Will Hamilton Win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 4:49pm

These are the playwrights who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Some of them wrote in genres other than drama.)

1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Norway 
1904 (shared) José Echegaray y Eizaguirre Spain 
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgium 
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann Germany 
1913 Rabindranath Tagore India 
1915 Romain Rolland France 
1921 Anatole France France 
1922 Jacinto Benavente Spain 
1923 William Butler Yeats Ireland 
1925 George Bernard Shaw Ireland 
1926 Grazia Deledda Italy 
1932 John Galsworthy United Kingdom 
1934 Luigi Pirandello Italy 
1936 Eugene O'Neill United States 
1948 T. S. Eliot United States/United Kingdom 
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize) France 
1969 Samuel Beckett Ireland 
1986 Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka Nigeria 
1997 Dario Fo Italy 
2005 Harold Pinter United Kingdom 
 

[MadonnaMusical]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 5:04pm

It's quite possible, though the Nobel Prize is usually given for an entire body of work or one's life work and many times not given until the body of work has proven it's value to society... so it might be many more years until that day. 

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 5:27pm

Oh, I know, but still...

[wonkit]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:01pm

No. 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:38pm

Maybe it will win the Nobel for Economics instead? :)

[yfs]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:51pm

Hamilton didn't write literature. He wrote mostly political stuff and economics. I don't see how that qualifies him for the literature prize. 

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:53pm

The way things are going, it may win the Academy Award for Best Picture next year...just on speculation!