The first Nobel prize was awarded in 1901, a year after the creation of the Nobel Foundation and five years after the death of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite. In that first year prizes were awarded in the field of Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Peace. Since 1969 prizes are also given in the discipline of Economics.
The Nobel Prize for Literature is decided by theSwedishAcademyand has been awarded every year since 1901, except in 1914 and 1918, because of the First World War, in 1935, this field remained empty and neither between the years from 1940 till 1943 because of the Second World War.
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