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Posthumous awards have been given twice: the 1961 Peace Prize was awarded to Dag Hammerskjöld, and the 1931 Literature Prize was awarded to the Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt.
The New Yorker Macy Halford 2011
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The only previous posthumous awards were to Swedes: poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt, for literature, in 1931; and U.N. chief Dag Hammarskjold, given the 1961 peace prize weeks after dying in a plane crash while on a peacemaking mission in Africa.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt won the Nobel in literature in 1931, although he had died in March of that year.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1931, although he had died in March the same year.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By KARL RITTER 2011
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No matter how many times the worthy losers console themselves with their fellows-who wouldn't rather be in the company of Proust, Auden, and Nabokov than of Erik Axel Karlfeldt and Henrik Pontoppidan?
The New Yorker Adam Gopnik 2010
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• Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt won for Literature in 1918.
CNN.com 2009
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