section_path: Media attention
section_name: Media attention
paragraph_text: Media attention
  
  From the start the Nobel Prize in Literature attracted much media attention. The first prize in 1901 was reported in hundreds of newspapers in different parts of the world. The prizes to Rudyard Kipling in 1907 and Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 helped to establish the prize as a central phenomenon in world literature. After the second World War the prize has earned more intense media attention with dramatic news reports and in-depth comments from around the world, further establishing its central position in the global literary space. Days before the announcement of the year's Nobel laureate in Literature potential winners are widely guessed in the media, and controversial and surprising choices have often caused much media discussion.