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). Thus, the prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.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.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.
Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize No. Nominee Country Genre(s) Nominator(s)1Juhani Aho (1861–1921) ()novel, short storyErik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931)2René Bazin (1853–1932)novelPierre Loti (1850–1923)3Henri Bergson (1859–1941)philosophyVitalis Norström (1856–1916)4Paul Bourget (1852–1935) novel, short story, literary criticism, essays René Bazin (1853–1932)5Grazia Deledda (1871–1936)novel, short story, essaysCarl Bildt (1850–1931)6Jean-Henri Fabre (1823–1915)short story, essays, poetryJohan Vising (1855–1942)7Émile Faguet (1847–1916)literary criticism, essaysHarald Hjärne (1848–1922)8Salvatore Farina (1846–1918)novel, short storymembers of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere9Adolf Frey (1855–1920) biography, history, essaysWilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919)10Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857–1919) poetry, drama, novel11Vilhelm Grønbech (1873–1948)history, essays, poetryHarald Hjärne (1848–1922)12Ángel Guimerá Jorge (1845–1924) drama, poetry13Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)novel, short story, poetry, dramamembers of the Royal Society of Literature14Harald Høffding (1843–1931) philosophy, theology15Willem Kloos (1859–1938)poetry, essays, literary criticism16Josef Svatopluk Machar (1864–1942)()poetry, essays, novel17Dora Melegari (1849–1924)novel, short story, essays, literary criticismLouis Duchesne (1843–1922)18Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941) novel, essays, poetry, dramaNestor Kotlyarevsky (1863–1925)19Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) novel, short story, drama, essays20Edmond Picard (1836–1924) drama, law, essays Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)21Antonio Serra Morant (1866–1939)essaysEloy Señán Alonso (1858–1923)22Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) poetry, essays23Ernst von der Recke (1848–1933) poetry, drama11 professors from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters24William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) poetry, drama, essaysGeorge Noble Plunkett (1851–1948)
Prize decision In their report to the Swedish Academy dated 1 October 1914, the Nobel committee proposed that the 1914 Nobel Prize in Literature should be awarded to the Swiss author Carl Spitteler, but on 3 November 1914 the Swedish Academy decided that that year's prize should be postponed to the following year.
Carl Spitteler was subsequently awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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