Vote + to improve this toplist's ranking

Great Authors Who Never Won The Nobel Prize

20 items ranked

Authors deserving of the Nobel Prize but who never won

Rated 2 points - posted 13 years ago by kris in category Books.

Click on up and down arrows to affect item's ranking

Visit our Books forum

1.

Leo Tolstoy

11 points - added 13 years ago by kris -

2.

Henrik Ibsen

The father of modern drama lost to misinterpretation of Nobel's requirements.

10 points - added 13 years ago by kris -

3.

Vladimir Nabokov

Nominated in 1974 and lost to two authors who were also members of the deciding committee.

9 points - added 13 years ago by kris -

4.

Marcel Proust

9 points - added 13 years ago by kris -

5.

Jorge Luis Borges

Lived long enough to be awarded ten times over yet was refused because of his politics.

8 points - added 13 years ago by kris -

6.

Emile Zola

6 points - added 13 years ago by kris -

7.

Graham Greene

5 points - added 13 years ago by kris -

8.

James Joyce

Difficult novels but he practically invented speculative fiction and made stream of consciousness cool.

5 points - added 13 years ago by kris -

9.

Robert Musil

4 points - added 13 years ago by kris -

10.

Mark Twain

Reportedly passed over 10 times. That is simply unforgivable.

2 points - added 13 years ago by kris -

11.

R.K. Narayan

1 point - added 13 years ago by kris -

12.

Robert Frost

1 point - added 13 years ago by kris -

13.

Bertolt Bretcht

1 point - added 13 years ago by kris -