1943 Nobel Prize in Literature
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| name = 20px 1943 Nobel Prize in Literature
| year = 1901
| website = {{oweb|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1943/summary/}}
| image = Nobel Prize.png
| previous = 1942
| main = Nobel Prize in Literature
| next = 1944
}}
The 1943 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/1943/summary/ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1943] nobelprize.org This was the seventh 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 21 nominations for 20 writers.[https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/list.php?prize=4&year=1943 Nomination archive – 1943] nobelprize.org
Five of the nominees were newly nominated namely Sri Aurobindo, John Steinbeck (awarded in 1962), Franz Werfel, Elisaveta Bagryana, and Franz Hellens. The highest number of nominations – two nominations – was for the Danish author Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, who was awarded in 1944. Four of the nominees were women namely Gabriela Mistral (awarded in 1945), Elisaveta Bagryana, Henriette Charasson, and Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício.
The authors Carlos Arniches, Stephen Vincent Benét, Laurence Binyon, Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Robin George Collingwood, Virgilio Dávila, Jovan Dučić, Louis Esson, Nordahl Grieg, Radclyffe Hall, Georg Hermann, Ida Lee, Guido Mazzoni, Arthur Mee, Beatrix Potter, Susan Stebbing, Helene Stöcker, Annie S. Swan, Frida Uhl, Else Ury, Beatrice Webb, and Simone Weil died in 1943 without having been nominated 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
|Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) |{{flag|British Raj|name=India}} |philosophy, poetry, essays |Francis Younghusband (1863–1942) |
| 2
|Elisaveta Bagryana (1893–1991) |{{flag|Kingdom of Bulgaria|name=Bulgaria}} |poetry, translation |Stefan Mladenov (1880–1963) |
| 3
|Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) |{{flag|Soviet Union}} |philosophy, theology |Alf Nyman (1884–1968) |
| 4
|René Béhaine (1880–1966) |{{flag|Vichy France|name=France}} |novel, short story, essays |Maurice Mignon (1882–1962) |
| 5
|Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |poetry, essays, biography |Heinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904-1980) |
| 6
|Henriette Charasson (1884–1972) |{{flag|Vichy France|name=France}} |poetry, essays, drama, novel, literary criticism, biography |Pierre Fernessole (1879–1965) |
| 7
|Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício (1884–1947) |{{flag|Estado Novo (Portugal)|name=Portugal}} |poetry, essays |António Baião (1878–1961) |
| 8
|Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877–1952) |{{flag|Estado Novo (Portugal)|name=Portugal}} |poetry |João António Mascarenhas Júdice (1898–1957) |
| 9
|Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) |{{flag|Vichy France|name=France}} |novel, short story, poetry, drama, literary criticism |Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) |
| 10
|Vilhelm Grønbech (1873–1948) |{{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Denmark}} |history, essays, poetry |Sven Lönborg (1871–1959) |
| 11
|Franz Hellens (1881–1972) |{{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Belgium}} |novel, poetry, literary criticism |Gustave Charlier (1885–1959) |
| 12
|Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) |{{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Netherlands}} |history |Willem van Eysinga (1878–1961) |
| 13
|Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873–1950) |{{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Denmark}} |novel, short story, essays |{{unbulleted list|Carl Adolf Bodelsen (1894–1978)|Vilhelm Andersen (1864–1953)}} |
| 14
|Enrique Larreta (1875–1961) |{{flag|Argentina}} |history, essays, drama, novel |Anders Österling (1884–1981) |
| 15
|Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) |{{flag|Chile}} |poetry |Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) |
| 16
|Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |drama, novel, essays, poetry |Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) |
| 17
|Carlos María Ocantos (1860–1949) |{{flag|Argentina}} |novel, short story, essays |Salvador Bermúdez de Castro (1863–1945) |
| 18
|John Steinbeck (1902–1968) |{{flag|United States|1912}} |novel, short story, screenplay |Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) |
| 19
|Paul Valéry (1871–1945) |{{flag|Vichy France|name=France}} |poetry, philosophy, essays, drama |Ernst Bendz (1880–1966) |
| 20
|Franz Werfel (1890–1945) |{{flag|Czechoslovak government-in-exile|name=Czechoslovakia}} |novel, short story, drama, poetry |Anders Österling (1884–1981) |