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The1943Nobel 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 seventh 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 21 nominations for 20 writers.[3]
Five of the nominees were newly nominated namelySri Aurobindo,John Steinbeck (awarded in1962),Franz Werfel,Elisaveta Bagryana, andFranz Hellens. The highest number of nominations – two nominations – was for the Danish authorJohannes Vilhelm Jensen, who was awarded in1944. Four of the nominees were women namelyGabriela Mistral (awarded in1945), Elisaveta Bagryana,Henriette Charasson, andMaria Madalena de Martel Patrício.[3]
The authorsCarlos 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, andSimone Weil died in 1943 without having been nominated for the prize.
| No. | Nominee | Country | Genre(s) | Nominator(s) |
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| 1 | Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) |  India | philosophy, poetry, essays | Francis Younghusband (1863–1942) |
| 2 | Elisaveta Bagryana (1893–1991) |  Bulgaria | poetry, translation | Stefan Mladenov (1880–1963) |
| 3 | Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) |  Soviet Union(  Ukraine) | philosophy, theology | Alf Nyman (1884–1968) |
| 4 | René Béhaine (1880–1966) |  France | novel, short story, essays | Maurice Mignon (1882–1962) |
| 5 | Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) |  United Kingdom | poetry, essays, biography | Heinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904-1980) |
| 6 | Henriette Charasson (1884–1972) | France | poetry, essays, drama, novel, literary criticism, biography | Pierre Fernessole (1879–1965) |
| 7 | Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício (1884–1947) |  Portugal | poetry, essays | António Baião (1878–1961) |
| 8 | Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877–1952) | Portugal | poetry | João António Mascarenhas Júdice (1898–1957) |
| 9 | Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) | France | novel, short story, poetry, drama, literary criticism | Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) |
| 10 | Vilhelm Grønbech (1873–1948) |  Denmark | history, essays, poetry | Sven Lönborg (1871–1959) |
| 11 | Franz Hellens (1881–1972) | Belgium | novel, poetry, literary criticism | Gustave Charlier (1885–1959) |
| 12 | Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) | Netherlands | history | Willem van Eysinga (1878–1961) |
| 13 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873–1950) | Denmark | novel, short story, essays |
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| 14 | Enrique Larreta (1875–1961) |  Argentina | history, essays, drama, novel | Anders Österling (1884–1981) |
| 15 | Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) |  Chile | poetry | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) |
| 16 | Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) | United Kingdom | drama, novel, essays, poetry | Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) |
| 17 | Carlos María Ocantos (1860–1949) | Argentina | novel, short story, essays | Salvador Bermúdez de Castro (1863–1945) |
| 18 | John Steinbeck (1902–1968) |  United States | novel, short story, screenplay | Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) |
| 19 | Paul Valéry (1871–1945) | France | poetry, philosophy, essays, drama | Ernst Bendz (1880–1966) |
| 20 | Franz Werfel (1890–1945) |  Czechoslovakia | novel, short story, drama, poetry | Anders Österling (1884–1981) |
