| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1961 |
| Number: | 11 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1892 |
| Year, Death: | 1973 |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | C S Lewis |
| Profession: | Professor of medieval and Renaissance English |
| University: | University of Cambridge |
| City: | Cambridge |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |