| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Number: | 9 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Lin Yutang |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1895 |
| Year, Death: | 1976 |
| Profession: | Author |
| Country: | CHINA (CN) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Pearl S. Buck |
| Gender: | F |
| Year, Birth: | 1892 |
| Year, Death: | 1973 |
| Profession: | NP lit 1938, author |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 | |
| Comments: | Pearl Buck: pen-name of Pearl Walsh, née Sydenstricker. |