| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1973 |
| Number: | 52 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Emil Erich Kästner |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1899 |
| Year, Death: | 1974 |
| Profession: | German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Hermann Kesten |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1900 |
| Year, Death: | 1996 |
| Profession: | The chairman of the German P.E.N. Club |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |