1942 Nobel Prize in Literature

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| name = 20px 1942 Nobel Prize in Literature

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| previous = 1941

| main = Nobel Prize in Literature

| next = 1943

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The 1942 Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded due to the ongoing Second World War.{{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}} 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.[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1942/summary/ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1942] nobelprize.org This was the sixth occasion in Nobel history that the prize was not conferred.

Nominations

Despite no author(s) being awarded since 1939 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.[https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/list.php?prize=4&year=1942 Nomination archive – 1942] nobelprize.org

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.

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.

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|+ class="nowrap" | Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize

! scope=col | No.

! scope=col | Nominee

! scope=col | Country

! scope=col | Genre(s)

! scope=col | Nominator(s)

|Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948)

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({{flag|Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|name=Ukraine}})

|philosophy, theology

|Alf Nyman (1884–1968)

|Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)

|{{flag|United Kingdom}}

|poetry, essays, biography

|Heinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904-1980)

|Hans Carossa (1878–1956)

|{{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Germany}}

|poetry, autobiography, essays

|Anders Österling (1884–1981)

|António Correia de Oliveira (1878–1960)

|{{flag|Estado Novo (Portugal)|name=Portugal}}

|poetry

|{{unbulleted list|Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953)|António Mendes Correia (1888–1960)}}

|Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício (1884–1947)

|{{flag|Estado Novo (Portugal)|name=Portugal}}

|poetry, essays

|António Baião (1878–1961)

|Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877–1952)

|{{flag|Estado Novo (Portugal)|name=Portugal}}

|poetry

|João António Mascarenhas Júdice (1898–1957)

|Georges Duhamel (1884–1966)

|{{flag|Vichy France|name=France}}

|novel, short story, poetry, drama, literary criticism

|Anders Österling (1884–1981)

|Johan Falkberget (1879–1967)

|{{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Norway}}

|novel, short story, essays

|{{unbulleted list|Andreas Hofgaard Winsnes (1889–1972)|Rolv Laache (1886–1964)|Eivind Berggrav (1884–1959)}}

|Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)

|{{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Germany}}
{{flag|Switzerland}}

|novel, poetry, essays, short story

|Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970)

|Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

|{{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Netherlands}}

|history

|Willem van Eysinga (1878–1961)

|Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873–1950)

|{{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Denmark}}

|novel, short story, essays

|{{unbulleted list|Didrik Arup Seip (1884–1963)|Jens Thiis (1870–1942)|Frederik Poulsen (1876–1950)|Francis Bull (1887–1974)|Heinrich Bach (1905–1984)|Carl Adolf Bodelsen (1894–1978)|Vilhelm Andersen (1864–1953)}}

|Johannes Jørgensen (1866–1956)

|{{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Denmark}}

|novel, poetry, biography

|Claes Lindskog (1870–1954)

|Enrique Larreta (1875–1961)

|{{flag|Argentina}}

|history, essays, drama, novel

|{{unbulleted list|Spanish-American and Spanish universities|members of the Academia Brasileira de Letras|11 members of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas|5 members of the Royal Spanish Academy|Ricardo Levene (1885–1959)}}

|Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957)

|{{flag|Chile}}

|poetry

|{{unbulleted list|Afonso Costa (1885–1955)|Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953)}}