Hi! This is Palme School. In this article we have gathered all the Russian authors who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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This award is not given for a specific work, but for a general contribution to literature and adds a personalized wording.

Ivan Bunin won a prize in 1933. For the rigorous skill with which he develops the traditions of Russian classical prose. Bunin was nominated for the prize five times. The Life of Arsenyev was the decisive book for the award.


Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize in 1958 and was nominated six times. The prize was awarded "For significant achievements in modern lyric poetry, as well as for continuing the traditions of the great Russian epic novel". The decisive book was "Dr. Zhivago".


Mikhail Sholokhov was nominated 4 times, and in 1965 received the Nobel Prize "For the artistic strength and integrity of the epic about the Don Cossacks at a critical time for Russia". The decisive book was "The Quiet Don".


Alexander Solzhenitsyn received the prize in 1970, although he did not show up for the award. The wording was as follows: "For the moral strength with which he followed the immutable traditions of Russian literature". The decisive work was The Gulag Archipelago.


Joseph Brodsky won the Nobel Prize in 1987 as a migrant to the United States. "For a comprehensive oeuvre imbued with clarity of thought and passion of poetry."
And here's a list of Russian authors who were nominated for the Nobel Prize but never won:
- Leo Tolstoy has been nominated 5 times since 1902.
- Anatoly Koni nominated for the prize in 1902.
- Dmitry Merezhkovsky has been nominated nine times.
- Maxim Gorky nominated four times since 1918.
- Konstantin Balmont nominated in 1923.
- Pyotr Krasnov nominated in 1926.
- Ivan Shmelev has been nominated twice since 1933.
- Mark Aldanov has been nominated 13 times since 1938.
- Nikolai Berdyaev there have been seven Nobel Prize nominations since 1942.
- Leonid Leonov nominated 3 times since 1949.
- Boris Zaitsev nominated in 1962.
- Vladimir Nabokov nominated eight times.
- Anna Akhmatova nominated in 1965
Interestingly, the Nobel Committee only reveals the lists of nominees until 1971. Although every year it publishes a list of nominees for the upcoming prize.
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