Patrick White
Robert Frost was nominated a total of 31 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. However, he only won the prize once, in 1963.
Bob Dylan
Winston Churchill won the nobel prize for literature in 1953, while he was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is the only Prime Minister of the world to have won the nobel prize for literature.
Only 6 people won Nobel prizes in 1906:The Nobel Prize in Physics - Joseph John ThomsonThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Henri MoissanThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y CajalThe Nobel Prize in Literature - Giosuè CarducciThe Nobel Peace Prize - Theodore Roosevelt
Albert Michelson in Physics. Eduard Buchner in Chemistry. Charles Laveran in Medicine. Rudyard Kipling in Literature. Ernesto Moneto and Louis Renault shared the Peace Prize.
5 (five): Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace, and Literature. The Economics Prize is not an 'official' Nobel prize, only an added-on memorial prize established later.
Only 7 people won Nobel prizes in 1908:The Nobel Prize in Physics - Gabriel LippmannThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Ernest RutherfordThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul EhrlichThe Nobel Prize in Literature - Rudolf Christoph EuckenThe Nobel Peace Prize - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
John Steinbeck was awarded his first (and only) Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 for his writing and entire body of work, in general.
French writer Jean-Paul Sartre .
So far, only one, Toni Morrison -- but there have only been eight people in history to win both a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel Prize in Literature.1988: Pulitzer (Fiction): Beloved by Toni Morrison1993: Nobel in Literature, Toni Morrison
Only 6 people were awarded Nobel prizes in 1901:The Nobel Prize in Physics - Wilhelm Conrad RöntgenThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Jacobus Henricus van 't HoffThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Emil Adolf von BehringThe Nobel Prize in Literature - Sully PrudhommeThe Nobel Peace Prize - Jean Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy
George Bernard Shaw won an Adapted Screenplay award in 1938 for "Pygmalion."