Non-Nobel Prize Winners

I decided, for no particularly good reason, to compile a list, year by year, of people who never did win the Nobel Prize for Literature. This was done according to the following three rules:

1. The winner has to be still alive when they receive the non-prize.
2. The winner cannot have won the Nobel Prize itself.
3. The winner must be dead, as of today - 31st May 2007.

The last rule I imposed so that I didn't nominate writers who, being still alive, might yet win the Nobel Prize.

I had great fun in actual fact compiling this list. I had conceived, before I started, that it would be easier in the early years - since the Nobel Prize committee seemed to make far stranger choices back then, and perhaps it is always harder to see at the time who will be significant - and that it would gradually become more difficult as I got closer to the present day; but this did not turn out to be the case.

I started in 1900, not 1901, so I could get in my first choice, who's one of my very favourite writers and who died in that year.

Year	Writer	Country
1900	Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz	Portugal
1901	Mor Jokai	Hungary
1902	Emile Zola	France
1903	Anton Chekov	Russia
1904	Henry James	USA / UK
1905	Giovanni Verga	Italy
1906	Thomas Hardy	UK
1907	Natsume Soseki	Japan
1908	Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis	Brazil
1909	Mark Twain	USA
1910	Leo Tolstoy	Russia
1911	August Strindberg	Sweden
1912	Boleslaw Prus	Poland
1913	Stanislaw Witkiewicz	Poland
1914	Jack London	USA
1915	I L Peretz / Sholem Aleichem	Poland / Russia
1916	Ruben Dario	Nicaragua
1917	Joseph Conrad	UK
1918	Jaroslav Hasek	Austro-Hungary
1919	Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto	Brazil
1920	Benito Perez Galdos	Spain
1921	Maxim Gorky	Russia
1922	Marcel Proust	France
1923	Katherine Mansfield	New Zealand
1924	Franz Kafka	Austro-Hungary
1925	Fyodor Sologub	Russia
1926	Rainer Maria Rilke	Austro-Hungary
1927	Italo Svevo	Italy
1928	Jose Eustasio Rivera	Columbia
1929	Hermann Ungar	Austro-Hungary
1930	Horacio Quiroga / Leopoldo Lugones	Uruguay / Argentina
1931	Andrei Bely	Russia
1932	Zsigmond Moricz	Hungary
1933	George Moore	Ireland
1934	Dezso Kosztolanyi	Hungary
1935	Fernando Pessoa	Portugal
1936	Lu Hsun	China
1937	Bruno Schulz	Poland
1938	Karel Capek	Czechoslavakia
1939	Hjalmar Soderberg	Sweden
1940	Mikhail Bulgakov / Isaac Babel	Russia
1941	James Joyce	Ireland
1942	Robert Musil	Austria
1943	Lord Dunsany	Ireland
1944	Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette	France
1945	H G Wells	UK
1946	Sandor Marai	Hungary
1947	Alfred Doblin	Germany
1948	Stratis Myrivilis	Greece
1949	George Orwell	UK
1950	Cesare Pavese	Italy
1951	Hermann Broch	Austria
1952	Nikos Kazantzakis	Greece
1953	Dylan Thomas	UK
1954	Valery Larbaud	France
1955	Pio Baroja	Spain
1956	Guiseppe de Lampedusa	Italy
1957	Malcolm Lowry	UK
1958	Henry Green	UK
1959	Arthur Miller	USA
1960	Ramon Perez de Ayala	Spain
1961	Louis-Ferdinand Celine	France
1962	Karen von Blixen-Finecke	Denmark
1963	Brendan Behan	Ireland
1964	Junichiro Tanizaki	Japan
1965	Lao She	China
1966	Flann O'Brien	Ireland
1967	Jose Maria Arguedas	Peru
1968	Witold Gombrowicz	Poland
1969	Romulo Gallegos	Venezuela
1970	Tarjei Vesaas	Norway
1971	Dino Buzzati	Italy
1972	Jules Romains / Romain Gary	France
1973	Carlo Emilio Gadda	Italy
1974	Jose Lezama Lima	Cuba
1975	Clarice Lispector	Brazil
1976	Raymond Queneau	France
1977	Vladimir Nabokov	Russia / USA
1978	Yuri Dombrovsky	Russia
1979	Mao Dun	China
1980	Alejo Carpentier	Cuba
1981	Juan Rulfo	Mexico
1982	Georges Perec	France
1983	R K Narayan	India
1984	Julio Cortazar	Argentina
1985	Italo Calvino	Italy
1986	Jorge Luis Borges	Argentina
1987	Primo Levi	Italy
1988	Danilo Kis	Yugoslavia
1989	Thomas Bernhard	Austria
1990	Friedrich Durrenmatt	Switzerland
1991	Max Frisch	Switzerland
1992	Maurice Blanchot	France
1993	G Cabrera Infante	Cuba
1994	Abdul Rahman Munif	Iraq
1995	Gregor von Rezzori	(Too Hard to Say)
1996	Amos Tutuola	Nigeria
1997	Bohumil Hrabal	Czech Republic
1998	Qian Zongshu	China
1999	Roberto Bolano	Chile