Which of these writers never won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

The Irish writer of, most famously, "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake", James Joyce (1882-1941) was never awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

One of the five prizes established in the will of the Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel (the economics prize was added later) the prize was first awarded in 1901, when it was won by the French author Sully Prudhomme. Contrary to a common misconception, it is not awarded to one particular work, but recognises an author's body of work.

Alongside prominent literary greats who have been awarded the prize, there are also some rather surprising names - in 1953, it was awarded to Winston Churchill, who is obviously best remembered as a politician, but in fact had a prodigious literary output, and in 2016, it was awarded to the world famous singer and songwriter Bob Dylan.

Other famous writers who would have been eligible for the Prize, but never won it, include Leo Tolstoy and Franz Kafka.

Thomas Mann won the prize in 1929, Albert Camus in 1957, and William Butler Yeats in 1923.

The current Laureate (August 2020) is Peter Handke.