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The1942Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded due to the ongoingSecond World War.[1] 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.[2] This was the sixth occasion in Nobel history that the prize was not conferred.
Despite no author(s) being awarded since1939 due to the ongoingSecond World War, a number of literary critics, societies and academics continued sending nominations to the Nobel Committee of theSwedish Academy, hoping that their nominated candidate may be considered for the prize. In total, the academy received 30 nominations for 16 writers.[3]
Six of the nominees were newly nominated namelyNikolai Berdyaev,Sigfrid Siwertz,Teixeira de Pascoaes,Charles Langbridge Morgan,Enrique Larreta,Hans Carossa. The highest number of nominations was for the Danish authorJohannes Vilhelm Jensen, who was awarded in1944, with seven nomination. It was followed by Argentinian academicEnrique Larreta who received 5 nominations from literary academies and various universities. Two of the nominees were women namely the Chilean poetGabriela Mistral (awarded in1945) and Portuguese writerMaria Madalena de Martel Patrício.[3]
The authorsYosano 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 MontgomeryRobert Musil,Irène Némirovsky,Bruno Schulz,Edith Stein,Jakob van Hoddis,Carolyn Wells,Xiao Hong, andStefan Zweig died in 1942 without having been nominated for the prize.
| No. | Nominee | Country | Genre(s) | Nominator(s) |
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| 1 | Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) |  Soviet Union(  Ukraine) | philosophy, theology | Alf Nyman (1884–1968) |
| 2 | Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) |  United Kingdom | poetry, essays, biography | Heinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904-1980) |
| 3 | Hans Carossa (1878–1956) |  Germany | poetry, autobiography, essays | Anders Österling (1884–1981) |
| 4 | António Correia de Oliveira (1878–1960) |  Portugal | poetry |
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| 5 | Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício (1884–1947) | Portugal | poetry, essays | António Baião (1878–1961) |
| 6 | Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877–1952) | Portugal | poetry | João António Mascarenhas Júdice (1898–1957) |
| 7 | Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) |  France | novel, short story, poetry, drama, literary criticism | Anders Österling (1884–1981) |
| 8 | Johan Falkberget (1879–1967) | Norway | novel, short story, essays |
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| 9 | Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) | Germany Switzerland | novel, poetry, essays, short story | Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) |
| 10 | Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) | Netherlands | history | Willem van Eysinga (1878–1961) |
| 11 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873–1950) | Denmark | novel, short story, essays |
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| 12 | Johannes Jørgensen (1866–1956) | Denmark | novel, poetry, biography | Claes Lindskog (1870–1954) |
| 13 | Enrique Larreta (1875–1961) |  Argentina | history, essays, drama, novel |
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| 14 | Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) |  Chile | poetry |
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| 15 | Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) | United Kingdom | drama, novel, essays, poetry | Anders Österling (1884–1981) |
| 16 | Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) |  Sweden | novel, short story, drama, poetry | Carl Olaf Bøggild-Andersen (1898–1967) |
