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==Deliberations==
===Nominations===
The [[Swedish Academy]] received four nominations – two nominations each in [[1902 Nobel Prize in Literature|1902]] and 1903 – for Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson before getting awarded.
 
In total, the [[Nobel Committee]] received 43 nominations for 25 writers in 1903, including repeated nominations for the Russian novelist [[Leo Tolstoy]] (four nominations) and Norwegian playwright [[Henrik Ibsen]] (one nomination), and with new nominations for the English writers [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]] and [[Rudyard Kipling]] (one nominations each). Kipling would later be awarded in [[1907 Nobel Prize in Literature|1907]].<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/list.php?prize=4&year=1903 Nomination archive – 1903] nobelprize.org</ref> French writer [[Anatole France]] and [[Fredrik Wulff]] were the first nominators to nominate a collective group of writers purposely for a shared prize. France nominated Tolstoy, Brandes, and Maeterlinck in one nomination,<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show.php?id=1539 Nomination archive] nobelprize.org</ref> whereas Wulff nominated Paris and Mistral together.<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show.php?id=3952 Nomination archive] nobelprize.org</ref>
 
The authors [[Ada Ellen Bayly]], [[Nicolaas Beets]], [[Eugenio María de Hostos]], [[Girolamo de Rada]], [[Frederic Farrar]], [[George Gissing]], [[William Ernest Henley]], [[Ernest Legouvé]], [[Vicente Fidel López]], [[Evgeny Markov (writer)|Evgeny Markov]], [[Mary Anne Sadlier]], [[Joseph Henry Shorthouse]], [[Joseph Skipsey]],[[Carl Snoilsky]], [[Richard Henry Stoddard]], [[Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin]], Wilhelm von Polenz, [[Sydir Vorobkevych]], [[Otto Weininger]], [[Josefina Wettergrund]] died in 1903 without having been nominated for the prize.
 
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