Nobel Prize in Literature publicly available at The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Currently, only nominations submitted between 1901 and 1968 are available for public viewing. This secrecy has led to speculation about the next Nobel laureate. According to Göran Malmqvist of the Swedish Academy, Chinese writer Shen Congwen was to have been awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, had he not suddenly died that year. From 1901 to 1912, the committee, headed by the conservative Carl David af Wirsén, weighed the literary quality of a work against its contribution towards humanity's struggle 'toward the ideal'. Tolstoy, Ibsen, Zola, and
Sully-André Peyre Sully-André Peyre Sully-André Peyre (1890-1961) was a French poet and essayist. He wrote both in Provençal and in French. He won a prize from the Académie française. Sully-André Peyre was born on 9 September 1890 in Le Cailar, Gard, France. He grew up in Mouriès, Bouches-du-Rhône. Peyre published "Lou Secret", a Provençal paper in 1918. A year later, in 1919, he founded "La Regalido", another Provençal journal, with Elie Vianes. He was the founder and editor of "Marsyas", a Provençal review, from 1921 to 1961. Peyre was the author of many poetry collections and essays. He wrote both in Provençal