-the-prize-96146|title=Nobel literature row: usually it takes a world war to disrupt the prize|website=The Conversation|date=4 May 2018|access-date=21 May 2021}} Thus, the prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1914/summary/ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1914] nobelprize.org This was the first occasion in Nobel history that the prize was not conferred.
Nominations
The Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy received received 26 nominations for 24 writers.[https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/list.php?prize=4&year=1914 Nomination archive – 1914] nobelprize.org
Seven of the nominees were nominated first-time including Willem Kloos, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Antonio Serra Morant, Vilhelm Grønbech, René Bazin, and Josef Svatopluk Machar. The highest number of nominations – two nominations each – were for Harald Høffding, Ángel Guimerá Jorge, and Carl Spitteler (awarded in 1919). Two Italian female writers were nominated Dora Melegari and Grazia Deledda (awarded in 1926).
The authors Delmira Agustini, Dimitrie Anghel, Jakub Arbes, Robert Hugh Benson, Robert Jones Burdette, Nikolai Chayev, Mariana Cox Méndez, Alessandro d'Ancona, Danske Dandridge, Mircea Demetriade, Augusto dos Anjos, Edith Maude Eaton, Henri-Alban Fournier (known as Alain-Fournier), Jules Lemaître, Theodor Lipps, Isabella Fyvie Mayo, Christian Morgenstern, Charles Sanders Peirce, Charles Péguy, Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Brandon Thomas, Georg Trakl, Bertha von Suttner (who won the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize), Theodore Watts-Dunton, and Peyo Yavorov died in 1914 without having been nominated for the prize.
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|+ class="nowrap" | Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize |
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! scope=col | No. ! scope=col | Nominee ! scope=col | Country ! scope=col | Genre(s) ! scope=col | Nominator(s) |
| 1
|Juhani Aho (1861–1921) |{{flag|Russian Empire|name=Russia}} |novel, short story |Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931) |
| 2
|René Bazin (1853–1932) |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}} |novel |Pierre Loti (1850–1923) |
| 3
|Henri Bergson (1859–1941) |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}} |philosophy |Vitalis Norström (1856–1916) |
| 4
|Paul Bourget (1852–1935) |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}} |novel, short story, literary criticism, essays |René Bazin (1853–1932) |
| 5
|Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) |{{flag|Kingdom of Italy|name=Italy}} |novel, short story, essays |Carl Bildt (1850–1931) |
| 6
|Jean-Henri Fabre (1823–1915) |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}} |short story, essays, poetry |Johan Vising (1855–1942) |
| 7
|Émile Faguet (1847–1916) |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}} |literary criticism, essays |Harald Hjärne (1848–1922) |
| 8
|Salvatore Farina (1846–1918) |{{flag|Kingdom of Italy|name=Italy}} |novel, short story |members of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere |
| 9
|Adolf Frey (1855–1920) |{{flag|Switzerland}} |biography, history, essays |Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919) |
| 10
|Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857–1919) |{{flag|Denmark}} |poetry, drama, novel |{{unbulleted list|Harald Høffding (1843–1931)|Several members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters}} |
| 11
|Vilhelm Grønbech (1873–1948) |{{flag|Denmark}} |history, essays, poetry |Harald Hjärne (1848–1922) |
| 12
|Ángel Guimerá Jorge (1845–1924) |{{flag|Restoration (Spain)|name=Spain}} |drama, poetry |{{unbulleted list|Fredrik Wulff (1845–1930)|members of the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras}} |
| 13
|Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) |{{flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=Great Britain}} |novel, short story, poetry, drama |members of the Royal Society of Literature |
| 14
|Harald Høffding (1843–1931) |{{flag|Denmark}} |philosophy, theology |{{unbulleted list|Claudius Wilkens (1844–1929)|Valdemar Vedel (1865–1942)}} |
| 15
|Willem Kloos (1859–1938) |{{flag|Kingdom of the Netherlands|name=Netherlands}} |poetry, essays, literary criticism |{{unbulleted list|20px Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)|Several professors in Leiden and Groningen}} |
| 16
|Josef Svatopluk Machar (1864–1942) |{{flag|Austria-Hungary}} |poetry, essays, novel |{{unbulleted list|Arnošt Kraus (1859–1943)|Several professors from Prague, Czechia}} |
| 17
|Dora Melegari (1849–1924) |{{flag|Switzerland}} |novel, short story, essays, literary criticism |Louis Duchesne (1843–1922) |
| 18
|Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941) |{{flag|Russian Empire|name=Russia}} |novel, essays, poetry, drama |Nestor Kotlyarevsky (1863–1925) |
| 19
|Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) |{{flag|Restoration (Spain)|name=Spain}} |novel, short story, drama, essays |{{unbulleted list|20px José Echegaray Eizaguirre (1832–1916)|2 members of the Royal Spanish Academy}} |
| 20
|Edmond Picard (1836–1924) |{{flag|Belgium}} |drama, law, essays |20px Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) |
| 21
|Antonio Serra Morant (1866–1939) |{{flag|Restoration (Spain)|name=Spain}} |essays |Eloy Señán Alonso (1858–1923) |
| 22
|Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) |{{flag|Switzerland}} |poetry, essays |{{unbulleted list|49 members of The Nobel Prize Committee of the Society of Authors|Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919)}} |
| 23
|Ernst von der Recke (1848–1933) |{{flag|Denmark}} |poetry, drama |11 professors from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters |
| 24
|William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |{{flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=Ireland}} |poetry, drama, essays |George Noble Plunkett (1851–1948) |
