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1909 Lifetime Achievement Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature
Selma Lagerlöf (winner)

Authors born in 1909

James Agee
Nelson Algren
Eric Ambler
Robert Arthur
Pierre Audemars
Noel Barber
Barbara Beauchamp
Sam Hanna Bell
Kenneth Benton
Romano Bilenchi
Wyatt Blassingame
Max Blecher
Betty Cavanna
Walter van Tilburg Clark
Barbara Comyns
Fanny Cradock
Howard Charles Davis
Norbert Davis
August Derleth
G V Desani
W Murdoch Duncan
Max Ehrlich
Elizabeth Enright
Margiad Evans
John Fante
Errol Flynn
C W Grafton
Simon Harvester
Macdonald Hastings
Chester Himes
Neil R Jones
Elia Kazan
Hans Keilson
Malcolm Lowry
Hugh McCutcheon
Léo Malet
Melba Marlett
Harold Q Masur
Berkely Mather
Seichō Matsumoto
Gordon Meyrick
Edgar Mittelholzer
Pierre La Mure
Virginia Nielsen
Arch Oboler
Juan Carlos Onetti
Dean Owen
Clarence Paget
Edgar Pangborn
C Northcote Parkinson
Rog Phillips
Sheila Pim
John Pudney
Alex Raymond
Mercè Rodoreda
Gabrielle Roy
Don Smith
Wallace Stegner
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Nigel Tranter
Geoffrey Trease
Howard Wandrei
David Weiss
Ronald Welch
Eudora Welty
Robb White
Charles Williams

Authors who died in 1909

F Marion Crawford
Martha Finley
Andrew Forrester
Edward Everett Hale
André Laurie
George Meredith