25 Geniuses Ignored by the Nobel Prize(for Literature)

My earnest attempt to compile a list of all those geniuses who I believe have been denied or overlooked by the Nobel Prize committee for literature.
The Academy began in 1901. It had years to award Tolstoy the prize before he died in 1910. But it didn’t. It was said that the conservative judges were troubled by his religious beliefs and increasingly radical political views as he grew older. But the real reason may have been the historic tensions between Sweden and Russia – a later Academician later claimed that one early judge so hated Russians that he prevented Tolstoy, Chekhov and Gorky from winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Later in the mid-20th century, those who were spurned included Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, W. H. Auden, George Orwell, Robert Frost, John Updike, Graham Greene, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin. The list of overlooked literary greats goes on and on, sealing the case that the Swedish Academy’s sins of omission virtually disqualify its choices as decisions to be taken seriously, say the American heritage Magazine.
I hope you will find the video interesting.
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[RajuGogul]

On Premchand, Yes. Some critics says, he is very much deserves Nobel.

[jatingupta]

Wow sir, your passion is quite evident from the depth of your research!
What a fantastic video- only channel on YouTube to consistently deliver high quality content!!

[thelanguageofsoul]

You're doing just differently incredible. Appreciated 👍

[jennyhirschowitz]

Hardy over Dickens. ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ …….. Hardy’s ultimate masterpiece…….. Victorian satire? Subscribed. Miss Jenny

[RajuGogul]

James Joice for his Stream of Consciousness, unique style invented

[KushagraaDubeyy]

Great video. It would’ve become even more interesting had you yourself dug deep about whom out of these were nominated or not that would’ve made the discussion even more worthy.

[vandanakumar]

Fantastic video.
Much needed on the unsung heroes
Rather would call them literary unsung heroes as far as the academy was concerned.

[Animeshuma]

This is the first video that I have watched from your channel. It’s a very well argued and informative. Books and authors are very much my interests too.

Bravo! For your efforts! 🫶🏻❤️

[RajuGogul]

Excellent Nishant ❤ powerful and Shaky Topic on Global Scale. Special Kudos. By the Way, Posthumously Can Be Given on Mass Scale. We can also Bell the Cat. ❤❤❤

[Manfred-njvz]

Very nice video again, Sir. May I quote here the letter that Albert Camus sent to Kazantzakis's widow, Helen, two years after Kazantzakis's death? Camus received the Nobel Prize in 1957 the year Kazantzakis died. He won it from Kazantzakis for only one vote. It's the famous letter where Camus says that Kazantzakis deserved the Nobel Prize «a hundred times more». That Kazantzakis didn't receive the Nobel Prize (he was nominated for nine years), I am sure you are aware about the embarrassing story for us Greeks, that back then the Greek Government sent many important people to Sweden in order to convince the Nobel Prize Committee n o t to give the Prize to Kazantzakis. He was accused for being a) a communist (he was not), b) an atheist as well as being impious and c) as someone that is dangerous for the youth. Isn't it obvious that two of these accusations resemble quite exactly the ones that brought Socrates in front of his court in 399 BC? Kazantzakis spent the last decade of his life in Antibes (France), where he actually wrote all of his novels. The Greek Government didn't even let the Greek consulate there to renew his passport. So, in other words, he had to spent the last part of his life in exile, away from his homeland. Apart from that, the story about how Kazantzakis's corpse was finally transported to Greece after his death is another whole story and the life of Kazantzakis in general is a topic of his own. However, Camus's letter can be found in Helen Kazantzakis's biography of her husband: «Nikos Kazantzakis, A Biography Based on his Letters», p. 469:

«Madame, I was very sorry not to be able to take advantage of your invitation. I have always nurtured much admiration and, if you permit me, a sort of affection for your husband's work. I had the pleasure of being able to give public testimony of my admiration in Athens, at a period when official Greece was frowning upon her greatest writer. The welcome given my testimony by my student audience constituted the finest homage your husband's work and acts could have been granted. I also do not forget that the very day when I was regretfully 
receiving a distinction that Kazantzakis deserved a hundred times more [i.e. the Nobel Prize], I got the most generous of telegrams from 
him. Later on, I discovered with consternation that this message had been drafted a few days before his death. With him, one of our last great artists vanished. I am one of those who feel and will go on feeling the void that he has left . . .»

And dear Sir, if I may, please do read, if you haven't already, his other great novel "Christ Recrucified". Maybe someday you could produce a nice, interesting, respectful and insightful review as you always do.

[jennyhirschowitz]

My first edition of Musil’s “The Man without Qualities” is falling apart…… my marginalia over the decades are fading. It resides comfortably next to Ivan Turgenev’s “Diary of a Superfluous Man” ……. I imagine Pessoa might have studied these……

[jatingupta]

Tolstoy and Ghosh didn't get a Wow, what's up with the academy??? Absolutely astonishing 😢

[bhanutripathi]

D.H Lawrence and Pessoa stand alone when we talk of profound emotions and solitude.. they are more an alchemist of literature in the 20th century.
But more often I see Lebanese writers like Khalil Gibran, Mikhail Naimy are little unsung..like a whole gamut of Indian authors as you said Premchand, Aurobindo also Aacharya Chatursen, Bagwati Babu and countless others.

Do you think sir.. nobel is sometimes biased..or we are the one who have made nobel a standard to measure the greatness of an author?

[sharjeeljawaid]

2:40 Tolstoy was nominated several times

[SuyashJ]

Salman Rashdie deserves it… but of course theres all the political jazz that goes with it

[bharatrai]

I feel no writer is near to Proust and Dostoyevsky.

[camus-rq]

what about dostoevsky? who inspired all the writers whom you mentioned....

[sharjeeljawaid]

9:38 they do not consider works from non Western writers

[rexchaudhary]

Sir, what about Ayn Rand on her famous work "Atlas Shrugged" and Emile Zola for his book "Germinal"