| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | 
| Year: | 1936 | 
| Number: | 7 - 0 | 
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Frans E Sillanpää | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1888 | 
| Year, Death: | 1964 | 
| Profession: | Author | 
| Country: | FINLAND (FI)  | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1939 | 
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Jarl  Hemmer | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1893 | 
| Year, Death: | 1944 | 
| Profession: | Author | 
| Country: | FINLAND (FI)  | 
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Arvid  Mörne | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1876 | 
| Year, Death: | 1946 | 
| Profession: | Author, literature historian | 
| Country: | FINLAND (FI)  | 
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Gunnar  Landtman | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | Ethnologist, member of the Finnish Academy of Science, sociologist | 
| University: | Finnish Academy of Science | 
| Country: | FINLAND (FI)  | 
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| Comments: |  
First choice was F. Sillanpää. Second choice, to share the prize with Sillanpää,  was J. Hemmer or A. Mörne. | 
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