Vivian, Swami Vipulananda and Alfred North Whitehead died in 1947 without having been nominated for the prize. Beresford, Tristan Bernard, Jean-Richard Bloch, Svend Borberg, Wolfgang Borchert, Margaret Cameron, Emilio Carrere, Willa Cather, Sigurd Christiansen, Winston Churchill, Morris Raphael Cohen, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Max Dessoir, Léon-Paul Fargue, Joaquín Gallegos Lara, Edith Maud Hull, Richard Le Gallienne, William Le Queux, Gurli Linder, Hugh Lofting, Manuel Machado, Arthur Machen, Emma Orczy, Nicholas Roerich, Margaret Marshall Saunders, Balys Sruoga, Flora Thompson, E. Molinier crivant un roman intitul Les faux monnayeurs, c’est aussi un livre sur l’criture, sur le roman. L’occasion pour Gide de donner une vision parfois amorale de la famille, critique de la religion, complaisante de l’homosexualit. The authors James Agate, Marie Belloc Lowndes, J. Ceux-ci les payent en fausse monnaie, fausse amiti, faux amour, fausse renomme littraire. Four were female nominees namely Henriette Charasson, Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício, Maila Talvio and Marie Under. Most nominations were submitted for Henriette Charasson and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz with three nominations each. Eleven were nominated first-time such as Pär Lagerkvist (awarded in 1951), Ernest Hemingway (awarded in 1954), Mikhail Sholokov (awarded in 1965), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (awarded in 1966), Toyohiko Kagawa, Georgios Drossinis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Bernard O'Dowd and André Malraux. Eliot (awarded in 1948), Boris Pasternak (awarded in 1958), Teixeira de Pascoaes, Jules Romains, Angelos Sikelianos, Carl Sandburg, Georges Duhamel, Ignazio Silone, Benedetto Croce, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Arnulf Øverland, Johan Falkberget and Marie Under. In 1947, the Nobel committee received 43 nominations for 35 individuals including T. Deliberations Nominations Īndré Gide had only been nominated for the prize once before in 1946.

In 1926, his most complex novel Les faux-monnayeurs ('The Counterfeiters') was published. The autobiographical Si le grain ne meurt ('If It Die.', 1924) is regarded as one of the great works of confessional literature. Later notable works include The L'Immoraliste ('The Immoralist', 1902), La Porte Étroite ('Strait is the Gate', 1907) and La Symphonie pastorale ('The Pastoral Symphony', 1919). André Gide's early works such as the prose poem Les nourritures terrestres ('Fruits of the Earth', 1897) were influenced by French symbolism.

Andre gide les faux monnayeurs