Sixteen great writers snubbed by the Nobel Prize committee

At The Daily Beast Thomas Flynn tagged 16 great writers snubbed by the Nobel Prize, including:Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov was nominated in 1974, but was ignored in favor of the obscure Swedish authors Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson. Both were on the Nobel committee at the time.Learn about the other writers on the list.

Nabokov is on Ben Frederick's list of ten influential authors who came to