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
Henry Sully the Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice. In 1737, another one of his books was published: "Illustrations de Règle artificielle du temps, traité de la division naturelle et artificielle du temps...". Henry Sully Henry Sully (1680–1729) was an English clockmaker. He lived for many years in France. He invented a marine clock to determine longitude accurately, a sophisticated pendulum clock. He presented a first "Montre de la Mer" in 1716 to the French Académie des Sciences. He was the first to develop chronometer in Paris. In 1718, Henry Sully established a watch factory in Versailles. He presented two new models in 1723. In