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Lewis had not been nominated before for the prize, making him one of the laureates who won on a rare occasion when they have been awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature the same year they were first nominated. He received only one nomination from Swedish Academy member
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The choice of
Sinclair Lewis received mixed reactions. The British and European press were, in general, favourable. But in the United States reactions among critics and commentators were largely negative, dismissing Lewis' writing artistically and politically.
169:(1885â1951) "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters." He is the first American Nobel laureate in literature.
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Sinclair Lewis was a prolific author having written 24 novels, more than 70 short stories, several plays and poetry collections. He is well known for the satirical novels
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received 47 nominations for 30 writers. Thirteen of the authors were first-time nominated among them
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The nomination was corroborated by a number of German professors.
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S. Agrell proposes that the Prize be awarded either solely to
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Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize
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Dust jacket for the first edition of
Sinclair Lewis' novel
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died in 1930 without having been nominated for the prize.
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with six nominations. There were three female nominees:
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1710:Facts on the Nobel Prize in Literature
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165:was awarded to the American novelist
1748:"Sinclair Lewis and the Nobel prize"
609:Manuel MarĂa Villalobos (1858â1929)
1722:Nomination archive â Sinclair Lewis
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1654:The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930
1432:poetry, philosophy, essays, drama
1167:novel, short story, drama, poetry
879:Ulrik Anton Motzfeldt (1871â1942)
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66:9 November 1930 (announcement)
30:1930 Nobel Prize in Literature
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1233:novel, essays, poetry, drama
810:Gabriel Boussagol (1882â1970)
636:novel, drama, poetry, essays
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359:Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
7:
1384:novel, short story, poetry
1129:Prince Maximilian of Saxony
945:essays, literary criticism
573:short story, novel, poetry
544:Prince Maximilian of Saxony
510:essays, literary criticism
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1283:Simos Menardos (1872â1933)
1106:Manfred Kyber (1880â1933)
1059:Walther Brecht (1876â1950)
846:novel, literary criticism
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690:Kurt Breysig (1866â1940)
675:ArnoĆĄt Kraus (1859â1943)
524:Georg Bonne (1859â1945)
1327:Johann Rump (1871â1949)
948:Olaf HomĂ©n (1879â1949)
2768:Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez
2621:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1686:Sinclair Lewis â Facts
1092:essays, drama, poetry
929:Yrjö Hirn (1870â1952)
918:poetry, drama, essays
606:novel, poetry, essays
514:JosĂ© Francos RodrĂguez
478:Alfred Francis Pribram
347:Georges de Porto-Riche
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2713:Isaac Bashevis Singer
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2261:Frans Eemil SillanpÀÀ
1992:Verner von Heidenstam
1847:BjĂžrnstjerne BjĂžrnson
1396:Yrjö Hirn (1870â1952)
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1278:Verner von Heidenstam
492:Rufino Blanco Fombona
363:Thomas Nicoll Hepburn
319:Arthur St John Adcock
272:Frans Eemil SillanpÀÀ
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3279:1930 literary awards
2239:Roger Martin du Gard
1317:Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
391:Marion Manville Pope
204:It Can't Happen Here
3142:Svetlana Alexievich
2484:Salvatore Quasimodo
2170:Erik Axel Karlfeldt
2104:George Bernard Shaw
1961:Rabindranath Tagore
1939:Maurice Maeterlinck
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1618:Dmitry Merezhkovsky
1215:Dmitry Merezhkovsky
975:law, essays, drama
804:novel, short story
720:novel, short story
447:Rudolf Hans Bartsch
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395:George Haven Putnam
379:Vladimir Mayakovsky
339:Mary Whiton Calkins
3087:Mario Vargas Llosa
3065:J. M. G. Le Clézio
2922:WisĆawa Szymborska
2702:Vicente Aleixandre
2573:Shmuel Yosef Agnon
2451:Juan Ramón Jiménez
2319:Johannes V. Jensen
2007:Henrik Pontoppidan
1873:Henryk Sienkiewicz
1439:Maurice Paléologue
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375:William John Locke
351:Arthur Conan Doyle
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2599:Yasunari Kawabata
2562:Mikhail Sholokhov
2418:Winston Churchill
2093:WĆadysĆaw Reymont
2071:Jacinto Benavente
1950:Gerhart Hauptmann
1620:, or shared with
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1182:Edgar Lee Masters
1054:Friedrich Gundolf
888:Bertel Gripenberg
858:Lion Feuchtwanger
323:Vladimir Arsenyev
288:Lion Feuchtwanger
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