Many of the best writers of the past 112 years have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, but there have been some astounding omissions right from the start. The list of great writers who were alive after 1901 but never received the prize is shocking.
- Leo Tolstoy, author of “Anna Karenina”
- James Joyce, author of “Ulysses”
- Virginia Woolf, author of “Mrs. Dalloway”
- Mark Twain, author of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
- Joseph Conrad, author of “Heart of Darkness”
- Anton Chekhov, author of “The Three Sisters”
- Marcel Proust, author of “In Search of Lost Time”
- Henry James, author of “The Turn of the Screw”
- Henrik Ibsen, author of “A Doll’s House”
- Émile Zola, author of “The Ladies’ Paradise”
- Robert Frost, author of “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”
- W. H. Auden, author of “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of “The Great Gatsby”
- Jorge Luis Borges, author of “The Aleph and Other Stories”
- Vladimir Nabokov, author of “Lolita”