Noble Prize in Literature Nomination and Award Procedure 2020

Noble Prize in Literature Nomination and Award Procedure 2020.

Noble Prize in Literature Nomination: The Nobel Prize in Literature is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded yearly since its inception in  1901.

To an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced “in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction” (original Swedish: “den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning”).

Though individual works are often time cited as being mostly noteworthy, the award is centered on an author’s body of work as a whole. The Swedish Academy comes to an agreement who, if anyone will receive the prize. The academy announces the name of the laureate in early October.

It is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895. On some circumstances the award has been adjourned to the following year. It was not awarded in 2018, but two names will be awarded in 2019.

The Nobel Prize in Literature over the years has become the world’s most prestigious literature prize and has attracted significant criticism for its handling of the award.

Many authors who have won the prize have fallen into obscurity, while others rejected by the jury remain widely studied and read.

Nomination and award procedure

Every year, the Swedish Academy sends out requests for nominations of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Members of the Academy, members of literature academies and societies, professors of literature and language, former Nobel literature laureates, and the presidents of writers’ organizations are all allowed to nominate a candidate. It is not permitted to nominate oneself.

Numerous requests are sent out every year, and as of 2011 about 220 proposals were returned. These proposals must be received by the Academy by 1 February, after which they are look at by the Nobel Committee. By April, the Academy narrows the field to around twenty candidates.

By May, a short list of five names is approved by the Committee. The following four months are then spent in reading and going through the works of the five candidates. In October, members of the Academy vote and the candidate that gets more than half of the votes is termed the Nobel laureate in Literature.

No one can get the prize without being on the list at least twice, hence many of the same authors reappear and are reviewed time after time over the years.

The academy is master of thirteen languages, but when a candidate is shortlisted from an unknown language, they call on translators and oath-sworn experts to provide samples of that writer. Other elements of the process are similar to that of other Nobel Prizes.

The judges are composed of an 18 member committee who are elected for life and up until 2018, not technically permitted to leave. On 2 May 2018

Prizes

A Literature Nobel Prize laureate earns a gold medal, a diploma bearing a citation, and a sum of money. The amount of money awarded depends on the income of the Nobel Foundation that year.

If a prize is awarded to more than one laureate, the money is either split evenly among them or, for three laureates, it may be divided into a half and two quarters.  If a prize is awarded jointly to two or more laureates, the money is split among them.

The prize money of the Nobel Prize has been fluctuating since its inauguration but as of 2012 it stood at kr 8,000,000 (about US$1,100,000), previously it was kr 10,000,000.

This was not the first time the prize-amount was decreased—beginning with a nominal value of kr 150,782 in 1901 (worth 8,123,951 in 2011 SEK) the nominal value has been as low as kr 121,333 (2,370,660 in 2011 SEK) in 1945—but it has been uphill or stable since then, peaking at an SEK-2011 value of 11,659,016 in 2001.

The laureate is also invited to give a lecture during “Nobel Week” in Stockholm; the highlight is the prize-giving ceremony and banquet on 10 December. It is the richest literary prize in the world by a large margin.

Nobel Prize Medals

The Nobel Prize medals, made by Myntverket in Sweden and the Mint of Norway since 1902, are registered trademarks of the Nobel Foundation. Each one3 of the medal has an image of Alfred Nobel in left profile on the obverse (front side of the medal).

The Nobel Prize medals for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature have identical obverses, showing the image of Alfred Nobel and the years of his birth and death (1833–1896).

Nobel’s portrait also appears on the obverse of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Medal for the Prize in Economics, but with a slightly different design.

The image on the reverse of a medal varies according to the institution awarding the prize. The reverse sides of the Nobel Prize medals for Chemistry and Physics share the same design. The medal for the Nobel Prize in Literature was designed by Erik Lindberg.

Nobel Prize Diplomas

Nobel laureates get a Diploma straight from the King of Sweden. Each Diploma is exclusively made by the prize-awarding institutes for the laureate that gets it. The Diploma comprises of  a picture and text that states the name of the laureate and usually a citation of why they received the prize

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