| re: American playwrights who have won the Nobel |
| Last Edit: garyd 01:45 pm EDT 10/05/23 |
| Posted by: garyd 01:34 pm EDT 10/05/23 |
| In reply to: re: American playwrights who have won the Nobel - duckylittledictum 12:00 pm EDT 10/05/23 |
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The nominations, as well as a short list, are made public. Or, at least, they used to be. According to O'Neill library records, 27 people were nominated in 1936 resulting in a short list of Freud,O'Neill and Paul Valery. Freud and Valery were rejected and the committee could not decide if there was enough evidence to award O'Neill so an award for literature was not made. Due to some sort of quirk in the by-laws the committee was allowed to revisit the 1936 short list and decided to give the award to O'Neill. Consequently he received the award in 1937 but it was for 1936. (phew). Anyway, he remains the only American playwright to received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Agree that Sondheim was deserving of the award. I am not sure if he was ever nominated.
Edit: Just discovered that nominations, nominators, and short list can not be revealed for 50 years subsequent to award year. |
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