All these factors have resulted in very renowned and/or well-known authors [[AwardSnub not getting the prize]], while other, more obscure or less influential writers did get it. A few of the writers that, for one reason or another, did famously ''not'' get it are Leo Tolstoy, Creator/HenrikIbsen, Henry James, Emile Zola, Creator/MarkTwain, Creator/ThomasHardy, Creator/AntonChekhov, August Strindberg, Creator/JorgeLuisBorges and JamesJoyce. Two authors, Jean-Paul Sartre and Boris Pasternak, were awarded the Prize, but declined it.[[note]]Sartre because he refused to accept prizes categorically, Pasternak due to Soviet government pressure.[[/note]]

Inevitably, the annual award of the Nobel Prize for Literature is more often than not surrounded by controversy. Whether rightly or wrongly, the award is often interpreted as a political statement (even if less so than the Nobel Peace Prize). However, as the nominations, shortlists and deliberations of the Acadmey are confidential for 50 years, any assertions why an author got or didn't get the prize are, in fact, speculative.

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All these factors have resulted in very renowned and/or well-known authors [[AwardSnub not getting the prize]], while other, more obscure or less influential writers did get it. A few of the writers that, for one reason or another, did famously ''not'' get it are Leo Tolstoy, Creator/HenrikIbsen, Henry James, Emile Zola, Creator/MarkTwain, Creator/ThomasHardy, Creator/AntonChekhov, August Strindberg, Creator/JorgeLuisBorges, Chinua Achebe and JamesJoyce. Two authors, Jean-Paul Sartre and Boris Pasternak, were awarded the Prize, but declined it.[[note]]Sartre because he refused to accept prizes categorically, Pasternak due to Soviet government pressure.[[/note]]

Inevitably, the annual award of the Nobel Prize for Literature is more often than not surrounded by controversy. Whether rightly or wrongly, the award is often interpreted as a political statement (even if less so than the Nobel Peace Prize). However, as the nominations, shortlists and deliberations of the Academy are confidential for 50 years, any assertions why an author got or didn't get the prize are, in fact, speculative.

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