| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1973 |
| Number: | 76 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1932 |
| Year, Death: | 2018 |
| Profession: | Writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Nils Artur Lundkvist |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1906 |
| Year, Death: | 1991 |
| Profession: | Member of the Swedish Academy. Writer, poet and literary critic. |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |